Join Howard on a Photo Walk...
Q. What is a Photo Walk?
A. It’s a social photography event where photographers get together (usually in a downtown area or trendy section of town) to walk around, shoot photos, and generally have fun with other photographers.
Q. When is the 5th Annual Worldwide Photo Walk?
A. This year’s Worldwide Photo Walk will take place on Saturday, October 13.
Meeting Location & Time
190 S Broad St, Milford, CT- United States
Date: Saturday, October 13, 2012
Time: 08:00am - 10:00am
Location Details: Gazebo on the Green
After the walk, meet at: Cafe Atlantique. Corner River St and Daniel St
Q. How do I sign up to participate in a Photo Walk?
A. Go to the
Find A Walk page, and search for the location where you’d like to participate in a Photo Walk. Click on the Photo Walk you’d like to sign up for, and you should be taken to its location page. Once you’re here, you should see information about the leader and the walk, including a map showing the exact location. Just above this map will be a button that says “Join This Walk.” Just click that, follow the instructions, and you should be all set! If you don’t see any Photo Walks happening in your area, keep checking back. New ones are being added every day!
Q. Is there a fee to participate this year?
A. Once again it’s free there is no fee to join this year’s Photo Walk just come and have a ball!
Q. How many cities participated last year, and how many photographers did the Photo Walk that day?
A. We had over 1000 Photo Walks and over 28,000 people who participated around the world last year! That’s a HUGE leap from the 236 locations and 8,324 people we had the first year.
Q. What happens when a walk fills up?
A. It’s full =)
Q. How many is full?
A. Photo Walks are limited to 50 photographers. If that doesn’t sound like a lot, you haven’t seen 50 photographers coming down the sidewalk at the same time, and later all converging at once on a restaurant or pub. It’s more like a scary bike gang (except without the bikes, or gang, or scariness).
Q: Is there an age restriction? Are children allowed to participate?
A. While we do not have an age restriction, we thought it should be up to each walk leader to decide whether they want to allow children on their walk or not. Check with your leader to see if children will be allowed on their walk.
Q. So are you going to try and work some angle so that Orphanage in Kenya gets something out of this?
A. Ahh, you know us too well. Last year Scott was trying to come up with a good tie-in, but luckily one of his blog readers, Rob from
Towner Jones Photography, came up with a great idea: we created an official Worldwide PhotoWalk T-shirt. We’re doing it again this year, and 100% of the profits from the sale of any of these t-shirts will go to feeding the kids at the
Springs of Hope, Kenya Orphanage. We think it’s a great idea, and we’re so grateful that Rob came up with it! The online store will be up very soon!
Q. What are the rules for pictures I can submit to the contest?
A. We’ve had a ton of questions each year about this. Most recently, we’ve had lots of questions about model shoots during the walk. Here’s how we feel about it: you can shoot models as long as it happens on the walk route, during the official 2-hour (approx.) walk time chosen by your walk leader. Also, you can use Adobe Photoshop to your heart’s content, as long as everything in your photo was taken during the official walk hours along on the walk route. You can’t go back at sunset and shoot it in better light, and so on. Also, you can’t add a better sky that you shot in that same location on some other day. Basically, whatever you submit, it has to be taken during the official walk you participated in. You can shoot panos, HDR, B&Ws, you can create collages, you can process them with Instagram on your iPhone. I don’t care; it just has to be all shot during your 2-hour walk. If you don’t agree with the rules, no sweat whatsoever… just don’t enter the competition portion of the walk.
Q. Is there a Grand Prize?
A. You betcha!! Details of the prize packages can be found in our
Prizes page (Top prize is awarded by Scott to the single best overall photo taken that day, from all the Photo Walk locations around the world).
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