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Last year, Scott Kelby did an experiment and tried to organize a photo walk in multiple cities around the world and had great success. 8,324 photographers register from 236 cities in 47 countries. A total of 1,017,125 photos were taken on walks that day in a 2 hour span. I was lucky enough to be in Vancouver at the time and joined David duChemin for the 2 hour photo walk on the Vancouver leg of the tour and had a great time.

It's happening again this year on July 18th and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island is on the list.

I wanted the opportunity to participate again and to make sure it happened, I applied to be a leader and was approved to guide 50 photographers around downtown Charlottetown. Lets be clear. Leading simply means defining a time, start/end location, finding a restaurant for the end and making sure you're there. This is not a workshop or a teaching event.

With the help and support of the PEI Photo Club, here is what we are proposing.

on July 18th 2009

• Starting: Confederation Landing Park at 6:30am
• Ending: Province House at 9:00am

Walkers will not be not restricted by this and can move at their own pace but our general proposed route will be: (providing the city does not schedule a paid event in the park)

There is a limit of 50 people for each city, so you must register to participate at worldwidephotowalk.com/charlottetown-pe-ca. If your spouse or friend joins you, they should register as well even if they don't have a camera.

One photographer from each city will win Scott Kelby's new book and then Scott will select one overall winner and award them with thousands of dollars worth of prizes.

If you'd like to spend a few dollars, there will be an official Worldwide PhotoWalk T-shirt (not on sale at the walk but purchased in advanced), and 100% of the profits from the sale of any of these t-shirts will go to feeding the kids at the Springs of Hope, Kenya Orphanage.

All skill and experience levels are welcome. See you there.