My photo buddy Paul Lester and I got together earlier this month for an impromptu photo walk.  We don’t do this often enough, but when we do it’s a real blast.  There’s nothing like wandering around with a camera to exercise the creative muscles a bit.

While there are meetup groups and photowalks staged and sponsored by “celebrity” photographers, those are often large group activities.  Paul & I are alike in that too many people makes it more of a cat herding competition than a photography activity.  I’d say that 4-5 people would be the max for me.

Paul lives on the south end of the county and I am at the north end. We met for breakfast down his way then drove to the light rail station for a ride into town.  We ended up disembarking in South End, which is a neighborhood 1-2 miles south of “Uptown” then walked the rest of the way.  After a few hours of wandering we boarded the train for the ride back to our respective cars.

Paul has already posted an article about our walk on his own blog, and it’s always interesting to see what he saw and compare it to what I saw.  I’m purposely leaving out photos that are from the same places as Paul’s, although I certainly have a few that look at lot like his!  Instead I’m showing some photos that are things that he may have seen but that he hasn’t posted (yet!).