Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Photo courtesy of qualdoth

When: Friday March 30th, 2012 --- 7:00PM
Where: Scotland Yard Pub --- 56 The Esplanade, Toronto (http://www.scotlandyard.ca/) MAP BELOW
What to Bring: Yourself, a thirst for alcohol & any urban exploration photos you may want to share

This meetup event will allow anyone interested or curious about Urban Exploration to be able to look at some photos and/or ask any reasonable questions. This will help anyone approach it with a better understanding of the community, what it entails and any dangers that may come along with it. This will be an informal discussion where alexanderhosking, qualdoth, and myself will talk about everything from what gear we bring to Ontario's Trespass to Property Act. We are by no means experts, so we would like to invite anyone to share any photos, stories, or tips they may have.

We decided to go with a more informal setting for this meet so any photos will be shown on a tablet. If you would like to share any photos and would like me to get them onto a tablet for you please feel free to PM me. Below is a link to our Flickr streams. Please feel free to look them over in case you have any questions about any particular shots.

qualdoth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/qualdoth/
alexanderhosking: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahosking/
BaRTiMuS: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bsynowiec/

**DISCLAIMER**
Questions such as "How did you get into this location", "Where exactly is this location" and "will you take me here or there" are not reasonable questions. This event is put on in order to help anyone interested get started on the right foot and not a tutorial on trespassing.

A great primer would be to look over Neil Ta's free e-book "Urban Exploration Photography" (http://minus.com/mbmgdQ8L0o). Neil is an extremely gifted local Toronto rooftop and urban exploration photographer.

We look forward to seeing all of you on Friday!

I will try to make it, but with the shift change at work, I am not sure how long it will take me to get downtown.

Sweet, I look forward to this.
Janet, feel free to call/text if you are aiming to come but wondering if we'll still be around.

Looking forward to this one.

Check out this cool music video featuring the Packard Plant in Detroit! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsOVsOjBsp4

We'll be showing some photos from Packard this Friday.

Crap. These, basically, would be my main questions.

Don't worry, it's not some sort of super secret society. Just because we won't answer these questions, doesn't mean you wont get any direction as to how and where to get location info and where to meet other community members that will take you out.

Great Find!

Yeah, it's not super secret, just secret.

I would love to come but will be spending many nighst out this week. I think I will just go home after work on Friday night to relax and re-charge for the weekend. Maybe next time

See everyone tonight! My number is four one six, four five four, three three four six if anyone wants to text me or get a hold of me. We'll be inside the pub on the right hand side in the corner as soon as you walk in.

Thank you for an excellent and informative talk!

-Kel

Fantastic! Informative and fun with a subject that is difficult to discuss. Very well done Matt, Bart and Alex! Thank you!

A big thanks to Bart, Alex and Matt for organizing the event. It was fun and very informative! And i enjoyed the photo sharing, what did we do before tablets? I think we should organize more such events covering different topics by the forum experts.

Thanks for attending everyone. We had fun presenting and chatting with everyone.

Thanks for coming out everyone! I had a great time chatting it up and hopefuly imparting some wisdom!