image by kevin van lierop

Last Saturday found not only the London Ontario Live Arts (LOLA) Festival taking place but the sixth installment of the London Photo Walk, both taking place in downtown London.  We thought that it might be appropriate to combine the two events and plan the photo route around the “art installations” that were suppose to be located around the downtown.

Overall the walk was a good time , a turnout of about 15 people with a few new faces made up our crew which headed down Richmond Street from Victoria Park, towards the John Labatt Centre and back up to the Central Library.

The focus of the walk was not only to be Downtown at night but the LOLA art installations as well.  In past years LOLAfest had a number of different light and art installations in the Downtown core to coincide with the music at Victoria Park and we hoped that the same thing would happen for this year.  Needless to say we (or at least I) were disappointed with the art showing downtown.  One of the installations was un-active and the others were nothing more than very very faint projections on brick walls.  These in no way live up to what I experienced in the past.  But alas, the walk continued and we had a great time.

The walk culminated in Victoria Park where everyone was able to take in the various visual installations in the park, the highlight of (which I think many people would admit) was Dave Dyment‘s Sidereal Time Installation.  Images were captured of people playing with the lights and of the musical acts that took stage that night.

Even with the disappointment of the downtown art installations this walk with still a success.  With a great turnout, new faces and a fantastic atmosphere in Victoria Park I think everyone had a great time.

Check out the images from the night at the London Photo Walk Flickr Pool.

Stay tuned to www.londonphotowalk.ca for details on the next photo walk.  For now make note on your calendar of October 24th, 2009 10am-12pm at Fanshawe Pioneer Village.