Photo Walk? What the heck is that?

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.

This year on July 18, Scott Kelby’s 2nd Annual Photo Walk takes place. Groups in cities around the world will be taking place for a 2 hour walk on this date. The response in Edmonton has been excellent so far with the first group filling up in about a week. So I’ve gone ahead and registered Edmonton’s 2nd Worldwide Photo Walk group! We’ve received a great response from our Flickr groups, hoping to find people outside of Flickr as well. We welcome photographers of all levels – amateur and professional – with any type of gear – P&S, SLR, dSLR, film, anything!

The anticipated start time for this walk will be 11:00am and will end at 1:00pm to keep within the 2 hour time format of the Photo Walk. I’ll be scouting out locations that will have enough room for us all to “invade” after the walk to chat more and get to know each other.

The planned starting location for this walk will be at the Shaw Conference Centre but could change so watch this space for updates. I’m planning a walk throughout the downtown area starting at the core and heading up Jasper Ave a bit and back down further west. If anyone has a better idea, let me know!

Want to join in? Make sure you sign up on the Photo Walk site before it’s too late!