Category Archives: program

Show & Tell, Gift Exchange, Silent Auction

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Robert

NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, December 16, 2015. Show and Tell, Gift Exchange, Silent Auction **NOTE DATE: Erroneously shown as a week later initially. Thanks to Ms Cook for spotting it**  For the ever popular show and tell session some members bring … Continue reading →

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This is Our Arctic

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Robert

NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, November 25, 2015. This is our Arctic – Lauren Williams ***IMPORTANT – NEW DATE – NEW PLACE *** Lauren holds a Bachelor of Arts with Combined Honours in English and Contemporary Studies from University of King’s College and … Continue reading →

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Review of The Magic of 3D

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. Member Felix Russo presented his talk on 3D photography to a delighted audience at the monthly PHSC meeting in Toronto. Felix drew upon a number of his PhotoEd magazine specials on 3D plus some old traditional images collected by … Continue reading →

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The Medium and Her Message

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. Congratulations to Meredith Reddy on attaining her doctorate this year. Meredith graciously spoke to us on this topic back on April 16th of last year. My youngest daughter and her husband both took their Master’s at U of T. … Continue reading →

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The Chilkoot Trail of 1897-1899

Posted on September 5, 2015 by Robert

NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, September 16, 2015 During the famous gold rush era of the late 1890s, the Chilkoot Trail served as a route from Skagway Alaska  to the gold fields near Dawson City in the Yukon as described by … Continue reading →

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Who invented the first digital camera?

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. Russ Forfar, a frequent contributor to this site dropped me a note today about the first digital camera ever invented. In mid August, James Estrin in Australia’s Business Review Weekly wrote a column titled “In 1975, this Kodak employee … Continue reading →

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Photos by Kirk – II

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. Our speaker for June was Jamie Day Fleck who gave an engaging talk and video on Bronx photographer Kirk. She did the video as part of her Masters at Ryerson. The slightly under a half hour video was followed … Continue reading →

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Photos by Kirk Directed by Jamie Day Fleck

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Robert

NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, June 17th, 2015 We spoke with Jamie back in November 2013 at our Toronto meeting. At the time, Ms Fleck was searching for cameras and preparing her documentary on Kirk. She has since completed her work and we … Continue reading →

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Michael Mitchell and AGO’s Lodz exhibit

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Robert

NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, April 15th, 2015 Michael Mitchell has spoken to the PHSC a couple of times before. This event co-incides with the Lodz exhibit of the Henryk Ross photographs of a Polish Ghetto in the early years of World War … Continue reading →

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An Early History of IMAX

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. Back in the days when the inventors of Imax were developing a film for Ontario Place and before any first run theatres played Imax or before it became a means for first run movies, a small group of Seneca … Continue reading →

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