"Lunch Break" 2011 Worldwide Photo Walk - Olvera Street, Los Angeles, CA. - Photography by Jim Pearson, (c) 2011
Well, I finally edited down my favorite photos from my participation in the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk. This is the fourth year the walks have been done globally and my third year of participating. If you’ve never taken part in one you really should look one up close to you next year and take part.
Usually I participate in the walk organized by the West Kentucky Photography Club and good friend Rennan Quijano at one of the community locations we do in our surrounding area, but this year I was on the road and as my sister has mentioned in an earlier post on this site, we were in Los Angeles when the walk was held this year.
This years walk was different as the only other person I really knew was my sister, so it gave me a chance to meet new photographers that share the same passion for capturing slices of history and moments in time with their cameras. We all had a great time.
Each location around the world on these walks are limited to 50 participants and the walk organizers also try to space the walks so there’s not too many in the same city or geographic region. The L.A. area had about 4 different walks and the one we participated in was Olvera Street which went through several interesting neighborhoods, into Union Station where we caught the Goldline to China Town and then walked back to Olvera Street.
I had decided that I was going to look for interesting people to photograph during the walk and found several that fit the bill, along with other interesting things such as trains and one I call “Lunch Break” was good enough to be selected as the “Best photo for the location” by the walk leader Jon Prentice. The photo now goes onto the next level of the worldwide competition.
I used my Nikon D700 to shoot the photo with my Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 and shot in RAW format, which I do all the time now. Post processing was done in Adobe Photoshop CS5.5.
Next weekend I’ll be off to another roadtrip to Pennyrile State Resort Park to take part in their Fall Photography Weekend, which is always a fun time as well.
Check out my other photos from the photowalk by visiting my gallery on Flickr.