Sneak Peak: 2012 Beach Calendar's January and February

Stunning winter scenes of Toronto's Beach area by members of the Beach Photo Club grace the January and February pages of the 2012 Beach Calendar.

March and April spreads will be revealed in next week's blog.

The Presses Are Running!

The 2012 Beach Calendar is being printed at this very moment and rumour has it that it is even more beautiful than last year's! As much of Canada swelters in July's record breaking temperatures, take a sneak peak of a few of the calendar's winter pages and while you're admiring them, get cool comfort in the knowledge that this heat is only very temporary!

Check the blog weekly for the rest of the summer to get news updates on the calendar's retail release (sometime in August) and the official launch in September as well as additional sneak peaks of the new Beach calendar.

If you are one of a number of people who sadly missed out on last year's calendar, order yours today on our website home page. There will be only one print run and when they are gone, they are GONE!!

Blue Mountain Foundation For The Arts Contest

CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS!

BMFA members and volunteers are invited to submit entries for this year’s Juried Photo Show! There are four categories: Open, Manipulated, Ontario Heritage Architecture and Students. Everything you need to know to submit your photo/s can be found on the BMFA website (www.bmfa.on.ca), under Events, but the key dates are as follows:

Entries by mail: Friday, Sept. 30

Entries in person: Saturday, Oct. 1

Reception and Awards Presentation: Saturday, Oct. 15 from 1p.m. to 3 p.m.

Exhibit in the BMFA Arts Centre: Oct. 5 to 29

Good luck!

7th Salon Mondial Photographique de Limours

7th Salon Mondial Photographique de Limours
is now open for submission:

http://eid.photoclublimours.fr

Limours Photo-Club invites all photographers all over the world, amateurs as well as professionals, to submit digital images in three sections:
Open Color, Open Black & White and Nature

All phases of the exhibition will be conducted in accordance with the recommended practices of

FPF Fédération Photographique de France
PSA The Photographic Society of America
FIAP Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
RPS Royal Photographic Society
UPI United Photographers International

For instructions and entry form, visit our website

http://eid.photoclublimours.fr

Closing Date is October 8, 2011

BEACH 2012 CALENDAR EXPECTED SOON

The Beach community which helped sell 1,500 copies of the Beach 2011 Calendar to support Community Centre 55 and the Beach Photo Club can expect the 2012 version this summer.
A remarkable Community Selection Panel has selected the main images for next year’s Calendar. The panelists, as seen in the image on the right are: (left to right) Barbara DeAngelis of Pippins Tea; Dan Hill, internationally known Canadian singer/songwriter/ recording artist/five-time Juno Award winner; Debbie Visconti, Executive Director, Community Centre 55 and Jim Curran of CBC Radio’s Metro Morning and Here and Now.

The panelists have selected about 50 of the most evocative images from 150 chosen by the Technical/Artistic Advisors: Ellen Anger, a Greater Toronto Council of Camera Clubs (GTCCC) judge; and Fred Lum, Globe and Mail photographer. Almost 600 images of the Beach in all seasons were submitted by Beach Photo Club members.

Support through Calendar sales will go to Community Centre 55 and the Beach Photo Club for their social service and community arts programs. The Beach Photo Club will produce the 2012 photo calendar, after a 2011 sellout with the calendars making their way to Beach friends and relatives around the globe. This year’s goal is to sell 2,000 copies.

Vistek will be the lead sponsor of The Beach 2012 Calendar. Vistek will produce large prints of the main images for Community Centre 55’s Silent Auction to support their Share a Christmas program. The Calendar will be officially launched at Community Centre 55 in early September.
Information:

info@beachphotoclub.com