A Few Updates and Using Colour

It’s been a while.

Just a few major things in my photographic world - 1. During the quarantine / lockdown period of mostly April and May of this year, a group of us Guyanese photographers embarked on a project to document the sea defense of the coastland, and any other worthy subjects along the way. The group is comprised of Micahel C. Lam, Brian Gomes, Fidal Bassier, and myself.

It is not only a lesson in the effort and patience of embarking on a project like this, but challenges you to explore areas you probably never would otherwise.So far, it has been going well, except for a bit of a break since the Guyana Photographers Facebook Group 10th Anniversary Photowalks started.

So far, for the Anniversary Photowalks, we’ve finished two of three total weekend walks, each walk having a different leader who organizes and makes the walk happen. So far, I’ve been able to lead two walks, with the third being this Saturday at 3:00pm - the Avenue Walk, which will take us through parts of the avenues that run along Thomas St., Camp St., Waterloo St., Carmichael St. and Main St.. Looking forward to that.

As leaders, we can also attend other walks once their scheduled times don’t conflict. I’ve attended one of Michael Lam’s - the Mon Repos Market Walk, Brian Gomes’ s - the Stabroek Tower Walk, and Tana Yussuf’s Canal #1 Walk. Each was quite an experience, and a first for me in each situation, so this wasn’t only a plus for capturing photos, but also as a life experience in itself.

The first weekend’s walk I lead was the Heart of GT Walk, and that one was quite amazing. My group got some impressive shots and I’m very satisfied with how it went overall Michael Lam gave me a preview of what the virtual book will look like, and I’m already impressed with the layout, and the photos featured. The writeup for the introduction was quite a challenge, but got a basic one done without, I think, being too verbose.

The second walk I lead was the Seaside Walk (area between the Seawall Bandstand and Kingston Jetty. That was also quite a special experience, and yielded good results photographically.

Something I’m struggling a bit with is finding a color edit I can stick with. I’m considering editing more of my street shots in color now for a change to see where that takes me. There are a few I made already for some of the photwalks and I’m satisfied with them, so far. I feel like black and white is a a pleasurable way of editing and printing, but I feel the need to explore.

That’s a bit of what I needed to say, for now (before this blog gets cobwebs)