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Photo Developments Newsletter November, 1998
Meeting place:
The Science Centre, 701 11th Street S.W., Next Meeting - Wednesday Jan 6th 7:30pm.
Newsletter Web site: http://website.lineone.net/~wbaziw/cps.html
Critique Themes for 1998-1999
Jan 1999 Sleep
Feb 1999 Crooked
Mar 1999 Ice
Apr 1999 Time
Presentations ...
Presenter: The November speaker Carole Harmon from Banff. Carol is the granddaughter of Byron Harmon one of the original photographers of the Rockies, for three generations the Harmon name has been associated with a legacy of outstanding Canadian Rockies landscape and nature photography.
Carole Harmon has worked with the Byron Harmon collection since 1976. She arranged for the donation of the negative collection to the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies and designed and printed an exhibition of Byron Harmon photographs, In Mountain Light, which toured Canada and the United States. She was also involved in the editing and production of Great Days in the Rockies, The Photographs of Byron Harmon, 1906 - 1934 published by Oxford University Press and subsequently by Altitude Publishing, Ltd.
The prints in the collection are hand made by Carole Harmon. To prevent deterioration of the delicate original negatives through over-use, enlarged printing negatives have been produced by The Chicago Albumen Works, a company which specializes in working with vintage photographic collections. These negatives are contact printed onto printing out paper, a vintage, hand made photographic paper which is suited to printing the long tonal scale and high contrast of the Byron Harmon negatives. The prints are toned with gold and archivally processed, archivally matted, and individually titled and dated.
Mt. Robson from the east, 1911 or 1913
Today the east face of Mt. Robson is still
relatively inaccessible, seen only by a few
climbers and hardy backpackers who are
willing to circumnavigate the mountain. Mt.
Robson is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies at 3,954m. The first significant attempt to climb Mt. Robson occurred in 1909. Curly Phillips, an Ontario trapper and canoe guide, arrived in the Rockies, and he encountered George Kinney on his way north to attempt a solo ascent of Mt. Robson. Although Phillips had never been on a mountain in his life he joined Kinney and the two did succeed in reaching the summit of Mt. Robson in a whiteout. Credit for the first ascent should have been theirs, but in the whiteout they left their marker somewhat below the summit.
Ice Cave in Starbird, Glacier, 1922
Originally know as Horsethief Glacier, Cora
Best, Chere Shippham and Conrad Kain
are on the ice promontory. "The big cave is
all of three hundred yards long. Its arched
dome, where winds have kept a constant melting
process going on, is polished jade green." (Cora Best, Canadian Alpine Journal, 1923)
(Reprinted with permission of Carole Harmon)
You can view more of the Harmon work at the Whyte Museum in Banff or
Wild Elements, Harmony Lane, 111 Banff Avenue, Banff, Alberta or
Web site: http://www.canadianrockies.net/Wildelements/index.html
1998 Year-End Award winners
The follow members were awarded plaques for their photographic achievements during the 1998 year: Congratulations to all!
Novice Open: Jose Guillen
Intermediate Open: Julia Meisser
Intermediate Theme: Fran Williams
Advanced Open: Brian Henson
Advanced Theme: Rick Ell
1999 Elections
The Annual General Meeting is just around the corner February 3rd, all positions are available, if someone wants to run for office or if you want to nominate someone let Brian Henson know Ph: 217-7861. The positions are:
President
Treasurer
Secretary
Archivist
Newsletter Editor
Monthly programs
External programs
Calendar of Events
Jan 6th - Speaker will be Meg Pyper from Westlands Art Gallery, Cochrane
"Techniques for matting and framing photographic prints".
Feb 3rd - Annual General Meeting.
Speaker will be Carol Petersen - Photography Department, Alberta
Children's Hospital "From Biomedical Photography to Botswana"
For several years Carol has been leading annual photographic safaris to various parts of Africa.
Mar 3rd - Speaker will be Mike Chapman, Department of Geomatics, University of
Calgary "Aerial photography - 3 dimensional image extraction from aerial photographs".
If you know of any events coming up, please let me know. Wayne Baziw 256-0976 Email: baziw@calcna.ab.ca
Classified
Wanted: Polaroid SX70 camera Model 1 or 2, contact Barbara Kronemeyer
Ph: 239-7660
Sell: Kodak and Hanimex slide carousels 80's $7.50 & 140's $10, contact Neil Koven
Ph: 276-6335 Email: kovenn@cadvision.com
Wanted: Minolta XE-5 manual to copy or keep, contact Stephen Butt
Ph: 247-6649 Email: butts@cadvision.com
Wanted: EP2 Chemicals and paper supplies, contact Wayne Baziw
Ph: 256-0976 Email: baziw@calcna.ab.ca
Critique Results for November:
The theme was Off The Wall. Judges- Warren Boucher, Carole Harmon, Steven Butt.
| Novice Open | |||||||
| No Entries | |||||||
| Novice Theme | |||||||
| No Entries | |||||||
| Intermediate Open | |||||||
| Fran Williams | Sylvester | 6.6 | |||||
| Julie Meisser | Vineyard | 6.6 | |||||
| M. Wilson | Autumn Reflections | 8.3* | |||||
| Stan Brzeski | The Stool | 7.6 | |||||
| Intermediate Theme | |||||||
| Fran Williams | Off The Wall | 8.3* | |||||
| Advanced Open | |||||||
| Brian Hensen | Homestead near Morecombe | 8.0* | |||||
| B. Davis | Painted Waters | 7.6 | |||||
| Bob Lee | Rock Formations | 7.3 | |||||
| Ed Luinstra | Downtown | 7.6 | |||||
| Dan Gordon | The Red Door | 6.6 | |||||
| Jeff Perkins | Peaceful Valley | 8.0* | |||||
| Advanced Theme | |||||||
| Rick Ell | Ant Play | 7.0 | |||||
| Brian Hensen | Off The Wall | 6.6 | |||||
| Bob Lee | Off The Wall | 7.6* | |||||
| Jeff Perkins | Off The Wall | 6.6 | |||||
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