Member News: David Sweeney to present photo project.

BPC Member and Vice-President David Sweeney will present his historical mills project to "The Tool Group of Canada" in Markham, Ontario this coming February 6th. David's presentation will be approximately 1 hour in length, and will give a brief overview of the importance of milling in Canada and as part of the industrial revolution. The connection that the milling industry gave to small towns in Ontario to larger industrial centre's such as Toronto. And he will feature some of the mills he has visited over the past 3 years which have a strong connection to the tool group. This will be a slightly shorter version of a similar presentation that David will give the BPC on June 3rd.

More info on The Tool Group of Canada can be seen here on their website: http://www.thetoolgroupofcanada.com/

The SNAP! Photo Competition is now open!

All photographers - from enthusiast to professional - can submit an original work of photography or photo-based art.  Have your work viewed, critiqued and selected for silent auction by our esteemed jury.

Submit to SNAP!, support ACT, and be eligible to win great prizes! Enter by February 11, 2010.
For more information and for easy online submission, go to www.snap-toronto.com.

Our one-time submission fee is $25 (no limit to number of entries); all fees collected benefit the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT).

Your participation allows ACT to continue to deliver programs and services free of charge to people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, and to develop new initiatives to prevent HIV transmission in our communities.

Award Categories
• Best Overall Submission: Jim P. Shea Memorial Award
• Best Landscape
• Best Photo-Journalism
• Best Still-Life/Abstract
• Best Portrait/Figurative
• Best Photo-Based

SNAP! Competition Jury
• Kelly McCray, Edward Day Gallery
• Lesley Sparks, Hot Docs, World Press Photo
• Jeff Harris, celebrated photographer and Photo Editor at Maclean's magazine
• Bob Makinson, creative director and photographer
• Rita Leistner, photojournalist

EVENT DETAILS

Live & Silent Auction
Photography and photo-based art by renowned and emerging photographers

Sunday, March 21, 2010
National Ballet School (400 Jarvis Street, Toronto) To purchase tickets: www.snap-toronto.com

Want More Info?

• SNAP! Hotline: 416-340-9255
• Questions about tickets: tickets@actoronto.org
• Media Relations: Carolyn Abbass, Paradigm PR: 416-203-2220 or cabbass@paradigmpr.ca

My Neck of the Woods II

work by Natalia Petrenko Shields
E-mail: natshields@rogers.com
photographic musings about trees

Exhibiting from January 1st- 31st

Artist Reception: Thursday January 28th - 7pm to 9 pm

The Dark Horse Espresso Bar
682 Queen Street East, Toronto,
Tel. No. 647-436-3460
Hours: Daily from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Parking available in municipal lot off Broadview Ave N.

Thinking about self publishing a book?

Here is a great article on self-publishing a photography book:

http://blogs.photopreneur.com/publishing-a-photography-book-the-traditional-way

International Symposium held at the AGO on Jan 23rd

Check out this International Symposium held at the AGO on Jan 23rd., from 10:00-4:00PM on a Saturday. It sounds like something anyone wanting a serious career in photography, or even as a serious amateur, should attend. 

See the link below. It's based around an interesting photo show at the Gallery and marks the closing of it...(the Beautiful Fictions exhibit.)

http://www.ago.net/beautiful-fictions-international-symposium

Photo Tip of the Day

Here's a tip I hope you can share with club members.

If you are having trouble attaching a photo file (JPG) to an email, there could be something wrong with the META DATA that every digital image contains. If that data is corrupted for some reason, the photo may cause problems in transmission. For example, I recovered some images off a formatted hard drive and though they appeared OK, when I tried to email one I kept getting an error message.

Here's what to do: Open the photo in Photoshop. Select the photo using Select All. Under Edit, select Copy. Close the photo. Under Edit, select New. Just accept what is presented in the pop up box that appears. Now go to Edit again and select Paste.

Flatten the image (MERGE THE LAYERS) then select Save As and rename it with a short file name. Note, this creates a file with NO META DATA, so the time of capture, date etc. will not be included in the file. Also, make sure the format is 8 bit, not 16.

The photo attached is for reference. I added the Title and Author using File Info, which is now the new, imbedded Meta Data. This is a good way to protect images from copyright infringement.

The free software I used to retrieve my data is called Recuva http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Cheers, Bennett

December 17 Holiday Social at the Beachside Grill!

by Catherine MacKinnon

Reporting out on the Beach Photo Club's Thurs Dec 17 holiday social at the Beachside Grill!

Owner Al gave over the back room to 2 dozen photographers who enjoyed excellent food while basking in the Club's 2nd-ever exhibit at the Grill. Amid framed images of snow flakes, sledding, and scenes from the Beach, members wrestled with gift exchanges back and forth, as if capturing the last rays of the setting sun. Debates over hanging vertical versus horizontal, large versus small, colour versus monochrome receded as the membership led by Toni Wallachy reflected on our collective successes of this year. Always dubbed the last minute club, this year's member who visited the most number of other places with Beach or related concept while trying to locate the group of diners was Steve, you know who you are. Second place for false starts was a leading real estate agent househunting in the general neighbourhood. But first place for imagination goes to the Beachside Grill for accepting our artistic genius and taking a leap of faith with the Beach Photo Club. Our next exhibit at the Grill starts in February, can't wait. Happy New Year!