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Antarctica and the North Pole Presentation by David McEown at Royal Ontario Museum on October 30th, 2008 at 19:00-20:30 yesterday was fantastic. It provided an annotated view of David’s many visits to Artic and Antarctic regions of the world that spanned over many years of his travels. It was a multimedia presentation showing his art work, photography and video accompanied by his commentary and accompanying music. His passion for the arctic region, its landscapes and people was evident in his paintings, photographs and comments. It is my great wish to join him on one of his trips one of these days.

http://www.artistjourneys.com/

This event was part of the 90th Anniversary celebration of Czech Independence established by president T.G.Masaryk in 1918.

This event was organized by the Consul General of Czech Republic, Richard Krpac, and Vice-Consul Jiri Slais. Representative of Toronto Council A.Hama conveyed a message from the Ontario Premier. Small number of Czech community attended the event. The raising of flag was followed by a reception.

Today we are all leaving for our home destinations and all we carry with us, are great memories of this wonderful workshop, that not only will reside with our individual interpretation in our memory, but it will also occupy many gigabytes of physical space or boxes of film slides.

Unfortunately, I had to cancel my camping trip in Acadian National Park and return home. Somehow, I couldn’t resist few quick stops of photo opportunity, especially as I was driving between Quebec City and Montreal at dawn. Here are few images and more are in my Photo Gallery (just click at any image).

At 8:00 most of us went to the local Farmer’s Market at Kingston. One of the recomended specialties was to have a grilled salmon for breakfast. For other images from the market - click at any of these two images.

Sadly enough, today morning we have the last lecture by Freeman and André and I was touched deeply by Freeman’s last message about our responsibility to be creative.

After, in rather relaxed manner we are finally viewing the fruit of our labour and at noon viewing our projects. My project theme was on concept of WASTE and you can see it in my Photo Gallery. In the afternoon we are presenting 10 of our best images from whole workshop week. Some of these are coming from our daily best of 3, but some are new. There are also 2 extra images from which one will be chosen by André for the poster.

Today we had a choice to go with either Freeman, Terry or André to different locations. I went with André to revisit Hampton to photograph from the bridge and surrounding area. Others went to the church site. There were some incredible composition of light patterns and shapes that I tried to capture. Here are 3 best images that I selected for the critique. Click on any of the images to see other images from this day.

This morning our group went with André to Hampton area and we were chasing the inversion, trying to photograph mist and rising fog over the river. A spectacular views in the spite that they were changing very quickly. Then we moved close to the bridge and lastly to a small church. André was teaching us how to pan and zoom technique to create impressionistic images.

Here are the 3 images and clicking at any will take you to my Gallery with Other Images that didn’t make the selection, but are representative of this day.

Today we went with Freeman to his place at Shampers Bluff. We were racing to catch morning mist and fog as it was floating over the hills and forest. What a magic place, with incredible number of places to photograph and enjoy the solitude if you want. No surprise that Freeman finds there an endless source for his art, in which every day, every season brings a different views. One must see it ! A n absolute paradise for spider web enthusiast !

These are 3 images from this day that I selected for our critique (Other Images are also available for viewing at my Gallery - click at any image).

Today is the first day of the workshop and I have been assigned to Group C which is doing shooting with Terry Adair. The first site is within forest of Adair’s Lodge where we are learning panning with those lovely coloured trees. Next part is at nearby creek with several waterfalls, an absolute delight of water, rocks and leaves. Althtough I did not select any images with waterfalls for my best 3, they are in my Gallery in Other Images.

Three best images presented today at the afternoon critique (click at any image to see Other Images).

Today was our day 0 or arrival day at Adair’s Lodge near Kingston, New Brunswick. I have arrived around 14:00 and was assign to a cabin named Whiskey Jack, as all cabins are named after birds.