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Join fellow photographers on a photowalk of the streets of Gettysburg PA. We will be meeting at the tour bus parking lot on Baltimore Street (across from the Gettysburg National Cemetery.) We will be meeting at 10:00AM and the walk should take about two hours.

The route is about 2 miles long and we will be walking downtown Gettysburg and a loop through the National Cemetery. After the walk we will meet at Spiritfield’s Irish pub for lunch and a chance to share some photos.

Here is the upcoming link: upcoming.yahoo.com/event/466081/

The editors of Celebrate Gettysburg will be writing a story about the event and photos from the walk may be used in an upcoming issue of the magazine.

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The Utah Photowalking crew will stop standing around on its next ‘walk, and take to the rails on March 29th. Salt Lake City installed light rail just in time for the 2002 Olympics, and the stations along the east-west line are festooned with public art. We will meet at the eastern terminus, buy our all-day pass ($4.50 in cash), and speed photograph as many stops as we can stand. March 29, meet at 4 pm. Ride until your ticket runs out. More details on our Flickr group; same info at upcoming.org.

P.S. Next month we will return to walking, weather permitting. Tomorrow’s forecast is snow in the morning, 44 deg F by the afternoon.

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I just posted a huge list of upcoming photowalking events scattered around the ‘net. Well, I also just joined several southern California flickr groups, in the hopes of finding some more events to attend.

In so doing, I found out that it’s really not that hard to find many large photowalk-like events. Just search through the top Flickr groups in your area. So, even though they’re mostly in the Los Angeles area, I’ll link to a few more below. If you’re interested, join a few local Flickr groups in your area, and then scan the discussions. It won’t be long before you start seeing people planning some kind of event that you could easily photowalk. Good luck!

• Getty Center Sunset Meet
  • Saturday, April 5th, 2008, at 4:00 PM
• Descanso Gardens Flickrwalk
  • Saturday, March 29

I hope that you follow my lead, and find some fun photography events in your area. Please, come back here and share with us how it went. Hey, if you’re willing, I’ll probably let you recap it right here yourself.

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As most of my regular readers know, I’m always trying to recruit new authors here at PhotoWalking.org. This past year we’ve heard from a variety of authors. Each one is working hard to keep us informed about the photowalks they’re helping organize in their own local areas.

Many of the photowalks, however, don’t just use PhotoWalking.org to help communicate the details. Based on my recomendation, most also use Upcoming.org and our Flickr group. Most also have their own Flickr group too.

However, photowalking has taken off so much that there are groups forming all around the world, many who have not even heard of PhotoWalking.org. That’s not a problem for me. I’m just excited that more people are out photowalking. Of course, there are many who are photowalking, and they don’t even realize it. Photowalking isn’t new. People have been doing it as long as we’ve been able to drag our camera around with us.

On occaision, I wander around the internets, searching for anyone else who might be interested in using our little community to help get the word out for their own events. Today I compiled a small list of upcoming events that could easily be announced and followed right here. Below is that small list…

• Flickr Scotland March Meet
  • Saturday, March 29, 2008  -  Sunday, March 30, 2008
    11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• London Markets : Bayswater Market and Park Stroll
  • Sunday, March 30, 2008
    11:00 AM
• Birmingham Flickrmeet
  • Sunday, April 13, 2008
    2:00 PM
• Big UK Flickrmeet #3 - Nottingham
  • Saturday, April 19, 2008
    10:00 AM
• 8 hours in Venice
  • Wednesday, June 11, 2008
    12:00 PM - 8:00 PM
• Omaha Flickr Photowalk
  • Sunday, April 6, 2008
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
• Laguna Beach Photowalk
  • Sunday, March 30, 2008
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

If I’ve missed any upcoming photowalks, please let me know. Just comment below and I’ll get the details from you. If you’re one of the organizers of these photowalks, or any other photowalk, please know that you are welcome to have an author’s account here and I’ll do whatever I can to support your own local photowalks.

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Recently I’ve had several people request some form of a calendar here. Not liking the built in calendar, for Wordpress, I kinda didn’t take those requests seriously. (Sorry if you were one of them.)

Then, today, I was wandering around the features of Google Calendar, my personal calendar solution. I found out that I can not only share my calendars, but I can actually embed them on any website. They even let me customize the colors and size. Google rocks!

So now we have a calendar to manage all our upcoming photowalks. There are several features that I need to learn how to use. So in the short term, I’ll be adding all the events. I think if you click on the Google tile at the bottom of the calendar, you can add it to your own Google Calendar.

Sweet!

Oh, you need the URL. Go here. Or you could just click on the “Calendar” tab at the top of any page.

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So, I’m reading my regular daily blogs today and I stumbled upon Darren Rowse’s recent post at his ProBlogger.net. He very simply posted all the places he can be found on the internets. So here I go…

I’m sure that there are a few new readers who may have wandered over here from a Google search or a link somewhere else. We live in a ‘net connected time where there are many places to connect with each other. So you may not be aware of the many places I exist.

Social Networks

• Facebook
• Pownce
• Twitter
• Flickr
• FriendFeed
• Digg
• Upcoming.org

Blogs

• TrevorCarpenter.com
• PhotoWalking.org
• PhotoChallenge.org
• CamarilloWalk.com

Various Groups

• Facebook: Photowalking Group
• Flickr: Photowalking Group
• Flickr: Ventura County Strobist Group
• Flickr: ZEX Group
• Upcoming: Photowalking Group
• Flickr: PhotoChallenge Group
• Facebook: Trevor Carpenter Fan Club

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On the way to work today, I was listening to one of my regular podcasts, and I heard them plug this very site. The hosts, Bill and Ed, took the time to explain to their listeners what a photowalk is all about. They plugged our URL, and really did a nice job encouraging people to get out and give photowalking a try.

Lightsource is one of the three photography podcasts that I listen to on a regular basis. It is produced by StudioLighting.net, and they release not just high quality content, but it’s good enough to learn from each episode.

Because of their recent announcement on the air, we’ll probably have a handful of new readers stumbling on over. So, if you’re one of those new readers, Welcome!

A good place to start is our FAQ.

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(image by calanan)

Take forty non-scientists into an anatomy lab, and who knows what they will see. A knob to a vacuum line is unremarkable, unless you are a photowalker. Pipet tips, flasks, radiation danger signs–the subject matter overwhelms. Then the scientists (they are vision scientists after all, at the Moran Eye Center) turn on the colored lights, and wow! Jeremy made a movie, and many contributed photos to our Flickr pool.

***Trevor’s editor’s remarks***
This special photowalk looks like it was a lot of fun. These Utah photowalkers are really setting the mark high with their great events.

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Well, it rained. Sorta.

Within in minutes of this group photo, it started to sprinkle down on us. Just a little later, it really opened up. This was enough to scare off the majority of us, including me and The Princess. The group photo, below, includes everyone except for me (taking the photo) and a couple who walked up just as we finished. The majority in attendance were representing the Ventura County Photography Club, so I don’t know everyone who was there. I’ll need your assistance in building a list of everyone’s respective photostreams, below.

What’s funny is that about 40 minutes after 90% of us went home, the rain stopped. So, if you check out the properly tagged photos on Flickr, you’ll find a couple photowalkers have quite a few nice images. Many of those were taken after the rain let up.

Even though we only had a short time, I had a nice time. It was great to meet many of my newest online friends. Below I’ve tossed in a few of my favorite photos from the event.

Don’t forget, tag your photos with “photowalking031508” and “upcoming:event=434127″. That way it’s easy to track them all.

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