Saturday July 18 is World Wide Photowalk day. Thousands of images will be taken on the day and uploaded to Flickr with an overall winner chosen by photographer Scott Kelby.
Some of these are booked up (the maximum on a photowalk is being limited to 50. (Try herding a group of ADD afflicted photographers dawdling with a camera in one hand and traffic rushing towards them. The 50 limit is probably a touch much). But if your nearest one is full, you can set up your own (New York has at least five at the moment.)
Then again, meeting a bunch of fellow photographers (or messers with cameras) and wandering around with them is a lot of fun. You’ll pick up things. You’ll also discover views of your city or town that you haven’t considered before.
To be seen by the organisers upload your photos and tag them with “skpwalkcork” (or skpwalkdublin or what ever is listed in the instructions for your intended photowalk. The SK stands for Scott Kelby.
Because you never know what you might see on the streets.
How does September 20th strike you as the day to take all the Pink Portraits for October, and try to get the models to show up at various points in various cities?
Does the day suit most of you? Since I would like to have you working in teams, having and agreement on date, time and locations are important.
I suspect I really need to make a site for this too…
First off, Thanks to Donncha for arranging the Photowalk in Doneraile on Saturday. OnIy only got around to uploading my photos last night. The photo above is of a little baby crow. Whom we sort of hassled.
Which is a problem when it comes to Photomeets and Photowalks. And slightly impromptu events and meetings, as the initial invite is sent out via a Facebook invitation. I sort of went off it in the flood of applications, and I’m not surprised that LinkedIn is getting a flood of new users.
The one thing I loved was the friend feed. The quick status updates of “Bob is arriving at three” and “Alice is looking forward to the meeting” and “Eve is still listening”. Of course these are the essential parts of Twitter or Jaiku, or even FriendFeed.com (not the same thing, but I’m intrigued by their rooms to abate noise).
The main use of Facebook I’m doing is trying to track someone I don’t know down and contact them, or as I mentioned, meet-ups (as opposed to Tweet-ups or Meet-kus).
Why all this, it’s because I know about the next photowalk this weekend, (and yes I’m grateful that it e-mails out all messaes and the message contents now) but I have no idea if I’m going yet (and won’t know until that morning). I just don’t want to have to log in to FaceBook to say so.
As this pops up, I’ll probably be on my way back from 3D Camp, or encamped in a crowd of rugby supporters (how bad) watching Munster do its thing.
This is another ToeJam shot (oddly I’m still sieving through the shots from the walk part of the photowalk), and I just liked the combination…
If you look behind these two gentlemen (responsible for the hat sale) you’ll see a gap in the wall. I went back there to discover a wonderland of discarded items. And the remains of a small fire, possibly to make more room in the wonderland (well hinterland actually).
And in the remains of the fore, were the cards and the king crisps packet. Almost a pity they weren’t the came suit. Still, a pair of kings isn’t that bad a hand.
It’s a reflection of the group while the poor guy tried to herd us cats in to a line. And cat herding is hard. The pair in the shot are Alexia and MacAWilliams.
This is the effect from travelling halfway across the country to meet a bunch of photobloggers for a photowalk. Or in this case, it began with a trip to the ToeJamcar boot sale at the back of the George Bernard Shaw pub in Portabello.
Which means that I’m now the proud owner of more books, a CD, the “best of” Mongrel collection and a new laptop. Actually an old heavy laptop which drove me to do silly things. It was going for €10, and at the moment it’s hard disc is getting a little TCL (via Spinrite) to make sure that it’s working. If anything interesting shows up, I’ll blog it.
I will admit to a little camera envy. Mines small enough to fit in my (admittedly big) hands. Rather than the large lensed creatures the others were using. However something that fits in the pocket attracts a lot less attention.
