The phrase “Photo Walk” came into being sometime in
2000. It is usually a communal activity organized by camera clubs, but there is
no reason to restrict you to not doing this by yourself. This post is a group of images I made on a
walk through my neighborhood early one morning.
I live in what is affectionately called a bedroom
community, where my neighbors drive off to work in the morning leaving the
development a virtual ghost town for most of the day. Therefore, having never
really explored the area I live in, I decided to leave the car in the garage
and take a “photo walk” with my camera
around the neighborhood.
Having no set plan except to walk for a half hour
or 3000 steps, I decided it would help if I had some sort of theme to follow,
rather than just aiming my camera and clicking away at everything. Since I was
taking my stroll at 8 am, when the sun was at a low point in the sky and
shadows would be very pronounced I decided that I would concentrate on shapes
and light.
I think the key to a photo walk should be, no set
plan in direction you choose. Walk somewhere new...because it will trigger
creativity because it is new to your eyes. Limit yourself to one lens as a challenge, that
way it forces you to move about your subject rather than relying on a zoom lens.
And lastly, be conscious of the light,
shadows and lines that form the shapes of what your eye is seeing.
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