Photo Walk

This last weekend I went on Scott Kellby's World Wide Photo Walk. Photo walks are usually just a group of people that like photography, with skill levels varying from beginner to advanced, that choose a location to walk together spending time taking photographs. So they are a good time to get together and hang out with others who share a common interest in photography. This particular walk is set up by Scott Kellby's company and the idea is to have walks going all over the world on the same day. I think this is the 3rd or 4th year they have done this and every year I think about going on the local one here but up until this year had yet to do it, so this year I went ahead and signed up to go. For the Local walk here in Reno we walked around the area of the UNR campus surrounding the Quad. Maybe it is my background in working as a drafter in Architectural offices for years but I really like the architectural details of the buildings there, especially as they have several older brick buildings as well as a couple more recent modern buildings. The hard part for me was a lot of the detailing I would see that I liked was kind of high up and any way I could see to photograph them was at an angle I would not really like. One thing I was able to get was some of the windows and openings in the brick buildings and I really liked how the Ivy was looking on these buildings surrounding the windows. I also really liked the bright red fire hydrant with the nice green leaves as it's backdrop. The other good thing about a walk like this is finding images and exploring compositions for what the area might offer and that provides good opportunities to maybe look at things in a different way than you normally would to create an image. Even though I took several classes at UNR I never really spent time in this area so the other nice thing was walking the area to see the possible locations for doing portraits.