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Sophie P's avatar

Lovely post, it's true, I've gained a lot and learned a lot by going on photo-walks with a few strangers! Curious what groups you have joined for London photo walks? Love that shot of the clouds in sky & glass :)

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Giulia Hepburn's avatar

I’ve been to the disorganized photowalk, that was very chilled and I talked a lot with many interesting humans. I went to one organized Vintage Camera Hut that was also nice (a lot of people, I talked less this time) and my very first one was with Lomography!

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Sophie P's avatar

cool thanks for the tip - I hadn't heard of the disorganised photo walk but sounds right up my street, I will check it out!

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Tom Minty's avatar

Great read.

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serious as your life's avatar

Thank you for this article, I really needed this ❤️

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Giulia Hepburn's avatar

Glad it helped ❤️

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okayfoto's avatar

Great piece and awesome photos, my friend. My additional advice that I find works for me when I start to catastrophise is ask what could go right? And make a list of all the good things that could come from something and 9 times out of 10 it will outweigh the bad. The bad typically are things that would never happen in the real world haha.

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Michael Bartosek's avatar

I've organized and lead probably well over 300 photo walks and rock climbing meetups in the last 5-10 years. Everyone has been a different opportunity to learn, engage and make friends. It's been amazing, and I don't consider myself particulary extroverted, but the truth of these events from what I've seen is most participants are there to LEARN ABOUT YOU AND WHAT YOU DO - too. they are curious, they want connection - otherwise, they'd be those loner youtubers that always talk about loving and being alone.

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