About . . .
Our aim is to offer a place for photo enthusiasts to learn and to share across the diverse realms of photography. Our club season runs from September to June. For the 2024-2025 season, our club will meet the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. Of course this is not always set in stone and members know to check our calendar of upcoming meetings, workshops and outings. As of autumn 2024, our new home base is the Red Willow Community Church on the corner of Campbell Road and Corriveau Avenue.
On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, we will alternate between “Speaker night” and “Workshop night”. The 4th Wednesday of each month is our “Submissions Night”, a friendly contest, with both themed and open categories. Images from our current and past contest winners are permanently displayed in our gallery archive. The images of present and past speak for themselves. Feel free to peruse these photos, but please be aware that all are copyrighted by the original creator and all right’s are reserved.
In addition to our planned meetings, the club also arranges occasional photography outings and extra workshops throughout the year. While we attempt to keep the members-only calendar up to date, some trips are spur of the moment, and will be announced via e-mail communication. Our members keep their eyes peeled and their gear ready to go!
For several years now, members and non-members alike, have met at various locations in and around the Edmonton area on Friday mornings for a 2 hour photo walk, followed up at a nearby spot for lunch. The organizers for these Foto Friday events, decided to step away last season, and unfortunately, no one has volunteered to help to keep these going. As such, these outings have been discontinued. You may want to team up with a couple fellow photographers and make your own Foto Friday to keep the spirit alive. Thank you to Barry Ryziuk and hedy bach for their efforts through the years to keep finding interesting places and events to shoot.
The St. Albert Photography Club was established 1992. On the occasion of our 20th anniversary, founding member Jan VanVeen offered the following reminiscence of the early days of the club.
Did you know that our first meeting was at St. Albert City Hall . . . in 1992, in a fancy room with swivel chairs overlooking the ”mighty” Sturgeon river. In attendance were Larry Huberdeau, Peter Pankiw, Doug Poon, Jan Vanveen and a few others (sorry I forgot your names). The reason for our existence was the same as now, to encourage each other to better photography. There was no photography club at the time, even though Kathy McKay did start one, but it was dissolved after they published the book “A Day in the Life of St. Albert”.
JAN F. VanVeen
With the help of Deirdre Smart of the St. Albert Community Services, we advertised at Doug’s store, beside London Drugs, (Canadian Tire at that time). Since then, a lot of “film has gone through our cameras”. We had some contact with the Winnipeg South Photography Club as Reggie Steele (president of the Winnipeg club) visited us at the home of Larry Huberdeau. Fred Martin and Bill, and also Al Popil joined the club soon afterwards. Hope to have another 20 years again of “photographic” enjoyment.
Our Community Partners
The St. Albert Photography Club supports our following partners in the St. Albert community. In turn, then help support our passion by allowing us to practice our creativity and some allow us to display prints from our members.
- St. Albert Public Library (SAPL)
- St. Albert Seniors Association (Red Willow Place) – check these out – all prints are for sale!
- St. Albert Sturgeon Hospice Association (SASHA)
- St. Albert Readers Festival (STARFest)