Sometimes it’s the little details that are more important than what’s actually going on… the way they’re almost secretly holding hands and comforting each other during an emotional part of the speech.

Check out the rest of Pam + Alex’s wedding at 99 Sudbury.

You can see more of this cottage wedding over on my blog.

Back in May I was privileged and lucky enough to spend a week at the Magnum Photography Workshop in Toronto that was part of the CONTACT Photography Festival.

My luck continued when I was accepted into David Alan Harvey‘s group, one of my favourite photographers of all time.  David is a legend in the photography world, having travelled the globe and shot over 40 assignments for National Geographic and published stunning books like Cuba and Divided Soul.

The workshop was different from others I’ve taken in that we weren’t told what to shoot, we were just expected to hit the streets and find something… anything to shoot.  We were on our own to find a story.

I spent a couple days wandering Kensington and Chinatown looking for my story.  Eventually it sort of just gelled into street performers and in particular showing them isolated from the crowds they spend their days entertaining.

We started each morning with a critique of the previous days work.  David is brutally honest with his critiques but that’s how you learn.

And learn I did.  This is one of those workshops that will impact my photography for the rest of my life.  The passion and skill of all the Magnum photographers has inspired me beyond words.

I’d like to thank David, as well as everyone in my group, for an amazing week.

Here are some of my favourite images from the week.

Scott.

Check out more pictures from this winter wedding in Kitchener-Waterloo over on my blog.

This photo placed 12th in the ‘Parents’ category.

And this photo placed 3rd in the ‘Bride Getting Ready’ category.

Last week I had the honor and pleasure of attending the Mountain Workhops in Elizabethtown Kentucky.

The Mountain Workshop is an intensive week long photojournalism course run by one of the most renowned photojournalism schools in the USA, the University of Western Kentucky.  The workshop is in it’s 35th year, each time documenting a different county in Kentucky.

The coaches at the workshop are really impressive, almost to the point of being intimidating.   Multiple Pulitzer winners, long time National Geographic shooters and combat photographers are all roaming the halls.

Each student draws an assignment out of a hat (literally!) and spends the week both shooting and writing their story with the aid of their coaches.   The nights go long with multiple speakers and critiques, we were lucky if we got 3 hours sleep a night.

My assignment was a single mother with two kids who’s grandfather had just been deployed overseas.

You can see my story here.

I’m still absorbing everything I was taught last week, but I’m already starting to see things differently and have no doubt I’m going to be a much better photographer.

Scott.

Wedding ceremony at Salvation Army Citadel.

Wedding ceremony at the Salvation Army Citadel. Reception at Renaissance Event Venue. Flowers by Avenue Florist. Photography by Toronto photographer Tim Forbes of Forbes Photographer.

Click here to see a slideshow of their wedding day … http://www.vimeo.com/14954973?hd=1