Thank you Scott and Team! I hope that you’ll plan another Photowalk event in the future.

That said, if you’d read my post, I have no problem with multiple walks per city. I applaud it even. I would have been a multiple for my large city (not N.Y.). My point was, why not another for my city? If you look at the list for multiple cities, the criteria for awarding multiple walks was not contingent on the fact that the first or other walks were all or nearly full, nor could it be contingent on the city size (Des Moines?).

Like many others, when we “registered” for walk leadership, and received the confirmation link email we were registered, I was expecting a followup email with directions on setting things up. I had a wonderful route selected, made arrangements with the restaurant, and had a very good start on attendees. It really was disappointing to let them know “not this event”. Our walk will be carried off, but not tied in with this.

Any conjecture on your, mine or anyone else’s part about what constituted “approval” is merely peanut-gallery speak. Only Scott can answer the question(s): How many walk leaders were “Registered” prior to the deadline who were not “Approved”, and why were we not approved (if a global why can be applied, or if it was on an individual basis)? And why was he here telling people to register for walk leadership on the last day (Friday the 8th)?

Or as Frédéric put it simply: “Is it possible to get an explanation?”

So hopefully this is true for everyone else in this situation also.

Thanks NAPP and Scott for straightening it all out. Once again NAPP has come through like the great people they are.

I hope everyone has a great time on their walks!

Sorry, but that comment wasn’t intended to help resolve your issue, so I can understand why you would not view it as being helpful. There have been a lot of people that haven’t been completely happy with some of the growing pains that have been experienced from this event. Scott helped me out with an issue I had with my walk and it was more an acknowledgement of appreciation to him more than anything else.

I am in no way associated with the organization running this event, other than I am happen to be NAPP member, but I can maybe help you understand a few of the decisions that were made as I observed them while they occurred. This is the reason for 3 walks in Manhattan, 2 in Brooklyn and 2 in Washington DC. My walk was the first walk that was posted for Manhattan. It hit 50 people within the first day and I received several inquiries personally to make exceptions to the 50 person limit. Scott had already anticipated the demand in NYC and had two more walk leaders lined up, and a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and Shawn and Lesa King of Your Mac Life Radio’s walk in Greenwich Village were added. Those too filled up within a few days. Then the Central Park walk was added and filled up as well.

I have to say that having considered and scouted several of the same locations for those four walks in planning my walk, each presents a very different view and feel to NYC.

As for the Coney Island’s walk, which like the others was added very early in the process, it is in a world all its own. While geographically it is part of New York City, it is a completely unique experience to the other four NYC walks. It is Beach and Boardwalk and Amusement Parks.

As for Washington DC, there was initially a mix up and Jeff Revell’s walk was posted twice, once as Washington DC and once as Alexandria. They were intended to be the same walk, but before Scott’s team was able to correct the double posting, over 90 people had signed up. Jeff and Scott made the decision that the only fair thing to do for those people was to host a morning and an evening walk, so Jeff basically volunteered to doubled his workload in order to be fair to the people that signed up for those walks.

I realize that this doesn’t solve your problem or give you the explanation that you seem to be looking for, but hope it provide a little perspective as to the enormity of planning this event.

I do have to say that I don’t quite agree with you as to the approval / rejection aspect of this event. While I understand your point and I am sure that the legal agreement and terms of service state otherwise, as a walk leader, you are representing Scott and his company on the ground, while not officailly, at least in spirit. I think that the vetting process is necessary to make sure that those that are ultimately running the walk are confortable that their local representative will embody what they hope is the spirit of the event, and to be fair, I am of the honest opinion that you should try not to begrudge that choice, whatever their selection criteria were.

Hang in there Champ!

I saw that the town of Tom Price in Western Australia made it on the cities list. I’ve spent a lot of time on that region and although there moght only be a handful of photogs on the day, the scenery around the Pilbera will amazing.

Well done on organising the event, maybe you should make it annual??

The F.A.Q. for the Photowalk say that the photos will be posted to a Flickr group for judging. I never use Flickr because I object to their Terms of Service that I must agree to, as well as the fact that they strip copyright and IPTC metadata from uploaded photos. Can I participate in the competition without having to have my images hosted on Flickr?

Dave

– Wade