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Toronto thru the Lens Photo Tours

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Half Day Photography Tours in Toronto

About our Photo Tours

Adventures thru the Lens Photo Tours are Urban Adventures. The goal is for travelers to:


• Discover and experience a city through the eyes of a local photographer.
• Encourage the observation of new viewpoints and interesting details which might easily be overlooked.
• To improve photography technique.
• To have a more interesting experience and involvement when visiting a city.
• Have fun

Our Photographer has in-depth local knowledge, a passion for their city and for the art of photography. Photographers are carefully selected for their breadth of style and experience in either travel or photo-documentary/reportage.
So bring your camera and be prepared to walk, shoot and click.

About your photographer

Languages : English

Tobi is a freelance photographer based in Toronto since 1992. Her work appears in publications such as Toronto Life, Saturday Night, National Post Business, National Post, Canadian Geographic, Canada Year Book 2001, Elm Street, Money Sense, Vancouver Magazine, Canadian Inflight, EnRoute, Cracker, Images, Seasons, Golf Canada, Elevate, Where Toronto, Our Kids Go to Camp and, Our Kids Go to School.

Discover Toronto and learn how to take beautiful photos!

Some of the things you will learn:

  • Composition
  • Approaching and photograhing people
  • Finding interesting points of view

IN SEASON: March 1 - Oct 31st

CLOSE OUT DATES : National Holidays

Saturday Morning :

  • 9:00 - 1:00pm

DEPARTURE POINT: Art Gallery of Ontario at the corner of McCaul and Dundas by the Henry Moore sculpture

ENDING POINT: Plac Zamkowy - Royal Ontario Museum

TOURS HIGH POINTS:

Cost: 125 € per person

Other times on request. Minimum 2 persons - 150 € per person


PHOTO ROUTE

Meet at the Art Gallery of Ontario at the corner of McCaul and Dundas by the Henry Moore sculpture.

Go north two blocks to Baldwin Street and discover the atmosphere of outdoor cafes among the residential neighbourhood.

Walk behind the AGO to see the outside of The Grange, an old Toronto homestead, built in 1817 by D’Arcy Boulton Jr. a leading citizen in Toronto, and part of the “Family Compact” a Tory-dominated Anglican group that had political influence in the government after the War of 1812.

Discover the building of the Ontario College of Art and Design, and its newly expanded Building in the Sky created by architect Will Alsop that is perched on nine storey stilts.

Walk south to the hip Queen Street West to photograph the street life and shops.

Continue on until Spadina Avenue where we will tour Chinatown and see the old clothing warehouses that now are trendy offices. Here we will have the option to try some dim sum (lunch/brunch tapas) or stop at a Chinese bakery.

Enter Kensington Market on Baldwin Street and walk through the vegetable stores and fish monger shops, check out the funky used clothing shops of Kensington Street, followed by the Latin flavour of Augusta Street spotted by tattoo parlours and vegan restaurants. This market began as the Jewish neighbourhood and now is a thriving community of Portuguese, Latin American, Ethiopian, Caribbean and Chinese mix. We will also tour some of the back alleys that are laced with graffiti and street art.

Continue on to College Street and discover Little Italy, where we will stop and have a chance to photograph the street life here over a cappuccino.

From Little Italy we will head up Grace Street, over the Garrison Creek, which is a former creek that has been quarried and filled by homes and parks, until we reach Bloor Street and Korea Town.

After Little Korea we will be walking through the Annex, an area that houses many of the students from the University of Toronto. The Bata Shoe Museum is a point of interest.

The tour will end at the Royal Ontario Museum, where we will have the opportunity to photograph the outside of the recent Lee-Chin Crystal addition designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. This structure is located next to the upscale shopping district in Yorkville, and the Philosopher’s Walk through the University of Toronto.


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Scheduled Dates March 1 - Oct 31st

Cost 125 € per person