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Winter 2013 Competition Winners
This year we received 187 entries into our Winter competition. Once again the exceptional quality of the images in all categories made a difficult task for our eight judges. Click here to be awed by some of the winning entries.
This year we received 187 entries into our Winter competition. Once again the exceptional quality of the images in all categories made a difficult task for our eight judges. Click here to be awed by some of the winning entries.
Spring 2013 Competition Winners
This year we received 116 photos for our spring competition. We are very please to present some of the winning entries in our Competition Gallery. You can see these winning entries by clicking here
Daniel Pelissier
Daniel has been an active member of the Central Alberta Photographic Society for the past five years. He has been appointed as Competition Director for the past three years and has taken the CAPA (Canadian Association for Photographic Art) judging course. As an advanced photographer, Daniel has facilitated a number of presentations including: Lightroom Basics, High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Focus Stacking (in near future).
Since retiring, Daniel has continued to follow his enthusiasm for photography with his digital camera. He has participated in various photography competitions over the past five years and has quickly progressed from the novice division to the advanced division.
He has been awarded with many Certificates in an assortment of competition categories. Additionally, Daniel has also won first place trophies in the Corrigan and the President’s Choice competitions. He has been awarded “Photographer of the Year” for the last two years and is striving to achieve this honor once again this year. He very much enjoys the challenge of integrating various techniques and styles into his artistic process. He is known for his attention to detail, persistence, and dedication to get the “perfect shot”, especially when photographing wildlife and landscapes.
Daniel is a devoted family man and often incorporates family members, particularly his grandchildren, Aislin and Parker into his works. Daniel is also an avid pianist, his fervor for music continues to flourish to this day. Click here to view Daniel's gallery
Daniel has been an active member of the Central Alberta Photographic Society for the past five years. He has been appointed as Competition Director for the past three years and has taken the CAPA (Canadian Association for Photographic Art) judging course. As an advanced photographer, Daniel has facilitated a number of presentations including: Lightroom Basics, High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Focus Stacking (in near future).
Since retiring, Daniel has continued to follow his enthusiasm for photography with his digital camera. He has participated in various photography competitions over the past five years and has quickly progressed from the novice division to the advanced division.
He has been awarded with many Certificates in an assortment of competition categories. Additionally, Daniel has also won first place trophies in the Corrigan and the President’s Choice competitions. He has been awarded “Photographer of the Year” for the last two years and is striving to achieve this honor once again this year. He very much enjoys the challenge of integrating various techniques and styles into his artistic process. He is known for his attention to detail, persistence, and dedication to get the “perfect shot”, especially when photographing wildlife and landscapes.
Daniel is a devoted family man and often incorporates family members, particularly his grandchildren, Aislin and Parker into his works. Daniel is also an avid pianist, his fervor for music continues to flourish to this day. Click here to view Daniel's gallery
Leo de Groot
Leo de Groot has been an amateur photographer for well nigh a half century. He began with an Exakta II camera which his father gave him, and subsequently progressed to a Minolta, and then a Nikon film camera before making the leap into the digital world of Nikon in 2007. His family would often grow irritated with his interest in landscape photography as he would stop at a picturesque location and wind up leaving them in the car for too many minutes while he waited for the sun to clear a passing cloud. As a result, he put his photography on the back burner while his children were growing up, but has now returned to the hobby with the vengeful aim of making up for that lost time. He has been known now to get up at 4:00 in the morning to catch the best light at his intended location, or to arrive home at 5:00 in the morning, as dawn broke, after some night photography. He will photography any subject that strikes his fancy, but generally prefers nonhuman subjects as these do not tend to complain about how he takes his images. Click here to see Leo's Gallery. More of Leo's photos can be seen at: http://thephotograil.com/e
Leo de Groot has been an amateur photographer for well nigh a half century. He began with an Exakta II camera which his father gave him, and subsequently progressed to a Minolta, and then a Nikon film camera before making the leap into the digital world of Nikon in 2007. His family would often grow irritated with his interest in landscape photography as he would stop at a picturesque location and wind up leaving them in the car for too many minutes while he waited for the sun to clear a passing cloud. As a result, he put his photography on the back burner while his children were growing up, but has now returned to the hobby with the vengeful aim of making up for that lost time. He has been known now to get up at 4:00 in the morning to catch the best light at his intended location, or to arrive home at 5:00 in the morning, as dawn broke, after some night photography. He will photography any subject that strikes his fancy, but generally prefers nonhuman subjects as these do not tend to complain about how he takes his images. Click here to see Leo's Gallery. More of Leo's photos can be seen at: http://thephotograil.com/e
Sandra Buck
Sandra is currently a photographic Artist; and been evolved in some form of Art her entire life. Born on the Prairies, she spent her childhood growing up in Calgary, where a deep love of Alberta’s nature and wanting to capture it artistically became a passion.
Sandra’s style would fall into the romantic, pictorialist style of photography of the late 1800’s. Her picture create a mood, an impression, or a feeling upon observing her work. She encourages the viewer to interact with the image to create your own story from one of her images.
Sandra’s work has been awarded by Prairie Regional Photographic Arts, Central Alberta Photographic Society for the past 5 years. Her work has appeared on the cover of 2012 - 2013 Visitors Guide for the Rocky Mountain House area. Her work was on display at the the Historical Site in Rocky Mountain House, as well as the museum. She has sold her photos commercially and for private collections as well. See her Gallery by clicking here
Sandra is currently a photographic Artist; and been evolved in some form of Art her entire life. Born on the Prairies, she spent her childhood growing up in Calgary, where a deep love of Alberta’s nature and wanting to capture it artistically became a passion.
Sandra’s style would fall into the romantic, pictorialist style of photography of the late 1800’s. Her picture create a mood, an impression, or a feeling upon observing her work. She encourages the viewer to interact with the image to create your own story from one of her images.
Sandra’s work has been awarded by Prairie Regional Photographic Arts, Central Alberta Photographic Society for the past 5 years. Her work has appeared on the cover of 2012 - 2013 Visitors Guide for the Rocky Mountain House area. Her work was on display at the the Historical Site in Rocky Mountain House, as well as the museum. She has sold her photos commercially and for private collections as well. See her Gallery by clicking here
Shannon Carson
Shannon is a nature and wildlife photographer living in Alberta,Canada. She feels fortunate to live in one of the most beautiful and diverse Provinces in Canada. Shannon spends a lot of time in the Rocky Mountains which are just a short drive to the west of her home, she also photographs the prairies and badlands that are just to the east and south of her home. She enjoys making images of creatures great and small, but says bears and owls are some of her favorite subjects. Shannon's work has been awarded in the advanced division by the Central Alberta Photographic Society for the past 4 years in various competitions, sold commercially and also for private collections.
Be sure to visit her website at http://shannon-carson.artistwebsites.com/
or check out her Facebook pages at http://www.facebook.com/s.carsonphotos
Click here to visit her gallery
Shannon is a nature and wildlife photographer living in Alberta,Canada. She feels fortunate to live in one of the most beautiful and diverse Provinces in Canada. Shannon spends a lot of time in the Rocky Mountains which are just a short drive to the west of her home, she also photographs the prairies and badlands that are just to the east and south of her home. She enjoys making images of creatures great and small, but says bears and owls are some of her favorite subjects. Shannon's work has been awarded in the advanced division by the Central Alberta Photographic Society for the past 4 years in various competitions, sold commercially and also for private collections.
Be sure to visit her website at http://shannon-carson.artistwebsites.com/
or check out her Facebook pages at http://www.facebook.com/s.carsonphotos
Click here to visit her gallery
Rick Price
Rick Price is a professional freelance photographer who has photographed more than 700 weddings as well as most aspects of portrait and commercial photography over the last 20 years in and around Red Deer. He provides a relaxed and fun atmosphere of traditional, casual and freestyle poses. Rick provides a balance of quality craftsmanship combined with leading technology.
Rick's generosity and willingness to share his knowledge with our club members has been a real asset to our club.
Rick's favorite saying is "a kiss of light". You can visit his website by clicking here.
Click on the picture to see Rick's Gallery
Rick's generosity and willingness to share his knowledge with our club members has been a real asset to our club.
Rick's favorite saying is "a kiss of light". You can visit his website by clicking here.
Click on the picture to see Rick's Gallery
Curtiss Lund
As a founding member of C.A.P.S., Curtiss has been involved in photography for many years. There is not a lot photographic techniques that he hasn't attempted. Curtiss spent his first years in film, both 35mm and medium format, color, slide and black & white. He as done all his own processing in darkroom and now digital processing. Curtiss enjoys most landscapes, architecture, low light, still life, etc (except people), and is best at flora and fauna. The last couple of years he has been involved in classic autos. He really enjoy the different angles, curves and reflections.
Scotty Roxburgh
Scotty started taking photographs when his grandmother gave
him a Brownie 127 box camera for his tenth birthday. He was exposed to
developing photos in a dark room when attending boarding school in England. His
interest in photography expanded when he spent time in the high artic over two
summers. He took over 1,000 slides while working there and he has now converted
the slides into a power point presentation called “A Time before Global
Warming”.
Since joining CAPS, Scotty has expanded his interest in photography spending many hours capturing stills of wildlife. He has recently expanded his interest in photography into macro photography and is also working on creating splash images and abstract images. The ability to look at the world through the portal of a camera lens and capturing images that the eye only fleetingly sees continues to fascinate him and it provides him with the desire to keep on improving his knowledge and understanding of photography and what the camera can perform while seeing many fascinating images of the fantastic world we live in.
Scotty is currently the secretary and newsletter writer for CAPS and has provided several presentations of his work to the club along with editing raw images in Photoshop Element 9 Raw Editor. He recently took the CAPA judging course and is keen to put into practice what he has learned.
Since joining CAPS, Scotty has expanded his interest in photography spending many hours capturing stills of wildlife. He has recently expanded his interest in photography into macro photography and is also working on creating splash images and abstract images. The ability to look at the world through the portal of a camera lens and capturing images that the eye only fleetingly sees continues to fascinate him and it provides him with the desire to keep on improving his knowledge and understanding of photography and what the camera can perform while seeing many fascinating images of the fantastic world we live in.
Scotty is currently the secretary and newsletter writer for CAPS and has provided several presentations of his work to the club along with editing raw images in Photoshop Element 9 Raw Editor. He recently took the CAPA judging course and is keen to put into practice what he has learned.
Larry Hildebrandt
Larry is the current president of CAPS. His main interests are portraiture and landscape photography. When Larry has a few moments he can be found reading technical books on photography, and computers. Who knows why, but he has read his camera manuals a minimum of three times. Larry assists his daughter (Christi) whenever she has a portrait shoot (usually in Larry's home). He taught last years Beginners Photography Course at CAPS and is teaching our Photoshop Elements class for 2013. Familiar with several image enhancing programs ranging from CS6 to Corel Photopaint he loves to tweak the image in his computer. When he is not working or involved with CAPS, Larry loves to spend time with his wife, three children and seven (almost 9) grandchildren.