The Scott Kelby World Wide Photo Walk was held on July 24th, 2010. This is a giant event where photographers take to the streets of their locale and walk around taking pictures. This year saw 1,111 photo walks and 33,483 participants from all over the world.

I didn't know about this event until a co-worker mentioned it to me. Unfortunately, the Calgary/Inglewood photo walk that he was going to was already full, but I found that there was plenty of room in the Calgary/Downtown photo walk, so I signed up.

View from the Benches

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Gizmodo's photo challenge this week was to capture a water drop like you see in those neat high-speed photography shots. They supplied a few links to some tutorials for capturing these images yourself and I must admit, I was somewhat skeptical of the possibility.

Not one to give up without trying, I set things up based on this tutorial at ePHOTOzine and experimented from there. I ended up shooting on Manual at 1/160 and f/22 with my flash at 1/64.

After much trial and error (and around 400 shots), I ended up with a few I was happy with. Here is the one I submitted:

The rest of the "good" ones can be found in our gallery site. Enjoy!

All the photos from the Western Canada Synchro Divisional Finals are now available from our online photo gallery store here:

    http://blargmedia.ca/gallery/v/photos/events/201003-SynchroWesterns/

To place your photo orders, please Register an Account and then login to use the shopping cart.

You can add individual photos to your cart, or if you would like to order a complete routine, you can add that routine's album to the cart. The payment checkout service is provided by PayPal, and you do not need to have a PayPal account to complete your order.

Thank you for your patience while we sifted through all the photos taken.. Enjoy!