Worldwide Photo Walk Oct 13th

[niener]

Anyone else heard of this? http://worldwidephotowalk.com/

There's this great photographer named Scott Kelby (he wrote the book on photoshop, literally, and he has tons of teaching videos/articles/etc floating around on the web) who started a worldwide photo walk 5 years ago which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like -- people get together in cities all over the world on a designated day (Saturday, Oct 13th this year) and just walk around the city and take photos together. I've never done one before but I just signed up to do the walk in my city this year. It sounds like a great way to meet other photographers in the city and just spend a fun couple of hours shooting whatever catches your eye. There are nearly 23,000 people signed up for this year's walks in 1200 locations around the world. Each walk is about 2 hours long and limited to 50 people, and it's open to all experience levels (though most people come with a dSLR I think). Anyway, I'm pretty excited about it, if for no other reason that to meet other picture takers in the area. Should be fun!

[alison]

Dh is doing it here! He loves it, and the leader is apparently someone whose work he admires. So he's all googly-eyed.

[alison]

He did one in SF when we lived there, and had a great time.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

I just signed up for ours with a few of my photo friends

[niener]

GRU, did you go yesterday??

Alison, did your DH go?

Ours was a lot of fun! It was downtown and I'm am not a street photographer by any stretch of the imagination, so I was a bit out of my element the whole morning but it was nice to just walk around and shoot. I think I spent half the morning explaining to bystanders why the heck 30+ photographers were wandering around shooting everything . But I met some really nice folks, many of whom are in a local camera club and invited me to join so I think I'm going to go to their next meeting and see what it's all about. I googled a few people I met after the walk and there are some *very* talented photographers in our group so I'm under no illusion that I might win our competition, but choosing just one photo to submit is really hard! I got it down to 7, then to 4, and now I'm down to 2. Eeny meeny miny mo...

[GreyhoundsRUs]

Didn't go. Pouring rain, power out There's always next year, right?

[alison]

Dh didn't go! It was pouring here, too, and the walk took place on a ferry.

[niener]

Aw bummer! We're having the opposite problem -- I finally had to pull out my sprinkler this morning because it's been so long since it's rained here.

[niener]

Holy shit I won!!!!!!!! I never win anything!!

I won best picture for my city, which means I get a copy of Scott Kelby's Lightroom 4 book and am entered into the grand prize contest (I'll be one of about 1000 entries so I'm not exactly holding my breath for that one, haha).

Here's a copy of the picture I submitted in case y'all are curious (I think you can click on it to make it bigger).

UrbanJungleGym.jpg

So freaking cool!!

[alison]

Awesome! Congratulations! I love the photo.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

Awesome. Love the texture and composure and the unexpected fur ball

[scrub-jay]

That is awesome, as is the pic! Huge congratulations!!

[SuzySunshine]

Yay - very cool pic!

[MsSassyBaskets]

Congrats! That is so cool! Tell us more about the pic -- where and how you took it, and if you did any editing?

[corn poffi]

Awesome! Great photo!