Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia

Meet at 8.30 am at Just Us Coffee at 11865 on Highway #1. If you are travelling from Halifax on Highway 101, take Exit 10 to Wolfville. Just Us Coffee is on the right hand side of Highway # 1 just a short distance from Exit 10.

Morning – 9.00 a m to 12.30 p m ( about an hour and a half at each venue)

1. Gaspereau Vinyards – 2239 White Rock Road
2. Gaspereau Valley Fibres – Farm Wool Shop – 830 Gaspereau River Rd

Lunch in Wolfville or Port Williams

For those who are interested, I am making a reservation for The Port Gastropub in Port Williams for 1.00 p m. Please let me know by June 23rd if you would like me to include you in the reservation.

Afternoon -2.00 to 5.30 pm (about an hour and a half at each venue)

3. Prescott House Museum and Gardens – 1633 Starrs Point Road (The
Museum has an entry fee of $3.60)
4. Blomidon Inn – Victorian Gardens – 195 Main Street in Wolfville

Please bring your completed Field Trip Waiver Form which can be downloaded
off our PGNS website:

http://www.photoguild.ns.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pgns-field-trip-waiver.pdf

Sunscreen, fly repellant, waterproof footwear (for wet grass if
need be) and money for admission fees are suggested.

To help ensure you receive notice of any changes or cancellation due to
weather, please call (422-8164) or email me if you plan to attend.
(Rain date is Sunday, June 26th)

I hope you are able to join us!

Dean

On this field trip, we are going to Cosbys garden centre in Liverpool, the Rhododendron park if there are blooms left, and the Blockhouse car dump. All places are easy, flat, short walks.

9:15 am- Meet (take Exit 13- Hwy 103) in Bridgewater-left turn, go to the lights on High St., right turn for 3 blocks to Tim Hortons (on the left) for a pit stop. Park across the street in the shopping centre lot where you can leave your car all day if you can share a ride or transport others.
9:30-leave for Exit 19-Liverpool-HWY 103
1. Cosby’s Garden centre-photograph many life size sculptures of human/fantasy figures in a magical woodland setting. A unique place-cement sculptures created by the owner.
11:45am- Lunch at Lanes Privateer Inn Liverpool (right by the town bridge)-great pub food
PM-Return to Bridgewater, pick up your parked cars by Tims (pit stop) on the way through Bridgewater to Mr. Langille’s car dump in Blockhouse.
The car dump is small, private, neat and clean and there are wrecked, colorful vehicles & school buses. Lots of parking space by the garage and wrecked vehicles are behind the garage and across the road behind the house.
Supper for those interested-Anchor Pub, Main St. Mahone Bay.
For those who want more-maybe there’ll be a sunset at Blue Rocks.
Please bring water, bug repellant and a signed waiver.
Note -If the Rhododendrons are still blooming at Pine Grove park near Liverpool we will go there before or after Cosbys-many colors have been planted in the 48 acre wooded park/pond area and the huge bushes are quite stunning, but may be over by then.

Info: Nancy Johnston: njohnston@ns.sympatico.ca

Hello everyone

For this year’s AGS-PGNS field trip we return to the Noel Shore and will walk a section of beach near Bramber. The tides dictate that this will be an afternoon field trip, catching the late afternoon sunlight on the cliffs (at least in part). We will meet at the beach parking lot at Cheverie (map circulated in email to PGNS Google Group) at 1.00 pm, and do some necessary carpooling, and then proceed in as few vehicles as possible to the “beach-head” at Mutton Cove, where parking is limited. There should be sufficient room to leave most cars at Cheverie, but please share a ride to Cheverie if you can. Please arrive having had lunch or packed a sandwich (or whatever you fancy) to eat on the run. Please note that services are limited on the Noel Shore.

The beach that we will traverse today is rocky and in places may be slippery with mud or seaweed. The walking is a little challenging, though should be no problem for those who are of average fitness and used to walking moderate distances regularly. Please know your own capability and don’t do anything that you are not comfortable doing or go anywhere that you are not comfortable going. Please use footwear with good ankle support. Wellington boots are not appropriate. We will not be in a rush … low tide is at 4.30 and we will have a 90 minute window after that.

To get to the meeting spot at Cheverie, take exit 5 from Highway 101 northeast to Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, follow signs onto Highway 215 north to Cheverie and Walton (the latter will probably be the prominent name on the signs). The journey to Cheverie Beach is 60-90 minutes from Metro depending on your starting point.

I will plan to post a digital field guide later in the week, but if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me (info below). Please don’t leave a voice mail at my work number after 5 pm Friday; I will monitor email until leaving the house on Saturday, after which, if you need to contact me urgently (for example if you get lost), use Lorraine’s cell phone number please.

The rain date will be Sunday, one hour later.

Rob
902-434-3392 (home)
902-426-2732 (work … preferred voice mail until 5.00 pm Friday)
902-222-8753 (Lorraine’s cell, please use only on Saturday)
rfensome@nrcan.gc.ca

Mike McCarthy will present an interesting and informative program on Adobe Lightroom.

Viki Gaul will present a mini program on how she photographs a variety of birds at her backyard feeders.

Fred Greene will present a short program about Photographic Society of America with some free copies of the PSA Journal, etc.

The Valley is greening up and ready for intrepid photographers to venture on our annual Cape Split walk, hike and photo tour. The flowers begun only about 1 1/2 kms from the parking lot in Scotts Bay.
The trail ends at approx 7 kms where the view of the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy, Cape Dor, Parrsboro shore, Spencer’s Island can be seen along with hearing the rushing tides around the Split. This is also the location where the underwater tidal turbine was located and many more will be placed to generate clean energy.
The flowers grow on both sides of the trail for approx 5-6 kms and consists of spring beauties, dutch-man’s-britches, red trillions and violets. Some years there are so many flowers that it appears that snow is still on the ground.
For those that do not know how to get to the trailhead can met at Exit 4, Hwy 101, St. Croix, Newport car pool parking lot at 8:30am with departure at 8:45 am. We will met and depart at the trailhead at 10 am.
Please bring a signed waiver that can be downloaded from our website.
After the days hiking and photographing we can met at the Port Pub in Port Williams in late afternoon/early evening.

The Annual Awards Banquet has been changed to Wednesday, June 1st.

Time is still 7:00 for 7:30 and it will be at the Old Ashburn Golf Club.

Hope you all can attend and would ask that you please let Etta Parker, or Edie Greene know if you are able to attend.  Come out for a wonderful meal and social evening.

Note change in time to sunrise.

We will be starting our day at sunrise on the Dartmouth waterfront to get a view of Halifax in the morning.

Sunrise on Purdys Wharf

Time: Sunrise 6:17 am (the sky starts to get light approximately 50 minutes before sunrise) We will wrap up around noon.

Location: We will be starting at the NSCC Waterfront Campus in Dartmouth.

Itinerary: At sunrise we will be starting at the NSCC Campus in Dartmouth for a view of the Halifax Waterfront.
Afterwards we will going to Eaglewood in Bedford for a view of the Basin. We might stop at the bridge for another view.
From Bedford we will be going to Pockwock falls for pcitures of the falls and the foundation of an old mill. We will end our trip with lunch at a local place.

Leader: Peter Steeper

Lynne was one of our models last year.

An opportunity to try an afternoon of studio photography. We will have several models plus an assortment of studio lights and modifiers. Learn how to work with models. We will have a variety of softboxes, a beauty dish and other reflectors to use. See demos of tethered shooting with Adobe Lightroom and colour management with the Xrite Passport.

When: Sunday April 10th from 1:00 to 5:00 pm

Where: Peter Steeper’s Studio in Upper Tantallon

Space is limited to 10 photographers. Contact Peter Steeper to reserve a space.

What to bring: Bring your camera and a sense of adventure. The radio remotes will work with any camera that has a standard size hotshoe (Canon, Nikon, etc) If you have a camera with a non-standard hotshoe (Sony, etc) you will need to bring an adapter for your camera.

Update: This workshop is fully booked. There is waiting list in case of cancellations.

On Sunday, April 3rd, our Mini Seminar will be “Evaluating Histograms” presented by Colin Campbell. This is in addition to Clarence Nowlan’s Seminar “Precious Wings”. We hope you are able to join us.