I'll be there! =)

I'll be combining my Thursday Walk (on Friday, of course) with a shoot on the good ship Ventura in North Cove, which I'm bartering for a ride on their sunset cruise that night.

I love the Ventura more than it's polite to say in mixed company, and have been going out on charters on her for, what, 8 years or so.

Not sure how I'm going to fit her into the lens, but I'll be doing a fair amount of below-decks work, most likely - low light still-lifes, using a tripod on a vessel in water. Should be pretty interesting. And I'm going to see if I can talk Captain Pat into letting me use the hoist to get up the mast, which isn't very likely, but who knows.

I think I'll give it a go. It'll be my first time. :)



Well. Not my first time walking.


*scurries back to work*

@stephiedee: Walking is easy. Just remember this song from "Santa Claus is Coming to Town:

Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking cross the floor
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking out the door

Thanks so much for getting that song in my head.

Ooooh, Joe. Are you telling me to leave work????

I'm sure I could explain you off as some kind of apparition.

and Joe goes up a few notches on the Cool-o-Meter for quoting one of the Christmas classics ;-)

Wow, pretty soon Joe is going to be off the Cool-o-Meter charts.

Thursdays are hard for me. A large group of folks from the office usually orders Chinese food and we hang out in the kitchen and eat. It's the only time I eat lunch away from my desk and it's nice to be social at least once a week. Maybe I'll bring my camera in tomorrow and see what happens.

Do you have to go outside to count it as a walk?

You know, I always think creativity flows best when people can interpret things on their own...

A Thursday Walk, in my opinion, is whatever your creative mind deems as a Thursday Walk.

I also forgot to mention above, don't forget to tag your photos :)

Utata_Thursday_Walk_07

Oh. I was going to go after work, in the evening. Is the walk supposed to be earlier in the day?


edit: haha, nevermind!

I've been gone and missed you all too...

but I am back now, with oodles of pics from my trip to download and tinker with and upload.... and in need of a walk for sure!

Any themes?

Stephiedee, if you're just learning to walk you might forego chewing gum simultaneously. Not because you can't multi-task, but it's a mess when the bubbles burst and gunk up the camera.

@Bubbles: I thought of you this morning as my poodle boyz were chasing soap bubbles about the park. (pictures in camera)

@The Pack: I already chew gum and drive...

ok, i cheated and went today because i have to get on an airplane tomorrow.

do ya'll like my new ride?

Sweet ride Jimmy....

You're stylin' Mac.

Ooh, it's Thursday morning here already, and I went out for a mini walk before breakfast. It was foggy. Photos to follow.

Gonna do my best to get out there tomorrow as I missed out last week.

Hey, this Thursday walk coincides with World Photo Day. I still have my login from last June 1. Sweet. I will be sure to upload one of my photos from tomorrow up there.

I hate the fact that a Thursday walk is out for me. I work in a secure building where cameras are not allowed. However, next thursday I will be in Las Vegas and I could walk there.

But what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas right?

acshepard: but not if you provide evidence for the prosecution. maybe you should open an account for your alter ego.

Today is the first day of winter here in New Zealand. So my Thursday morning walk was short but sweet.

YAY!!! I'll walk with all of you! hopefully I'll have a good day and not be grumpy or tired..altho those types of photos could be interesting =)

Brenda, why is it the first day of winter? Isn't the Winter Solstice on June 21 in the Southern Hemisphere?

Yes, winter solstice is on June 21st, but traditionally, the seasons start on the 1st of the month: Summer starts 1st of December, Autumn starts 1st of March, Winter starts 1st of June, and Spring the 1st of September.

Sorta like how Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer in the US. ;)

tomorrow is a press day and I tend to be glued to the desk for the majority of those days.

But t'will try. For sure. It might just be a wee stroll to the parking lot whilst having a sneaky cigarette, though.

Ah, I see. Sorta like how the third Monday in May is considered the official start of summer in Canada when we celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday!

Here's my first Thursday walk picture. I had a great time on this foggy Yarmouth morning. I think I'll try to get into the habit of this.

My first of the day straight from the garden before heading off to work. I've a few more I will post later.

Beautiful day, and love is in the air!

D'oh! Thanks to having Monday off, my days are all screwed up! I forgot it was Thursday and left the house with my *film* camera, not the digital! Guess you'll be seeing my Thursday photos in a week or so.

I finally got out and walked in the morning
learned a bit about my neighbors

I walked out in front of my shop and got a few:

Here's another from my walk this morning. I love whoever is doing these little tags. Maybe next Thursday I'll take a picture of the face they put on the fire hydrant across the road (it looks at me when I'm doing the dishes).

i already did. that OK? :)

"swerve"

Man, I was soaked with sweat by the time I got back from a relatively short walk. It is soooo humid out.

great shots, anyone else up for a walk? I went out, and forgot my camera of course.

A fairly new mural that's up about a block from me. (I think there's a dedication celebration for it at First Friday tomorrow night.)

I went for an 11-mile walk yesterday only because my legs were sore from a marathon Sunday and I couldn't jog. This morning a thunderstorm: I went to the gym and did a spin.

I walked down to the kitchen for our normal Thursday lunch, but I did bring my camera. I took a few shots, after explaining to all the guys exactly why I brought my camera to lunch. :-)

hey, I get that same thing when I run marathons....


/lying, doesn't run marathons...

I love insects. Now if I can just convice hubby that we can afford to get me some sort of macro lens.

aww, the pack- you thought about me?! :) I think about your babies every time I see a poodle.

I haven't had a chance yet for a walk- been stuck at the desk all day- but I plan one for after work for sure!

My first Thursday walk pic.

Well, I didn't let rain stop me:

Found a new place to walk today, the Arboretum of Los Angeles County. A really huge place, it is wall to wall peacocks and they are very tame. You almost have to shove them out of your way to move down the path.


Here's the set:
www.flickr.com/photos/deadeyebart/sets/72157594152540969/

Notta beautiful day for a walk, but an interesting one.

My first Thursday walk.

My first Utata walkabout:

My walk turned into laying down in the field for this one...

It's my first walk and it was a blast!

Walking through the garden after a rain.

Lots of prayer flags in my neighborhood

Here's mine. More vehicles. They make me happy. Gawd it was hot!!!!!!

I almost forgot in my rush around work a day world.

I had a great walk today! Yea!

Had to work late today and thought I would miss an opportunity to shoot. Luckily on the way home I got this:

Skidding in by the skin of my teeth, with 12 minutes to spare Eastern Time:

I found this gnarsty chair behind a bar. Joe asked if I sat in it, but the thing stank.



Then I found a cop who had been dipped in bronze! Imagine!



On the drive out of downtown after work, I got caught in a wicked storm with lots of veiny simultaneous lightning and thunder. Luckily for me, God saw fit to spare my life.

I parked the car and got out for my first Thursday walk, only to be greeted with a downpour -- but no mind, I love the rain. Went to take my first photo and realized I didn't have my glasses on, or with me, and my spare were in my other bag at home. So I shot a few without being able to see through the viewfinder -- used autofocus, heh. Haven't uploaded, but doubt anything turned out worthwhile (if so, will post). :D

funny story Dancing star! love it. I have more than once shown up at a clients house with all my equipment- except the little attachment thingy that secures my camera to the tripod.
sigh

What a great "excuse" to get out and look around. One of these weeks, I'll manage to do my walk on my way to work, so I can shoot something other than downtown architecture. Fortunately, it's a subject I like...

I worked (from home) from 6am to 3pm. Then did freelance business stuff... and finally got outta the house in the early evening. Back at it Friday at 6am... then 7 delicious days off!!

Roadtrip!!!

As usual, awesome stuff this week!

www.utata.org/projects/tw/07.php

I'm hatching a plan to walk down the same street to see different things. This pink house, for example, caught my eye last month because of its giant pink magnolia tree. This week it was surrounded by pink rhodedendrons. Wonder what it will have next week?

If you read my note above, you'll understand what I mean when I say I couldn't see anything through the viewfinder, heh.

I was crazy busy all day yesterday, but fortunately my route to lunch was through the woods and over my favorite little dam. It's always fun to photograph because there's always something new stuck on the weir. In the fall it's leaves, in the winter it's gigantic chunks of ice.



On closer inspection, there was something funky in the water this time. WARNING: GROSS dead muskrat:

My Thursday AM walk had to take place in the PM and thus found me walking some country backroads in the sultry late afternoon heat and haze.

Linda ... what you've done with those photos ... beautiful! Here's where I walked this Thursday:


I keep going back to my secret meadow, every other time with our old dog, Sam. This time without him ... the photo is posted w/ a poem i wrote lying on the grass yesterday.

My walk wasn't unusual or 'special' because I walk to work everyday from the ferry, but this time I took a little longer and stopped to get a few shots along the way.

As usual, I'm trapped inside at work on Thursdays. I think the most exciting thing I could take a picture of would be my purple Converse that I'm wearing. Really enjoying everyone's excursions, though! :-)

Okay, I'm way, way, way jonesing here.

I have so many great shots I'm *acheing* to share with you guys, but my computer has been "in the shop" for two weeks.

I took this at a movie theatre.

I managed to sneak out for a short walk. I saw cats, flowers, a gardening tool that looked like it was placed in a still life, a fence maze, and a very pretty street mural —





(And I was lucky not to encounter any dead birds this week like I did last week.)

we did lots of walking this Thursday. Took in the sights of Chicago.

Are we walking tomorrow?

Yes indeedy, we are :) Want to start a thread?

I'm walking tomorrow on Friday, as per usual. (Yes, well, some of us are difficult, you know.)