Croydon Photo Walk - Sat 3rd October

[Peter Boughton]

A group walk around central Croydon taking pictures - all club members (or potential members) welcome!

Saturday 3rd October
13:45 at Platform, Ruskin Square (next to rear entrance of East Croydon station).

Attendees:
* David Beard
* Graham Cluer
* Mike Farley
* Paul Heester
* Peter Boughton
* Tom Sherrin

If you're interested in coming along please reply here, so we know who to expect.

[Mike Farley]

Thanks, Peter, I'm looking forward to it.

[toms]

Hi Peter,

Please count me in.

Regards,

Tom

[gcluer]

See you there

Graham

[Mike Farley]

Many thanks to Peter for organising this Croydon Wide photo walk. A very enjoyable afternoon. Something we should do more often.

[Peter Boughton]

Well that went well. Thank you to everyone who came along and made it a success.

From what I saw of the images others took, there were some good photos captured, and I've definitely got several with potential.

I'll see about posting some here once I've properly gone through them, and hopefully others can do the same - let's show the rest of the club what they missed.

It would be great to arrange more walks like this - some clubs do it on a regular basis, and there's no reason Croydon can't too - even the same photographers doing the exact same route could get completely different images on another day - but there are also plenty of places in town we didn't get to today, and lots of locations in the vicinity that could easily fill a few hours.

[toms]

Peter,

Thank you for arranging Saturday's walk and for selecting such an interesting route. I enjoyed the afternoon very much and I know the others did as well. Yes we have some interesting images to show and hopefully we can arrange another similar walk in the future.

Any suggestions or offers anyone?

Kind regards,

Tom

[Mike Farley]

Some pictures from yesterday.

The intrepid group

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The intrepid band of photographers set out on their epic photowalk.

A friendly encounter

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Perhaps it was the sunny weather as the people we encountered were in a friendly mood. Paul and I spent some time talking to this chap, who is a regular visitor to Croydon from the American mid-west via Liverpool and Austria.

Watching us watching them.

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We were not the only people taking pictures yesterday.

Croydon College

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The route took us past Croydon College, which is by the former field where livestock fairs were traditionally held and gives the area its name.

Fairfield Halls reflections

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Fairfield Halls reflection.

Jeremy Corbyn lookalike.

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Jeremy Corbyn is looking for a new job already?

Unwelcome

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The kindness of traffic wardens.

Graffiti abstract

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Some of the new graffiti around St George's Walk.

Surrey Street Market

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Shoppers in Surrey Street Market

Market portrait

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Another taken in the market. I must remember to use this in a competition where the judge has expressed a liking for eye contact.

[Mike Farley]

A couple more of some members of our party.

[Mike Farley]

The guy in my second photo talking to Paul said he was a wrestler. After a bit of research, it turns out that his ring name is "Avalanche" and he weighs 390 lbs. I'm glad he was friendly.

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