Gallery Garden Brighton TWO

I s s u e TW O

Gallery Garden Brighton A Showcase for Brighton Area Artists and Photographers

F e a t u r in g R ic h a r d M G r o v e Clyde Harvie David K Lawler Leah Murray Don Whalen Amy Worrick

Welcome to Issue TWO We are playing with format and page layout, just a bit.

There is more of the community reflected on the pages of this issue And we will always accept submissions for consideration in the next Gallery Garden Brighton Thanks Robert G.Granger

Issue TWO Editor Robert G.Granger Published in the Future by BlueEntropy Media Cover By David K. Lawler

To Contact or Submit Blue.Entropy.Media @ g ma i l . c o m

Amy Worrick

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Robert G.Granger

Clyde Harvie

Leah Murray

Richard M Grove

Don Whalen David K Lawler Robert G.Granger

Amy Warrick

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Presqu’ile Robert G.Granger The sun rose out of the eastern lake waters unfurling its rays like the sails of a fleet of corsairs questing for the gold.

The waters peak and spark in the light and wave the day onward to stoke the July sun, a celestial engine pulling a warm wake to splash the morning onto the face of the land.

The trees hug their cloak of early morning fog as small clearings yawn breeze and lift the density off as the birds take to wing.

The earth-dwellers wake with a current along their spines to forage for familiars and food.

Canvas yearned and shuffled in the buffeted breeze compromised to the ground tethered to serve shelter and never to wind-jam again.

And there you stood, brilliant in your Macintosh surveying your kingdom in retreat.

The community of hearty souls and kindred hearts battened down amongst the trees.

Tasting freedom in every breath and living the way of your adventuring past.

Gathering up and near the fire brings faces and plots and plans for the day.

The paddle poised to trailblaze or lead-follow the beaten path to the water and its purposed task.

In your hands it is more than honed draw of the water spirits.

It respects place and position to captain your vessel through the brush and bush only to bow from the porters shoulders as it is being drafted from shore to surf.

Reeds weave and wave rooted between water and rock, soil and swell holding break the elementals like the constants of time, timeless in the ways of nature.

Silent as the whisper through the pine and oaken glades.

Secret as the turn of the leaf or the stubborn grip of a rocky socket.

Here privateers and pirates moored their beams and smuggled the masted rigging among the sovereign groves to revive in the lea of the land and dream of open seas.

Your map claims ‘Here Be Dragons’ as your craft slips cautiously through the bay.

And out past twenty oarsmen finding passage to the open sea.

The wind and the wave grip your sturdy launch, raked with spray and wrenched nearer to the rocks that boastfully tally their score of ships, you course towards the point.

A trip around the Horn was never as rough as you venture into the wind.

The fold in the map and the trough and the peak draw the ‘X’ and the object into sight.

The welcoming hand of the sun warmed sand and smiles that greet you there.

The dunes and the waders hold boldly to the stake as you defer to the prior places they may claim.

The birds that wade and soar call you to beach to build your castle-keep in the sight of the wistful wind.

The sun declines in a respectful arc promising to cross your path again.

The night of the sky drifts with currents of stars and direction left to explore

. RGG

Kyle Topping and Chrissy Poitras are the owners and operators of Spark Box Studio.

Both practicing artists, they are recent graduates of the Fine Arts and Art History programs at Queen’s University

Clyde Harvie Wood Carver

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Leah Murray Summer Photography at Presqu'ile

Summer Photography at Presqu'ile 2009-2010 by LEAH MURRAY Who knew that shutterbugs are a perfect antidote for schizoid weather and economies? In 2009 and 2010 Presqu'ile Park generously offered me a chance to run summer workshops on photography in their superb spaces.

Here I discovered one previously unnoticed truism: doing what you love is rendered hugely more loveable when done in like-minded company.

Presqu'ile is a naturalist’s little slice of heaven, with 7 different land habitats and 3 aquatic ecologies to explore. On more or less dry land, there are sand beaches, panne, dunes, conifer-dominated forest on low sand ridges (The Fingers), forest over limestone bedrock, old field and thicket on limestone bedrock, and a conifer plantation. In wetter places, there are the marsh and bay complex, the rocky and turbulent waters off Owen Point and the shallows off the lighthouse viewing area.

The micro-climate for the Park is unique for its temperature range, supporting both far northern plant species and southern ones cheek-by-jowl.

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Thus does the cash-strapped nature photographer get a small Canadian Serengeti.

The park supports nocturnal flying squirrels, occasional migrating eagles, consistent bats in their belfrys and hordes of leopard frogs -- lots of which latter nosh on the infinite mosquitoes.

Workshops in 2009 ran every other Tuesday and Friday June ‘til September, covering sunsets, morning light, marshlands, woodlands, water shots and campfire photos. (A similar schedule is planned for 2010.)

Mother Nature spoiled us with the weather, providing one rainy day with supersaturated colours, and otherwise warm and balmy golden days to work in.

She couldn't resist inflicting prolific biting bugs on us every time, however: repellent was de rigueur.

Owen Point provided beach plants and water birds under fine diffused light one damp day, leaving super-saturated colours in our images.

Jobes Woods yielded fungi and spider webs and first tries at tripod/macro photos.

The Lighthouse Interpretive Centre showed off delicate jewelweed

Almost every workshop also yielded a handful of useable photos for my own ever-growing collection and provided some new lessons around gear and the use thereof which incidentally refuelled my own passion and delight in the practice of the contemplative art of photographing our amazing planet.

Leah Murray

One thing to note about work-shopping is that the participants are as rich a source of inspiration and new lore as the surroundings: after a hiatus of almost a year in my own photography practice, I was shooting again with all the love and excitement in the habit as I had originally felt.

Leah@Leahmurray.ca WWW.Leahmurray.ca

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Brighton Guitar Club

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Richard M Grove

rock, paper, scissors Cindy stocks the best of Business Supplies including Printer Paper and Cartridges Scrapbooking and Art Supplies, Design and Gift Ideas Stationery, Stamps and Fax and Colour Printing Services to 'Get Down To Business'

Donald Whalen

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David K Lawler

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A fun story with illustrations you can colour!

Suitable for those aged 3 to 90 years old and beyond.

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Robert G.Granger