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.

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.

Photowalking is also often associated with on-line photo sharing.

External links

Blogosphere

* [http://www.technorati.com/tag/photowalking Technorati] Blogging about Photowalking
* [http://hchamp.typepad.com/bap/ Bay Area Photologgers] A group of photo bloggers in the San Francisco Bay Area
* [http://www.photopermit.org/ PhotoPermit.Org] Blogging about the legality of it
* [http://www.photowalk.at/ Photowalk.at] Photowalking in Austria
* [http://www.photowalking.org/ Photowalking.org] A community site where fans and organizers of photowalking can commune, interact and announce their photowalking adventures
* [http://www.photowalking.info/ Photowalking.info] Photowalking in India
* [http://de.photowalking.org/ de.Photowalking.org] German community site where fans and organizers of photowalking can commune, interact and announce their photowalking adventures.
* [http://photowalkingnyc.org/ Photowalking NYC] Virtual meeting place for photowalking enthusiasts in, and around, NYC.
* [http://www.photowalk.it Photowalk.it] Photowalking in Italy

Documentaries

* [http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/photowalking Photowalking] A video documentary on Photowalking by Robert Scoble
* [http://thomashawk.com/2007/09/principles-and-guidelines-for-modern.html Principles and Guidelines for the Modern Photowalker]

Legality

* [http://rcfp.org/photoguide/ Photographers' Guide to Privacy] About invasion of privacy standards in all states
* [http://www.kantor.com/useful/Legal-Rights-of-Photographers.pdf Legal Rights of Photographers] A primer by [http://kantor.com/ Andrew Kantor]
* [http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm The Photographer's Right] "A Downloadable Flyer Explaining Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography" by Bert P. Krages II, Attorney at Law
* [http://ambientlight.ca/laws.shtml Canadian Photographers Rights] A Canadian page with information about the legal rights and obligations for Canadian photographers

oftware

* [http://www.twipster.com/ Twipster] Photowalking platform for mobile devices.

People

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/aqui-ali/ aqui-ali] A Photowalker in San Francisco
* [http://www.hchamp.com/ Heather Powazek Champ] San Francisco Bay Area photographer and Flickr community manager
* [http://thomashawk.com/ Thomas Hawk] A Photowalker in San Francisco together with Robert Scoble have a show produced by Rocky Barbanica called (you guessed it) PhotoWalking.
* [http://www.baxiabhishek.info/ Abhishek Baxi] A technology evangelist who initiated photowalking in India.