Summer Monthly Meeting

The RA’s West parking lot will be closed so people will need to park at the East end of the RA building.

Join us for more relaxed meetings during the summer. You can bring up to 30 of your images on a USB memory stick that you can share with the others. Of course, you do not need to share images to attend the meeting. We hope to see you in Clark Hall

You are the program, so get those images ready! Bring up to thirty images, or an AV presentation of up to seven minutes.

Of course, you don't have to show images to attend the meeting. 

Presenters should arrive at the meeting venue by 7:15 at the very latest, so there is time to load the images onto the club computer before the start of the evening.
 
If you need detailed help, you can find advice about preparing your images in the Documents section of the club web site.  Go to Documents ==> Competitions & Showcases ==> Image Preparation Guidelines 2020.pdf

Otherwise, it is sufficient to remember that your images should not exceed 1920 pixels on the horizontal, or 1080 on the vertical.  Images should be .jpg, sRGB
 

Nature

Our first competition of the 2025 - 2026 club year is a Nature competition. This includes landscapes, wildlife, birds, plants, flowers, insects and reptiles. The images can be colour or monochrome.  This is a digital only competition

“Hand-of-man” elements shall not be present in the Nature theme, except where those human elements are integral part of the nature story, and should not exceed 10% of the image space.  An example would be a barn being the habitat of barn owls, or insects found on domesticated plants.  Domesticated or feral animals are not permitted.  Domesticated plants like tulips and roses or grape vines are not permitted. 

This is a restricted editing competition, so only the following editing techniques are allowed: Cropping, white balance, exposure, contrast, HDR, focus stacking, dodging, burning and removal of camera artifacts (sensor dust, sensor noise) are permitted.

Moving or removing elements (other than camera artifacts) or the use of AI technology is not permitted. Frames or borders are not allowed.

Competition Rules can be found at: https://raphotoclub.ca/docs?p=Competitions+and+Showcases&view=Competition+Rules+2023-07-25+.pdf