The Scott Kelby Photo Walk is coming up on October 3!

[thewayne]

Wow, it's that time of the year again! This is an international event with over 700 locations as of right now and over 10,000 people signed up to do it! It is also a fund raiser for the Springs of Hope Orphanage in Kenya, a small donation of $1 is asked but not required. Sometimes a fee is required if a walk is taking place in a zoo or a National park, and you can get a t-shirt for a small fee. There is a photo contest that you can participate in that has a lot of spiffy prizes, up to and including a Canon 5D Mark III! Sometimes local walks also have raffles for locally-donated items.

Each Photo Walk is limited to 50 people, but some larger cities have multiple walks going on, so frequently it's not a problem. So sign up soon! It's a tremendous amount of fun wandering around for a couple of hours with a gaggle of photographers, talking shop, discussing composition. Good way to give your eye a refresh by shooting in an area that you might not otherwise go to. And your skill level doesn't matter! I saw people there with $3,000 cameras, I also saw people with point and shoots.


Last year I participated in the walk in El Paso, Texas and had a great time, even if I had to get up at something like 4am to get down there. The organizer partnered with the Mexican Consulate for a showing, which was quite cool. I entered two prints in the show and get some very favorable comments, that show wasn't free but my prints were printed on a very nice metallic paper and framed and are now in my office at the school.


Sometimes you may need to look at your nearest major city, I found their search engine to be a bit... inconvenient.


Scott Kelby Photo Walk

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I see there's one group that'll be terrorising Chelsea, which could be quite good fun. Whether or not I'll go along.. probably depends on how the coming week or two goes, which will see my fortunes either leap forward into a wonderful new reality, or hurtle into the mountainside. =:/

I tried printing a few of my shots with Miller's pearlescent (Fuji?) paper, which gave some quite an interesting effect. ^_^ One option I'd love to offer, if I can raise Lapinity to some level of public consciousness (ie buying stuff), are actual metal prints, actually printed onto thin sheets. Something like Momentary on that kind of process would probably be pretty damned cool. ^_^

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Chelsea would be a great place to shoot! Maybe one of these days I'll get to tromp about and fill up a memory card there.

That's one thing that I really loved about going to Germany. I've lived my entire life in the Southwest about 100 miles from the border with Mexico, and that's with three different addresses. I've frequently vacationed down here, and it just doesn't get my photographic juices flowing, if you know what I mean.

I guess we sometimes crave change. Germany provided that, especially Dresden. And the El Paso event last year was lots of fun. They changed locations: apparently for the last few years they went to the convention center area, about half a mile from the border. This year it's still near the border but it's a different area around a historic church. They also have a walk on the south side of the border, but I'm not sure that I'm brave enough to wander around Tijuana with expesive camera equipment.