Members Showcase

A showcase of what club members have been photographing during the summer.

Howard Whiting

Howard Whiting is an Ontario-based nature photographer, Ontario Master Naturalist, and an accredited member of the Professional Photographers of Canada (PPOC) in Wildlife, Ornithology, Botanical, and Pictorial/Scenic photography. His passion is exploring the natural world and demonstrating that many outstanding photographic opportunities can be found much closer to home than we often imagine.

In this presentation, Howard shares a collection of wildlife, bird, botanical, and landscape photographs, along with the stories behind them. He'll talk about finding subjects, understanding animal behaviour, working with changing light and weather, and the patience and persistence that often go into creating a memorable image. Most of the photographs were made within an hour of his home in Eastern Ontario, proving that remarkable images don't always require travel to distant destinations.

Howard will also discuss the equipment he uses, his approach to post-processing, and some of the lessons he's learned along the way. Whether your interests are wildlife, nature, landscapes, or simply becoming a more observant photographer, you'll leave with ideas and inspiration for your own photographic journey.

Monique Campbell: Faces in the Street

Monique Campbell has been a photographer for 35 plus years after graduating from the Western Pacific Academy of Photography in Victoria, British Columbia in 1992. She started to do street photography after she discovered the work of Vivian Maier. Most of her images capture ordinary moments of everyday life. She thrills at photographing a wide spectrum of people that she encounters on the streets especially women.

Monique's presentation inspires photographers to get out and photograph people by embracing the fear and photographing anyway. She will share about 80 photos and stories over 75 minutes. It comes with a handout that can be given to members as a great resource after the talk.

http://www.momentsbymonique.com/

Sherry McLean's Master Presentation

In order to be considered a Master photographer in the RAPC, candidates are required to make a presentation of their work at a club meeting. This is Sherry's presentation.

Wildlife Photography with Maxime Legaré-Vézina

Maxime is a professional wildlife photographer based in Quebec. For more than a decade, he has dedicated his life to observing and photographing wildlife in its natural environment. Through years spent in the field, he has developed a deep understanding of animal behavior and a respectful, ethical approach to photography. He is the recipient of many awards including the Canadian Geographic Nature photographer of the year in 2025.

http://www.maximelegarevezina.com/

Nature

Our first competition of the 2026 - 2027 season is the Nature competition. This includes landscapes, wildlife, birds, plants, flowers, insects and reptiles. The images can be colour or monochrome.  "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, 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 Al technology is not permitted. Frames or borders are not allowed.

Petrie Island: A Fostering Place by Michael Ricco

From his birth to his 18th birthday, Michael lived in foster care. Those years as a permanent ward of the state had an enduring impact on his personality, character, and sense of self. This presentation will focus on his deep connection to the tiny, beautiful wilderness park in the east end of Ottawa, known as Petrie Island. Each image that will be shown was the result of hours spent walking the Island alone … "alone but never lonely". 

Freeman Patterson on The Distinction Between Art and Craft and Why It Matters to Photographers

Fluency in the photographic craft, i.e. ease in using photographic tools and techniques and knowing the building blocks of visual design plus useful guidelines for arranging them in picture space (composition) does not produce art any more than fluency in a language means that a person has anything of value to express. ART is conceived in our imagination, our dreams, and our passions. We use CRAFT to give it birth, that is visible or audible form. Freeman's presentation explores this important connection.

Freeman Patterson of Shampers Bluff, New Brunswick, Canada, has had a career in photography and visual design that spans more than 60 years. He has taught innumerable workshops in Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Israel, France, the United Kingdom, the USA, and other countries. He has authored 15 books, five of them on photography and visual design; his most recent, Embracing Creation, was published in conjunction with the opening of his large retrospective exhibition at New Brunswick’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery in September 2013-14.  

Freeman is a recipient of the Order of Canada (1985), the Order of New Brunswick (2013), the National Film Board of Canada’s Gold Medal for Photographic Excellence, the Photographic Society of America’s highest award, The Progress Medal, and is an elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art.

www.freemanpatterson.com 

1 - Monthly Showcase

2 - Michel Gosselin

Inspirational Colours (CAPA Club Competition)

This competition and its themes invite photographers to showcase their creative skills, using colour as a vibrant medium to capture dynamic, outstanding, stunning, thoughtful and thought-provoking images.  It is an opportunity to explore areas that may stretch your comfort zones, pushing to the boundaries of your creativity.

To keep the focus on the dynamic world of colour, submissions should be limited to colour images only. Black & white, monochrome and infrared images are excluded from this competition. 

The top six scoring images will be submitted as our club’s entry to the CAPA competition on the same topic.

Inter-Club AV Showcase

Barbara Kreutter on Woven Vision: A Textile Designer's Journey into Abstract Photography

Barbara will share a selection of her photographic series, revealing the images that serve as starting points and tracing how they evolve into finished works.  She'll discuss the techniques she uses-not only to capture her photographs, but also to transform them - demonstrating how she manipulates colour and applies editing methods that are often overlooked in traditional workflows.  Her hope is that you'll leave with fresh ideas and renewed inspiration to explore new ways of photographing and creating your own abstract imagery. 

Barbara's artistic journey began in textile design and weaving.  In 1990, she left that world to explore the computer industry.  While the transition expanded her technical skills, she soon realized how deeply she missed the creative process.  That search eventually led her to abstract photography.  She is a juried member of the Alberta Society of Artists and the Abstract'd Art Collective.  Her work has been exhibited in group shows across Canada, USA, and UK.

https://kreutter.zenfolio.com

https://www.instagram.com/barbkreutter

Christmas Party

Michael Tardioli

Program to be Announced

1 - Monthly Showcase

Robert Matyas', Masters Presentation

In order to be considered a Master photographer in the RAPC, candidates are required to make a presentation of their work at a club meeting. This is Robert's presentation.

Kristi Odum on Celebrating Wildlife

Photography is a tool to unlock the secret lives of creatures great and small from under the water's surface to the vast expanse of space overhead. From insects to sharks to the milky way, there are mysteries everywhere, with photography opportunities galore. Kristi will describe techniques, from simple to advanced that will help listeners become a stronger photographer, all while connecting deeper with nature.  From basic settings to optimizing your cameras for wildlife photography, she will go through suggestions to help us create more stunning images of wildlife.  

Night Photography

Photos entered in this competition must be taken at night.  There are no subject matter restrictions, as long as it is clear to the viewer that the images were captured at night. 

Photos taken in a dark studio or simply featuring a dark background will not be accepted for this competition.

Travel Evening

Excursions into Liminal Time with Roxanne Bouche Overton

In Excursions into Liminal Time, Roxanne Bouché Overton shares her approach to Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) photography and the ways motion, light, color, shape, and extended time can transform familiar subjects into something more expressive. Through her own photographs and the work of other ICM photographers, she explores how movement can simplify a scene, suggest mood, reveal unexpected patterns, and create images that move beyond a literal record of what was in front of the camera.

http://www.roxanneoverton.com/

1 - Monthly Showcase

2 - Peter Juranka

Canada My Country (CAPA Club Competition)

This competition, shared with CAPA,  celebrates the rich diversity of People and Places across our nation. This year, we want to showcase the People who call Canada home, and the varied landscape that surrounds us all.

Landscape –  from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast to our Far North, your submitted photographs should showcase our beautiful country and its vast riches of natural and man-made wonders.

People – images of individuals who call Canada home, photographed in their daily activities, street scenes, workplaces, formal settings, community gatherings, and the varied environments where Canadian life unfolds.

The top six scoring images will be submitted as our club’s entry to the CAPA competition on the same topic.

Bill Young

Edwin Lee's Master Presentation

In order to be considered a Master photographer in the RAPC, candidates are required to make a presentation of their work at a club meeting. This is Edwin's Master Presentation.

Judy Hancock Holland

Black and white can offer a classic look for your photographs, but not all images are suited to this kind of treatment. Learn how to choose subjects and compose for black and white, and the best methods for converting RAW files to black and white. We’ll also look into high key and low key work.

Judy Hancock Holland is an award winning Canadian photographic artist and lifelong educator. Her work has been exhibited in North America and Europe, and her YouTube tutorials have garnered over 500,000 views.

http://jhhphoto.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjuG999_tiydDOSL14uFLTg

Intersections

Entries must clearly depict intersecting elements. The main area of interest of the photograph must feature the intersection of light, objects, subjects, or a combination thereof creating geometric intersections. 

Entires depicting implied or metaphorical intersections will be deemed off-topic and disqualified.

1 - Monthly Showcase

2 - presenter

3 - presenter

Inter-Club Competition Results

Fall Challenge Results; Nature Showcase

Portraits (People and Pets)

Permitted topics include formal and informal portraits, street photography that singles out individuals or a small group of people and portraits of pets.

Images of wildlife or other animals that are not normally considered to be pets are not allowed. Neither are general street photography scenes where people are not obviously the main area of interest.

New Members, Fine Art, Still Life & Studio Showcases

Bruce Wilson Competition

1 - Monthly Showcase

2 - Urban Showcase

3 - showcase TBD

1 - Annual General Meeting

2 - Adrien Duey