Toronto Photo Walks

We’re approaching a year since the first Toronto Photo Walk [previous walks] and we’re about to hit 300 members in each of the Flickr group and the Facebook group!

If you’d like to help with the organisation of some photo walks, drop me a line. Send me your email address, cell phone number and a guide to which part(s) of Toronto you know well enough to organise a walk.

What does it take to organise a walk? There’s obviously the route but also arranging the lunch and post-walk stops. There’s usually 3 or 4 days between closing the poll (which determines the area for the next walk) and posting the details. (more…)

I was surprised to find out (from some of the people at the High Park walk) that there are still people using LiveJournal – I’ve had an LJ account since mid-2001 but it seems to have gone quiet over the past few months, mostly as people move to Facebook/Twitter. Anyway, due to public demand, there is now a TOPW LiveJournal community @ tophotowalks.

The Toronto Photo Walks group on Facebook now has 100 members! (The Flickr group has 70 members but I assume most are also on Facebook so I’m not claiming a total of 170.)

Welcome to our new members! Be sure to check out the event info for next weekend’s walk – I’ll be adding more detail over this weekend.

Update: The next TOPW outing is to The Beaches on January 30th; details are on this website, on Facebook and Flickr.

Update: The Flickr group hit 100 members on February 6th. (FB=142)

Update: The Facebook group topped 200 members on March 27th.

Update: The Flickr group hit 200 members today (April 28).

2010-09-11: Flickr=289; Facebook=284.

I’ve created a new poll (which you should see in the website‘s side bar) asking when is the best time for a photo walk. So far we’ve done Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, and each time I’ve received requests to reschedule to a more convenient time. I know I can’t please everyone, but this poll will give me an indication of when it’s best to schedule the next one. (Having said that, it’s not like we have much light in the evenings in winter!)
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