The 2 talks are Images Alberta Camera Club April 9/2026 in Edmonton and CAPS Central Alberta Photographers Society April 22/2026 in Red Deer.
All money earned goes to help the people in the pictures.
Khun Apple eating donated food. The money for the food was raised thorugh the photographs.
Note* Thank you IMAGES and thank you CAPS for this opportunity to speak to your members. Hopefully your people will be challenged and interested in the talk.
Note** I am hoping that these talks will lead to a broadening of the vision for camera club members. So often in clubs, the pics blend, they often lack diversity and strength. One clubs images matches another, everything tends to be interchangeable. I hope seeing some different photos, and hearing a different viewpoint will inspire members to step outside the limited box many seem stuck in. Pretty pictures of sunsets, shadows, mountains and animals is fine but photography can be so much more important and powerful.
I belonged to 4 different clubs earlier on in my photo career and eventually they all become redundant and limiting, mostly because the members did not take photography seriously enough, or just used the club as a social outing. In my experience (in 3 of the 4 clubs), if you challenge long term club members, they can become hostile and unresponsive. They close down and stop thinking. People usually feel comfortable in their own little ME BOXES and do not like change or those that are honest with them. Honesty and truthful opinion is often something they do not want to hear, so they attack the messenger. Year in and year out the long term club member continue to create work that melds with countless other members in countless other clubs, it's all the same boring shit. It's kinda sad.
I hope that I can communicate my passion for photography and it's importance as a weapon for positive change in the world. Hopefully my message will be heard by my audience. Maybe the talk will also lead them to push their creative envelope outside of the common club picture box, creating work that is unique and challenging. One can only try! If it does not work so be it, at least some money will be raised to help feed hungry people in Thailand.
