You may find this a valuable experience. I think it's a bargain! The reservation we made for 100 suites in the air-conditioned Residence will expire May 27. Ottawa is 250 miles east of Toronto and 120 miles west of Montreal. There is no SARS in Ottawa, just beauty! tOM Trottier Facilities chair, CCC03 June 28-30 - Canadian Camera Conference 2003 in Ottawa CCC03 is a non-profit conference put on by CAPA and the RA Photo Club. Major sponsors: Epson, Agfa, Kodak, Fuji, Booth Photographic Presentations Steve McCurry (photographer of the "Afghan girl") Taking your Photography to the Next Level Jean-Marc Carisse - Shadowing Three Prime Ministers Jean-FranTauois O'Kane - Shooting in the Fast Lane Kevin Spreekmeester - Return Of The Pecking Penguin Jean Lemire - Arctic Mission Terence Dickinson - Capturing the Night: Astronomical Photography Peter Van Rhijn - Blue Sapphire Hans Blohm - Pebbles to Computers Yuri Dojc - If You Don't Sit on the Edge... ....You're Taking Up Too Much Space Harry Nowell - Adventure Photography Paul Couvrette - The Karsh Brothers Linda Anne Baker - Creating Magic: Evoking an Emotional Response Michael Runtz - Nature Photography: The know-how behind the know-how Hera S. Bell - Sensual People Next Door & Simply Canada Peter K. Burian - Digital or Conventional SLR Time to Switch? Irma Eibich - Polaroid Time-Zero Manipulation J. David Andrews - Landscape and Visual Design Richard Martin - Discovering Your Own Visual Language Pat Martinson - Vision and Music for the Travel Photographer Gary W. Stanley - Exposure: Getting It Right the First Time Debra Grass - Digital Audio-Visual for Photographers Michelle Valberg - Daring to be Different Air conditioned 2-bedroom suites are available at the University for $85 Cdn if reserved by May 27. CCC 2003 is an exciting long weekend of first class photography presentations. It's all about the joy of photography. Presentations will run concurrently in three separate tracks broadly identified as Motivational, Digital, and Technical. Many presentations will be offered twice. A trade show displaying the latest in digital and conventional photo equipment runs all day Saturday. The price is as low as $260 Cdn (about $195 US) Visa, MC, money orders, cheques accepted. Program sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, June 28, and ends at 5:00 p.m. Monday, June 30. We expect 200-300 participants. The conference precedes Canada's national holiday, Canada Day, July 1. On this day, there are various concerts all day and evening on Parliament Hill, and fireworks at 10pm (sponsored by Kodak) to climax the day. The conference venue is 10 minutes walk from Parliament hill. See http://www.capcan.ca/canadaday/canadaday_e.asp Details, registration: http://CanadianCameraConference.ca Additionally, some 16 different field trips and workshops will be held in the week before and the week after the conference. See http://canadiancameraconference.ca/workshops.html --------- 2003 Jun 28-30 in Ottawa: http://www.CanadianCameraConference.ca tOM Trottier, ICQ:57647974 http://abacurial.com 758 Albert St, Ottawa ON Canada K1R 7V8 +1 613 860-6633 fax:231-6115 N45.412 W75.714 "The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself -- Henry Miller, 1891-1980