Canadian Association for Photographic Art Summer 2019 • $9.95
CANADIAN CAMERAOFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ART SUMMER 2019 • $9.95 • 2019 CAPA ANNUAL PHOTO CHALLENGE • CAPA/CLUB NEWS • CAPA COMPETITIONS •HIGH-FLYING PHOTOGRAPHY • MEET THE VOLUNTEERS • NO NORMAL SATURDAY Speed in the Sky By Lois DeEll Spring on Vancouver Island is an indication that the Canadian Forces Snowbirds and F-18 Demonstration teams will soon fly over Comox Valley out of 19 Wing Comox for their annual spring training for the coming air show season. My first introduction to the 431 Air In 1984, while attending an air Abbotsford Airport during a Snowbird Demonstration Squadron (Snowbirds) show in Nanaimo, B.C., my hus- demonstration. British Columbia was in 1982, when my husband, Ken band met a former high school Lieutenant Governor David Lam was DeEll, became an instructor with 257 classmate, Capt. Bill Ryan, Snowbird the reviewing officer. Ladysmith Air Cadet Squadron. No. 3. In 1989, when my husband In 2016, I started to photograph Capt. Emile deKoninck was the was the Commanding Office at the Snowbirds and CF-18s at CFB Squadron Training Officer. His 257 Squadron, he met Major Dan Comox (Airforce Beach). At that son, Capt. Tristan deKoninck, was Dempsey, Snowbird No. 1, and then, time, I met Capt. Blake McNaughton, Snowbird No. 4, who was later killed Air Cadet Mike French, currently Narrator/Snowbird No. 10, and fol- in a CF-18 crash at Summerside, Lieutenant Colonel and Commanding lowed the Snowbirds through social P.E.I. Officer of the Snowbirds, at the media. 28 - CANADIAN CAMERA In 2018, I, for the first time, and and Mount Washington to the west at 40,000 feet with its two General my husband, for the second time, met and the water gateway of the Georgia Electric F-404 low bypass turbo fan Lieutenant Colonel Mike French at 19 Strait in between, the photography engines.
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