The aim for the group was to help organize, and give people a place to organize their own, photography get togethers such as photowalks, group shoots, and field trips. It took a while to get interest in the group to happen but now almost a year later we have 57 members. We also decided that so many of the members of the photographers are portrait artists we decided to open the group up to local models to give them a place to meet local photographers in a safe setting.
So far our main event that we have been hosting is what we have been calling our "Coffee Socials". It is essentially a informal get together of so far mostly photographers but we have had a couple of models come out. It started small, the first coffee social we held only had five of us show up. That was October 2017, seven months later we had eleven people show up yesterday and we fifteen for the March 2018 social. The events are getting more and more popular.
We are hoping that starting next months the weather will be warm enough, and the ground dry enough that we can move these socials outdoors and hold them in local parks. We hope by having them outside, where people can bring whatever food or drinks they want (non alcoholic of course) that we may get more people out, and it will give people to opportunity to shoot more, especially if we get more models coming out.
We also hope to expand things to include photo walks and outings. We are hoping that we get more photographers who are into other genres such as landscapes and street to start coming out out. I want this group to continue to grow and evolve. Even thinking of trying to organize a gallery showing for the members to display their favourite works. The "sky's the limit" as far as things we can do with this group.
Check out our facebook group if you live in or near the Simcoe County area in Ontario Canada.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/111946239345253/
