Please join me in CONGRATULATING our 13 lucky members who were chosen to feature in our 1st Beach Calendar project.

Cover - Mike Maclaverty - Flying South.
Jan - John Wallace - No Lifeguard On Duty
Feb - Adam Tatarnic - Night Tree
March - Michael Mcauley - Thin Ice
April - Maureen Littlewood The RC. Harris Treatment Plant
May - Natalia Shields - Kew Beach Morning Promenade
June - David Frame - Leuty Bride And Groom Variation
July - Marley Adams The Gardener's Cottage
Aug - Mark Kremblewski August Sunrise
Sep - Rod Trider - 502 & 503
Oct - David Sweeney - Misty Morning Glow
Nov - Toni Wallachy - Luety 2
Dec - Julie Clark - Winter Wonderland

We hope you will enjoy the 49 images of our beloved Beach. We apologise there are only 6 of the Leuty Lifeguard Station but we figured other parts of the neighbourhood needed a chance too.

Twenty four members submitted 241 shots for consideration by two independent panels. The first panel looked at technical issues & at reducing the number of some of the more popular locations to the very best. The next panel then had the difficult job of picking the final 49 shots out of the remaining 124.

The team is currently finalising the layout & getting it ready for delivery to the printers. Then they move into Pre-Sale Mode. At that time they will have samples of the calendar & will be looking for volunteers to help pre sell to stores, realty agents, Dr’s, Lawyers, etc.

Timelines

• Initial run of calendars will be made in early September.

• Official launch with Centre 55 will occur in mid September.

• Calendars will be made available to members for sale by the second club meeting in September.

Stay tuned - more detailed information will be available as we come closer to our launch date!!!

Long point camping trip recap

Friday May 21st, Members from the BPC headed south west to the shores of Lake Erie. Here we would explore the marshes, dunes and beaches of Long Point Provincial Park. The annual spring camping trip has become a bit of a tradition at the club, having done it now for several years on the May 24 weekend.

This year would be no exception to our share of bugs, ticks, and other things that crawl in the night. Most of the group arrived at Long Point on the Friday just before dinner time, giving us enough time to set up camp, and head to the beach to check out the sunset action. The park is situated on a very long peninsula which stretches out into Lake Erie for several kilometers. The point is a unique biosphere with its own unique eco system. Everything that lives there supports life around it.

Over the weekend, we spent time exploring the area, checking out different sections of beach, roaming around some of the local towns such as the nearby Port Rowan. Looking for lighthouses, mills, and other things. We had a great time.

Shooting Reality - Expressing the Inexpressible

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Peter Dudar, A Beach Photo Club member, presents ......

Shooting Reality - Expressing the Inexpressible

In Shooting Reality, multi-disciplinary artist Peter Dudar has come up with a provocative means of representing reality in fine art.

To do this, he advises 'cherry picking' aspects of photography, video and painting—and redeploying them so that they actually mean something in 2010.

Shooting Reality includes concurrent statements from artists, art critics, evolutionists and physicists such as: Robert Bresson, Fritjof Capra, Richard Dawkins, Paul Dirac, Walker Evans, Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe L. Gross, Mike Hoolboom, Mark Kingwell, W. J. T. Mitchell, Philip Monk, Peter Plagens, Gerhard Richter, Dot Tuer, and Bill Viola.

Perceiving reality, especially through movement, is the crux of Peter Dudar's own work. In Shooting Reality, he shows how this perception originated in his performance art—and informed his current photo-based and video projects.