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Let’s be honest. Most of us are sitting on thousands — sometimes tens of thousands — of photos. Beautiful images. Meaningful moments. Trips, families, projects we cared about. And where are they? On a hard drive. In a cloud folder. Mostly unseen. That’s the gap we set out to close with our recent Oakville Camera Club mentoring session: “From Hard Drive to Hands: Making Photo Books That Matter.” The Real Problem Isn’t Printing — It’s Decision-Making People often assume creatin

One of the quiet strengths of our club is mentorship. Not the formal, checkbox kind. The real kind. The generous kind. The kind where someone who knows their craft shows up consistently and shares it. That’s exactly what Mentor Wayne Schnurr  has been doing. Informal. Practical. High-Value. Wayne hosts informal Lightroom mentoring sessions via Webex, typically on a Wednesday at 10:00am . Attendance typically ranges from 6 to 15 members, with a core group of about six regulars

Congratulations to the more than 20 members of the Oakville Camera Club  who attended the Mentors’ Flash Photography Workshop on February 21st. It was a morning filled with curiosity, experimentation, and—most importantly—a noticeable shift in confidence. For some participants, attaching a flash to their camera was entirely new territory. We began at the beginning: comparing a direct flash image with the same scene captured without flash. Seeing the difference side by side ma

Some tips for the Canadian Raptor Conservancy outing and other action photography.

The Ontario Council of Camera Clubs (O3C) has officially announced the 2026 Open Challenge. This annual event brings together photographers from about 40 camera clubs across Ontario to showcase their best work. If you are a member of the Oakville Camera Club, this is your chance to shine by submitting your finest images. Here’s everything you need to know to prepare your submission and meet the firm deadline. What is the O3C Open Challenge? The O3C Open Challenge is a yearly

Introduction In the past few weeks, I’ve had a few people approach me about how to best get started using Lightroom Classic.  These are people who have taken thousands of photos over the years and now want to get a little more serious about their hobby.  In short, they want to move from “picture takers” to “photographers”.  Typically, they have a spider’s web of photos lying around their hard drive and/or on external drives.  The first step, before worrying about Lightroom, i

About 17 club members gathered on Jan. 24th at QEPCC for a mentoring event, during which members were invited to have their images critiqued 1-on-1 by club mentors and/or receive hands-on post-processing help on their images from the mentors.  The meeting began with a discussion of the purpose critiquing by Jared Fein with input from the mentor team. The Mirror for Your Lens: Why We Need Critique How many of you have ever finished an edit, stared at the screen, and thought: "

After a recent outing, several of the newer photographers sent me some photos asking for comments. The first thing I noticed was that some of their shots had sensor spots which, as my mother used to say, "stuck out like a sore thumb". So I wrote this article to assist others in dealing with the inevitable sensor spot and lens marks that are a part of photography.

Some mornings stay with you—not because of the weather or the location, but because of the people. January 17th was one of those mornings. Members gathered at LaSalle Park Marina under crisp winter skies, cameras in hand, breath visible in the cold air. On paper, it was a winter photo walk: lake views, bare trees, swans on open water, low golden light stretching across Lake Ontario. In reality, it became something much more—a living example of why mentorship sits at the heart