my digital life
Ricky Leong is one of my Flickr and Zooomr contacts. I’ve been following his photostream for a while now. He was visiting the San Francisco area over the last week, and I had a chance to shoot with him today. Michela met up with us as well, and we spent about four hours exploring Berkeley along Shattuck, University, and San Pablo Avenue.
Between the three of us we had 10 cameras. Talk about photo geeks.
This photograph was taken back in 2007, on a photowalk through Chinatown. I met some great people on that photowalk, and still follow their photostreams to this day. Shot with a Panasonic FX3, a camera I really miss.
Who feels like a photowalk? One of my Flickr friends, Håkan Dahlström, will be visiting from Sweden this week, and he wants to do some shooting while he’s here.
We will be meeting this Wednesday (November 4th) at the corner of Montgomery and Market, and head out through Chinatown and maybe North Beach, depending on what people feel like.
Then on Sunday (November 8th) we will be meeting in San Francisco around 4PM for another photowalk. The location for the Sunday walk has not been determined yet. We will probably decide on a location during the Wednesday photowalk.
With the sun going down earlier, we will have a chance to do some night shooting before everything closes. Come on out and shoot with us, and pass the word along.
Update: You can RSVP for the photowalks on upcoming.org:
Wednesday – Chinatown
Sunday – Location TBD
Last night I joined a large group of photographers at the Ferry Building in San Francisco for a nighttime photowalk. We shot around Pier 14 and the spider sculpture before splitting off into a couple of groups. There were lots of new faces there, which is always nice to see.
You can find my set from the evening on flickr.
Next week, Natalie Dybisz (Miss Aniela on Flickr) will be hosting some photowalks sponsored by Microsoft, Samy’s Camera and Eye-Fi. I will be joining Thomas Hawk and others at the Ferry Building on Monday at 6:30 pm. If you’re going to be in the bay area, plan on joining up. It should be an interesting group.
You can find the event on upcoming.
If you can’t make the Monday night photowalk, there are some others to choose from, including two in Los Angeles:
Berkeley – Eastbay/Berkeley Photowalk
Date: Monday, February 2
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30pm
Place: to be determined, Berkeley
Ferry Building – San Francisco Photowalk
Date: Monday, February 2
Time: 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Place: Ferry Building entrance, San Francisco
USS San Francisco Memorial – San Francisco Photowalk
Date: Tuesday, February 3
Time: 7:30am to 9:00am
Place: USS San Francisco Memorial, San Francisco
The Panhandle to Haight Ashbury – San Francisco Photowalk
Date: Tuesday, February 3
Time: 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Place: Meet at Oak and Cole, San Francisco
Union Station – Los Angeles Photowalk
Date: Wednesday, February 4
Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Place: N. Los Angeles St., Union Station, Los Angeles
Santa Monica Pier – Santa Monica Photowalk
Date: Wednesday, February 4
Time: 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Place: out on the end of the Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica
(seen on Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection)
Tonight I met up with Gary Hegenbart and Andrew Lighten for a photowalk along the San Francisco bay toward the Golden Gate Bridge. The skies were threatening rain, but it held off until we had finished the walk. This is one of the first photos that I made on the walk.
I met Andrew during Photowalking 7 back in 2007. Andrew may win the Longest Journey To A Photowalk award for this one. He arrived from Australia this morning, and drove in to San Francisco to shoot this afternoon.
