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HAMILTON CAMERA CLUB

FALL 2013

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Cover Image Kathy WardThis is a picture of a hummingbird in our backyard. Two things I worked on this summer were trying to get Birds in Flight and decent hummingbird pictures. For the last couple of weeks two hummingbirds have been frequenting our backyard off and on all day. And with the help of a 300mm lens, I believe I was successful.

Kathy Ward

A Message from the EditorGreetings, Generally, the Bellows in the past has been used to announce the clinic results and to post some of the winning images from the assignments and to give members the opportunity to view those results at their leisure. Also the Bellows is used for items of interest of a photographic nature that the editor deems fit for publication. Your executive has decided this year to reduce the amount of clinics but to allow more images to be submitted per clinic. I have many topics that I could write about that would be of interest to the membership at large but that does not give members an opportunity to show off more of their images in the Bellows. This Bellows has been generated to give members who have been traveling over the summer months a chance to show where they had visited. Some travelled within Canada, some to the States and others to Europe and some to more exotic places like India and Africa. So thank you to those who have shared. On the topic of the history of our club. Some time ago I sent an email to the membership of the club requesting volunteers to help in the digitizing of the clubs paper trail before these papers fade to a point of being unrecognizable. I am pleased to report that Johan and I have some volunteers to help in this task and that this work will start within the month. Eventually the digital transformation will be made public with the approval of the executive and the general membership and posted to the web in some format, perhaps Wikipedia or a website devoted to the history of the club.

While doing research for my presentation on Black and White I found reference to Alfred Stieglitz and his involvement with the New York Camera Club which is featured in Wikipedia. Traveling to Europe in 1894 with his wife Georgia O’Keeffe he noticed that photography had already been accepted as an art form. Stieglitz became a driving force for the acceptance of photography as an art form in America after his return.

Colin Williams

‘I am not a painter, nor an artist.

Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing’

Alfred Stieglitz

BELLOWS

OCTOBER 2013

THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE HCC

THE

" W e a r e w h a t w e repeatedly do . . . excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

ARISTOTLE

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Hugh McGilchristJim Hixon

Jim Alton

Nicolette Wain-Lowe Shirley Dennis

PARO, BHUTAN

THE NEW

BURLINGTON PIER, ONTARIO

>NAMIB NAUKLUFT PARK - SOSSUSVIEL  THE ORYX OR GEMSBOK ARE USUALLY

VERY SHY HOWEVER WITH THOSE HORNS ... ATTEMPTING TO GET CLOSER WAS NOT AN

OPTION.

A WATCHTOWER IN ALBANIA

NEAR AND FAROLD AND NEW

MERLIN'S CAVE, TINTAGEL HEAD, CORNWALL, ENGLAND

LEGENDARY HOME OF KING ARTHUR.

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GREECE AND CROATIA WITH

JOANNE PLACKO

Church of St. Mark, Zagreb, Croatia ... It is believed that the church was built as early as the 1 3 t h c e n t u r y, a n d r a d i c a l l y reconstructed in the second half of the 14th century.  The colours red, white and blue are the colours of the Croatian flag.  The roof tiles are laid out so that they represent the coat of arms of the city of Zagreb (white castle on red background) and the tr iune kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.

Oia, Santorini, Greece ... This picture was taken in a town called Oia, on the island of Santorini.  Oia is famous for it’s gorgeous sunsets which cast an red fire like glow on the white buildings and windmills. This is the place where all the photographers take those “gorgeous” pictures that you see in all the travel brochures

Parthenon, Athens, Greece ... These pictures are of the Parthenon, a temple on the Acropolis, located in Athens, Greece.   The temple was dedicated to the goddess Athena.  Its construction began in 447 BC and was completed in 438 BC.   The Greek Ministry of Culture is currently carrying out a program of selective restoration and reconstruction to ensure the stability of the structure, hence the scaffolding. 

>>Juraj Dolanjski

I'd thought I'd share with you my version of Edinburgh Castle, after recalling seeing Rick McKenzie's and Colin Williams’s versions. In my two week trip through a small section of Scotland I started using an IR (Infra Red) modified camera. Absolutely fell in love with it. On some occasions it was an effort to "remember" to shoot a regular (colour) shot. IR is primarily a black and white capture, foliage becomes white, rocks and stonework becomes dark. Grasses look like a snow. The clouds stay white and blue sky gets bit of coffee colour. Great for old castles and forests. However with little bit of Photoshop post processing I reintroduced some reversed colours.

Juraj Dolanjski

EDINBURGH CASTLE is built on an extinct volcano that erupted over 300 million years

ago. The castle was built around 1130 AD by David I, son of Saint Margaret of Scotland. The English and Scottish Monarchies were constantly trying to gain control and whoever occupied the Castle had power over Scotland. Charles the 1st was the last Scottish Monarch to inhabit the Castle in 1633. Oliver Cromwell executed Charles in 1650 and took possession of the Castle. The Castle has a long and interesting history and is the most visited attraction in Scotland. While I was in Britain last year I received an email from Rick who gave me an assignment to photograph the fountain with the castle as a backdrop and to get my perspective on how I viewed the scene. His image was taken a few years prior to mine. After a presentation I made last year Juraj picked up the assignment while he was visiting Scotland this year.

Rick McKenzie

Colin Williams

DIFFERENT

ERSPECTIVESP

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Linda Schettle Pat Gubbins

Ron Chalecki

The lighthouse is located on Lake Erie near Fort Erie. It was built in 1918 and was decommissioned as a  working lighthouse in 1995. Tours are held to visit the lighthouse from June to September. To visit outside a tour, you have to check in at the gated entrance for a pass, and walk in...during this same period. As for the image, I thought B&W would serve it better than colour.

POINT ABINO

LIGHTHOUSE

FORT ERIE   This is taken with an Infrared converted camera.

MINATURE CHURCH BADLANDSDRUMHELLER, ALBERTA.

Image top left

‘ I CAN THINK OF NO OTHER

EDIFICE CONSTRUCTED

BY MAN AS ALTRUISTIC AS

A L IGHTHOUSE. THEY

WERE BUILT ONLY TO

SERVE

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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Gail MacLellanBert Pierre

Art Ward

SUMMER DESTINATIONS

LEFT BANK OF THE RIVER SEINE, PARIS.HOME TO HENRI CARTIER-BRESSONWHO NEVER CROPPED HIS IMAGES

AND ONLY SHOT IN BLACK & WHITE.

M&T BANK, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, THIS DOWNTOWN BUILDING HAS HAD NUMEROUS

NAMES OVER THE YEARS, IT IS LOCATED ON SALINA STREET.

SUNSET ON DRY PINE BAY, FRENCH RIVER.

EW ORKN Y ARISPTO TO

RENCH IVER

FR

ROM THEF

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Lorna Parcher

Susan Leite

Deborah Twigg Diane De GonzagueLAKE NIPISSING

WE TRAVELLED TO VERMONT IN JULY AND

RENTED A HOUSE ON A SMALL "POND" IN

THE NORTHERN KINGDOM OF VERMONT

NEAR THE TOWN ON GLOVER.

>MY BACKYARD ON THE GRAND RIVER...>

SUNRISE, KEARNEY LAKE, ALGONQUIN PARK

ONTARIO TO VERMONT

‘ ‘NOTHING IS SOFTER OR

MORE FLEXIBLE THAN

WATER, YET NOTHING

CAN RESIST IT.

LAOZI

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FROM NANAIMO, ATHABASCA AND KAKEBEKA

Bob Gibbon

Loretta Ward Paul Hotson

ATHABASCA RIVER VALLEY

AT SUNSET, ALBERTA

THIS IS A PICTURE TAKEN

ON A WALK AT PIPERS

LAGOON IN NANAIMO

BC... THIS IS A LITTLE ISLAND THAT THE LOCALS

CALL SHACK ISLAND.

KAKABEKA FALLS

KNOWN AS THE NIAGARA OF THE

NORTH, FORMING PART OF THE

VOYAGEURS TRAIL, THE

KAMINISTIQUIA RIVER HAS A DROP

OF 40M.  IT IS LOCATED 30KM

WEST OF THUNDER BAY.

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