Well, it stinks that my blog has been off line most of the day due to a server issue. Too bad I earlier spent lots of time visiting other great blogs and leaving comments with links back here, which will never be accessed by potential visitors due to loonnnnngggg load times and outright “file not found” time out error messages.

Oh well, I’m still so excited about something I just found out about. I’ll get to it in a minute.

Do you ever go out on photo hikes with friends, with the intent of photographing the same area and then comparing what you did afterwards? I am always asking people to go and do that with me, but more often than not, it doesn’t work out.

Recently, my son, Dillon, and I did a variation on this, in which we both took a bunch of images at a family gathering here at our house. It was really fun to see how differently we recorded what was happening and see different shots of the same sequence of events.

Dillon’s “In the Hammock” is above, right, and mine is below that. We have different perspectives in so many ways (he’s a guy, I’m a girl; he’s 20, I’m a lot older than that; he shoots with a fixed lens Minolta Dimage Z something, I shoot a Nikon D70 with a bunch of lenses). That comes through a little in our images.

So, back to what I’m all excited about: it’s an event called “Photo Walk” and I found out about it over at Tombo’s blog, and signed up to participate right here here in Prescott.

August 23, 2008 people all over the world will gather to walk their city and make images in a social activity designed to be fun and inspirational. At the end of the walk, which lasts about 2 hours, everyone gathers somewhere public, like a restaurant, to share photos and chat AND maybe win some fabulous prizes.

As one who has been doing a little TOO much social networking lately, I am looking forward to a little social photography and face time with others who have shared interests.

When I signed up (just now), there were about 15 spaces remaining. (Each city limits participation to 50 individuals)

Read more about it at Scott Kelby’s site here.

Woo-hoo!