Enrollment is now open for Andrea’s three new Autumn 2025 online photography courses, designed to inspire, challenge, and expand creative vision.
Courses are weekly and range from four to eight weeks in length. This time around the focuses are Urban Stories (begins Sept. 23), Natural Light Photography (begins Sept. 24) and Exploring Cyanotypes (begins Sept. 29).
The classes include weekly assignments that aim to motivate you to get out with your camera while being part of a like-minded community of photographers.
Enrollment is now open for Andrea’s three new summer photography courses (all are online courses) – aimed at building creative camera skills and making the most of the summer light and the beauty of summer plants. Andrea invites you to be part of an interactive group experience filled with discussions and assignments to get you out there making pictures.
Andrea is a long time photography instructor who has taught at Langara College for over 10 years and at the University of Victoria.
This spring she is offering four photography courses. All are interactive and taught on Zoom, with a maximum of 12 students. Weekly discussions and assignments are aimed at inspiring photographers to get out there with their cameras and make beautiful images!
The new spring courses are:
Beyond the Lens: The Art of Seeing Composition + Light (April 29 – June 17)
Painting with Light: Mastering ICM + LE Photography (April 30 – June 18)
At our club meeting on May 7, New England-based fine art photographer Jürgen Lobert will present an instructional introduction to night photography.
Night light transforms the familiar and creates serene and colorful views of our surroundings, revealing beauty even in the mundane. Night images relay a profound peace through smoothness, deepened colors and captured time – clouds and cars become streaks, water ripples smooth over, and stars form trails in the sky. Otherworldly, hauntingly beautiful and serene lightscapes can be the result.
The presentation teaches participants best practices to successfully create unique, very intriguing imagery at night, along with many examples for inspiration.
Jürgen Lobert is a photographer and educator, born and raised in Germany, who received a Ph.D in atmospheric chemistry from Gutenberg University in Mainz before moving to the US in 1991.
Jürgen specializes in night photography, daytime long exposures, urban exploration and infrared imagery. He has curated photography exhibits and his artwork is in the permanent collection of the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA and private collections.
He also organizes photo excursions, workshops and tours, serves as an international lecturer, instructor and competition judge, and teaches photography at the Griffin Museum of Photography. He is a Master Member of the New England Camera Club Council (MNEC) and the founder and organizer of the Greater Boston Night Photographers Meetup group.
The meeting will be held via Zoom, on Wed. May 7, 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.
A note to non-members of our Club: you’re welcome to attend this event as a guest; be sure to contact us by May 5 to sign up.
Landscape photography is full of amazing overlooks and epic scenes. However, David wants to introduce us to a new way of seeing landscape photography – the contemplative way. In this presentation, He’ll teach us the steps we can take to slow down, see landscapes more intimately and capture creative photos. He hopes his presentation will help us to have a deeper appreciation for smaller scenes, see landscapes more creatively, and take more high quality images while we’re out.
David has been a professional landscape photographer and has over a decade of experience in teaching and helping people improve their nature photography, especially through podcasting and online video content and tutorials. In 2022 he founded Landscape Photography University, with workshop-style courses that aim to cover the range of needs to improve people’s photography skills while fitting within most people’s budgets.
The meeting will be held via Zoom, on Wed. April 2, 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.
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