mandamonius in the house of the flying internets (AKA amanda wood or the artist formerly known as amanda wheeler)

webstock photo walk

About 9.50AM yesterday morning it started to rain.  As we are currently in Wellington I wasn’t entirely surprised but the main issue was that at 10AM we were supposed to be running the Webstock Photo Walk.

The idea came about shortly after Derek Powazek and Heather Champ cancelled their trip to NZ for Webstock.  Heaps of us were disappointed but I talked to the Webstock team & we were all in agreement it didn’t have to mean there couldn’t be a photo walk and/or a photo exhibition at the conference. We started to put something together.

Despite the rain, a group of about 12 people gathered in Civic Square - mostly members of the Webstock  Flickr group but a few other dedicated photographers as well.  The consensus was to keep going even if it did rain off and on through the day - which of course, it did!

We walked over the bridge from Civic Square and down along the waterfront towards where the Chinese New Year stuff was happening at TSB Arena. After a coffee stop, we kept going through Post Office Square and on down Lambton Quay and up onto the Terrace.

After being almost removed from the grounds of Parliament (especially Tim with his extremely large lens) we walked down past Defence House, through the railway station and back up along the waterfront, weaving around a slightly different path to what we had on the way down.

We were pretty tired by this time and had lost a few walkers, but we ended on a high note with a reflected photo of us all, watched some kids jump off the pier and then had lunch at Felix.  

It was awesome to meet everyone and as most of them are also Webstock attendees, I’m pleased to have made a bunch of new friends to hang out with while we’re down here.  I met so many awesome people at Webstock 06 that it’s cool Webstock 08 is starting off the same way.  

Attendance list as follows (and apologies from my fellow organiser, debsidelinger):

Check out the photos from the Webstock Photowalk on Flickr and of course you’re welcome to join the Webstock Photo Exhibition group!