Meet Julie Clark

Julie Clark is a Toronto Beaches-based photographer with a passion for shooting flowers, nature, animals and landscapes. She is especially passionate about photographing anything and everything Scottish ! She is also a new Beach Photo Club member with an amazing eye for beauty.

To see some of Julie's work, just [ click here ] to link to her web site.

Do you have a web site that you want to share with other club members? Great, just email us and we will gladly add your web link to the growing list of great beach talent.

GTCCC - Winning Images Presentation

GTCCC TICKET AVAILABLE

Tickets are available on a first come first served basis.

We have a limited number of tickets available. (12 for the afternoon & 12 for the evening)

Please see Maureen at the meeting on March 4 (contest night) or email Maureen at mailto:maureenlittlewood@gmail.com Please state if you would like an afternoon or an evening ticket.

DATE: Saturday, March 20th, 2010

TIME: Afternoon Presentation 2:00pm - 4:00pm or Evening Presentation 7:00pm - 9:00pm

WHERE: Toronto Camera Club - 587 Mount Pleasant Road (south of Eglinton Ave)

COST: $5.00 per ticket for either showing

Please arrive early as you will want time to view the winning images from the two print categories before the presentations start at the designated times.

NOTE: Last date to order or get your Ticket is Saturday, March 13, 2010.

Member News: David Sweeney in Vancouver 2010!

Beach Photo Club vice-president David Sweeney left Toronto this past Monday February 15th headed to Vancouver to design lighting for the Yukon First Nation's show "What The Land Remembers, Tale Of Raven & Wold" at the Cultural Olympiad as part of the Vancouver 2010 winter games. The show will be featured at the Surrey live site on February 19th, the Aboriginal pavilion in downtown Vancouver on the 21st, and the live site in Richmond on the 23rd. David heads back to Toronto on the 24th just in time to hand in his submissions for the contest! You can see some of David's photos from Vancouver on his flickr site: www.flickr.com/lxdesign or check out his blog and what he has been up to at: www.sweeneyimages.com

PHOTO LIFE'S 2010 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS COMPETITION NOW OPEN!

Photo Life is pleased to present the opening of the 2010 Emerging Photographers competition, which gives Canadian photography students, photography workshop participants, apprentice photographers, and those just beginning their careers as photographers a unique opportunity to share their vision and talent with the world.

Photographers who wish to participate to Emerging Photographers are invited to send their submissions exclusively via our on-line facilities at www.photolife.com/emerging.php. Participants can submit up to 3 images and must provide technical information and a brief narrative/comment for each image. Please note that this competition is open to Canadian residents only. Additional submission instructions are available at www.photolife.com/emerging.php.

From the submissions received, editors will select the most outstanding up-and-coming talents; those will be showcased in Photo Life's August/September issue.

Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2010

ORCHID ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

Entries for photos and art can be brought to the Toronto Botanical Garden on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 between 12 noon and 7:30 pm. (Entry forms can be filled out at that time)

Artists may request space for 1-4 paintings in the following categories

1. paintings, etchings, charcoal etc
2. photographs
3. sculptures, ceramics, china, jewelry and metal art, needlepoint, fibre art, quilts collectible orchid -related art or crafts (Display must contain orchids).

In order to exhibit, the Artist must remit 15% commission of any sale to the Southern Ontario Orchid Society. This amount will be deducted at the time of sale SUBMISSION FORM (pdf)

For further information, please email artandphoto@soos.ca

Work previously shown at a Southern Ontario Orchid Show will not be accepted.

Volunteers and exhibitors have one free pass to the show. If you could volunteer for security or setup, it would be greatly appreciated. Please contact us with the times you are available to volunteer.

After the success of our 2009 exhibit, Building Storeys 2010 arrives Feb 4th for a longer stay at the Gladstone Hotel!

Come on out and support fellow BPC Members Toni Wallachy and Olena Sullivan.

A collaborative effort by Heritage Toronto and members of the photography groups the Shadow Collective and the DK Photo Group, Building Storeys is a visual documentation and anecdotal exhibit of city's heritage building and sites. By showcasing some of Toronto's industrial past we hope to change the perception of heritage in our city, by revealing some of the hidden beauty of these sites.

www.buildingstoreys.com

Thursday, February 4 - Saturday, April 24th, 2010

The Gladstone Hotel

3rd & 4th Floors

1214 Queen Street WestToronto

Show hours: 12:00 - 5:00 pm daily

Cost: Free

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ECO Film Arts Festival - Call for Submissions

ECO Film Arts Festival - Call for Submissions

Photography Competition

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Tuesday, March 23, 2010

WHO IS ELIGIBLE - The competition is open to anyone 18 years of age or older, residing in Ontario.

For More information and competition details - click on link

http://www.ecofilmartsfestival.com/submissions/photographerguidelines.pdf

The world's oldest and most expensive camera

A Daguerréotype camera - one of the first commercially produced cameras - is set to go on sale with an estimated price of £600,000.That will make the wooden sliding-box 1839 camera, the oldest and most expensive in the world.It was built by Alphonse Giroux, the brother-in-law of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and is even signed by Daguerre himself, the inventor of the first practicable photographic process. The rare camera has been in private ownership in northern Germany for generations and the present owner’s father gave it to him in the 1970s as a present when he became an optician. It features a black velvet interior and ground-glass screen… no there is no autofocus or face.