West End Studio Tour 2011 Concludes

The past two weekends have had my home open to visitors as part of the West End Studio Tour 2011 (WEST). This was my second year in the tour which consists of 20 artists (2 photographers) in their various galleries, studios and home settings. Good traffic, good conversation, good leads and good sales. Consequently I hope to participate again in September 2012.

For anyone who missed the Tour and is interested to see what they missed in my portion of the show, the images that I had framed on display are shown in the West End Studio Tour 2011 gallery on my website.

Here is one of the popular images from the show which was also the one included in the WEST brochure and on display at the vernissage site at Wall Space Gallery.

Tree and Shadow at Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico

Rob Huntley Photography

Shadowed Corners – Challenge Assignment, Camera Club of Ottawa

The Camera Club of Ottawa has an annual challenge assignment whereby each participant is assigned a distinct topic by the co-ordinator. We have 4 weeks to shoot a series of images which is then presented at a club meeting. This is a non-competitive, just-for-fun, exercise. The assignment was in late January, early February, a difficult time for many to become motivated, and with everything covered in snow, a challenge to find assignment material. Fortunately for me, the period overlapped with a holiday in Mexico, so the majority of pictures were taken there. My topic was “Shadowed Corners” and the following 21 images were submitted:

1. Overexposed red brick wall. Shadow of awning. Santa Maria Huatulco, Mexico.

2. Shadow of tennis court fence on snow, McKellar Park, Ottawa, Ontario.

3. Shadow on snow beside a boathouse on Meech Lake, Gatineau Park, Québec.

4. Shadow on concrete block wall. Mexico.

5. Steps at Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico.

6. Shadow of window grate. Oaxaca, Mexico.

7. Courtyard outside the church and former monastery of Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico.

8. Street corner in Oaxaca, Mexico.

9. Street corner in Oaxaca, Mexico.

10. Street corner in Oaxaca, Mexico.

11. Street corner in Oaxaca, Mexico.

12. Bus station, restaurant and pit stop enroute from Huatulco to Oaxaca, Mexico.

13. Courtyard outside the church and former monastery of Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico.

14. Not a WC! Oaxaca, Mexico.

15. Gate shadow on yellow wall. Oaxaca, Mexico.

16. Square inside the Ethnobotanical Gardens in Oaxaca, Mexico.

17. Overhead view of steps inside the Ethnobotanical Gardens in Oaxaca, Mexico.

18. Church and former monastery of Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Night shot of the corner of the courtyard or square outside the church.

19. Street corner in Oaxaca, Mexico.

20. Shadow of railings in a church courtyard of Templo y Convento de San Agustin, Oaxaca, Mexico.

21. Pool at the beach club, Playa Tejoncito, Huatulco, Mexico. The photographer is in the shadowed top left corner (Kite Aerial Photography).

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