Winnipeg Folkfest 2007

Earlier this summer I traveled to Manitoba to visit friends, shoot a wedding (post to follow), and attend the Winnipeg Folk Festival. This was my second time at the festival and it lived up to and probably surpassed the amazing time I had last year. This festival is unlike any other I've been to. There are two seperate worlds in Bird's Hill Park, one being the campsite and the other being the actual music festival. I've chosen a few of my favourite photos to show everyone and as you'll see, I think I enjoyed the camping more than the music! That's saying a lot, because the music was incrediable.

I couldn't understand what was happening while photographing the moonrise Friday night. This is an explanation I found while searching on the web.
"The ring around the Moon is caused by the refraction of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the Moon ring is almost always the same size."
"A typical corona is only couple degrees in diameter and closely fringes the moon. Although not as intense as a solar rainbow, coronas may appear in several colors. On rare occasions lunar halos and lunar coronas can appear together."

My little buddy Graham helped me with some experimental lighting techniques!