Richard Bain: Images of London
Richard Bain’s landscape photographs have been widely published throughout North America and Europe. In total, he has 15 table-top photo collections including: Images of London with foreword by Peter Desbarats, Images of Waterloo County with foreword by Peter Gzowski; the best seller “Stratford” with text by Christopher Plummer; London with foreword by Bill Brady; The Thames with foreword by Lloyd Robertson, London–People Parks and Places with foreword by Victor Garber and Stratford – Dramatically Different with foreword by Colm Feore. He is a partner in the publishing company Binea Press. Richard graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1977, and his commercial studio and home are located in London.
- Museum London
SUNDAYS AT ONE
Sundays At One is a new program that brings London history alive. All discussions are held at Museum London (on Ridout St at Dundas) in the Lecture Theatre and begin at 1:00 pm, unless otherwise noted.
Make sure to check out the first of this series on Sunday October 4th, 1009 featuring London photographer, Richard Bain.
It’s free
Whether you’re a hobbyist or pro photographer, we’ve got something for you. As a visitor to Canada’s largest photographic show, you’ll have the opportunity to see and test-drive the very latest in digital technology, take part in various free presentations, take advantage of great deals, and experience photography at a whole new level.
- Henry’s
Henry’s massive photo,video, digital trade show is back again this fall at the International Centre. Henry’s trade show is a massive collection of equipment from beginner to pro levels, but that’s no it! This show also offers up free seminars throughout the weekend with your admission. Admission is only $15 for the whole weekend.
I have attended this event, and extend to you an invitation to join me this fall! I will be trying to arrange a car pool to this event. So here are the details of the event:
Henry’s Photographic, Video & Digital Imaging Show
October 16th. 17th, 18th, 2009
International Centre – 6900 Airport Road, Hall 5 – Mississauga
Hours: Fri – 10am-7pm, Sat. 10am-7pm, Sun.11am-5pm
Cost: $15.00 for the entire Weekend
(Free to Henry’s Advantage Card Holders)
See you there!
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.
London Photo Walk Contest
For those in attendance at last night’s London Photo Walk, held in Downtown London with a “focus” on the LOLA Festival, you will remember the contest that we mention for a chance to win a prize valued at approximately $500.00.
Here are the Rules.
1. Images must be uploaded to Flickr no later than Monday (tomorrow) by 4pm.
2. Images must have been taken during the evening of the Photo Walk and must depict something LOLA related (art, musical act or people at LOLA).
3. Images must be tagged with BOTH “lopw” and “lola09“.
- You must EMAIL the London Photo Walk with:
- Your Name.
- Your Email Address (use the “special” email provided to you last night).
- A Link to where you images are located on Flickr.
4. Only those in attendance at last night’s photo walk are eligible.
By entering this contest you are allowing LOLA Festival to use your images for further LOLA events for promotional reasons. You will NOT be financially compensated in any way.
If you have any questions please contact us using the Contact page.
LOLA Specific Contest
For those not able to make it out to last night’s photo walk but headed down to LOLA Festival anyways there is another contest that you are eligible for which is photography related.
To be eligible to Win a Nokia 5800 make sure that you take a creative picture of volunteers in red shirts with all the Talkspot Docent logos visible, upload the image and post to Twitter tagged with #nokialola09
Most interesting photo will win. Deadline is Sunday at 4pm.
Museum London along with the London Arts Council have teamed up to offer an unconference centred around social media for the arts to be held Saturday November 14, 2009
For those unfamiliar with the term unconference, an unconference is an event where most of the day’s content comes from the participants and the participants alone. All attendees are welcome to present on any topic that they think would benefit their fellow unconference goers.
Organized by Bill Deys and Titus Ferguson, (organizers of the highly successful PodCamp London) SMarts London hopes to offer the following to the vast arts community of London, Ontario and surrounding regions:
SMArts London will be a free “unconference” that will feature a full-day of sessions and discussions that seeks to connect artists (performing arts (theatre, dance, performance), visual (fine arts, photography, painting, etc.), multimedia (film & video, computer) and academic/curatorial artistic communities), art administrators and art dealers with the social media practitioners and enthusiasts who can help them understand the value, potential and benefits of new media.
- smartslondon.com
Many of you whom participate in the London Photo Walk on a monthly basis may find an unconference such as SMarts to be a very beneficial experience. Learning about and contributing to ways in which new media can be used in order to establish and promote yourself as an artist could be a great benefit to anyone.
I urge you to check out the SMarts London website for more details. If you are interested in attending the event on Saturday November 14, 2009 at Museum London then head on over to sign up for FREE.
