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Fall 2022 - Welcome back! Get on our newsletter email list by contacting phil@philnorton.com For an up-to-date list of week-long trips and weekend photo workshops, please "Like" the Facebook page. For personalized day-trips in Ontario, visit the County Outings website. |
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It all began with a trip from Canada to Texas in 2015. Then 2016 and 2017 with trips to Newfoundland, Arizona, Saskatchewan and the Yukon, plus a cross-country trek along the Trans-Canada Highway. 2018-2019 were a stay-cation years with daily tours into the backcountry of Prince Edward County, Ontario. When Covid19 hit we shut down for 2 years. |
PAST TRIPS
TORONTO RAVINES, STREET SHOOT and CONTACT PHOTO FESTIVAL -- May 1, 2019 Pack your hiking boots and your dress shoes for this all-day mid-week trek from the County to the City. I have been scouting out some hot spots for great photos over the past 2 years and exploring the unique corridors of nature that run through the heart of Toronto--the Ravines. The Ravines hold a rich history with the remains of old industry, railroads, and lore of great nature artists like the Group of Seven and Robert Bateman. The workshop will include city skyline shots after sunset and getting your fill of red street car shots and downtown characters. Feel the pulse of the city, grab lunch on Yonge, then immerse yourself in cutting edge photographic artistry at the launch of one of the world's largest photography festivals, CONTACT. |
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BIRDING & NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY IN PE COUNTY -- May 2019 Several half-day tours in Prince Edward County during peak warbler migration. This is your opportunity to add some close-up shots of Ontario’s most colourful birds at the peak of their mating season plumage. Each year we spot from 50 to 80 species as we visit a variety of habitats ranging from open lakeshore and marsh to old growth forest, and grassy fields. Click for details about this trip...
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Join us for fun times in the wintry weather meeting enthusiastic photographers and naturalists (3 coming from Quebec on Feb. 9) who are here for all-day tours to Amherst Island. Special invitation to meet the locals at our lunch stop, bathrooms and warming up inside the family farmhouse at Topsy Farms. This is a magical place. Spotting snowy owls, short-eared, saw-whet, and barred, bald eagles and hawks, rough-legged and harrier, deer, voles scurrying around at our feet, stone walls, old barns and Great Lake vistas. More dates will be announced and custom tours arranged for your group. $70 per person including a ride in the van (save the $9 ferry fee and gas) for the first 4 if you register immediately! Bring something for the potluck lunch. Non-refundable. Must sign liability waiver. Limit 9 people. Optional: going out on the town in Kingston after our island tour! |
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Contemplative Photography Workshop Slow down your approach to subjects and scenery. Get into a relationship with your subject whether it’s wildlife, an inanimate object, a landscape or a person. Take your time and click one great image rather than 20 rapid-fire shots. Live the moment. Together we will define what Contemplative Photography means to you. Find abstract art in simple things all around you. Incorporate your photographic passion into your daily life. By looking and truly seeing, you'll retain memories and knowledge that will be more valuable than your photo collection. Bring along 10 of your own digital image files on a USB stick, 1500 pixels or more wide. Or bring prints. Instructor Phil Norton is hosting the workshop at his home studio in Picton, Ontario. Click for more details.
TESTIMONIAL I had an absolutely marvellous time on the March 2016 South West USA photo trip! You found really great places for us to visit and then to photograph. Your passion for photography is contagious! It was such great fun to hang out for days with fellow photographers and immerse myself in photography 24/7! Thank you Phil, for all the pre-work that you did so that our group of photographers could just show up and starting shooting! Your good nature and helpfulness its others is what keeps these photo trips going forward. Lastly, thanks for helping me complete an item off my bucket list! S.M.
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To see a Facebook album of photos from our previous trips to Amherst Island, click here.
2018
Parts Unknown in Prince Edward County Canadians: how about a Staycation this summer. Stay close to home for your vacation and discover some unknown parts of rural Ontario and Quebec. A series of half-day outings along the shores of Lake Ontario are kicking off the season on June 23, June 30 and July 7, 2018. "Parts Unknown" will take you into unusual wildlife habitat and along backcountry roads where we encounter the authentic rural side of this growing tourist and wine region. Each outing will include a coffe and snack break and local farms to purchase fresh eggs and honey and garden produce.
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Tour and workshop leader Phil Norton
Photographers, artists and naturalists are invited to join County Photographer Phil Norton on overnight and weekend excursions that are guaranteed to add exciting images to your portfolio. Get exercise outdoors each day and learn how to capture the natural beauty and human culture in a new geographic setting. Unique and affordable lodging with plenty of good food.
Evening slide shows, portfolio reviews and one-on-one hands-on computer instruction introduce you to new digital workflow tools and new ways of seeing and story-telling. Read more...
Canada 150th Photography Exhibitions
As a participant in our Photography Adventures trips, you are eligible to participate in our collective projects such as the framed prints and multimedia exhibition that was held at the John M. Parrott Art Gallery in Belleville, Ontario. New venues are being sought. Beginning on Canada Day, July 1, 2017 the show will run in Prince Edward County, Ontario at St. Andrew's Picton. See www.thecanadianadventure.com
Businesses and organizations are invited to partner with us during 2017. Your logo and tagline will be displayed at our photography shows, on our big TV screens, links to your website from ours, and frequent social media posts. We will make you visible immediately to our over 600 followers on Facebook.com/countyoutings and Facebook.com/photographyadventuresnet and Twitter. We also send direct emails regularly to 300 individuals plus special mailings to Canadian photography clubs about upcoming walks and events. Click here to view our sponsors.
October 2017 - The Saguenay Region of Québec
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April 2017 Maple sugaring time and butterfly garden |
May 2017 Birding and Nature Photography |
June 2017 Road trip west--choose any |
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