PiPho Walk The Talk @ Baywalk Dry Run — A Huge Success
August 26, 2006 (Saturday) – Manila Baywalk, Manila City, Philippines
The PinoyPhotography.Org aka PiPho held a dry run of its up and coming Walk The Talk Photo Taking Contest slated on October this year.
The main objective of the dry run wass for the Seasoned members to share their experience with the newbies. Group leaders were requested to share their tips and help the newbies prepare for their first competition.The event was meant to be a learning and bonding session with the seasoned members. Newbies were encouraged to take advantage and learn from the masters.
Photo courtesy of clicko (G-Nie Arambulo)
There were more than 100 participants who joint the event which makes this event the largest gathering of the PiPho community to date. Participants were grouped into 10 (Black, Yellow, Red, Blue, Brown, Orang, Green, Pink, White and Purple).
The suggested themes for the event were Landscape, Human Interest, Only in the Philippines and the Open category for panning shots of vehicles, close up of flowers, trees, night shots, B exposure night scenes, clouds, other subjects not covered by Landscape and Human Interests.
The event started 1:30 in the afternoon for a general briefing held at the parking lot at the back of Max’s restaurant. Group hug photos were taken before the event proper started. Event proper started at around 3 in the afternoon.
Jeric became the impromptu emcee/host of the dinner event in Aristocrat sponsored by Canon Philippines. Several prizes (Printer, Bags, books) from Canon were likewise raffled off to the event participants.
At the end of the day all the participants were a bit exhausted but very happy with the new techniques learned and new friends made.
The event was conceptualized by MagicEye (John Chua). The organizing commitee was headed by PARC (Parc Cruz) together with fellow PiPhols Tekgik (Regie Fernando), WildSwan, dni and Dave_D (Dave Deluria).
The event was made possible with the support of the sponsors Canon Philippines, Aristocrat Manila, the Manila Tourism Office for the permit and the Western Police District and Baylwalk patrol for maintaining the safety and security of the participants.
Check out a short teaser video of the event by Symbian/PixelPlate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA8hUPsT-xw
