UPDATE: The first London PhotoWalk took place on April 5th, 2009. To find out the results CLICK HERE.

It’s “official.” After a week of community input and hearing what everyone has to say about where and when they would like to participate in a PhotoWalk something has now been “scheduled”.

After taking into consideration the input that people gave in regards to time, place etc. it seemed as if the following was the most appropriate for London’s “first” (?) Group/”Official” (?) PhotoWalk.

Date: Sunday April 5th, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM
Place: East London
Meeting Place: East Village Coffee House

It seemed for the majority of people who submitted their preference that the weekends/Sunday was the most appropriate time of the week and although this does not fit with everyone’s schedule I think that it is the best suited compromise.

As for the location, Randy had what I think was a great suggestion of going down to East London and photographing that neighbourhood (primarily the commercial area I assume) before it becomes a pile of rubble due to all of the development work that will soon be underway.

As I suggestion perhaps we could all meet at the East Village Coffee House located just west of Aeolian Hall on the south side of Dundas Street. I’ve heard nothing but good things about this Coffee House and there is even ample parking close by (see provided map) and it’s on a bus route. If I am ambitious that day I might even head out earlier to grab some breakfast in East London.

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As for the weather and the role it will play I cannot say but I think that is something that we will just have to “play by ear”.

I think it would be “cool” in the end if we could all share the photos we take with each other (and the public) using one of the popular photo sharing sites. May I suggest Flickr? Not only is is free, it provides possibly one of the best implementations of social networking of any other service on the web. We could possibly tag the photos with: #londonont #lopw and #eastlondonont so that they are easy to find and searchable by all. This is just an idea (that others raised as well) but I think if we are going to do this we try to get everyone using one common platform. Just an idea.

This has been also beenwill be posted over at http://www.photowalklist.com/. and I will update this post (with a note) when it has been added to that site.

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This post was originally posted on From My Bottom Step: a local source of news about London, Ontario. For the original article please CLICK HERE.

UPDATE: The first London PhotoWalk took place on April 5th, 2009. To find out the results CLICK HERE.

After a kind offer from a local Twitter-er to help me improve what photography skills I may have, and the interest of other Twitter-ers to also join up sometime to go on a PhotoWalk I began to think. I began to think of how great it would be if some type of formal PhotoWalk could be organized right here in the Forest City that would allow for members of the community to come together and snap some shots of the city.

I got to thinking that this would be a great opportunity for anyone interested or involved in photography (or even those that just want to be involved in a community social event) to get together, take some shots and learn from each other, whether it is learning about a new technique, a new location to go and shoot at, or just to meet new people in the community. This could be an opportunity for people wanting to get into photography to come out and get exposure from people that have been in that same position in the past.

I know that in the past a few local photographers who have connected though Twitter and the New Media Meetup (aka Geek Dinner) have tried to organize a small photowalk, but because of scheduling and other responsibilities things just didn’t work out. I thought it would be great if all of us could organize something together in order to assemble a semi-large amount of people to head out together. I figured what better place to do this than through From My Bottom Step.

Perhaps individuals would like to get together on a Saturday afternoon, or perhaps during a weeknight, some might even walk to incorporate a London PhotoWalk into the Friday night before or Sunday morning after PodCamp London (even if you aren’t heading to pclo09) I don’t know.

What I wanted to do was present the idea, get feedback from those that would be interested, get some suggestions for a date, time and place and see if there are other comments or suggestions that could make a Forest City Photowalk happen.

What do you all think? When would be convenient for you? Where would you want to head to take photographs?

Lets get some ideas flowing about how we car organize something. I’m all ears.
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<i><p style=”text-align: center;”><span style=”color: #888888;”>This post was originally posted on <a href=”http://frommybottomstep.com”>From My Bottom Step</a>: a local source of news about London, Ontario.  For the original article please <a href=”http://www.frommybottomstep.com/2009/03/22/london-photowalk/”>CLICK HERE</a>.</span></p></i>