“Creativity with your Smart Phone”: Feb. 5, 2025

Posted on January 21, 2025 by gabephotoclub

With special guest presenter, Hazel Meredith

Creative image processing doesn’t need to be limited to our desktop and laptop computers. In our first guest speaker presentation of 2025, we’ll learn how to create exciting, creative images right on our smart phones.

Special guest Hazel Meredith will explore some of her favorite apps for creative processing, including Snapseed, DistressedFx+, Image Blender, Retouch, and the JixiPix suite of apps. (The session will be relevant for both iPhone and Android users.)

Hazel is an award-winning photographer and a sought-after teacher, speaker, and
competition judge. She began teaching in 2007, and now does seminars at camera clubs and conferences – both in-person and virtual – and offers her own workshops and webinars. She has written two eBooks on working with textures and released two creative courses. She and her husband, Dave, produce the “Virtual Creative Photography Conference” with attendees from around the world.

Hazel loves the creative aspect of photography and post-processing, especially the use of textures and software to create unique images.

She is actively involved with the photographic community and has held leadership orles and received honorary distinctions from several organizations. In the fall of 2020 she was the recipient of the Ashbrook Award for Digital Imaging Instruction from the Photographic Society of America.

You can see a few of Hazel’s smart phone images below (click to enlarge), and you’ll find more info about her and many more of her images on her website.

You can learn more about Hazel and her work at https://meredithimages.com/.

The meeting will be held via Zoom, on Wed. February 5, 2025, at 10 am PDT. The link will be sent by email to all Gabriola Photography Club members on the weekend before the meeting. Make sure your membership is up to date so that you receive this info.

A note to non-members of our Club: you’re welcome to attend this event as a guest; be sure to contact us by February 3 to sign up.

2024: Our Year in Review

Posted on January 4, 2025 by gabephotoclub

2024 was a good year for our Club! A few of the highlights…

Membership:
27 members in January 2024—38 in December 2024 (40% increase)

Members who displayed prints in our shows:
13 (34% of club)

15 in-person events:

10 photo walkabouts
2 field trips
2 gear sales
Annual Fall Show

Learning & Inspiration at our 19 Zoom meetings:

4 guest presentations – one more postponed to 2025 due to internet outage
3 presentations by club members
1 presentation from CAPA
10 themed photo assignments
16 members shared about 950 images from assignments & walkabouts

Amount of budgeted revenue raised:
253%. This was made possible thanks to generous donations of used gear by three Gabriola Islanders. Our heartfelt gratitude to each of them!

Website:
1200 visitors, 3200 views in 2024.

Passed milestone of 10,000 all-time views since site began in Nov. 2018.
Added video site, so as to upload all shared photo slideshows and recorded presentations from Club meetings (over 20 such items now accessible from password-protected Members page).
32 new posts (club news, speakers, events, shows etc) & many additions to existing pages.
Top 5 posts in 2024 (# views):
- Remembering Sharron” (103)
- “She’s Messing Around Again” – Diane’s show (88)
- Photo Walkabout – Decourcy Loop” (78)
- “Stalking Shadows & Stealing Light” – Sher’s show (63)
- “Gear & Gadgets Galore” – Gear Sale (63)

Best wishes from the Executive to all Club members, for a wonderful 2025, filled with many more exciting opportunities for learning and growing creatively!

Linda, Sally, Corinne & Laurie

Drumbeg Walkabout CANCELLED

Posted on December 5, 2024 by gabephotoclub

Our Photo Walkabout at Drumbeg Park, planned for Dec. 7, is cancelled. It’s forecast to be a rainy day – so perhaps it will provide a good opportunity for a bit of indoor fun instead, practicing some Still Life, Macro or Abstract photography. Enjoy!

“Adventures in Photography” – Upstairs until Jan. 10/25

Posted on November 30, 2024 by gabephotoclub

Four gannets flying together, with wings outspread. — © Corinne Flaws

While our club continues to show our work downstairs at the Gabriola Medical Centre, this month you’ll find a new exhibit by one of our members upstairs as well.

“Adventures in Photography” is a new show by Corinne Flaws, a visual artist and photographer who specializes in landscape, wildlife and abstract imagery.

Corinne has always had a passion for nature and for capturing its beauty. It inspires her to share what she sees, through her photographs and her other art. As well as producing beautiful photographs, she enjoys capturing images with her camera to use as inspiration for her paintings.

Corinne moved from Winnipeg to Gabriola Island in 2020. This show includes a collection of her favourite images captured right here on Gabriola and on Vancouver Island, as well as from Manitoba and her travels in Utah and Oregon, and the Shetland Isles.

The exhibit will be on display upstairs at the Medical Centre until January 10, 2025.

December 7 Photo Walkabout: Drumbeg Park

Posted on November 15, 2024 by gabephotoclub

Gabriola’s beautiful Drumbeg Park is the subject of our next Photo Walkabout.

Plan to meet at 9 am on Saturday, December 7. Bypass Drumbeg’s main entrance and instead, park at the very end of Stalker Rd. (You’re in the right place if you see a large ornamental lighthouse on your starboard side as you face the water.)

Our plan is to follow the shoreline loop trail, returning through the forest.The entire trail is well maintained and easy walking.

It’s a picturesque place and you should be able to find plenty of photographic subjects, including fir, arbutus and Garry oak trees, winding trails, the sandstone shoreline and various views and landscape possibilities – perhaps even some wintering birds. Along with the big picture scenes, try to narrow down your focus for some detail photography.

Drumbeg is not a long distance walk, so we’ll take our time and really try to observe things we might normally walk right past.

Dress accordingly for what will likely be damp and/or chilly weather. Option to meet afterwards for coffee and lunch at either the Ground Up, Mad Rona’s or the Golf Club.

Click on the first thumbnail below to see the entire photo and view the series in carousel format.