The 8th Annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk is happening on Saturday, Oct. 3, in thousands of cities all over the world. ECCG is participating for the second year in a row and will be holding our Photo Walk in Youghal, Co. Cork this year.
This event, dubbed the world’s largest global and social photography event, has grown immensely in size and popularity since the inaugural walk in 2007. Last year, more than 30,000 photographers of all walks of life and skill level converged to explore their corners of the world through photography and social community.
The concept of a Photo Walk is simple. Photo Walks are created by Walk Leaders in cities all over the world. Walkers meet up at a pre-designated location to spend a few hours socialising, capturing images and sharing with like-minded people. At the end of the photo walk, most groups convene at local restaurants or pubs to share their images and experiences over food.
In addition to the event, photo walkers will be able to upload their favourite picture to the popular Photo Walk contest for a chance to win a digital copy of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby. A Grand Prize winner and 10 finalists will also be selected by Scott Kelby himself!
Our Photo Walk in Youghal this year will begin outside The Mall Arts Centre at 10.45am and finish with light refreshments upstairs in The Red Store, Bar & Restaurant, on North Main St. at 2pm.
The event is for over eighteens, it’s free, but pre-registration is required. You can register at http://kelbyone.com/photowalk/walk/youghal-cork-ireland/ and clicking on the ‘JOIN THIS PHOTO WALK’ button or by clicking on any of the images in this post and complete the sign up form. Spaces are limited however.
This year, we encourage every photo walker to help support this year’s initiative to “Walk with a Purpose” by donating €1 to the Springs of Hope Orphanage in Kenya, which you can do when you’re registering. This is completely optional but please consider it when you’re signing up.
Additionally, participants can connect socially before, during and after the event using the hashtag #WWPW2015 on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Connect with us on our flickr page at https://www.flickr.com/groups/2913317@N22/ and the world wide flickr page at https://www.flickr.com/groups/wwpw2015.
About KelbyOne: Formerly The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and KelbyTraining.com, KelbyOne is the leading resource for online creative education worldwide. For more information, please visit www.kelbyone.com.
Last year’s photowalk participants in Midleton.
East Cork Camera Group, based in Midleton, Co. Cork, is an amateur photography club, which exists to foster the art of photography in the area. We are very active and have had over eighty shoots this year alone. Our website, www.eastcorkcameragroup.ie, contains galleries from each of these shoots and much, much more.
This is a great opportunity for the people of Youghal and beyond to put the town on the world photography map so why not join us on this year’s walk? Being over 18, having an interest in photography (and a camera of course!) is all that’s required. Fancy gear is not a requirement – if a camera phone or film camera is what you use to take photos, you’ll fit right in.
See you there!
Our first stop was to take photographs at the bridge over the Owenacurra River. After that, we made our way to the Farmer’s Market located off the Hospital Road to capture the hustle and bustle there. Every Saturday people throng to this area to purchase a variety of locally produced foods and other gourmet specialties from local farmers and food producers. Here we took a lot of images of an array of colourful stalls and their produce together with capturing the vibrancy and buzz of people meeting up to chat and spend time in this thriving environment.
From the Farmer’s market we proceeded to the top of the Main Street taking shots of notable historic buildings mainly the imposing red brick and terra cotta structure of the AIB building built in 1899 and located opposite the Courthouse. As we walked down the Main Street we stopped to take photos of the various shops and side streets as well as people who were happy for us take their photos. Another historic building on our route along the Main street was the Library (previously the Town Hall) built in 1789 and identifiable by a weather cock of larch on top of the clock tower. Some of us made our way to Distillery Lane and onto The Jameson Experience taking shots of the large copper pot still outside the main building there.
Around 1pm we made our way up St Mary’s Road to the Catholic church of the Most Holy Rosary, a large grey limestone building distinguished by a 166 foot spire. The Church interior was awesome with its Gothic style of pointed arches and curved lines, timber ceilings and decorated stone and granite pillars. We momentarily took shots of this magnificent interior before being met by Monsignor Goold who allowed us entry to the upstairs choir gallery. Once we made our way up the spiraling stone stairway, we were able to take shots from a higher angle with a panoramic view of the total Church with the altar and wood carved pulpit and decorated tile flooring in the centre against a background of magnificent large stained glassed windows. Behind us was the large pipe organ in the Gallery originally built in the 1800’s undertook a major rebuild in 2009.
When finished at the Church we made our way down to the next stop of our photo walk which was the St John the Baptist church located in Church Lane. This church was erected in 1825 and is believed to be built on the site of the Cistercian Abbey. At this location shots were taken of the graveyard and the interior of the church with its arched stained glass windows, rows of pews and 3 aisles to the carved oak screen and pulpit at the top end of the church.
