Loons of Ontario

Thanks to my friend Norm Ullock for this beauty of a shot above!

Thanks to George Rosema for this above great image!

Thanks to Dan Bellyk for this cool image of our group!

This last few weeks has been pretty busy, lots of one on one workshops, and a "birds in flight", and recently, this new program "Loons of Ontario" adventure. Thanks to Norm, Dan, Brian, Alex and the comedian, George! We had a great time, some awesome shooting, and full memory cards!

If anyone is interested in giving this a try, please let me know. We shoot in the late pm on the first day, then up early after a night in a cottage., and on the water at 5:30 am for some early morning shooting. We have lots of oportunities over the next month., and we are expecting to see babies soon! Website details here... click!
Just email me if you have any questions..... ray@raymondbarlow.com

Mark (Trac) Dionne .... RIP

I received bad news, one of my best friends Mark Dionne passed
away and I would like to share a story about my old friend. I write this
because I hope he can somehow read it.

Mark was my "sounding board", anything that was bugging me
I could pass it by Mark, and his wisdom, and devotion to friendship
would always encourage me to get past the issues, and move on.

Mark loved me, we were best of friends, he enjoyed my
photography immensely and has printed and framed photographs all
over his house. Mark bought so many prints off me, and gave them away
to friends and family.

I have never known a more generous and heart warming man.

My brother Geoff and Mark were both fireman, the best
guys on earth, ready and willing to risk their lives to save
others. Mark was a Namvet, and the scars will be with him
forever in time. He served his country, proudly.

I cannot tell you all how much I miss my friend already.

Go slow brother, stay strong, respectfully.,

rayz

New webpage for Workshop News

Things happen fast out there, new opportunities come up every day!! This is a chance for you to see what I have cooking every day!!

For example, tomorrow I have a run to the Pinery PP, for the Scarlet Tanagers, and Pileated Woodpeckers. Since I cannot email all 3,000 people on my list every day, I will post the info on this web page, and hope people will sign up!

Here is the link, please save it in your favourites.

Click here!!

Please email me if you have any questions!

ray@raymondbarlow.com

A trip west to the Pinery

Sunday morning, 3 am, and the wind and rain were hitting us hard here in Grimsby, Ontario... but out the door I went!! Driving over the Skyway bridge from Hamilton to Burlington was unreal!!

And naturally, what am I doing? Meeting 3 guests to head west to the Pinery Provincial Park for some photography!! The drive was wet, the truck is clean, so we are sitting in the coffee shop in Grand Bend... and the rain stops!

Lots of fun, many challenges, the light went from bad to so-so, to good, to brutal!! Some images from the day are posted here, please click on them for full size, and thanks for stopping by!



I posted 2 images of the Pilieated feeding thier young, wondering which one looks best, the image taken during overcast, or sunlight?

Some recent Workshops

A birds in Flight program last Sunday, a 1on1 Wednesday, and a Loons trek Friday, so lots of editing!! Thanks to all my guests for this week, it was awesome.

Sunday was cool, Joanne came here all the way from NYC, NY for the birds in flight!, at that workshop, we had 9 people, all of them were repeat guests!! This was the first time for 100% repeats, so very cool!!

Nancy and I went out to Campbellville and Guelph for some shooting of song birds, too much fun in the rain!! And the loons trek was cool, with a new customer, Jim Pearce, and also Jamie, Harry, and my friend Nick from Whitby. Some boat issues made it interesting, but we got it done!

So, enjoy these images, click on them for the full size, and please email me if your interested in joining a future workshop... ray@raymondbarlow.com

have a good weekend!

An interesting Story about a Family

Please click here to see an amazing story about 2 swallows.

The photographer sometimes catches somthing interesting, wish I was there!

Click Here

one of my older barn swallow images.