Meetings and Events 2024-2025
Regular Club Meeting Location: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM - From September to May at the Université de Moncton - Édifice Rémi Rossignol - Salle D002 - rue Notre Dame du Sacré Coeur - Moncton, NB
Doors open at 6:30, so come early to socialize
Next Contest Deadline
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Celebration/event/festivities
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due April 30, 2025
Go to Focus Camera Club :: Focus Contests for more information and to submit your images
To see all the competitions check out the "Competitions" tab at the top of the homepage.
Deadline for 3 club awards: April 16
Freeman Patterson Fine Art Photography Award
Ken Dunphy Landscape Photography Award
Brian Townsends Illuminator Award
Next Outing
Next Meeting
Thursday, April 10, 2025
CLUB MEETING
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Renée Turcotte will take us on a visual journey titled "Nature: A treasure at La Solitude de Pré d'en Haut," exploring the serene beauty and natural wonders of this hidden gem.
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Mathieu Chiasson will present on "The Art of Cropping," offering practical tips and techniques to enhance your images through thoughtful cropping.
We also have two 15-minute presentation spots still available! This is a great opportunity to share your photography projects, recent trips, or creative techniques. If interested, please reach out and let us know!
Thursday, April 24, 2025
CLUB MEETING
Details to follow soon!@
Thursday, May 8, 2025
CLUB MEETING
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
CLUB MEETING
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Thursday, Mar 27, 2025
CLUB MEETING
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Stella d'Entremont will captivate us with images from her recent adventure in Vietnam, and
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Marcel Caissie will share his passion for Atlantic Salmon through stunning photography.
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Plus, we'll reveal the results from our High Key and Low Key contest—don’t miss it!
Thursday, Mar 13, 2025
CLUB MEETING
Join us for an exciting evening featuring our Member Spotlight! Come enjoy inspiring presentations as Ian Hibbert shares captivating photographs from his travels in Newfoundland, and Richardo Hinds takes us on a visual journey to Jamaica. As well as spotlight on other members. It's the perfect night to connect, be inspired by our club members. See you there!
Thursday, Feb 27, 2025
CLUB MEETING
Join us for an exciting Gear Show & Tell, where we’ll dive into tripods, monopods, bean bags, GoPros, and more! Whether you’re curious about stabilizing your shots or want to share your own favorite gear, this is a great chance to learn from each other. Bring your favourite gear!!
Plus, Mathieu will be doing a special presentation on event photography—giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how he prepares and covers events, sharing experiences and photos from three unique events shot this month: United Way's Soup Fest, a corporate social event, and U de M Soirée Internationale. Each event brought its own challenges and fun moments—come see how Mathieu tackled them!
Finally, we'll show the winners for the Canada My Country contest.
Thursday, Feb 13, 2025
CLUB MEETING
Ivan's Camera
Photo Edit Extravaganza (New!): THIS EVENT WILL BE POSTPONED... STAY TUNED...
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Submit one of your photos to be edited by other members
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Pick any number of submitted photos to show how you would edit it.
Meeting Cancelled due to Weather
February 6, 2025
OFF-WEEK LEARNING (in person)
We invite you to this week’s Learning Session: Photo Magic at our usual U de M meeting room on Thursday, February 6th at 7pm (Be there 20-30 minutes in advance to mingle with other photographers before the session.)
In this session we will be doing live photography with a model of some very interesting and creative techniques using a single speedlight.
You will learn to …
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Clone People
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Make smoke without fire
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Make people disappear
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Photograph Ghosts
And much more…
We hope to see you at this week’s off-week session!
January 30, 2025
OFF-WEEK LEARNING (Zoom)
Topic:
FRENCH Photo Editing Q&A
• Session question et réponse en français sur l’édition de photo. Vous pourrez aussi soumettre vos photos pour des conseils d’édition.
When: Jan 30 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Where: Zoom (club members will receive the link via email)
Who: Focus Camera Club Members (Note: you need to have a paid-up membership)
Thursday, Jan 23, 2025
CLUB MEETING
High key - Low Key presentation by Mathieu Chiasson
Blurb Books by Daniel Caissie
All Member Photo Book Show and Tell (bring YOUR photobook and share all the details about it. If you have extra copies to sell bring’em!)
Contest Results (One/Four Colour competition)
Thursday, Jan 9, 2025
CLUB MEETING
Join Us for an Exclusive Q&A with Daniel Milnor!
(via Zoom: paid-up club members will receive the link via email a day before the meeting)
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to engage with world-renowned photographer and creative evangelist Daniel Milnor!
Check out the details on the Focus Camera Club Guest Speakers' page
December 12, 2024 NEW DATE!!
OFF-WEEK LEARNING (Zoom)
Topic: Post-Processing: Fix These photos (Lightroom)
When: Dec 12 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Where: Zoom (club members will receive the link via email)
Who: Focus Camera Club Members (Note: you need to have a paid-up membership)
Submit an image or two via the Focus Camera Club "Image Upload" portal (see tabs on the top of the Home Page) before Dec 10, 2024
TUESDAY December 10, 2024
CHRISTMAS PARTY
O'Creek Brewery, 175 Barker St, Moncton
At 6:00 pm
Social gathering with snacks, drinks and a lot of photography talk between the best photography community members on the whole planet Earth and beyond.
December 7, 2024
CLUB OUTING
Christmas Scavenger Hunt
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meet in front of Moncton City Hall at 9am on Saturday December 7, 2024.
For details check out the Outings 2024-25 page.
Thursday, Nov 28, 2024
CLUB MEETING
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Theme Showcase: Night photography
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Flower Photography: Daniel Caissie
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Competition Results: "Mother Nature"
Daniel's presentation
Thursday, Nov 14, 2024
CLUB MEETING
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"Picture me!" (be sure to submit your 5 images that describe a bit about who you are: like a mini-photo-essay to introduce yourself to the club)
Saturday, Nov 9, 2024
CLUB OUTING
Street Photography
Meet in front of Moncton City Hall at 9am.
For details check out the Outings 2024-25 page.
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024
OFF-WEEK LEARNING (ZOOM)
Topic: Post-Processing 101 - Lightroom
When: Oct. 30 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Where: Zoom (club members will receive the link via email)
Who: Focus Camera Club Members
Join Mathieu Chiasson in a post-processing 101 session using Lightroom. Though I will be using lightroom, all post-processing techniques and principles applies to all post-processing software. I will be using Lightroom (not Lightroom Classic) for this demonstration. This session is aimed for beginners to intermediate level.
Bring your questions!
* I will not cover in this session: Workflow (Importing and exporting your images); I don't use Lightroom in my regular process and I don't feel I can advise well enough in this regards at this time.
Thursday, Oct 24, 2024
CLUB MEETING
Gear Show & Tell: bring your Backpacks, straps, slings & holsters to show off what works for you.
10 Minutes of Fame:
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Alex Vye: "Shooting BnW Film at Petty Int'l Raceway
The presentation is "Staycation - photographing local events in traditional black and white".
Alex Vye, on and off member since 2004, mostly film photographer, collector of old cameras, develops and prints at home.
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Stephan Reebs: "London i-Phone Shooting"
Hear Stephan talk about his newbie experience as an iPhone photographer on his trip to London last summer.
A continuous member since 1991, Stephan Reebs is the longest-attending member of the Focus Camera Club. (He is a past president, past past-president, past program officer, past secretary, and past projectionist, but he is excited about the future.)
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Renée Turcotte: "Ivanoh Demers"
Renée will give a short presentation on Ivanoh Demers and his Saturday reviews of some images from media reports of the week: ‘’Dans l’oeil d’Ivanoh’’ (In the Eye of Ivanoh).
Renée Turcotte, member of the FCC for many years, loves to take pictures of nature, landscape, and horses.
Thursday, Oct 17, 2024
CLUB OUTING
Moon Rise over Petitcodiac River
Meet at 6:15 PM behind the "Running Room."
For details check out the Outings 2024-25 page.
Friday, Oct 11 - Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Invitation to club members
NAVRATI
Once again, FCC members have been invited by the event organizers to the Indian Navrati. Free tickets may be available for the event to members who wants to go. There'll be more information at the next FCC meeting on Oct 10.
Thursday, Oct 10, 2024
CLUB MEETING
Feature speaker: Lawrence Nicoll
Saturday, Oct 5, 2024
CLUB OUTING
Autumn Colours in Centennial Park
Meet at 9:00 AM at main parking lot.
For details check out the Outings 2024-25 page.
Thursday, Sept 26, 2024
CLUB MEETING
"Photography and Instagram": Mathieu Chiasson
"Preparation for our 1st competition": Mathieu Chiasson and André LeBlanc
"Two by Two": recent prize winners, Ian Hibbert and Jocelyn Gagnon discuss two of their favourite images.
Thursday, Sept 12, 2024
CLUB MEETING
Season kick-off!!
Don't miss the first meeting for the new season!
Connect with old friends and new. Hear about this year's contests, outings, and guests. Celebrate the club award winners for 2023-24.
Wednesday, Aug 22, 2024
CLUB OUTING
7:45 pm Caissie Cape Wharf
Night Photography outing at the Caissie Cape Wharf
see details on Outings 2024-25 page