Photowalk Springfield, NJ
September 26, 2009 10am – Noon
Hosted by Photowalklist.com and Mack Camera, AdoramaPix, Tamrac and ThinkTank Photo
Starting location:
Mack Camera & Video Service – 200 Morris Avenue. Springfield, NJ 07081
Photowalk with Mack Camera employees and local professional photographers
The Photowalk will start outside Mack Camera. We will walk up Mountain Avenue to Shunpike Road towards the YMCA to head back to Mack Camera via South Springfield Avenue.
The walk will be about 2 hours long.
When we arrive back at Mack Camera those who would like can print up 10 photos from their Springfield Photowalk on one of our photo kiosks. Everyone who walked will also receive a free 25 pre-paid card for our online photo processing system, LifePics.
Hang out at Mack for the giveaways from the Photowalk sponsors!
- Sales and Discounts All Day
- Special Photowalk Packages
- Photowalk Discount Code for Online Photo Processing and more!
What kind of camera should you bring?
Digital or film, pocket or non, point and shoot or SLR, Cell phone or spy camera. Any camera works!
The Route:
There will be a drawing at the end of the photowalk, the winner will receive a ThinkTank Photo Streetwalker Backpack, courtesy of ThinkTank Photo!
There will be a drawing at the end of the photowalk, the winner will receive a new bag from Tamrac designed for a netbook
There will be two drawings at the end of the photowalk, one winner will receive a 20×30 print and one will receive a PhotoBook courtesy of AdoramaPix
Battle of Springfield at the Hutching House By Bill Coughlin, April 5, 2008
Other places we may visit on the Photowalk (via HMDB)
- Battle of Springfield
- The Cannonball House
- General von Knyphausen
- Colonial Church
- Patriots who fell at Springfield
- The Jersey Militia and Continetal Army
- Colonel Israel Angell
What is Photowalking?
* Photowalking is the act of walking with a camera for the main purpose of taking pictures of things that the photographer may find interesting.
* It’s a social photography event where photographers get together, usually in a downtown area or trendy section of town, to walk around, shoot photos, and generally have fun with other photographers.
While not exclusive to digital photography, in practice digital photography makes Photowalking more realistic as a hobby due to its experimental nature, the number of pictures typically taken in the process, and the possibility of post-processing afterward.
While closely related to Street photography, photowalking is differentiated by the main impetus being to photograph things of interest rather than people specifically. It is also often done as a method to practice and improve one’s own photography skills rather than a with specific focus on documentary photography.
Photowalking is also a form of exercise as it can take the photographer over the course of several miles as they wander a particular site or neighborhood.
(Sources: Photowalklist.com, Wikipedia.org, WorldWidePhotowalk.com, Flickr.com)
Download the Photowalk sign - pdf
