Category Archives: 2024

PGNS Sight & Sound Audio Visual Competition
Sunday, April 7, 2024 7:30 PM

The upload deadline for the PGNS Sight & Sound Audio Visual Competition is March 24, 2024. Your essay must be WeTransfered to webmaster@photoguild.ns.ca. WeTransfer is a free upload service and you do not need to create a WeTransfer account.

Below are the rules for the essay. A complete PDF list of the rules and competition guidelines are available from the members only page in the Restricted documents section (PGNS Sight & Sound Essay Rules).

• Essays can have a maximum running time of no more than five (5) minutes.
• It is strongly recommended that the essay include a title image. The essay must not include
the maker’s name.
• The first and the last image must be black and displayed for 3 seconds.
• The end of the essay should contain credits (e.g.: music) but must not include the name of
the maker.
• There are no restrictions on special effects.
• Video clips can make up no more than 20% of total time of the show. (Videos are not
required.)
• Photos or art not made by the entrant (for example, photos of historical persons, photos of
the earth from space, historical photos of buildings or maps, etc., needed to tell the story)
can comprise no more than 10% of the show.
• Maximum (and recommended) show size is 1920 x 1080 resolution (Full HD video).
• File format must be MP4.
• The entrant’s name may not appear in any way that is obvious to the judging panel.

External Trophy Competition Upload Deadline
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Hello Members…It is time to put your thinking caps on and get ready for the External Trophy Competition. Then soon after that it will be time for the EOY Competition. (Details to come)

For this competition we will be looking for entries in the categories as listed on the poster.
Remember the Portrait and Humour categories require ’new images only’ and just as in Guild/PSA Competition 2 and 3 it means titles/images you’ve never used a the photo guild in any competition.

The upload deadline is 11:45 on March 31st…so you’d better get busy!

Viki

Atlantic Canada: the Cradle of Photography in Canada
Sunday, March 17, 7:30 PM

This webinar is part of the Fred & Edie Greene Speaker Series

Atlantic Canada: the Cradle of Photography in Canada
Jeff Ward

 
This presentation will cover the first 25 years of photography [1839-1864] in the Atlantic Region (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador) and would include nationally significant events which happened in the region at this time. It would also discuss the types of photography being undertaken (covering the gamut from sun prints to albumin based emulsions), as well as some of the personalities involved. Imagery would include examples of work from my own collection and from public institutions across the region, Ottawa, and Washington; known portrits of photograhers of the period; as well as advertisements. The presention would aim to provide a balance of material from all four provinces.
 
Bio:
Jeff is an amateur historian and retired professional planner. Since 2015 he has focused his research on identifying and dosumenting the photographers who were active in the four Atlantic Provinces in the first 100 years of photography – 1839 to 1939 – in an adventure he calls The Early Light Project. He has been sharing the fruits of his research through The Early Light Project’s Facebook page, and earlier this year [2024] he completed a series of 100 weekly postings on the history of photography, with each posting discussing another year in sequence. He also publishes regularly in Photographic Canadiana, the journal of the Photographic Historical Society of Caanda. Born in New Brunswick, and widely travelled throughout the Atlantic region, he has made Halifax his home for more than 40 years.

Non-members of the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia can register for the presentation using the following link: Registration through Eventbrite

PGNS members can go to the members only page for the WebEx link to the meeting.