Saturday was the Scott Kelby annual photowalk. Each July, this Photoshop maven asks nearly 30,000 photographers around the world to work in groups of fifty each to walk a mile or two along a defined route and photograph everything in sight between 9:30 A.M. and noon. We chose Danbury, CT, this year, a largely ethnic community that was in sharp contrast to the very upscale New Canaan, CT, that we photographed in 2009.
As we ventured out, we dutifully followed our leader, but as I am inclined to do, I found too many things to photograph and fell behind a few times. It's a great exercise that we try to do ourselves at least once a week anyway, but this one weekend out of the year, we do it with 48 other people locally that we otherwise would probably never meet, and of course, 30,000 that we know we'll never meet.
It's easy to tell who is on one of these walks for the first time as they arrive with tripods, backpacks and every lens they own. It's fun to watch, especially on hot days like Saturday. One woman carried an impressive, but heavy, tripod during the entire walk and offered it to everyone to use. Sadly there were no takers and she carried it all the way, stopping occasionally to lean on it.
As for me, two cameras, two lenses and no tripod as there are always mail boxes, parking meters, lamp posts, and stair rails that work just as well. Lois carried one camera and lens along with a bottle of water half way through, but between the two of us, we captured about 400 images in less than two miles. It was a great day.
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