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.