On Saturday, July 24, 2010, the whole world will be walking again with Scott Kelby, president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and #1 bestselling computer and technology book author, in the Third Annual Worldwide Photo Walk™.
Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk is the world’s largest global social photography event in the history of photography itself. It takes place on the same day around the world where photographers of all walks of life and skill levels gather together, usually in downtown areas to socialize, learn new tips from each other, and explore their corner of the world through photography.
“In 2008, we had 241 walks,” said Scott Kelby, founder of NAPP, editor-in-chief of Photoshop User magazine, and president of Kelby Media Group. “Last year, we had over 900 walks with over 32,000 photographers participating. We did the math… your average photographer will take upwards of 300 photos during a photo walk. That means that nearly 10 million pictures were taken in that one single day that may never had happened otherwise. I think that’s pretty cool and we all can’t wait to see what happens this year.”
There is no fee to participate but pre-registration is required. Just go to the Worldwide Photo Walk site, find a walk near you, and join in on the fun. If there is no Photo Walk in your area feel free to register to lead a walk of your own.
Anyone can participate too. All you need is a camera. It doesn’t even matter what kind of camera either. People have showed up with disposables in the past, had a blast, and left with a new appreciation for photography.
Well, here’s a little more on the new print driver that DYMO put out for the DiscPainter on Snow Leopard. I’ve done a little more digging around and found others who had a similar issues. That got me thinking that the driver was the issue. In part, that is true, however, updating the driver for the DiscPainter on Snow Leopard is a two step process. Granted the process could be made much more clear. Be that as it may, after installing the new driver, you must update the firmware. Sadly, because my last attempt to test the new driver ended in a small disaster, which included the destruction of my almost new print cartridge, I am unable to test this solution. I’ll be ording up a new print cartige shortly and I’ll post once I’ve tested this.
In the mean time, if any of you are running the DYMO DiscPainter on Max OS X Snow Leopard and happen to have had the same issues I did; Did you install the firmware update after installing the new driver? If not, would you do so and post back here in the comments section, letting us all know how it goes?
For your conveince, here is a link to the new DYMO print driver and firmware update for the DiscPainter.
What a day! Our Fall Rhapsody Photowalk was a success! The day was gorgeous. We just couldn’t have had more perfect weather. I was fortunate to have a wonderful group participating who rolled with the punches while we waited for some stragglers. Ren, where are you?
Sadly, we actually had a few people who never did find us. We’ll be looking at how we can avoid that in the future. My apologies to all those who were MIA.
Once we got underway the grounds at Mackenzie King Estate were beautiful albeit a little crowded. The light hitting the autumn colours was outstanding. There were so many striking elements to capture and so much variety. Below are a few of the moments I was able to capture along with a group shot compliments of Ron Bets. Thanks for sending that my way Ron!
Image Courtesy of Ron Bets
Wanna know what makes me smile when I’m faced with long days in front of a monitor, working through hundreds and hundreds of images? Anything that makes that job simpler or FASTER. To that end I recently upgraded my iMac’s OS to Snow Leopard. I’m not going to go into that other than to say, I’m very pleased. It’s stable, it’s faster and it was priced right. There are tons of reviews out there so if you want more info it’s only a Google search away.
This morning’s smile came from the Adobe Lightroom 2.5 upgrade. It was a simple install that took only moments. Then came the first launch of the new version. Always in the back of my mind is this little voice that nags and makes suggestions about how I won’t be able to access any of my images and how I’m going to lose days of productivity to this upgrade. I too, live in the tension of excitement and dread, that most of us have developed from way too many years of amazing promises and disastrous deliveries.
Good news! Adobe delivers with Lightroom 2.5 update. What hit me first was the stunning speed of even the applications launch. So surprised by the speed at which it happened that I immediately doubted what I had just seen and closed the application. I needed to see if I could repeat the results. Sure enough, Lightroom bounded onto the screen a second time. WOW! So I started to navigate around and jump from folder to folder to see if I could expect this type of nimble behaviour throughout the application. Sure enough the performance held and I saw my folders load in record time. This is great news for Lightroomers!
I haven’t had a chance to really put it through it’s paces yet but so far I’m really impressed with what Adobe has done with Lightroom 2.5. I just had to get over here and share this with you. Now I’m heading back n to see what other improvements lay undiscovered.
Hey for those of you who haven’t been checking the official Worldwide Photo Walk web site, I wanted to announce that Mr. Brian McGarvey was the winner of the Stittsville Photo Walk Image contest. Congratulations Brian!
Many thanks to all of you who participated in the walk and in the photo contest. I had a blast leading the walk and seeing all the excellent images you guys produced. Thanks a million everyone! Don’t forget about our Flickr group where you can share your images with the entire Stittsville crew. I’m sure everyone would love to see more images.
Here’s a look at Brian’s winning image, “Thistle”.
For all the latest news and updates on Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photo Walk check out worldwidephotowalk.com For some other great reading check out Scott’s blog at www.scottkelby.com/blog
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