THE BELLOWSTHE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE HCC

SUMMER 2013

CONTENTS EDITORS MESSAGE

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ROB FOWLIE. KATHY WARD. LORETTA WARD.

To All HCC Members, Another amazing Canadian summer full of photographic opportunities, one being the arrival of the Tall Ships. I got caught up in the anticipation of their arrival from Toronto to Hamilton so I went out and scouted the area from Oakville to the Skyway bridge on Thursday to try and find the best advantage point. The weather was perfect, rain mist and fog. On Friday I stood on the new Burlington pier in the rain with a golf umbrella and waited to “shoot” the 1st arrival. After what seemed like eternity out of the mist, like a ghost ship, came the perfect opportunity for that classic shot with nine Canadian geese leading the way. My patience paid off and I was rewarded not only with a few images but also the feeling of what it must have felt like a hundred years ago. The moral of the story is anticipation and patience are a prerequisite for great photographic moments such as this. In this 1st edition of the Bellows for the 2013 2014 season I have included the schedule of events and the names of the new executive and their respective positions within the club. The clinics and topics are also included with the submission dates. There were many a fine image submitted to the clinics last season a few of which are in this Bellows. In this Bellows as in the past I have created links to the individual pages, seen to the left of this text in green and in italics.

Colin Williams

To All HCC Members, Another amazing Canadian summer full of photographic opportunities, one being the arrival of the Tall Ships. I got caught up in the anticipation of their arrival from Toronto to Hamilton so I went out and scouted the area from Oakville to the Skyway bridge on Thursday to try and find the best advantage point. The weather was perfect, rain mist and fog. On Friday I stood on the new Burlington pier in the rain with a golf umbrella and waited to “shoot” the 1st arrival. After what seemed like eternity out of the mist, like a ghost ship, came the perfect opportunity for that classic shot with nine Canadian geese leading the way. My patience paid off and I was rewarded not only with a few images but also the feeling of what it must have felt like a hundred years ago. The moral of the story is anticipation and patience are a prerequisite for great photographic moments such as this. In this 1st edition of the Bellows for the 2013 2014 season I have included the schedule of events and the names of the new executive and their respective positions within the club. The clinics and topics are also included with the submission dates. There were many a fine image submitted to the clinics last season a few of which are in this Bellows. In this Bellows as in the past I have created links to the individual pages, seen to the left of this text in green and in italics.

Colin Williams

OUR 121ST YEAR

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Editors Message

Presidents Message

Projected Image Awards

Printed Image Awards

2013 2014 HM Winners

About the HCC Trophies

Infringement

Calendar of Events

Executive 2013 2014

Page 8The HCC Trophies

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

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MARY GILMOUR

TULIPS

JIM HIXON

LADY CARDINAL

I would like to welcome you on behalf of your new executive to the start of a new club year and the first Bellows of this coming year. Also at this time I have to thank the previous executive for the great work that they did in paving the way for this upcoming year.

I think that there a lot of things already planned that you will like this season.

First communications, Colin will be the Bellows editor again and the new web site is still being refined (i.e. under the last stages of construction) by Dan but is already available for you to visit.

Virginia has arranged for some excellent speakers covering a wide range of interests, Joe LeFevre being of special note, and some great workshops.

There will be fewer clinics offered this year to make space for this, but you will be able to enter a larger number of your images in total. Also to make it easier to view printed submissions they will also be accompanied by a projectable file that will also be shown when the results of the clinic are presented.

Information regarding all of the above is available on the web site and will be presented in detail on the orientation night.

I am looking forward to seeing you all soon,

RobROB THORNE

LION CUB

HCC OPEN HOUSE

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH

7.30 PMThe Mount Hamilton Christian

Reformed Church

1411 Upper Wellington St.

Hamilton, Ontario.Click the Lion for Map

ASSIGNMENT NAME POINTSPOINTSPOINTS TOTAL

AWARD WINNER RICK MCKENZIE 27 26 25 78

CREATIVE

AWARD WINNER KATHY WARD 28 25 21 74

2ND PLACE ROSE NORMAN 25 23 23 71

NATURE

AWARD WINNER LORETTA WARD 26 23 22 71

2ND PLACE ALIDA VAN HALDEREN 27 22 21 70

2ND PLACE ART WARD 25 25 20 70

PICTORIAL

AWARD WINNER RICK MCKENZIE 30 28 26 84

2ND PLACE BOB GIBBON 26 25 25 76

JUNIOR

AWARD WINNER KARL STAHL 27 23 23 73

2ND PLACE GAIL MACLELLAN 27 22 22 71

INTERMEDIATE

AWARD WINNER ANVER RAHIMTULA 27 23 23 73

2ND PLACE TONY SAKALAUSKAS 25 23 22 70

SENIOR /MASTER

AWARD WINNER RICK MCKENZIE 30 28 27 85

2ND PLACE KATHY WARD 28 25 25 78

THE HCC 2012 2013

AWARD WINNERS

PROJECTED IMAGES

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ART WARD

MILK PODS BURSTING

ASSIGNMENT NAME POINTSPOINTSPOINTS TOTAL

AWARD WINNER JIM HIXON 26 24 25 75

CREATIVE

AWARD WINNER MARY GILMOUR 28 24 23 75

2ND PLACE ROSE NORMAN 23 23 22 68

NATURE

AWARD WINNER ART WARD 26 26 25 77

2ND PLACE ROB THORNE 26 25 22 73

PICTORIAL

AWARD WINNER MICHAEL COOMBER 26 26 26 78

2ND PLACE SHIRLEY DENNIS 26 25 25 76

JUNIOR

AWARD WINNER MICHAEL COOMBER 26 24 24 76

2ND PLACE KARL STAHL 24 23 23 70

INTERMEDIATE

AWARD WINNER ROB FOWLIE 25 24 22 71

2ND PLACE TONY SAKALAUSKAS 25 22 21 68

SENIOR /MASTER

AWARD WINNER ART WARD 26 26 26 78

2ND PLACE SHIRLEY DENNIS 26 25 25 76

THE HCC 2012 2013

AWARD WINNERS

PRINTED IMAGES

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RICK MCKENZIE

STEAM CLOCK

THE HCC 2012 2013

AWARD WINNERS

MOST HONOURABLE MENTIONS

MICHAEL COOMBER 10

BOB GIBBON 9

RICK MCKENZIE 9

KARL STAHL 9

CHRIS TEMPLE 9

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MICHAEL COOMBER

KIDDING

BOB GIBBON

KILLARNEY AURORA

KARL STAHL

STAINED STONE

ANVER RAHIMTULA

HOBOKEN TERMINAL

ROSE NORMAN

OUT OF THE BOX

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ABOUT THE HCC TROPHIES

TONY SAKALAUSKAS

WET STREET CLEANER

TRICIA SHULIST

GORE PARK HAMILTON

KAREN MITCHELL

JACKFISH SUNSET

CHRIS TEMPLE

HOUSEKEEPER

The Hamilton Camera Club trophies that are given out at the Annual Awards Night and Banquet to individuals who have excelled in the craft have been donated by various members and persons within the Hamilton community since the 1st one in 1899 1900. They are beautiful trophies and it is an honour to be recognized by your peers and to receive one of these trophies. These generous donations have become part of our history and rightfully so. Some would argue in this day and age if they should still remain a part of what we do as a club and that perhaps we as a club should abolish the idea of giving them altogether. Others, such as our club historian, would argue against the idea simply because without these trophies and the recording of our history then perhaps we loose the backbone of our very existence. I, like all of you, have made the transition from the film world to the digital world and along the way I moved from the slide projector to the digital projector. I remember walking into Connaught Camera in downtown Hamilton to make the purchase back in 1970 of the slide projector and I still have it to this day and in working order. The sad part though while doing research is that I can not find reference to Connaught Camera on the internet, do we wish to do the same with our trophies and forget they ever existed. On the following page is a list of the trophies and how they were presented around 1977 when the club was still showing colour slides.

The list on page 8 is courtesy of Ed Luinstra who became President in May 1977

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TROPHY NAME DONATED BY FOR

PRINT DIVISION TROPHIES

Senior Print Monochrome The Club 1899 1900 Best Senior Monochrome Prints of the Year.

Intermediate Print Monochrome Cunningham and Reid 1953 54 Best Intermediate Monochrome Prints of the Year.

Junior Print Monochrome The Club 1908 1909 Best Junior Monochrome Prints of the Year.

Art Ryan Pictorial The Club 1967 68 Best Pictorial Prints of the Year

May Wilson Memorial The Club 1967 68 Print Maker with greatest number of points accumulated in current years clinics

The President’s Contemporary R.W. Phister 1968 69 Best Monochrome Contemporary Prints of the Year

BDN Simcoe Trophy T Burns J Dobie R Nunn 1969 70 Best Colour Prints of the Year

Ardiel Advertising Monochrome Ardiel Advertising 1968 69 Best Monochrome Advertising Prints of the Year

COMBINED PRINT DIVISION SLIDE DIVISION TROPHIESCOMBINED PRINT DIVISION SLIDE DIVISION TROPHIES

Aronson Trophy N and G Aronson 1969 70 Best Photojournalism Photograph of the Year prints/slides monochrome/colour

Ardiel Advertising Colour Ardiel Advertising 1968 69 Best Colour Advertising Photograph of the Year prints/slides

COLOUR SLIDE DIVISION TROPHIES

The Walter Hill Trophy Senior Colour Walter Hill 1953 54 Best Senior Colour Slides

Connaught Camera Intermediate Colour J Prestedge CC 1969 70 Best Intermediate Colour Slides of the Year.

R and J Pfister Junior Colour R and J Pfister 1969 70 Best Junior Colour Slides of the Year

The HCC Nature Trophy Grant Gates A R P S 1968 69 Best Nature Colour Slides of the Year (cannot be won in consecutive years)

The President’s Contemporary R.W. Phister 1968 69 Best Contemporary Colour Slides of the Year

SPECIAL AWARDS

President Skillen Memorial Trophy Prints The Club 1975 1976 For the best entries in Assignment

President Skillen Memorial Trophy Slides The Club 1975 1976 For the best entries in Assignment

The HCC Photo Essay Trophy W D Moody 1973 74 For the Best Photo Essay

CITY OF HAMILTON AWARDS

Best Senior or Intermediate Prints City of Hamilton 1973 74 Best Prints of the Year

Best Junior Print City of Hamilton 1973 74 Best Junior Print of the Year

Best Senior or Intermediate Slides City of Hamilton 1973 74 Best Slides of the Year

Best Junior Slide City of Hamilton 1973 74 Best Junior Slide of the Year

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COPYRIGHT

LEONIE HOLMES

STRINGS AND MUSIC

PLAGIARISM

SHIRLEY DENNIS

ROMAN RUINS MOROCCO

ROB THORNE

HDD MACRO

Plagiarism, the act of copying some other persons work and using for ones own personal gain is immoral and although perhaps not considered illegal in some parts of the world it can have copyright infringement implications. When copying and pasting to ones own computer and using the information for personal use is fine but when used in the public domain then permission from the author or at the very least open credit should be given to the original author.

Copyright and copyright laws vary from country to country and have been around since the invention of the printing press as a way of protecting original work and publications. In 1662 by an act of parliament under the reign of Charles II in England the Press Act was passed, which required a copy of the original publication that was to be printed for public use by an author, be entered into the Stationers Company in London. This company had been awarded a Royal Charter in 1557 and was responsible for enforcing the act until the passing of the “Statute of Anne” in 1709. With the passing of the statute the responsibility of enforcement went from the private sector to the governing courts of the land. Canada established copyright laws in 1832 but was subject to the imperial laws of England until the passing of the Canadian copyright law in 1921. It was readdressed and changed in 1988 1997 and 2012. It is interesting to note that even software and computer programs are copyrighted and even though we may “purchase” a copy to use on our computers and tablets are we in effect renting or leasing the software or program. Adobe and other software manufactures are adopting the “Cloud” as subscription based services to their software and programs. The benefits work both ways for the consumer and the company, one being the reduction of piracy and second the continuing technological changes of the software or program can be used without the need to purchase a new copy or edition of the software.

Source Information from Wikipedia

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2013 2014 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

September 9 Main Hall 7.30 pm Open House.

September 16 Main Hall 7.30 pm Orientation Evening. Presenter Harvey Rogers President GTCCC.

September 30 Main Hall 7.30 pm Preparing Images for Print and Digital Projections. Presenter Paul Sparrow.

October 5 Study Room 9.00 am Basic Camera Workshop. Presenter Bob Melnyk.

October 7 Main Hall 7.30 pm Black and White Revisited. Presenter Colin Williams.

October 19 TBA 8.30 am Basic Camera Workshop (cont.) This is an outing, location to be announced.

October 28 Main Hall 7.30 pm ACDSee Overview and Topaz Plugins. Presenter Bob Walling.

November 4 Main Hall 7.30 pm Street Photography. Presenter Allan Hamilton. Submit Clinic 1 Monochrome

November 21 TBA 7.30 pm Bronze Box. Details to be announced.

November 30 Study Room 9.30 am Lightroom Library Module Workshop. Presenter Colin Williams.

December 2 Main Hall 7.30 pm Masters Night “How I Captured this Image.”

December 7 Study Room 1.00 pm Photographing Water Drops Workshop. Presenter Rick McKenzie.

December 9 Main Hall 7.30 pm Showing Clinic 1 “Monochrome.” Submit Clinic 2 Derelict Objects

December 16 Main Hall 7.30 pm Xmas Evening. Annual Xmas Pot Luck Dinner.

January 13 Main Hall 7.30 pm Showing Clinic 2 “Derelict Objects.” Submit Clinic 3 Street Photography

January 20 Main Hall 7.30 pm Making Dynamic Landscape Images. Presenter Joe LeFevre.

February 1 Study Room 1.00 pm Photographing Smoke Workshop. Presenter Rick McKenzie.

February 3 Main Hall 7.30 pm Photoshop, Levels Curves and Colour Casts. Presenter Dave Robinson.

February 24 Main Hall 7.30 pm Showing Clinic 3 “Street Photography.” Submit Clinic 4 Water Drops

March 3 Main Hall 7.30 pm Star Trails, Low Light and Travel Tips. Presenter John Overmeyer.

March 15 Study Room 9.00 am Shooting Birds in Flight Workshop. Presenter Art Ward.

March 24 Main Hall 7.30 pm Architectural Photography. Presenter Kevin Thom.

March 31 Main Hall 7.30 pm Showing Clinic 4 “Water Drops.”

April 7 Main Hall 7.30 pm AV (Audio Visual) Night. Presentations from our Members.

April 12 Study Room 1.00 pm Creative Photography Workshop. Presenters Rose Norman and Gerrie Burnett.

April 14 Main Hall 7.30 pm Sports Action and Hot Air Balloons. Presenter John Larson.

April 28 Main Hall 7.30 pm AGM (Annual General Meeting). Paid up members only.

May 5 TBATBATBA Annual Year End Awards Night and Banquet.

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EXECUTIVE FOR 2013 2014

President

Vice President

Secretary

Treasurer

Membership

Awards

Prints

Projected

Club Liaison

Web and Communications

Club Historian

Outings

Rob Thorne

Leonie Holmes

Karen Mitchell

Pat Gubbins

Tricia Shulist

Gail MacLellan

Jim Hixon

Michael Coomber

Virginia Stranaghan

Dan Copeland

Johan Wigt

Anver Rahimtula

DAN COPELAND

FRACTALLIUS BEE

COMMITTEES

GAIL MACLELLAN

EATER

PAT GUBBINS

TALKIN BACK

HCC SINCE 1892

VIRGINIA STRANAGHAN

CORNER OF ANOTHER ERA

Bellows Colin Williams

Errors and Omissions