We’re going on a Bear hunt: The Berkeley photowalk

September 6, 2011 3:00 pm by Tracey Taylor

That's What She Said (Lotus Carroll), by Thomas Hawk

Last week, self-described “photography factory” Thomas Hawk teamed up with Google+ to organize a photowalk in Berkeley. A previous photowalk on the Stanford campus had drawn more than 200 participants — the offer of free Google+ swag probably played a part — and Hawk felt it was only fair to come to the East Bay to avoid fueling the infamous Stanford-Cal rivalry.

Over 100 people signed up for the walk, including many photographers whose work we publish regularly on Berkeleyside — such as Michael Moore, Jef Poskanzer, Ira Serkes and Keoki Seu (to whom we owe a hat-tip for this story) – and others, including Sam Breach, Peicong Liu (aka noExcuseG), and Ryan Anderson (dak1b2006).

Ken Duffy -- Berkeley, CA, by Thomas Hawk

The group met at the Sather Tower at 6:00pm on Thursday September 1. Google+’s Chris Chabot handed out T-shirts and other freebies to everyone, then the snapping began. The extremely photogenic Hearst Memorial Mining Building spurred many great interior shots. The group then headed to the Natural Sciences building to shoot a Tyrannosaurus Rex and finally took in the Arnaldo Pomodoro Sphere Within Sphere sculpture.

Hawk said “tons of photos” were taken along the way. “We met up for drinks at the Bear’s Lair Pub for libation and then even later on down Telegraph to Top Dog to get some of the best hot dogs Berkeley has to offer,” he said, writing up the event on Google+.

Berkeleyside asked Hawk to tell the participants we were interested in seeing the fruits of their efforts. Several uploaded photos to our Flickr pool, a selection of which we publish here.

Let's take over Hearst Mining, by noExcusesG

The rolling outline adapts the sniff, by TheRealMichaelMoore

Photo by Sam Breach

UC Berkeley RAW 5D 006, by dak1b2006

Photo: berkeleyhomes-dot-com

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  • http://twitter.com/thomashawk Thomas Hawk

    Awesome Tracey, thanks for publishing this.  Posted on it at Google+ as well here:  https://plus.google.com/104987932455782713675/posts/6dgLqSyTAQv :)

  • http://twitter.com/SarcasticMomLC Lotus Carroll

    Thanks for the write-up, Tracey! Kind of excited to see myself sitting at the top of it. ;)
    I took quite a few photos, and I’ll be sure to add them to the set on flickr as I upload them there!

  • James Trudey

    I love the photos I see on Berkeley side. Can where they are taken be listed? How about a page for all the photos or if they make it on your page how about they get automatically put in the Berkeleyside Flikr photostream?

  • http://berkeleyside.com Tracey Taylor

    James: Thanks for your comment. We love the photographs we publish too — we feel privileged to be able to reproduce the work of some great photographers.

    We endeavor to caption all the photos we publish so that it’s clear where they are taken — and we always credit the photographer when we can. 

    We could probably add photos that we publish into our Flickr pool, but it would be quite labor-intensive, and we operate on a skeletal staff here at Berkeleyside HQ! Still, it’s something to aim for.

  • Anonymous

    Several ways to do it.

    CHECK OUT THE BERKELEYSIDE FLICKR POOLMost (not all) of the photos Berkeleyside uses have been posted to the BerkeleySide Flickr Poolhttp://www.flickr.com/groups/berkeleyside

    It’s easy to set up a flickr account, then add your own photos to the berkeleyside flickr pool.

    SEARCH FOR THE BERKELEYSIDE TAG
    I just “tagged” my photos which appeared in berkeleyside with two tags “berkeleyside” and “SeenInBerkeleyside”.Once our fearless editors decide what tag they like best, all they need do is ask the photographer to use that tag whenever berkeleyside uses one of their photos  
    MAPPING (AKA GEOTAGGING)I generally place my photos on the Flickr Map (and often name them using the location or address) so if you’re curious where a photo was taken, check to see where it is on the Flickr Map.  I’m attaching a sample map so you can see the level of detail it can have.
    If you upload photos from an iPhone, it will generally include the location where you took it. To maintain privacy, I usually turn location OFF when I take photos of people, kids and pets in someone’s home, items for Guess Where Berkeley [http://www.flickr.com/groups/guesswhereberkeley/] … or automobiles or personalized license plates.  Most of my photos are of places or events, so leave the mapping feature on when I upload via iPhone Flickr App.A HYPERLOCAL SITE BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD BE AS SWEETBut just curious what our editors prefer.  Tracey said Berkeleyside, I tend to use BerkeleySide.  Is it like the pronunciation of my last name, where my mother, brother and I each said it differently (never did figure out if we were all right, or all wrong)Ira

  • Chris Chabot

    Thanks for the great article, photos are looking real good here!

    We all had an amazing time on the Berkeley campus, what a beautiful place it is with an very unique and positive vibe all around – thanks you for welcoming our little group of shutter bugs!