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Toronto Photo Tours

Spend an exciting morning and / or evening in Toronto with a professional photographer learning how to make great photographs while visiting its monumental buildings and districts.

This tour offers participants an authentic city adventure and rare opportunity to experience the city from an insider’s point of view.

Your professional photographic guide will point out details invisible to the untrained eye and reveal the best vantage-points on your chosen route.

Learn to tell a story through images, take great shots of iconic monuments and capture atmospheric images off the beaten track.

Be ready for the unexpected, on an Adventure thru the Lens.

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Duration: 4hrs

Private Departures: Daily 9:00am

Scheduled Departures: April 1 - October 31 Saturdays 9:00am

Depart: Art Gallery of Ontario at the corner of McCaul and Dundas by the Henry Moore sculpture

End: Royal Ontario Museum

Multi Day Packages possible

Route - Cultural Soup.

We meet at the Art Gallery of Ontario at the corner of McCaul and Dundas by the Henry Moore sculpture then head to Baldwin Street and discover the atmosphere of outdoor cafes among the residential neighbourhood.

Walk behind the AGO to see the outside of The Grange, an old Toronto homestead, built in 1817 by D’Arcy Boulton Jr. a leading citizen in Toronto, and part of the “Family Compact” a Tory-dominated Anglican group that had political influence in the government after the War of 1812.

Discover the building of the Ontario College of Art and Design, and its newly expanded Building in the Sky created by architect Will Alsop that is perched on nine storey stilts. We walk south to the hip Queen Street West to photograph the street life and shops.

Continue on until Spadina Avenue where we will tour Chinatown and see the old clothing warehouses that now are trendy offices. Here we will have the option to try some dim sum (lunch/brunch tapas) or stop at a Chinese bakery. Then to Kensington Market on Baldwin Street and walk through the vegetable stores and fish monger shops, check out the funky used clothing shops of Kensington Street, followed by the Latin flavour of Augusta Street spotted by tattoo parlours and vegan restaurants. This market began as the Jewish neighbourhood and now is a thriving community of Portuguese, Latin American, Ethiopian, Caribbean and Chinese mix. We will also tour some of the back alleys that are laced with graffiti and street art.

We'll then discover Little Italy, where we will stop and have a chance to photograph the street life here over a cappuccino. From here we will head up Grace Street, over the Garrison Creek, which is a former creek that has been quarried and filled by homes and parks, until we reach Bloor Street and Korea Town. After Little Korea we will be walking through the Annex, an area that houses many of the students from the University of Toronto. The Bata Shoe Museum is a point of interest.

The tour will end at the Royal Ontario Museum, where we will have the opportunity to photograph the outside of the recent Lee-Chin Crystal addition designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. This structure is located next to the upscale shopping district in Yorkville, and the Philosopher’s Walk through the University of Toronto.