Category Archives: Affiliated Organizations

CAPA Ontario Zone Medalists

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CAPA has introduced a new format for “Zone” competitions with three skill levels being introduced: Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced. CAPA reviewed previous submissions and placed photographers in the Advanced and Intermediate skill levels. Photographers who were not considered Advanced or … Continue reading →

CAPA updates information regarding Generative AI

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The Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA) continues to monitor the latest information regarding the tools associated with Generative AI in post-processing of images. Our competitions team follows CAPA’s lead in this area and updates the Competitions Rules accordingly. For the latest update, please check out the December 2024 update published by CAPA here. Our Competition Rules are available here.

RHCC Wins the Stuart Freedman Award for the O3C Open Challenge 2024

The Richmond Hill Camera Club came out on top for the highest scoring club in the recent O3C Open Challenge for 2024 (Stuart Freedman Award). This is a significant achievement made possible by the exceptional photographers we have in our club … congratulations to everyone that participated!

Special recognition goes to the Category Specialist Winners from our Club:
Nick Shearman (Animals) and Ben Liu (Landscape/Geology)

Our club won 23 medals (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and HM). Top placing images were from Chuck Rowe, Kam Ming Mak, Louie Luo, Philip Wong, Ben Liu and Betty Chan.

The complete results for all clubs, plus the show videos are available on the O3C website using this link.

Below are photos for some of the winners. Thanks to Betty Chan (RHCC O3C Rep) and Bharat Mistry (O3C Executive) for their help.
(Click on the photo to see a larger version.)

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O3C Open Challenge Awards – November 10, 2024

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The Ontario Council of Canada (O3C) will be hosting the 33rd Annual Awards Show for images submitted to the 2024 Open Challenge Competition. The show will be presented at the Toronto Camera Club (587 Mt. Pleasant Road) as well as via Zoom. All attendees must register on the O3C website. If you have questions, then please email our O3C club representative, Betty Chan, at .

CAPA Judging Course

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Are you interested in learning to evaluate photographic images, or how to make a better photo, or how to judge in a photo competition? CAPA is pleased to provide their comprehensive and renowned course that teaches how to view and … Continue reading →

2023 CAPA Nature Competition – Gold Medal

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Wonderful news!!  Jim Spurgeon. the Chair of our CAPA Committee, is pleased to report that our club’s entry for the 2023 CAPA Nature competition has won the gold medal!  Congratulations to the following six members whose images made up the Club’s entry: Nick Shearman, Mandy Vien, Kevin Kwong, Katie Mak, Kathy Constantinou and Rob Kline.

Winning images may be viewed here.
 
In addition there were the following two individual awards to Club members:

  • 1st place merit nature award awarded to Katie Mak for her image entitled “Bee Eaters With Dragonfly”
  • 3rd place merit nature award awarded to Kevin Kwong for his image entitled “Red Tailed Hawk Consuming A Catch”

 

This is a great start to our club year competing in the CAPA competitions at a national level.  Once again, congratulations to all.