In April, I collaborated with the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI), a Network of Centres of Excellence, to showcase the talents of the many Canadian researchers in photonics research. I worked specifically with Dr. Michael Crowna and Dr. Darren Kraemer and shot them in the photos released in the Spring 2012 magazine edition. Crowna and Kraemer did their research on the dynamics of water at the University of Toronto, which later became a start-up called Attodyne. The CIPI Grant in which they applied for at the start of the business, provided them funding to push their technological research, hired expertise in the field and developed effective marketing strategies.