Not to be daunted by the Covid 19 pandemic the Club held its first meeting on the Zoom platform and 62 members participated.
Co-Host and Zoom guru Alan Brown welcomed everyone and turned the meeting over to President Sandy Dreger at 2:00. Sandy thanked Alan and Elaine Brown for doing such a great job of getting us onto the ZOOM platform and for guiding new Zoom users over the past few weeks. She welcomed the 37 new members who have joined the club since September and urged everyone to make them welcome. We still have open membership spots so people can promote club membership to their friends.
Sandy introduced our speaker David T. Chapman who started doing photography as well as storm chasing at the age of 16. He is self-taught in the art of photography and has been pursuing his career professionally since the age of eighteen. He learned at a very young age from his father to appreciate his surrounding environment. He enjoys taking photographs and videos of weather phenomena, especially lightning, as well as scenery and nature. David likes to seek out unusual examples of nature such as inferior mirages, albino birds, ice caves and various types of naturally created vortexes, ranging in size from dust devils to tornadoes.
David's topic today was Wild, Weird and Wacky Weather". He is a exceptional photographer and shared pictures and explanations of many weather phenomena. He shared images of monstrous shelf clouds, funnel clouds ,ice bridges and some breath-taking photographs of lightning. We also saw fog come to life and watched it dance from one end of a field to the other, creating various different optics in the process. He showed sunrises evolve into day and sunsets disappear into the night. His photos capture sun pillars, blizzards, sundogs, ice caves and arctic sea smoke
David works in Ontario, a province that is so vast and surrounded by the Great Lakes, it is no wonder they have some of the most interesting weather in the world. It offers such a variety all year round because of its terrain, temperature variations and location. We learned about Superior Mirages and discovered how far south the Aurora Borealis can actually be seen.
John McGinn thanked David for sharing his photography with us.
Sandy added some additional thanks to club members who have continued to work for the club during the pandemic. Lorne Meyer teamed up with Sandy to complete the Covid safety plan for Comox United Church and attended the church's orientation session. We are using the Church Hall for Covid safe Meet and Greet sessions with new members. Eight new members attended on October 25 and our next session is scheduled for November 12. Hopefully all new members will have the opportunity to attend by the end of November. Donna Crozier purchased four Boston Pizza gift cards for the meeting draw today. Dorothy and John McGinn have been busy processing the new members and organizing the Meet and Greet sessions.
Sandy also announced that the December monthly meeting will be held Friday, December 4 at 2:00. The speaker will be Dr. Tanja Daws on the topic of MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying). Dr. Daws encouraged members to send her questions via Sandy before the presentation.
Sandy turned over the screen to Dorothy McGinn who drew the four names for the draw prize - using a Google random number generated (thanks to Alan Brown for this guidance). The winners were: Elaine Brown, Pat Tait, Patti Spearman and Stuart Lane. They can pick up their prizes at Boston Pizza.
We then broke out into smaller groups for a brief social time at the end of the meeting. Participants were asked to unmute themselves and turn to gallery view so they could see all the people in their small group. After introductions it was suggested they could talk of where they dream of travelling next once it is safe to do so. After the breakout sessions people could leave the meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 3:15.
The next Monthly Gathering will be on Friday December 4, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.
Co-Host and Zoom guru Alan Brown welcomed everyone and turned the meeting over to President Sandy Dreger at 2:00. Sandy thanked Alan and Elaine Brown for doing such a great job of getting us onto the ZOOM platform and for guiding new Zoom users over the past few weeks. She welcomed the 37 new members who have joined the club since September and urged everyone to make them welcome. We still have open membership spots so people can promote club membership to their friends.
Sandy introduced our speaker David T. Chapman who started doing photography as well as storm chasing at the age of 16. He is self-taught in the art of photography and has been pursuing his career professionally since the age of eighteen. He learned at a very young age from his father to appreciate his surrounding environment. He enjoys taking photographs and videos of weather phenomena, especially lightning, as well as scenery and nature. David likes to seek out unusual examples of nature such as inferior mirages, albino birds, ice caves and various types of naturally created vortexes, ranging in size from dust devils to tornadoes.
David's topic today was Wild, Weird and Wacky Weather". He is a exceptional photographer and shared pictures and explanations of many weather phenomena. He shared images of monstrous shelf clouds, funnel clouds ,ice bridges and some breath-taking photographs of lightning. We also saw fog come to life and watched it dance from one end of a field to the other, creating various different optics in the process. He showed sunrises evolve into day and sunsets disappear into the night. His photos capture sun pillars, blizzards, sundogs, ice caves and arctic sea smoke
David works in Ontario, a province that is so vast and surrounded by the Great Lakes, it is no wonder they have some of the most interesting weather in the world. It offers such a variety all year round because of its terrain, temperature variations and location. We learned about Superior Mirages and discovered how far south the Aurora Borealis can actually be seen.
John McGinn thanked David for sharing his photography with us.
Sandy added some additional thanks to club members who have continued to work for the club during the pandemic. Lorne Meyer teamed up with Sandy to complete the Covid safety plan for Comox United Church and attended the church's orientation session. We are using the Church Hall for Covid safe Meet and Greet sessions with new members. Eight new members attended on October 25 and our next session is scheduled for November 12. Hopefully all new members will have the opportunity to attend by the end of November. Donna Crozier purchased four Boston Pizza gift cards for the meeting draw today. Dorothy and John McGinn have been busy processing the new members and organizing the Meet and Greet sessions.
Sandy also announced that the December monthly meeting will be held Friday, December 4 at 2:00. The speaker will be Dr. Tanja Daws on the topic of MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying). Dr. Daws encouraged members to send her questions via Sandy before the presentation.
Sandy turned over the screen to Dorothy McGinn who drew the four names for the draw prize - using a Google random number generated (thanks to Alan Brown for this guidance). The winners were: Elaine Brown, Pat Tait, Patti Spearman and Stuart Lane. They can pick up their prizes at Boston Pizza.
We then broke out into smaller groups for a brief social time at the end of the meeting. Participants were asked to unmute themselves and turn to gallery view so they could see all the people in their small group. After introductions it was suggested they could talk of where they dream of travelling next once it is safe to do so. After the breakout sessions people could leave the meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 3:15.
The next Monthly Gathering will be on Friday December 4, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.