January 2024

Welcome and Happy New Year everyone!

For anyone newly visiting this website to find out about the club, I hope that you find enough in the public section of the site to inspire you and cause you to participate in a meeting (or two) as our guest before taking out a membership.  

After several years of Covid restrictions and online activities, we decided to resume some in-person meetings this year and these will once again be held in Queenswood Heights Community Centre at Dufour Drive and Amiens St. Our plan is to hold six monthly meetings in-person spread through the year, but to hold the November, January, February and March meetings online (using Zoom) so that we can present some good speakers from outside the Ottawa area and avoid the travel for members during the worst winter weather. We are looking forward to rebuilding our friendships and social contacts and will again offer a number of workshops and outings, similar to our programs this past year, together with the December and June potluck socials.

As with other clubs, our club membership has declined since COVID and the move online. Returning members will find that the executive has been working hard to keep our programs interesting, informative and entertaining. We encourage you to come back and see the changes that have been made to this end. Our membership fees are unchanged for many years and represent one of the best deals in Ottawa.

In the meantime we welcome new and prospective members to join us. If you wish to do so please contact our webmaster via the Contact page for an invitation to the meetings and to receive our newsletters by email. Details of our monthly meetings can be found under the INFO tab-Meetings and Programs. Anyone who has not participated in club activities so far and joins in February or later is entitled to a reduced membership rate.

We do hope that everyone is well and that you find ways to enjoy creating images and participating in our club activities during the second half of our club year.

Alan White, President CPOPC

Meetings & Programs

The Orléans Photo Club’s regular meetings are normally held every second Saturday of the month from 10am to 12.30 from September to June (there are no meetings held in July or August).  However, for the 2023-2024 season, there are some exceptions to this schedule which are shown on a detailed schedule here.

Guest speakers are invited to present specialized techniques on a wide variety of photographic subjects and members share their own images in a competition/challenge and other contribution formats. 

We encourage all interested photographers and prospective members to attend a meeting or two as a guest to see if the club offers what they are looking for in a photo club.  If the meeting is live, you can just show up and introduce yourself. If the meeting is online you need to obtain an invitation by emailing our Webmaster at least one day in advance.

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