A Simple Photowalk

Pedestrian Bridge

It’s been about two years since I first led a photowalk in Taiwan, and until the end of 2010, I’d been arranging approximately one per month. I took a break as I was just too busy to continue organizing them but popular demand saw one take place last Sunday. It may appear that arranging a photowalk is as simple as choosing a time and place and that’s it. Do that and it’s almost guaranteed that some will complain that there’s not enough direction or they don’t know where to go or what to do. The only real solution to avoiding that is either keep everything together in a group, in which case I spend so much time looking out for people that I barely get to take photos myself, or put in a chunk of time beforehand to research and plan routes and post-photowalk meeting places which ultimately costs me time and sometimes money. Over the past six months there have been a few requests for more photowalks. One was postponed due to lack of response and a bad weather forecast, and so when I was asked about another one, it was only because I knew the people who asked didn’t require handholding on the day that I agreed. Keelung was the chosen place, and it was specified that all I was doing was setting a meeting time and place. I specifically said in the invite that people should just go wherever they want and do their own thing, and that’s what ended up happening, which made it a pretty perfect photowalk.

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