Last year I was fortunate enough to hear about Scott Kelby world wide photo walks and I attended the event at Marietta Square in Atlanta. If you missed those photos, you can click here to see them. The 2010 event had over 1,100 photo walks and over 33,000 people from all over the world participated. For those who are unfamiliar with photo walks, they are a social photography event where photographers get together to walk around and shoot a section of town. There is a group leader who organizes the local event and there are 50 spaces for photographers to join in on the walk. A photo contest is involved and the best image from your shoot can be submitted for prizes. If you would like to see last years photo winners from the event you can click here.
This year I attended the photo walk on October 1st at Little Five Points. Little Five Points is a district in Atlanta that was established in the early 1900’s. It is home to vintage clothing stores, Criminal Records, bars, restaurants and music venues. I had the most wonderful time exploring the area and sharing the experience with my husband who joined me not with camera in hand, but a hand who carried my tri-pod around for me. Yes, he is awesome like that. The best part of the experience for me was meeting the photographers who attended. Last year I walked with Mishelle Lane, who is a brilliant photographer, and this year I met such a nice group that were all so sweet and shared their knowledge of photography which is most helpful.
The photo walk this year started at 6:00 pm and ended at 8:00pm with a small group of us hanging out for dinner and drinks. I especially enjoyed the walk since there was both daylight and night time photo opportunities. The worldwide photo walk site lists 1,116 photo walks this year with 28,000 participants. I love that I was able to part of such an amazing event.
Here are some of the photo walkers! Thanks to our group leader Gary Howie for the photo! Now, on to some of my favorites from my walk.
This cutie was sitting on a car rear view mirror. After I snapped this shot he climbed into the car and sat on the steering wheel. When I peeked inside the car, there were various ropes and toys hanging inside for him to play with. Interesting!
Little Five Points has a whole lot of colorful, elaborate wall paintings so I captured quite a few photos of the eye candy.
There were many sweet bikers out that evening proudly showing off their beauties.
As I mentioned before, Little Five Points has several music venues, so you will find colorful posters of upcoming shows.
A few years ago I spoke with this gentleman that I passed by on my way to a show. He was there again, happily beating his drum. He had his photo taken many times by our group and he smiled the whole time.
Walking along the sidewalks in Little Five Points, you will see many eclectic clothing shops. If you are a fan of vintage clothing, you will love it!
We took a walk around the back side of the buildings and I saw this unusual tall, skinny door. I love the colors and contrast.
Take a walk around the back side as you will never know what you might find. Brittany Spears perhaps?
So my husband carried my tri-pod and I didn’t even use it. I hand held my camera for a few shots of the nightlife.
There was a gentleman out playing his heart and soul on the harmonica. He was kind enough to allow our group to photograph him. Gary who you see standing, played back some of the photos he took and that harmonica player was thrilled to see his images.
photo credit: Gary Howie
Well folks, I have many more images to share but I do think this post is long enough! Thanks for stopping by and I do hope through these images, you get a feel of Little Five Points, in Atlanta. I look forward to next year’s photo walk and if you live in the Atlanta area, I hope to see you there too! You can find more information on Scott Kelby and The World Wide Photo Walk here.
Thanks again to Gary Howie for leading our group and sharing his group images. A special shout out to Dustin Grau, Hoke Smith, and Greg Williams. I enjoyed our dinner conversation and thank you for sharing your photography knowledge and stories with me.
To see my shots of Criminal Records, take a look here.
It’s all good. ~ Donna
