Worldwide Photowalk Update, #2
Aug. 8
5:44 am
Here’s some quick news about the August 23rd Worldwide PhotoWalk to celebrate the release of my new book, The Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers. (Preorder it now from Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com)
- Today is the final day to apply to be a Leader of a PhotoWalk for your city, and after today we won’t be adding any additional cities, so if you wanted to host one—-get right on it.
- I just did an interview about the PhotoWalk with Shawn King of the popular YourMacLife radio show (Shawn and Photoshop World Instructor Lesa Snider are hosting the New York, Greenwich Village walk), and you can listen to it: click here
(Note: Shawn asks me during the interview where in the world I would like to hold a photowalk if I could do one anywhere, and the answer I gave wound up revealing something very embarrassing about my past. Yikes!). - We now have more than 200 cities on board (I’ll release the final number of cities on Monday, as we’ll be approving the final group of cities this weekend).
- We’ve added a number of cities this week, all around the world, including:
- Beijing, China
- White River Junction, Vermont
- Coney Island, New York
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Fredericksburg, Virginia
- Mount Dora, Florida
- Vienna, Austria
- Ocean Springs, Mississippi
- Austin, Texas
- Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Trondheim, Norway
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Deep Creek Lake, Maryland
- Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Lake Tahoe, North Shore
If you haven’t signed up to be a part of a walk, make sure you check the current list of cities (click here), and see if there’s one near you. Hope you’ll be able to join the thousands of photographers around the world who have already signed up to be a part of this history-making event! 
Scott,
Although I volunteered via the website to lead a photowalk on the first day you announced it, my effort to do so apparently fell victum to the server crashes that occurred that day, a fact I didn’t discover until several days later when I called and your staff informed me that my confirmation response had not gone through. I had proposed two photowalk possiblities, one in nearby Boston (now covered and full up) and another here in my home town of Winchester, MA (a picturesque Boston suburb). Since you probably want to add new cities, not more walks in existing cities, I hope you will consider adding Winchester. If you wish to discuss, please e-mail me and I will provide you with my land line phone number. I live in a cell phone dead zone and thus my land line is the only viable option. Your website asked only for a cell phone number.
I hope you’ll consider Winchester as a city site. Please let me know one way or the other as I would like to participate, if not as a leader, as a general participant.
Emmet
Scott,
Thanks for the reply yesterday on the LR 2 issue. Knowing that you are a Christian as well and that we are not to trust people without verifying, backups, double checking, circumspection, etc…, I will wait and see what happens and perhaps next time wait a while before upgrading.
One thing you didn’t point out was that Matt K. pointed out in his killer tips on the adjustemnt brush that it was sluggish and he tossed that up to being a price to pay for that kind of control. So you might want to check the machine he was on during the demo.
Iron sharpening iron,
Pat
Hey Scott,
There is nothing to be embarassed about. It was 1980, Tony Manero was still the king of Brooklyn, ABBA wasn’t even retro then, Miami wasn’t even cool, just hot and I don’t mean HOT, and we were only up to Rocky II. And rockin’ the beat on a Greek Island, riding a motorcycle with the wind racing through your mullet must have have been the dream of every cool kid! (I was nine, I don’t think I realized the significance of rockin’ the beat on a Greek Island… I was just psyched that the US hockey team has the greatest thing since David whacked Goliath upside the head).
I’m a little jealous of Shawn and Lesa’s walk now. I thought I had the cool walk with Chinatown and Little Italy, but hiring a Literary Pub Crawl guide! That’s like cheating or something…
Sorry I don’t see any Caribbean Island in there
I applied for the Cayman Islands but so far have not got any more reply than the first one.
thanks
You made me regret going out on vacation, If I were at home I would have started added my country with you, damn, maybe next time, Lightroom3 book!
I’m quite looking forward to this. I’m confirmed for the DC walk in old town and can’t wait to meet those of you that will be there.
Hi Scott,
I want to thank you one more time for this great event and how much this mean for Photography and future Photowalks.
People here in Fort Lauderdale, Miami and West Palm Beaches are ready for this Photowalk. Every day I get few emails from Photographers asking me to join our group.
If anybody need some help with tips and etc, just let me know. OK?
Paulo Jordao
Hello Scott,
Unfortunately my walk leader cried off(Peterborough U.K.),so I intend to go it alone.Hope you all have a great day,and I look forward to seeing all the shots on Flickr.
Keep on shooting,
M.
Scott:
As you stated you will be the single judge to award the Grand World Photowalk prize to a single individual. Since you have limited the criteria to your single perception in reaching a conclusion in judging the winning shot, can you give us a hint of what you will be looking for in your search for the blue-ribbon prize-the rainbow leading to the pot of photographic dreams?
I think it would be only fair to state your personal preferences at this time in how you may judge the final winning shot. I say this since we are shooting for the biggest photographic prize in the world totaling over a thousand dollars and invaluable photographic equipment- this award has not comparison.
I came to think about this after seeing your photos and realizing the images you have shot over time.( do not favor head shots; people in landscapes and images that capture a personal emotional statement in a photo. ) :You love the outdoors; sport shots;flowers, and images that do not emphasize the human condition.
Therefore you do have a personal bias (as we all do) in selecting the final image.
What do you think Scott? This is a first of the largest digital photographic events culled world wide thru your coordination and you being the single judge to award one individual a major award not equaled by anyone else. What criteria are you setting in selecting the Grand photowalk award? If you only want me to know,ok,just send me an e-mail, I won’t say another word!
Hi Scott -
I enjoyed your interview with Lesa & Shawn. And, while I won’t be able to participate (bummer - not enough time to organize and arrange for Hartford) in one of the sanctioned photo walks, I will be wandering around the hills and shooting for kicks!
…Now if I could just get this tune out of my head, “Ahhhh, Ahhhh, Ahhh Ah - Stayin’ Alive, Stayin’ Alive…”
(Democritus - It’s a social event, the photo “art” contest tacked on evolved afterwards but you may be missing the spirit, spontaneity, subjectiveness and fun of the walk - enjoy, explore, share ideas and just shoot whatever your heart and creative juices steer you towards.)
Kind Regards,
Doug
Democritus,
I am not sure where you are getting your information from about Scott’s photographic preferences, but if you had click the link to his portfolio on the right column of this blogs home page you would have seen that 12 out of the 32 images that he displays are of people. That’s more than a third… He’s also has been a portrait and wedding shooter on top of everything else that he does… you can’t get much more human condition than that without being James Nachtwey.
I have to agree with Doug, this is a social event where the spirit is to get together with your with photographers in your area and spend time with them doing the thing that you supposedly love to do. Just go out and have a good time.
And really how can Scott tell what is going to strike his fancy until he has seen it. It could be a photo from the person who bought a point and shoot just for this event and is taking pictures for the first time that happens to take a picture of a child with an ice cream cone sharing a lick with his little sister that wins. The point is to go out and have fun, be relaxed and experience what is around you. If you are so focused on the prize, you will be so tense that you will probably miss most of what is going on around you and you will miss that kid with the ice cream cone.
Scott,
Wellington, New Zealand? I’ll be in Tauranga, New Zealand that day speaking at their professional photographer conference. They couldn’t move it or walk over a few cities?
It’s getting to be a small world, for sure.
Alessandro
Thank you Alessandro for your insight and advise.
I will be sure to not to “miss that kid with the ice cream cone” as I am wandering thru the streets of NYC on the Photowalk you suggested
would be a winning shot for the big prize!
I first thought the homeless guy begging on the street with his
outstretch hand would be a sure bet, but the small kid with the
spilled ice cream cone beats them all.
.
Democritus,
As I am leading the walk that you will be on I can say that I hope that we have a really fun walk planned for the Chinatown area with what already looks to be a very enthusiastic group of photographers. I have tried to plan the route with ample opportunities for photogenic subjects, but my main goal for the walk is that everyone has a good time and makes some new friends. There were a lot of variables that needed to be weighed and if you notice that one of the things that I needed to sacrifice was the quality of light. 11:00 AM to 1:00PM, if it isn’t an overcast day, is probably the toughest available light to work with, but those were the times that best fit trying to get 50 photographers through an area that can go from relatively deserted with no good subjects to nearly impassable in less than thirty minutes. Go early and there won’t be anything interesting to shoot. Go later, and you will be lucky if you have enough space around you to raise your camera to your eye, let alone take a nice picture.
So I hope that you will do me the favor of embracing the goal that you are there just to have fun while participating in this walk. The goal of the walk for you should be to make new friends and get one or two pictures that you are happy with. That should be more than enough of a reward for the day. The last thing you should feel is disappointed in the event if somebody else takes the prize winning photo, and with the number of people participating, it is more than likely going to be someone other than you or me, I bet that whatever photo it is, will be amazing.
Alessandro
Thank you again for your concern about my happiness and my ability to make new friends on your photowalk.
But I am now concerned that since my ability to make new friends really depends on sharing commonalities you approve of while I am photographing Chinatown in NYC,
I just don’t want to let you down.
You are so full of good advice -
I feel I may not live up to your parental expectations you have of me.
Please withdraw my name from your photowalk- so another person that fits your protective parental concerns can fully appreciate your unique control and brotherly concerns.
Hi scott.
Sorry to bug yo but I too sent in a request to lead a walk in Old Dhaka City, Bangladesh (ASIA) and have not heard anything..
You can understand that I will need some time to arrange this and its getting close to the dead line already.
Please could you somehow let me know what the outcome is..?
Dave
Scott,
I did apply to be a photo walk leader, and today checking if I was been confirmed I reallised that I did not click on the confirmation link so I don´t
know where my registration form went so I clicked on the link and this message appears Photo Walk Leader Request Confirmation
Sorry, that registration code is no longer valid. Or you have already been confirmed.
I need your help, and I wonder I We still can do something to undo my mistake and participate.
Sincerely yours
Fernando Franco
Hi Scott.
I have hit a brick wall with trying to create sub collections inside a collection in Lightroom 2.
In your blog a while ago you mentions this problem. Please can you tell me what I can do as a workaround until Adobe get their act together and make it like it was in Lightroom 1?
If it was’nt broken why fix it??
Thank you.
Dermot.
P.S. I would personally like invite you to our photo walk in Belfast but I imagine you will be busy that day??!
Hi Scott,
When do you promote the Adobe Lightroom in Jakarta?
Thank You,
Greg
Scott,
I’m having a terrible time trying to get back to my city page to give time and place for the Photo Walk. I’ve emailed from the website and to LeAnn McDonald: no response yet. When I click on the “forgot password” link, my email address is not recognized.
HELP!!!
Ron