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  • Features a 5-page holiday spread on gift ideas, what to do, where to go and where to dine on the coast during this festive season!

  • Winter images by Sunshine Coast photographer Heather Diane Rule grace our front and back covers!

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PHOTO CONTEST UPDATE


There were a total of 472 images submitted in the second ZOOM Photo Contest. It is taking some time to catalogue all of them and the judging may not start until the week of the 19th. I am very impressed with the quality of submissions! I would like to personally thank all of the photographers who submitted their entries. Please keep visiting this website or our facebook page for updates. - Edmund Arceo

I just love your magazine! It's amazing and what a great showcase of what I love best about the Sunshine Coast! - Jennifer M.

What’s New at ZOOM

Starting with the Holiday 2011 issue, Ann Harmer helped edit some of the copy that we received from contributors. Ann is a professional editor who divides her time between editing and being host at Bluff Hollow Dog-Friendly B&B. She is also actively involved with Shroom Works - art derived from mushrooms. We didn't have enough time for Ann to review all the text in this issue, so if you find anything wrong or missing, it's not Ann's fault, but all mine. - EA

Coming in 2012

Each of our issues next year will have a special feature in addition to our popular regular sections of local photography, arts, music, events and of course, our well-loved pets. Our first issue in 2012 will feature a multi-page spread on Health & Fitness. This is just one of the many changes you will see as we go into our third year!

What’s Happening on the Coast

  • Photo Contest Update Photo Contest Update
    There were a total of 472 images submitted in the second ZOOM Photo Contest.  It is taking some time to catalogue all of them and the judging may not start...
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  • The Man with the Plastic Sandwich The Man with the Plastic Sandwich
    Since August, the cast at Coast Community Productions has been working hard rehearsing for its initial offering, “The Man with the Plastic Sandwich,” an entertaining comedy by Roger Karshner. “After...
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  • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
    The Sunshine Coast Driftwood Players is in the midst of rehearsals for a December production of  “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”.  The play’s director, Ingrid Bilton is delighted with the...
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  • Christmas Cheer with the Pender Harbour Choir Christmas Cheer with the Pender Harbour Choir
    The Pender Harbour Choir, under the direction of Joy McLeod has prepared a varied repertoire of holiday music to usher in Christmas Cheer  this festive season.  The concert will be...
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Inside our current issue:

  • Greta Guzek Greta Guzek
    Westwind Gallery presents “Trails of Discovery” – New Paintings by Greta Guzek.  All are welcome to the opening reception on November 12, 4 to 7 pm at Westwind Gallery, #14-292 Gower Point Road in Gibsons Landing. Nature provides many metaphors for life’s journey, and as...
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  • Lez Niepo Lez Niepo
    Lez Niepo, local visual artist and musician, immigrated to Canada from Scandinavia in 1973, first settling in Toronto, then moving to the Sunshine Coast, where he established his studio, Allworks, in Halfmoon Bay. His paintings from that time were influenced by the European abstract movement....
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  • Tessa Rand Tessa Rand
    Tessa Rand grew up in Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast.  She obtained a degree in 3D Animation from the Art Institute in Vancouver, where she met her husband. After moving back to the Coast in 2007, she joined a collective of self-taught metal artists...
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  • Bev Hiphner Bev Hiphner
    My interest in photography has come into play over the last five years and after taking thousands of photos, I’ve discovered my passion is nature and taking close-up or macro shots.  It’s amazing what you see once the photos have been downloaded to a computer,...
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  • Martin Nichols Martin Nichols
    Sechelt photographer Martin Nichols is from a working-class area of London, a city he says he couldn’t escape from even if he wanted to; and credits these roots with the development of his photographic style, which places emphasis on the emotional appeal of an image...
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Our Holiday 2011 issue (page 24) features a special photo spread of gift items available locally at the following stores: Slo (5549 Wharf Street, Sechelt), Fresh from the Coast (5721 Cowrie St, Sechelt, 604.741.0760), Palmeros (5514 Wharf Rd, Sechelt, 604.885.6401, Coast Jewellery (103-5699 Cowrie St, Sechelt, 604.885.2666), Motoko's Studio & Gallery (4590 Sinclair Bay Rd, Garden Bay in Pender Harbour, please call 604.883.9472 for viewing) and Down to Earth Clayworks (2107B Mahood Rd, Powell River, 604.487.0970). Item 17 (driftwood lamp by Linda Buckingham) is available at Fresh from the Coast - apologies for this inadvertent ommission in the text accompanying the photo spread in the printed copy of ZOOM.

Thank you Heather!

For sharing with us your winter images for the Holiday 2011 issue's front and back covers. View more of Heather’s photographic art on her website at www.windowsphotoart.com or visit WINDOWS gallery at 4206 Johnston Heights Drive in Garden Bay.

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