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West Vancouver Seniors
Photography Club
Who we are
Activities
Exhibitions and Competitions
Invitation and Contacts
Gallery of Members' work
Who We Are
The West Vancouver Seniors Photography Club is an ongoing activity of
members of the West Vancouver Seniors Activity Centre, located on 21st
St at Marine Drive in West Vancouver. Scheduled meetings are held every Thursday
in the Audio-Visual room from 1pm to 3.30pm, beginning in early September and
terminating mid June. Our members are mostly retirees with an interest in
photography and span the whole spectrum from ex-professional photographers to
hobbyists. Our present membership is about 60. We require no previous experience
in photography for membership, which is open to any member of the Centre. Our
club is a member of the Canadian Association for Photographic Art (CAPA).
Activities
We probably differ from most other local photographic clubs in that we do
not have a seniority level of membership based on points obtained in
evaluations. This is because formal judging, critique and evaluation are not the
main purposes of our club. Many of our members are also members of the North
Shore Photographic Society or the Lions Gate Camera Club where these are the
main focus. Instead, we have a less formal agenda of activities. These include
invited visiting speakers exhibiting their work or talking on a variety of
topics; our own members showing their work or travel through slide, print,
digital or audio-visual presentations; friendly competitions and scavenger
hunts; field trips to interesting places to photograph; workshops; and a Summer
Picnic and a winter Christmas Party. We try to foster a friendly atmosphere
where everyone can have fun while we learn and enjoy photography and get
assistance and advice to enable us all to take better photos and make
stimulating presentations---everything from black & white, darkroom, outdoor,
nature, studio, digital, and computer manipulation. We have our own darkroom and
equipment.
Exhibitions and Competitions
The club has annually submitted entries to the North Shore Challenge
and to the CAPA Pacific Zone Print Challenge.
Each year our members exhibit their
prints in the West Vancouver Harmony Arts Festival. Individual members
have had print exhibitions at places such as the West Vancouver Memorial
Library.
Framed prints by members are displayed
in a rotating exhibition at the West Vancouver Seniors Activity Centre.
Invitation and Contacts
We warmly welcome visitors to drop in to our meetings to meet us and
sample some of our activities. We are always keen to have new members.
For further information, please contact
one of the following:
Derek Sutton 604-921-8088, dsutton3@shaw.ca
Les Holroyd 604-922-1793,
lbholroyd@shaw.ca
Gallery of Members’ Work
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