Ames Photowalk a BIG success!

A total of thirty-eight (38) excited, creative, and fun photographers gathered in front of the bandshell at Band Shell Park on Saturday morning at 9 AM, and spent the next 2 1/2 hours going up streets and an alley in historic old town of Ames, taking more than 5000 photos of exciting photo subjects! Our group was one of nearly 1000 other Photowalks taking place all over the USA and major cities in the rest of the world, involving a total of over 30,000 people. Just imagine, all of us were doing the same things for the same reasons on the same day! It was a world united kind of feeling to be a part of the group, when thinking with a larger perspective. At the same time it was easy to enjoy the calm, unhurried pace of being with people you enjoy, taking photos, and SEEING things that you had never seen before, even though all of us had driven past them hundreds of times.

Each Photowalk participant can choose one photo to enter into the Worldwide Photowalk web server for judging. There will be one winner from the Ames walk, who will compete with the other 1000 winners for the grand prize for the entire world effort. That winner will get prizes of all sorts with a value of over $11,000. Eventually one will be able to go to the Worldwide Photowalk web site, and select cities from across the world and see the images submitted by the photographers who walked there.

I have created a Flikr site for our Ames participants, and with this web server site, they can each upload ten images. It has a few on it right now, and to see it you must join the Flickr website (FREE) if you have not already, and then proceed. If you have an account at yahoo.com, that user ID for your login there, plus your password will also work on Flikr. Members of our walk are going through their photos now and will continue to do so this week, but within a few days things should be all ready to go. I have attached a few photos here of our group before we began our Photowalk, as well as some of my personal images I captured on this special day. The next time we do this...YOU, should join us! Everyone in our group would tell you the same thing!