Teacher Ron Sky says a group of students at Jonah Amitnaaq secondary school became so enamoured with using digital photography to report community events, he decided to form the Baker Lake Photo Journalism Club.

The club is the first of its kind in Baker Lake.

Sky says he wanted to form the club to help the students develop their digital photography skills, and give them an opportunity to try their hands at covering local news, community and school events.

"It's a way of making people in Baker aware of the various events taking place in both the school and the community in general, as well as the pride we take in the school and our students," says Sky.

He says he's quite impressed with how interested in digital photography his club members have become.

"They're using my camera, for now, to take pictures of the different events happening at the school and around the community.

"What we're working towards, is having the club's articles and photographs published in a school newsletter we're creating.

"We're also hoping some of them may be good enough to appear in the Kivalliq's regional newspaper."

Sky says the students are moving along at a brisk pace with their new interest.

The club was only formed about a month ago and its first newsletter is expected out this week. There are 12 members in the club, so far, and the students are working hard at developing their skills.

Sky says since the club has begun, the students have fallen in love with taking digital photos and printing them out from their computers.

With digital pictures, he says, they see their results instantly and that's a big attraction to the students.

Club members are also enjoying modifying the pictures and experimenting with photo software.

"I had the club do all the student and staff pictures for the school's database. We also took pictures of people in the community with Santa Clause earlier his month as a fund raiser. The students used that project as a way to begin fund raising to purchase their own digital camera."