Photo By MisterRed

I was super excited to be the walk leader for the first ever London Community Photo Walk. Jim Galbraith, is the head grounds keeper for the University of Western Ontario, and has been for nearly thirty years. His knowledge of each tree, time of planting and type of tree or plant it was was truly astounding.

We had a ten am start on a slightly grayish morning, with about 20 people joining in. There were a few regular Photo Walk participants, three Alumni ladies who graduated from the UWO out, as well as several new Photographers. As always the conversation was interesting, the sites we saw, the photographers and their poses truly entertaining!

The walk lasted for two hours, and as promised by Jim his walks are always good, and it never rains! The rain drops landed on the walk back to our cars. We did get an inside tour of the newly renovated and fabulous Conron Auditorium, as well as a great deal of historical facts in regard to the first building, the competition amongst the stone masons, and a ton of fascinating little bits of information just for fun! Such as the garbage collected on the hill during frosh week, the gifts and dedications that have created such amazing buildings and art and Gardens threw out the campus. The Ground of the University are for public enjoyment, this a very little known fact and we need to start walking, biking and generally going through the grounds with open eyes and enjoying all that it has to offer.

We had a great, and very informative walk through the University, I for one cannot wait to go back and capture some of the gorgeous fall colour that shall soon arrive! As part of my Garden Gates Open tour this year, Jim had registered the Beryl Ivy Garden as well as the Talbot Garden (beside the talbot theatre) If anyone had taken any shots of these two gardens I would love to post them on my shutterfly share site for all to enjoy.

Thanks again to Jim Galbraith for making our walk on the UWO property so interesting, colourful and fascinating! Thanks to all those who attended as well.

See you next time!

Donna Currie

As every photo walk I have been to this one was fun.  It was a beautiful evening and although I doubted we would get many people at 8 pm on a Saturday night I was very pleasantly surprised when 18-20 people showed up!

Mr Tizzy entertained us with his patented lie on the ground photo technique and Bryan Nelson showed us his wade in the river style…..The light was beautiful and I have seen many fantastic pictures posted by walk participants….we tried to arrive at the pedestrian bridge in time for sunset but were early…..so we ended up hanging around the bridge for 20 – 30 minutes. It turned out to be a great opportunity to talk to other photo walkers and get to know each other a little better and for those who waited we were rewarded with not only some great shots of a beautiful sunset, but a gorgeous full moon as well!

My thanks to everyone who came out and I hope to see you all again at UWO on Aug 21st

Chris Baldwin

It has been a while since the Seminary photowalk but here is a little review. Better late than never! The Seminary walk easily said did not go as planned. It was a very hot muggy day and the mosquitoes were out in full force! So most of our route got chopped off and we spent more time on the St. Peter’s seminary grounds.

We waited for a while to see if we could capture a sunset but that also did not happen so we veered of the Seminary grounds into the beautiful old north where many photos where taken, maybe even more than on the seminary grounds. Old north was just such a beautiful place to photograph.

After wards we headed to the local hub in Old North called the bungalow where many of us were a little more than thrown off by the menu boasting such burgers as the Wild Boar and Bision burgers. However someone still tried out the Bison burger and said it was quite good. Others like myself went with the Gourmet Grilled Cheese. Needless to say not the usual type of place we end up at after a photowalk but it was still fun!

Keep your eyes peeled here for more walk reviews coming up that we have missed, like the WWPW review coming up very soon. Stay tuned!