PHSC - GTCCC winning photographs - slide show

Well, our program tonight paraphrased the old 1981 movie, “Hank Williams: the show he never gave”. When our scheduled guest speaker, Heather Morton was forced to take a rain check for personal reasons, Clint Hryhorijiw and Mark Singer arranged to present a NFB feature length movie called “Has Anybody Here Seen Canada?”. Meantime, Ed Warner suggested a slide show of recent GTCCC Interclub 2010 contest submissions (the PHSC is a member of the GTCCC, an organization representing camera clubs in the Greater Toronto Area).

Mark presented the slide show first - like the shorts that used to run before the main feature at the movie house. Only in this case, the slide show was so long no time was left for the main feature! I selected just a few of the slides from the presentation to give you an idea of the variety of photographs the GTA amateurs have created this past year.

Ellen Anger, wife of Ron Anger, long time member and a past president, was with us tonight. She was both a judge for the GTCCC and a participant representing the prestigious Toronto Camera Club. Her winning portrait “neighbour” is striking. I chose Ellen’s photograph and 29 others that represent a cross section of the submitted photographs to illustrate this page.

To learn more about the GTCCC and see some of the other winning slides, from the Interclub 2010 competition, click on the GTCCC logo at the left. For more information on amateur photography in Canada, track down a copy of Lilly Koltun's excellent 1984 book "Private Realms of Light; Amateur Photography in Canada 1839 - 1940".

Abandoned Factory Janet Kempster	Baby Face Michelle Francis	Balcony Seating Toni Wallachy	Blue Eyes Diane Sawatzky	Circular Motion Valarie Slagter	Creep of Time Doug Johnston
Dreamer Gaetano Antonini	Dundas Sq. Crowd Robbie Robinson	Enjoy the Sunset Chan Wah So	Jasmine's Cube Ann Alimi	Jodhpur Gentlemen Linda Zack	Monarch on Orchid Fern Gitter
My cup runneth over Gerrie Springer	Neighbour Ellen Anger	On the waterfront Faan Kuypers	Osgoode Moy Nahon	PD1 Han Quach	Snow at Park Angela House
Stay away from me Francis King	Study of bread & milk Maria Ivanova	Sunny side up Judy Zarowny	Taxi! Jim Camelford	Watching the show Malcolm Park

Meantime, “Has Anybody Here Seen Canada?” is tucked away now and will be taken out another night.

You can enjoy some of the many cartoons and shorts created by the talented artists at Canada’s National Film Board on your computer - click the icon at the left. By the way, if you are fortunate enough to own an iPhone, iPod Touch, or an iPad, download the free NFB app from iTunes and enjoy the NFB material anywhere! Since the works are owned by all Canadians, the NFB used the web and mobile devices to make these delightful bits of art and documentary more widely available world wide. As a bonus there are no interruptions by those irritating and inane advertisements that plague commercial TV.

See you at our next meeting in September, after our summer break.

This page was designed in Dreamweaver CS4 on an iMac running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Unless otherwise noted, images on this page were taken during the slide show with a Sony F828 digital still camera and subsequently adjusted in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom V3 and Photoshop CS4. Presentation images are ©2010 by the respective creators and may not be used without their permission. Contents are ©2010 by the Photographic Historical Society of Canada and may be used freely provided the source is clearly indicated. Copies of photographs displayed during this presentation may not be used without the copyright holder's permission. Contact PHSC at info@phsc.ca if you would like more information on the items discussed on this page.

Bob Carter