G’Day Local Guides, I use Google Maps just about every day and rely on your reviews and photos to help me find the good stuff. Local Guides is something I care about quite deeply and to go with that I care about the quality of the photos that we put on Maps. This is why a few years ago I started a bit of a movement towards better quality through the concept of the 36 walk. It is time to announce this year’s walks and the people who are leading them
There are 25 walks this year across 14 countries. You can find a walk near you on the 36 Walk My Map for 2019, if there isn’t one there is no reason you can’t do your own 36 with just you or perhaps a few friends. There’s nothing to it but to enjoy a nice day out challenging yourself to make the best images you can but only 36 of course!!
So what do you do? Photography has become too easy. Most of us have a camera in our pocket and we’ve lost the need to care because making an image costs us nothing.
By constraining ourselves we must take more care with every image because it has to count. This leads to Consider. Compose. Click.
Why 36? In its heyday the most popular film came in 36 shot canisters. Each shot cost real money to develop. There was constraint. For most people this meant quality.
Each year, the 36 walk has grown because Local Guides care about quality and care about their contributions to Maps.
join the mission: join a walk, or go solo
Attendee packs are available in English, Dutch, French, Hindi, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Urdu and now Ukranian thanks to my wonderful translators (see credits below).
Walks MyMap
- Argentina - Buenos Aires - March 23rd 9am - Farid Monti
- Argentina - Ushuaia - March 16th 2019 - Avraham_Jurado
- Australia - Melbourne / Collingwood - March 23rd - Paul Pavlinovich
- Australia - South Yarra / Chapel St - March 16th - Maria Ngo
- Australia - Sydney (Coogee) - March 23rd - Penny Christie
- Bangladesh - Nilgiri View Point (Bandarban) - March 22nd - MohammadAlauddin
- Bangladesh - Teota Zamidar Bari (Manikganj) - March 22nd - ShahMdSultan
- France - Paris - March 22 - JeanRV
- India - Bengaluru - March 23 - ShravanJain
- India - Chennai - March 23rd - John Peter
- India - Delhi (Mehrauli) - March 23rd - ambrishvarshney
- India - Gandhinagar - March 23rd - NareshDarji
- Italy - Venezia (Venice) - March 23rd - ANNALISA2 walk map
- Lao PDR - Vientiane - March 23rd - KamphoutS
- Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur - PavelSarwar
- Malaysia - Penang - OmerAli
- Nigeria - Abuja - March 23rd - NkennaA
- Nigera - Lagos - March 23rd - Sagir
- Pakistan - Karachi - March 23rd - Kashifmisidia
- Philippines - Baguio - March 23rd - VincePH
- Sri Lanka - Batticaloa - March 23rd - IllankovanT
- Sri Lanka - Galle - March 14th - AnuradhaP
- Sri Lanka - Sigiriya-LK - March 23rd - AnuradhaP
- Ukraine - Mykolaiv-UA - March 23rd - Jane9996
- USA - San Francisco - May 4th (be with you) - Kim and Tu
Translation credits
- Arabic (in progress)
- English
- Dutch @JanVanHaver
- French @JeanRV
- Hindi @deepakjhic
- Italian @ErmesT
- Russian @JaneBurunina
- Spanish @ValeriaA
- Urdu @KashifMisidia and
- Ukranian @JaneBurunina
Let’s do this thing together and have a great day out. I look forward to recaps from the walk leaders and images from the participants.
ps. in case you hadn’t guessed this is also my Connect Live Post :).