Georgetown Delivers a Picture Perfect Day
Posted by jeff in Photowalk, tags: Georgetown, Photowalk
If I had to write a script as to how a photowalk should go from start to finish, I would need look no further than today as a near perfect example. We had the weather, we had the location, and we had great photographers to document it all.
I would like to start off by thanking everyone that turned out this morning in Georgetown for showing up and really making the photowalk a great event. Although we lost some folks by the end, we started with close to 50 people. I am including some of the children that were there because they were either shooting their own shots, or posing for others. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that photographers from as far away as West Virginia and Pennsylvania made the early morning trek just to be a part of our walk. I would like to say that I have a bounty of images from the photowalk but truthfully, I spent most of my time just enjoying all of the great conversations I had with everyone. We talked Nikon and Canon, and Mac and PC, and View Cameras and Point and Shoots, Lightroom and Photoshop, and on and on.
During one such conversation, a fellow photographer said something that really summed up the whole photowalk experience for me. He said that he participates in lots of online forums and reads blogs and generally does the whole online thing, but he never gets to talk photography, one on one with other photographers. It’s that face to face that really makes the photowalk so much more than just a shooting event. It’s also a community event where everyone can share their ideas and opinions with people that share the same passion. That being said, I would like to thank everyone that came out and socialized with me today. I had an absolute blast!
And just as a little aside, while eating lunch today, a large group of us were discussing all the hoopla over tripods, including Scott Kelby’s recent tales of shooting in NYC. We all shared our stories of being chased off from the many tripod-unfriendly monuments in the DC area. Generally we get it and it’s just something we have come to live with, even if we don’t like it. So after lunch we headed back down to Water St. so I could retrieve my tripod and find a spot for our group shot. We picked out a pretty non-de-script building with a short wall up against the sidewalk that offered some good light and enough space for us to shoot a few frames. No sooner had I extended all three legs of the tripod when a pair of “suits” came rushing from the building. They were saying something about private property, “can’t shoot here”, blah, blah, blah. We all just broke out laughing and politely moved our party down the street. So here are the fruits of our nefarious act. If I were a security guard I probably would have run us off too, I mean just look at how menacing we are, especially those two in the stroller. 
If you would like to see images taken during the photowalk, head on over to our Flickr group and check them out (link).
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My husband and I had a great time on our first PhotoWalk — couldn’t have asked for a nicer group of people or a better day. A very nice older guy stopped me on M St and asked what we were doing. When I told him, he turned to his family and said “Maybe we could get this in Montreal!” Then he was concerned that his camera wasn’t fancy enough — told him it was more about the walking and taking pictures than about the camera, and that I’ll bet photowalking has already come to Montreal.
Thanks for a perfect morning! –Susan