My First Photowalk

I give Scott Kelby full credit for energizing the global photographic community to get out and take pictures on the same day. It was a fabulous concept. The obvious result of his global photowalk was to get our community out and about, taking pictures with each other. You can look at Scott's Photowalk posts here. Meeting new people and starting friendships. What I hope is a secondary result of eight thousand plus photographers with DSLR's out on the street is to demonstrate that photography does not equate to terrorism.

However we have been photo-walking for years. Here are a couple of images that I took when on a family venture to Chicago in July 2007. We had family in from California , and Las Vegas and were wondering around the downtown area. I had my EOS 400D with two lenses, the 17-55 kit lens and an EF 70-300 IS f/4-5.6 USM lens. Walking and talking with family that had an agenda did not mix very well with city photography. It is not just a stop-shoot-walk deal. It is more of a stop-shoot-look-wait-shoot-look-shoot-shoot-shoot-walk deal. Needless to say it was not long before the group had moved beyond view and around the corner. They were gone. This actually made it more pleasurable from a photographic stand in that I was no longer feeling like I was holding up the group. I would meet them when we had pizza later.

This is what I call my Stop and Go images. I am not sure how efficient it was for sequencing traffic but the entire row of stop lights changed at the same time. It did make an interesting set of images though. The specs: EOS 400D, EF70-300 IS f4-5.6 USM, 300mm, 1/250 at f/5.6.

Hey... Go out and have a great weekend... Doug