Please plan to park at the municipal garage across the street from Puckett’s and next door to the Judicial Center. We will need a few minutes to brief each participant – and we being to walk at 9:15.
Thanks for giving our Historic Franklin Photo Walk your consideration. This will be my third time as group leader and I am anxious to work with this year’s Photo Walkers as we have something new in the mix – we walk in the Fall and not the heat of mid-summer.
I find sunrise is about 6:42 the morning of October 1st – so starting off at 9:15 should provide for some interesting light hitting our subjects before we quit at 11:15 for lunch at Puckett’s Grocery.
So think Town Square in downtown Franklin, historic buildings including homes on the side streets, turning leaves everywhere, and the refurbished Franklin Cinema and nearby stores on Main Street. Let the creative juices flow and come up with interesting angles and shapes in color or black and white.
I have a number of options for you to think about but most of them are still “in the creative stage” so I need to ask you to keep watching for updates. Williamson County Library has already invited us to exhibit the group’s winning image as well as a court of honor of 14 additional images for the month of November. So, when you submit your image to me for the judging – I send in our best image for the World-Wide Scott Kelby Photo Walk competition for honor and prizes – and if you are our winner, I will also need your agreement to display a framed print at the library. If you would like to be considered for the court of honor, you will need to let me know when you submit your image that you will be willing to exhibit a framed print of your selected image in this court of honor.
I will be setting up a FLCKR site so each of our Historic Franklin Photo Walk participants can upload and share a limited number of images from this year’s walk. More about this in an update.
We are considering a book this year that we hope will generate a more meaningful donation to Graceworks and Heritage Foundation in Historic Franklin than we were able to raise our first two years. We had two beautiful books, but we did not do an aggressive marketing job. One possibility – a few realtors have expressed interest in buying limited quantities to use as client gifts. So, we are asking our volunteers on the book team to come up with a process that will take advantage of this advance interest. Our thoughts are to include the following:
1. Our winning image and the court of honor
2. Three to four images by each participant in the Photo Walk with a picture of the photographer
3. A selection of up to 50 images of selected buildings or sites in Historic Franklin
Item 3 is a new idea – we will be asking each participant to volunteer to make an image of a selected site or building – and this image need not be taken during the specific two hours of the actual Scott Kelby PhotoWalk but at a time of day when you think the lighting does this site the most justice. We intend to provide a list from which selections can be made. There is a possibility that one of the Historic Franklin organizations will stage a separate exhibit of these images of selected sites. We are hoping this facet alone will help provide useful recognition for the volunteer photographers.
In addition, we are working on a reception where we can view a video featuring the range of images we are considering for a proposed book. This video will also be made available to the City of Franklin for use on their cable access TV. So, we will also need to know if you want to be a part of this video project – and if there is sufficient interest, details will follow in an update.
In order to stage our library exhibit for the whole month of November, we will have some tight time constraints. Closer scrutiny: – we are heading into the Holiday Season when our individual calendars start to jam up – so we’ll be doing a lot to work within all of this. Keep your eyes on this update – and to be sure you know what is going on early, consider trusting me with your e-mail address so I can write you directly.
Dick Dougall
PS – The only way to enroll in this walk – and the only way to remove your name from the walk – is to follow the guidelines and procedures provided by the Scott Kelby Photo Walk folks, I cannot do either of these.