Capital Champlain

Photographing the Action on the Grid Iron
2024-10-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Averill Park High School, 146 Gettle Road, Averill Park, New York, 12018, United States
It’s FOOTBALL season!!! Thanks to member, Melissa Napoli…

The Athletics Director at Averill Park High School has approved for Capital Champlain members to come to football games at the high school to photograph the game. He asks that no more than 5 photographers attend at a time. He also asks that we stay on the sidelines between the 20 yard line and the goal line.

If you’d like to get up close and personal at a football game, pack your long lens, your wide lens and a tripod and lets go play under the stadium lights. It is a great way to learn!

As a Thank You, we typically share images taken by our members with the team. If anyone would like their images shared with the team, they can email Melissa watermarked jpg’s. She will compile all the images and create an online gallery for them.

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Equine Advocates Field Trip
2024-10-12 11:00 - 16:00
Saturday October 12th we are planning a photographic outing to Equine Advocates in Chatham NY for their open house to wander around and capture the bountiful residence of this equine rescue center. The hours for this open house is 11:00am to 4:00pm so we will meet between 11:00-11:30. Everyone is required to sign a waiver form upon arriving and there is no cost but they would like us to consider a free will donation.

This is one of the most beautiful equine rescue centers in our area, with 80 plus horses, mules, donkeys and ponies. We recommend 24-70 and 70-200 focal lengths, you will find them very curious and coming right up to you. We hope to find the trees beginning to change color creating a nice background for our pictures.

We recommend dressing in layers and foot wear that you do not mind getting dirty, it can get a little muddy and you will find horse poop in the pastures.

Below is the address and links to their website along with link to google maps location.

Equine Advocates Rescue & Sanctuary 3212 State Route 66Chatham, NY

Website https://www.equineadvocates.org/public-open-days-2024/

Google Maphttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Equine+Advocates+Inc/ @42.3880272,-73.6113527,1658m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5! 1s0x89ddf3d009b58939:0x7514bf0c5b6278b1!8m2!3d42.3896865!4d-73.6043472! 16s%2Fg%2F1tdqjgvp? authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

In the event of rain and we cancel there is another open house on Sunday November 3rd. As we get closer to October 12 we will confirm the date.

Catching the Action of Football!
2024-10-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Averill Park High School, 146 Gettle Road, Averill Park, New York, 12018, United States

Chasing Waterfalls
2024-10-19 09:00 - 17:00
Waterfalls and Fall Foliage

On Saturday, October 19th we are planning an outing to Diamond Notch waterfalls and Fall Foliage in the Catskills. (rain date will be Sunday October 20th) An added bonus on our way home, we can stop and photograph Saint John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church. A very unique cedar shake church perched up on a hill.

From the trail head parking lot it is approximately a 1/2 mile trail into the falls and trail is a very gentle incline going in. The trail follows the stream from the falls so as we will be stopping along the way to photograph some of the small cascades. We recommend dressing in layers and hiking boots or water proof boots.

We recommend 24-70mm lens. If you want to capture some closer details perhaps a 70-200mm. Strongly recommend a tripod along with polarizing and neutral density filters if you are looking to do some long exposure images. For those that do not have neutral density filters, Rob has extras that he will bring and let you to borrow.

Diamond Notch falls is located at the end of Spruceton Road in West Kill NY, below is Google map link to trail head location.

https://www.google.com/maps/place//@42.1793195,-74.2711349,16.09z? authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

We can meet at the Catskill Thruway (exit 21) in the park and ride parking lot at 10am. Rob can take up to three people in his car. Additional carpools will be created as needed. From this location we can continue up to the trail head parking (49 miles from exit 21).

If time allows, there is the possibility of stopping by Kaaterskill Falls on way home. We can shoot this from the observation deck that looks down onto the falls. The observation deck is very short walk from the parking lot.

Hope to see many of you for a great day in the Catskills.

October Member Meeting
2024-10-21 17:30 - 21:00
Bri Stiefeo is our speaker for October. Her business is primarily Boudoir in Black and White.

More Details to come.

Illumination Session
2025-05-19 17:30 - 21:00 | Moscatiellos, 99 North Greenbush Rd., Troy, NY, 12180, United States
Light up Your Marketing Strategy!

Creative Photography at ART OMI
2025-06-16 15:00 - 20:00
This photography workshop will be led by Ken Bovat. Ken will be our guide as we meander through the grounds of this incredible location. We will have access to 120 acres of Art Displays from around the world. In addition he is bringing in models for us to work with! This will be a great opportunity to learn from each other.

This event has been broken into 2 parts. 3:00-5:00 Dinner break. 6:00-8:00 Feel free to join us for the time frame that works best for you. Better yet, come for the entire time. Hope to see you there! 1405 County Route 22 Ghent, NY

Member price $25.00 Non Member $40.00. Paid on location

Holiday Party
2025-12-17 17:30 - 21:00 | Moscatiello’s, 99 North Greenbush Rd., Troy, New York, 12196, United States
Please join us for an evening of fun and games with our photographer friends. We will enjoy dinner while reminiscing of this years past events. In lieu of a grab bag, we will be playing LRC again this year. Bring 3-$5.00 bills to play. Dinner price of $25.00 per person will be collected that evening. Hope to see you there!!
