The Delta Photo Club is opening the 2025-2026 season with a particular on-line presentation aimed toward serving to attendees sharpen their sports activities pictures expertise and maybe flip their pastime right into a occupation.
On Wednesday, Sept. 10, the membership is internet hosting Toronto-based sports activities photographer Jeff Vogan for a Zoom-based speak titled “From Hobbyist to Full-Time Sports Photographer.” Vogan’s speak, which will get underway at 7:30 p.m., is meant for photographers of all ranges and open to each members and visitors.
In his presentation, Vogan will share suggestions for each hobbyists and aspiring skilled sports activities photographers, insights into the challenges and alternatives of turning a interest right into a profession and the enterprise aspect of sports activities pictures, and classes realized photographing newbie {and professional} athletes.
“Jeff’s story will feel familiar to many of us. His passion for sports photography began when his son first stepped onto the playing field. Like many parents and grandparents with cameras in hand at local community games or school events, Jeff started by capturing moments of someone dear to him,” reads a bio posted to the Delta Photo Club web site.
“What began as a way to preserve family memories soon grew into something much bigger — so much so that in 2016, Jeff left the corporate world to follow his heart and become a full-time sports photographer.”
Today, Vogan is a Getty Images contributor, certainly one of six official Camera Bits Ambassadors worldwide, and a pictures teacher who has shot everybody from newbie athletes to world champions and Olympic medallists. Along the best way, he’s realized useful classes about not solely the artwork of pictures, but in addition the enterprise and storytelling sides of sports activities imagery.
A former aggressive athlete and coach, Vogan makes a speciality of high-performance athlete and portrait pictures, combining “instinct, technical expertise, and a keen eye for storytelling to create powerful sports imagery,” in response to his bio.
To attend subsequent month’s workshop, events can both grow to be a member of the Delta Photo Club by filling out the membership type at deltaphotoclub.com/member-sign-up-form (price is $60/12 months for people, $90 for households and $35 for youth and college students), or register to attend as a visitor by sending an e-transfer of $10 to treasurer_membership@deltaphotoclub.com by midday on Sept. 10 (please embrace your title, e mail deal with and membership affiliation along with your switch).
Made up of pictures fanatics of all talent ranges, the Delta Photo Club is devoted to bettering pictures and the photographic artwork in its numerous varieties in North Delta, Ladner, Tsawwassen, Surrey, Point Roberts and past. The membership meets weekly on Wednesday evenings (7:30 to 9:30 p.m.) September by May, and holds workshops as soon as a month along with outings and different occasions.
For extra details about the membership and future occasions, go to deltaphotoclub.com.