Paulo Jordao Photography - BLOG

Hi Everyone, this is Paulo Jordao. Welcome to another great WorldWide Photowalk.

If you noticed, I’ve just posted my Photo Walk Location today - 3 days before the walk.

I’ve organized 4 Photowalks on my own and helped Scott on his 2008 and 2009 Worldwide Photo Walk. I’ve always set up my walk with 5 to 8 weeks in advance, and one thing that I’ve learned is that all my other Photo walks, I had to turn people down because our sign up list got full on the 2 first days (6 weeks before the walk) and at the end some people that signed up wouldn’t show up because they had other plans.

I have to agree that a good location is very important to a successful Photowalk, but the most important thing in a Photo Walk is the GROUP and its leader.

This Photowalk will start at 9:30am at South Beach Park (A1A - Seabreeze Blvd. - couple blocks south of Las Olas Blvd) and end around 11:00am.

We will walk on the east side of the street (Side walk and Beach) walking north on A1A.

After few blocks we will cross A1A, walking back on the west side of the street until we find a nice place to sit down and have some drinks and or food.

It is very hot outside, so… don’t bring heavy gear - One camera and a good lens are more than enough

Please… Only sign up if you are sure you’re coming.

Let’s have some fun!!!

Sign Up Here: http://worldwidephotowalk.com/walk/fort-lauderdale-fl-united-states-2/

Upload your best images here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1434839@N25/

Here are some links so you can check the winners of the Worldwide Photowalk.

http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/1907

http://www.photoshopuser.com/photowalk/winners.html

There were so many great photos that it is really hard to choose the best one. I had a very hard time choosing the winner of our Fort lauderdale group. I can’t imagine what hard time Scott and his people had choosing the overall winner.

Give a look and let me know if you agree with their choices.

First of all, I would like to thank everybody that came to our Worldwide Photowalk - Fort Lauderdale Photowalk (Part 2). We had an incredible number of 65 Participants (Photowalkers) on this gorgeous day here in South Florida, and I hope that everybody have enjoyed the day as much as I had.

I can truly say that you made this group one the strongest group of the whole Worldwide Photowalk. I have checked the other city Flickr groups, and they didn’t have even half of the number of people that we have signed to their Flickr group yet. We already had 48 members signed on our group even before the Photowalk started.

You made me PROUD!!! I couldn’t have asked for a better group, and I can not stress enough how much I appreciate all the compliments that I’ve received from most of you.

Few people already have started downloading their pictures to our Flickr group (Click Here to Check our Flickr Group), and I have to say that I am very impressed with the results.

When I chose that specific location, I knew that the beach and the pier would provide us some good pictures, but I knew also that the location wouldn’t have beautiful canals, old railroad and not even gorgeous or antique buildings.

I didn’t want to make this Photowalk to look like some “tourist reunion”, where people just keep taking pictures of old monuments and historic sites (wherever you point your camera you would have a “great tourist shot” anyway). NO!!! I wanted you to go one step ahead and prove to yourself that you could walk in a regular street and still capture some beautiful and unique images.

For what I have seen already in our Flickr Group, you have exceeded my expectations.

So!!! For that, and much more…

=== I AM GLAD THAT YOU WERE PART OF OUR GROUP ===

PS. Our Next PHOTOWALK will in October. I have to decide between October 05 (Sunday) or Oct 26 (Sunday) in Hollywood, FL. Let me know what day is the best day for you. OK?

I just got the official count of the cities that are part of our Worldwide Photowalk on August 23. 236 cities are confirmed for this unique and huge event.

In few days, I will be writing more details about our Fort Lauderdale Worldwide Photowalk, but for now if you want to read more about the event, here is Scott Kelby’s blog: http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/1805

or… you can check my Worldwide Photowalk Leader Page:

http://www.photoshopuser.com/photowalk/city/ft-lauderdale-morning.html

If you were waiting for another Photowalk here in Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Palm Beaches area, this is the event that you were waiting for.

On August 23, 2008 9:00 am, we are going to have our “PHOTOWALK FORT LAUDERDALE 2″ in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea = Commercial and A1A = (click here for the route). We are organizing this Photowalk joining forces with Scott Kelby on the attempt to have 100 cities around the world having a Photowalk on the same day. Scott thought that would be really cool idea to do something different to celebrate the release of his new book Lightroom 2.

South Florida has so many different and beautiful places to do a Photowalk that it was hard to pick only one location for this event. I chose Lauderdale-By-The-Sea area because of its history, the beautiful beach, easy parking and one of the most beautiful and well preserved pier where people come to enjoy the great view and the opportunity to fish.
The location is also well known for its great bars and restaurants with all kind of foods and drinks.

If you join us for this Photowalk, you will have a great opportunity to take some of the most amazing pictures of the streets and the surroundings of that area, and you will also have an incredible opportunity to get some great shots of beautiful people at the beach, surfing, diving, fishing and etc.

You might also have the opportunity of meeting different people, including few of the most renamed Photographers of South Florida.

Remember that this is a FREE event but we are asking you to Sign In so we can have a better control of how many people are coming. OK? (Click Here to Sign In)

Let’s have some fun together. I am waiting for you!!!

My Flickr Group: Click here to check some more pictures of the area…

After two days going out and staying wake until 4:00 am, I decided that today I was just stay home and relax.

Few hours ago I came to the computer to finish a Wedding Album that I have to deliver in two weeks, and after that I started watching some of the DVD Tutorials that I have of Scott Kelby, and I decided to play a little bit (trying few of his techniques) here on my computer.

Since I still have the file of my friend’s party at Ouzo’s South Beach (Click Here to read the post) on my computer, I just got one of the pictures that I like to play with it for a wile.

I want to thank Scott Kelby for the tips and Nicolas for the great Party.

This is to Nicolas… SALUTE!!!

If you want to look at some samples and Package Prices, please visit my website:

www.paulopics.com