The second Worldwide Photowalk organised by Scott Kelby took place today in 900 cities across the world. As soon as I saw that the registrations had opened a few months ago (I follow his blog), I signed up for the Johannesburg walk. There were 27000 photographers in 900 cities that registered for the event.

It was a blast! There were 100 photographers that registered for 2 Johannesburg walks.  We all met at Wits University in Braamfontein, and walked over the Nelson Mandela bridge into Newtown.  My only regret, is spending too much time on the bridge, as I would have loved to have spent more time in Newtown and the Johannesburg CBD.

As you can imagine, I’ve taken stacks of photos, so I’m splitting my blog posts over a few days.  In case you’re interested, I used my new Canon 50D, and I primarily used my Sigma 24-70 f2.8 lens, and some of the shots were taken with my Sigma 70-300mm lens.

This building in Braamfontein used to have a revolving restaurant on top.

We met this Malawian on the Nelson Mandela bridge

These guys were sitting around a burning tyre

A community cop in Newtown

A dancing car watch dude in Newtown

Small wooden statues are mounted on bollards on every street corner in Newtown

… and I’ll post more tomorrow night