On The Benefit of Photo Walks

Fractured Self-Portrait. Ft. Collins, Colorado, 2016

A photo walk, and the images you gather whilst oot and aboot, may not contribute directly to your current photographic project, or your portfolio of portraits, or your birds and wildlife collection, or your waterfall series, but…

…these outings will very likely make an indirect contribution.

Grabbing your camera and just strolling about some random local area can be an excellent exercise in “seeing”. You will be forced to look very closely at the scenes around you (many not very interesting at first glance) as you try to come up with interesting compositions. You are exercising your eyeballs, your technical prowess with your photo machine, and the right half of your cerebral melon–all good things to strengthen.

You will then likely find yourself just a tad more “fit” when you do return to your favorite subject matter. So give it a try!

Last Friday, we drove up to Ft. Collins to drop off a photograph at the Center for Fine Art Photography, then took a late afternoon photo walk through the downtown area. Here I offer up the handful of images I came up with that I liked. The tool used was the very small Sony RX100iv…