Member Galleries
Mark Holloway
I have been a member of CAPS since October 2020. I had a basic knowledge of how to “get out of auto” and use a camera, but I wanted to join CAPS to meet other photographers & hopefully learn from them as well as to develop a better sense of composition. I am still learning & thanks to seeing the many great images that the CAPS members produce, I am inspired to create better compositions myself. I have been interested in photography for many years and purchased my first DSLR in 2010. I was a Canon user up until 2019 when I switched to the Fujifilm X series. My favourite types of photography are landscape & wildlife. While far from perfect, here are some of my favourite images that I have taken over the years.
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 13 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 13 Raw Editor. He recently took the CAPA judging course and is keen to put into practice what he has learned.
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 fervour for music continues to flourish to this day.
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 fervour for music continues to flourish to this day.
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.
Rob Gilgan
I rode in on the Instamatic wave in the 1960s, back in the days when you had to wait two weeks to see how bad your photos sucked. I was an avid snapshooter, more focused on the embarrassing moment than the momentous occasion.
I still have some of the really old photos and they were, to an image, bad.
Then, I was hired to coach college students in publishing the campus newspaper, which lead to taking a basic photography course and then sharing that info to a half dozen or so, every year, for about 10 years. 'That info' included loading film cartridges from a bulk roll, taking the photographs, developing the film and making the prints.
That was followed with 10 years running a weekly newspaper, writing the stories, taking the pictures. It was during that decade that everything went digital. By this time, capturing images had become something that I just did, pretty much all the time. When I didn't have an event or a family getogether, I'd just wander off somewhere and take my artsy photos.
My technique started to come into focus when I realized that we don't take images of things, we take images of the light bouncing off of things. The day I learned my fading blue jeans were a perfect gray card was the day I started getting decent exposures.
About 10 years ago, I started fiddling with video and haven't progressed much past that, but have a great collection of clips!
I like images of the far horizon and everything in between it and the lip of my lens. And life through a macro lens is particularly awe inspiring. There's a big little world down there!
Nowadays, nothing is safe, I'll take photos of subjects big and small, live and not-so-alive, on the water or on dry land. And grandchildren, whether they're behaving or not. While I no longer work in a darkroom, I do spend countless hours in the darkness and dankness known as the personal computer.
May your images all be sharp and your moments never dull!
View a Sample of my images
I still have some of the really old photos and they were, to an image, bad.
Then, I was hired to coach college students in publishing the campus newspaper, which lead to taking a basic photography course and then sharing that info to a half dozen or so, every year, for about 10 years. 'That info' included loading film cartridges from a bulk roll, taking the photographs, developing the film and making the prints.
That was followed with 10 years running a weekly newspaper, writing the stories, taking the pictures. It was during that decade that everything went digital. By this time, capturing images had become something that I just did, pretty much all the time. When I didn't have an event or a family getogether, I'd just wander off somewhere and take my artsy photos.
My technique started to come into focus when I realized that we don't take images of things, we take images of the light bouncing off of things. The day I learned my fading blue jeans were a perfect gray card was the day I started getting decent exposures.
About 10 years ago, I started fiddling with video and haven't progressed much past that, but have a great collection of clips!
I like images of the far horizon and everything in between it and the lip of my lens. And life through a macro lens is particularly awe inspiring. There's a big little world down there!
Nowadays, nothing is safe, I'll take photos of subjects big and small, live and not-so-alive, on the water or on dry land. And grandchildren, whether they're behaving or not. While I no longer work in a darkroom, I do spend countless hours in the darkness and dankness known as the personal computer.
May your images all be sharp and your moments never dull!
View a Sample of my images
Jim McKinley
I am retired and live in downtown Red Deer. I moved to Red Deer from Edmonton in 1995 as a part of a restructuring by the provincial government. When I moved I had three requirements for my new home: live downtown, walk to work and be able to look out my backdoor and see the river. All three conditions were met and it turned out to be the best move I have ever made.
In my working life I was an investigator with the Environment Ministry and spent 15 years on the environmental emergency response team. After my first retirement in 2002 I joined the Natural Resources Conservation Board regulating confined feeding operations and then retired again in 2013.
My photographing life began in 1973 when I purchased a Canon Ftb DSLR, however I soon discovered the costs involved with film and printing. The Canon sat on the shelf until 2005 when Hank at McBain’s introduced me to a Canon 20D. I was hooked when I found that digital cameras dovetailed nicely with my passion for computers and computer graphics. By 2012 I was the owner of a Canon 1D Mark IV, numerous lenses and a sore back. Then in the winter of 2012-13 I purchased my current system - an Olympus EM1, numerous lenses and my back now feels better.
In my working life I was an investigator with the Environment Ministry and spent 15 years on the environmental emergency response team. After my first retirement in 2002 I joined the Natural Resources Conservation Board regulating confined feeding operations and then retired again in 2013.
My photographing life began in 1973 when I purchased a Canon Ftb DSLR, however I soon discovered the costs involved with film and printing. The Canon sat on the shelf until 2005 when Hank at McBain’s introduced me to a Canon 20D. I was hooked when I found that digital cameras dovetailed nicely with my passion for computers and computer graphics. By 2012 I was the owner of a Canon 1D Mark IV, numerous lenses and a sore back. Then in the winter of 2012-13 I purchased my current system - an Olympus EM1, numerous lenses and my back now feels better.
