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Hot Art: 44 Wide Mounts Your Memories

With digital cameras now an essential travel tool, it’s become a cliché that you’re bound to take almost too many photos on your trip—images that will be scanned through by friends and family and quickly forgotten. Ensure your best shot doesn’t get lost in the shuffle by taking it to 44 Wide. This Liberty Village printing house and gallery offers unique services to help preserve and showcase your images. Its “Camera to Canvas” ($180) service prints your photo on a high-quality 16-by-20-inch canvas that’s then protected, wrapped and mounted by hand. Or opt for “Photo to Frame” ($270), which sets your image in a wood frame and allows you to add your own personal sentiment on the back. No matter how you display it, your picture is sure to look its absolute best—every photo is treated to hands-on enhancement by professional re-touchers.

Hot Art: Roy Arden at Monte Clark Gallery

"Help the Artists!" photo courtesy Roy Arden and Monte Clark Gallery

Branching Out

Sometimes, change is good. Local contemporary photographer Roy Arden shows that to be true in Vox at Monte Clark Gallery (Nov. 24 to Jan. 7), leaving his camera behind in favour of other media. Arden tries his talented hand at paintings, sculpture and mixed-media collages (“Help the Artists!,” pictured), exploring the notion of the voice through subtle art history and pop culture references.—Kristina Urquhart

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MONTE CLARK GALLERY 2339 Granville St. 604-730-5000. www.monteclarkgallery.com

Hot Dates: Eastside Culture Crawl

"River" by artist Afuwa

November 18 to 20

If your boots are made for walking, step out for this weekend festival as it kicks off its 15th year. Download a map from the Crawl’s website and get set to visit over 300 artists in their studios on this free, self-guided tour. You’ll see tons of local talent, including printmaker and painter Afuwa, whose work explores myth and identity (“River,” pictured). Better yet, you’ll have the chance to talk to these sculptors, jewellers, photographers and other visual artists to see what makes them tick.—Kristina Urquhart

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EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL (Nov 18-20). F 5 pm-10 pm, Sa-Su 11 am-6 pm. Printable map online. Free. 604-817-9130. www.eastsideculturecrawl.com

Hot Date: National Geographic’s Lenses of Wonder

National Geographic photographer Mattias Klum

NOVEMBER 1 & DECEMBER 6 Photographer and filmmaker Mattias Klum guides you through some of the Earth’s natural wonders in Being There: On Expedition with National Geographic. Marvel at Klum’s still images and high-definition video from Botswana’s Okavango Delta and the rainforests of Southeast Asia. Then dive into the blue at Ocean Soul: Photographing the Underwater World for National Geographic and discover the vast, veiled world that exists beneath the waves. Brian Skerry leads you through the glacial waters of the North Atlantic and the coral reefs of the central Pacific. Roy Thomson Hall, 8 p.m., $39.50 to $59.50; visit here or call 416-872-4255 to purchase tickets.

Hot Entertainment: Bright Lights

Vancouver's neon signs of yore

In the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, Vancouver streets were awash in neon signs advertising everything from tailors and funeral parlours to hotels and beauty salons. Neon Vancouver/Ugly Vancouver (opening Oct. 13 at the Museum of Vancouver) captures some of these favourite signs from the city’s past and also includes urban photography by Walter Griba.—Sheri Radford

More information:

Museum of Vancouver

Tu-Su 10 am-5 pm, Th to 8 pm. $12, s/s $10, 5-17 $8, under 5 free.

1100 Chestnut St. in Vanier Park. 604-736-4431.

www.museumofvancouver.ca

Travel Tuesday Q&A with Photojournalist Kirsten Murphy

Kirsten Murphy is a self-taught photojournalist based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. She travels around the north as a regular contributor for Up Here magazine and a sometime host and producer for CBC. A recent trip to Ivvavik National Park in the Yukon was featured in the Globe and Mail. Her work has also appeared in Maclean’s and the National Post, in Frommer’s guidebooks and on CBC.ca. She’s excited about working on a book about northern dogs and a photo essay about emerging chicken farms in Hay River, Northwest Territories. (more…)

Mimic a DSLR with These iPhone Accessories

By Carissa Bluestone

If you’ve started to view your iPhone as an SLR that also texts, you probably have a half-dozen apps that work around the phone’s limitations to mimic a real camera’s capabilities. But to turn your iPhone into a “real camera” you need hardware, too. We would love to see the Leica i9 concept, which encases an iPhone in a Leica camera body for the best of both worlds, become a reality. But until that happens, you can rig a better camera with the help of a few basic accessories: (more…)

5 Smartphone Photo Tips

An Instagram-ed image of Montreal's Tavern Le Normand. Photo by misspixels

Nothing beats the heft of an SLR lens or the cool of an artfully beat-up camera bag, but most trip photography these days consists of hastily snapped iPhone photos. A series of graphs on Flickr show that (a) the majority of the site’s photos are uploaded via the iPhone, not with digital SLRs or point-and-shoots, and (b) the iPhone beats the pants off of all other camera phones. Plus, the iPhone 5 is likely to arrive in the next few weeks; specs to be announced on Tuesday.

But no matter which operating system you pray to, there are some common tips for mastering smartphone photography:

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Take Better Photos with National Geographic’s New Book

By Carissa Bluestone

Eighteen megapixels, four lenses and thousands of bucks later and your travel photos still lack pizzazz? You might want to preorder National Geographic’s newest book, Complete Photography, due out October 14. The hardcover contains 408 pages of advice from long-time National Geographic shooters and is splashed with several hundred of the magazine’s most arresting photographs. The tone isn’t terribly engaging, and advice like, “Photograph food near a window, if possible, where the soft, indirect light makes it look the most natural,” won’t impress experienced shooters. But the rest of us will find plenty of insider tips covering everything from camera basics to the peculiarities of underwater photography, all simply and clearly laid out. National Geographic is meting out some teaser tips on its blog leading up to publication.

For more travel-photo tips, check out Stuck in Customs, the most popular travel photography blog on the interweb, and Burn magazine, by Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey.

Hot Art: Rural Arts

"Watching the Men Watch the Horses" by Earl Graham.

To October 2 From a life-like painting of colony farming to stained glasswork depicting a grain elevator to stylized portraiture, the Manitoba Arts Networks’ 9th Annual Rural and Northern Art Show highlights the talented skill and diversity of work by rural Manitoba artists. Paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, stained glass and more are displayed on the 2nd floor at Pavilion Gallery Museum. The prize-winning works are selected from each region of Manitoba in six annual juried art shows. At the Conservatory, the Foyer Gallery showcases work by emerging youth artists in Manitoba. 55 Pavilion Crescent, Assiniboine Park, 927-6000.