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I have been asked by my son Adrian to cover this event as a photographer at the Hart House, University of Toronto. The attendance of about 100 people, reunion of brothers and their guests to commemorate this anniversary. The photo collection represents those couples and individuals who participated in the event, although not all of them by all means.

         Today I decide to visit Toronto Zoo on such a perfect day just begging for walk and taking photos. It was beautiful sunny day and in the spite of the place crawling with masses of people, it was a joy to be out on this first warm weekend after what seemed a very long winter. Today I have spent most of the time photographing “Big Cats” such as Siberian Tigers, African Lions, Leopards and Lynx. However there were other opportunities to capture few birds, such as Trumpet Swans, Bald Eagle and others.      

From the news I have learnt that the migration of tundra swans is at its last leg, so I decided to revisit Long Point for another photo shoot, especially in a view of weather report indicating, sunny and warm Saturday. I left early in the morning and I was treated by fabulous sunrise providing and backdrop full of expectations for lovely day.I was little disappointed by the small number of swans present and by rather sedate activity as oppose to their usual large and frequent flying over your head. In the spite of this I did manage to take few photos at closer distance and few new birds that were not present last time. The worming effect of sun made this trip much more pleasant than the last weekend so that I was taking photos without my gloves and not freezing my hand when holding the cameras. So this photo shoot concluded my tundra swans episode until perhaps next year. There are several photos in my new album named Long Point Biosphere Revisited if you like to see it. 

•  Long Point Biosphere Revisited album 

Here will be a short journal for my travel spots in Greece. 

• If you like to see some of my photos from this trip, please visit my Photo Gallery:

Beginning in March, Apple takes Aperture 2 on tour around the world. Attend a free, in-depth seminar given by Apple photography experts for a close look at the next generation of Apple’s powerful photo editing and management software.

With its simplified user interface, Aperture 2 is easy enough for any photographer to pick up and use. Intuitive and accessible, it brings a variety of new interface features that members of Apple’s pro photo marketing team will demonstrate including:

• A new All-in-one Inspector
• Viewer Only mode
• Quick Preview mode
• Project skimming in All Projects view

Apple experts will also demonstrate the expanded suite of adjustment tools including Recovery, Vibrancy, Vignette and a soft-edged Retouch brush, as well as how effectively Aperture integrates with the rest of the Mac platform, showing you how easily you can:

• Instantly publish photos to a .Mac Web Gallery
• Design and order beautiful custom books
• Use third-party plug-ins to export photos to service bureaus, photo-sharing sites, and commercial sites
• Access your Aperture library from within iLife, iWork, and Leopard Mail
• Sync photos to iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV

 Long Point Biosphere is close to the Long Point Provincial Park on Lake Erie. This album was created from my weekend of March 15-16, 2008 observation and photographing the yearly migration of Tundra Swans. I hope you will enjoy some of my pictures of these magnificent birds, on their annual migration path from Chesapeake Bay to Alaska. This year it was estimated that the number of birds was roughly 40,000. For more information see the following links: 

Long Pont Biosphere Reserve

Atlantic Flyway Eastern Tundra Swan Project

•  See more images in my photo gallery (click on the image bellow).