The Important Connection Between Art and Craft and Why It Matters to Photographers
Freeman Patterson

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. This presentation explores this important connection.

Bio:
FREEMAN PATTERSON of Shamper’s 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 many countries, but especially in Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand. 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. Freeman is an elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art and a recipient of the Photographic Society of America’s highest award, the Progress Medal. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1985 and the Order of New Brunswick in 2013.

See www.freemanpatterson.com for more complete information and to read the current and back issues of “Images, Ideas, and Reflections,” Freeman’s periodical letter (six issues per year).

PGNS members can go to the members only page for the WebEx link to the meeting.
Non-members of the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia can register for the presentation using the following link: Eventbrite

The Faroe Islands, A Photographer’s Shangri-La?
Paul Illsley

Join Paul as he explores The Faroe Islands; a tiny Danish archipelago located in the North Atlantic between Iceland, Norway and Scotland. This remote collection of 18 tiny islands would fit within an area the size of the Annapolis Valley, but it punches well above its weight when it comes to scenic beauty. During our adventure we will view; 1000-foot sea pillars, 2000-foot towering cliffs, a “floating” lake, terrestrial and undersea tunnels, grass roofed huts, waterfalls cascading into the North Atlantic and remote villages nestled within steep fjords.

Join us to see if you would agree that this tiny remote and picturesque North Atlantic archipelago deserves the title, “A Photographer’s Shangri-La”.

Bio:
With over 40 years of photographic experience Paul’s work has been published by National Geographic, used by The Royal Canadian Mint in the form of a coin, by Canada Post in the form of a stamp and featured in a number of international publications.


Paul has served as imaging specialist on a NASA and National Geographic sponsored airborne laser (LiDAR) mapping project in the Peruvian Andes and as an instructor of Cartography, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and Research Imaging with the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) in Alaska. Paul is an award-winning graduate and former instructor of Remote Sensing, Airborne Imaging and Digital Mapping in the Cartography department at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Nova Scotia, Canada.


Paul is a retired airborne imaging specialist in the Applied Research department at COGS where he was responsible for piloting and maintaining advanced drones containing Viable Spectrum, Multispectral, Hyperspectral, Thermal imaging sensors as well as active LiDAR laser mapping systems. He holds an Advanced Operations drone pilot’s certification from Transport Canada.

PGNS members can go to the members only page for the WebEx link to the meeting.
Non-members of the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia can register for the presentation using the following link: Eventbrite

How Do I Improve This Image?
Hazel Meredith

Whether you are new to Photoshop and editing, or a seasoned pro, I’ll show you some simple adjustments that will make your images “sing”! Easy adjustments for contrast, shadows, highlights, clarity, cropping and more, will improve your images. As an active camera club judge, I often comment on simple fixes that will improve an image’s score. I will demonstrate in Photoshop, but the same techniques apply in almost any editing program.

Bio:
Hazel Meredith is an award-winning photographer and a sought-after teacher, speaker, and competition judge. She began teaching in 2007, and now does seminars at camera clubs and conferences across the U.S. – both in-person and virtual. She offers her own workshops and webinars and has done webinars for several software companies.

She has written two eBooks on working with textures and released two creative courses. She and her husband, Dave, produce the “Virtual Creative Photography Conference” with attendees from around the world. Hazel loves the creative aspect of photography and postprocessing, especially the use of textures and software to create unique images.

She is actively involved with the photographic community and has held leadership roles and received honorary distinctions from several organizations. In the Fall of 2020, she was the recipient of the Ashbrook Award for Digital Imaging Instruction from the Photographic Society of America.

PGNS members can go to the members only page for the WebEx link to the meeting.
Non-members of the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia can register for the presentation using the following link: Eventbrite