WWPW Was a great success, review this post for the instructions on where to put your photos!

With just 2 day to go before Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photo Walk, we have a couple of reminders and pointers for you!

Registration:

First if you did not get registered on http://worldwidephotowalk.com/london-on-ca don’t worry still come out Saturday morning. Those who are registered on the WWPW Site please log in and review the videos posted there. These videos have instructions on how to upload your photos to be eligible for the WWPW prize.

Photos:

For those persons and everyone else: After the walk be sure to upload your photos to our Flick’r Group. If you don’t have a Flick’r account, it is free to sign up and free to join the group. Flirck’r Is FREE!

Walk Details:

Make sure you review the post with the Walk details, and ask questions if you are unsure as to where you need to go. Fell free to call my cell (James Wilkinson) at 519-854-1563 the morning of the walk if you get lost.

What to Bring:

• Your Self. Bring your friends and family too!
• Your Camera of course.
• Extra batteries, cleaning supplies, and other camera gear etc.
• Sneakers or Comfortable Walking Shoes. We will be walking 2.5KM, and possible doing a little bit of off path walking
• Dress for the weather. We will be walking Rain or Shine, so bring a plastic bag and umbrella if it looks like rain.
• Water – We don’t want you getting dehydrated. There are not many fountains on our walk (if any)
• Money – We will be meeting up at a restaurant/bar after the walk to give out prizes and have some fun.(Minors Welcome)

What to Do:

• Plan to show up around 9:30-9:50. We will be doing a group photo before everyone parts and gets all sweaty.
• Be Safe! and watch out for others safety too! It is easy to be distracted by the scenery while taking a photo, and you don’t realize your walking backwards into traffic!
• For those going on the route of James Wilkinson’s please be advised that there is one stop that those who would like to do so can join me in walking down a steep but short hill to the shore of the Thames. Those who wish not too there is a clearing with a higher perspective of the spot the climbers are going down too.

Please be advised that Scott Kelby, the NAPP, and London Photowalk and all it’s participants, sponsors etc. Are NOT responsible for any injuries, theft or other acts that you may incur before, during, and after the walk. YOU are soley responsible for your self. We will have some small bandages for anyone who needs them.

What Else:

• Everyone is eligible for the door prizes our sponsors have graciously donated. Please take some time to read up on our sponsors here on the blog.
• Please be safe, and don’t drink and drive!

Thank You:

Finally we would like to thank everyone that is planing on coming out. You all are now a part of history. The WWPW is the largest social photographic event ever held in the world! So lets make history together and have a great fun filled day!

See you all Saturday 9:30AM – Pavilion at 1 Dundas St. London, Ontario, CANADA

At 1am this morning the hosting provider that LOPW was one, was hacked. This resulted in a total wipe of the files and databases. This prompted me to change hosting providers. I can not but my trust in servers that are being hacked by simple viruses. So welcome to the new LOPW!

Back up and “Walking”! The site is exactly as it was as of Yesterday. Some comments have been lost, so sorry for any inconvenience. I would like to thank Dreamhost.com our new GREEN! Hosting provider for promptly setting up the new hosting access, where I then took ove3r to get everything back online.

Once again sorry for any inconvenience and have a great day! Hope to see you out at our next walk!

London Photo Walk has been approached by a community group in hopes that we can help support them with a youth photography project that is to take place this summer.

Christine Li, a Youth Outreach Worker with the Glen Cairn Community Resource Centre is currently working on organizing a youth photography project based upon the highly successful PhotoVoice project.

For those not familiar with the PhotoVoice project, the main mission is to bring about positive social change for marginalized communities through providing them with photographic training with which they can advocate, express themselves and generate income, ((Mission Statement via PhotoVoice.org)) the GCCRC is looking to start a project with similar ambitions in the London neighbourhood of Glen Cairn.

Titled the Speaking Lens, this project hopes to encourage and help local youth identify both the strengths and weaknesses of their community in order to help celebrate the neighbourhood they call home.  Along side of this celebration of community the project also aims to teach teens about basic photography and what “makes a good shot”. ((Christine, if I am way off or need to add something to this description please let me know.))

What the Glen Cairn Community Resource Centre and Christine Li are looking for are the donations of roughly 10 point and shoot digital cameras that the teens engaged in the Speaking Lens project can use in order to be fully immersed in the project.  Fancy cameras are not needed, simply basic point and shoot digital cameras (that still work) that you may no longer have a need for.

I know personally that I have an old digital camera sitting at home that does not get enough use by myself and would be better off in the hands of someone who could do meaningful work with it.  Once I can dig it up I will be sure to pass it on the the Glen Cairn Community Resource Centre so that this project can be one camera closer to happening.

If you do have a camera you would like to donate I would be more than happy to meet up with you to pick it up on behalf of the Glen Cairn Community Resource Centre, or perhaps you would like to come out for the next London Photo Walk and we can meet then.

To donate a camera please contact Kevin Van Lierop at:

Kevin Van Lierop
vanlierop (dot) kevin (at) gmail (dot) com

For more information about the Speaking Lens project please see the following video. ((The video is dated from about a month ago but the information is still very much relevant.))

Video is courtesy of Greg Fowler and From My Bottom Step