MPAX Workshop at the Railway Museum

This past weekend, from Thursday, June 19 through Sunday, June 22, there was a photography exhibition at The Forks (called MPAX - Manitoba Photographic Arts Expo).  Every day there were various workshops and keynote speakers, and some photographers had display booths of their work, and there was also a main stage with various presentations.  The whole thing was really, really cool.  I attended four workshops and one keynote speaker, and I met a bunch of photographers and connected with some very cool people.  I'm so happy with everything about the event.  And it also gave me a reason to visit The Forks and especially The Forks Market, which is such a cool place!  

I posted in backwards order of the events I attended, so that the last event would be the lowest on the blog and thus would actually be in order.  So this is my final post on the MPAX events.  On Thursday, the first day of the Expo, I attended a workshop where we got to shoot at the Railway Museum.  There were so so so many cool things there, such cool light, so many textures and wonderful peeling paint and old wood, and they also had some old cars there (some in fabulous condition, some in pretty bad condition) and old bicycles, and of course lots of old trains.  I can't say that I learned anything from the workshop, but I did find inspiration in the museum with all the textures and wonderful details, so it was very worthwhile.  

Here are some photos from the museum.  Some of them don't look very sharp resized and saved for the web, and I'm not sure why because they're very sharp in the originals.  However, I'm not going to go back and try to redo them all, so just know that the originals of all of these look wonderful!

 

This train looks alive - I can see why children's books had trains as characters!