Sydney photographers, bloggers, instagrammers and tweeters are being invited to Bondi this Saturday (23 March 2013) to sign up for Colby Brown, considered one of America’s most influential photography bloggers try to set a brand new world record for the most important ever ‘photo-walk’.
The Bronte to Bondi Photo Walk is supported by Google, Samsung and Destination NSW and is a part of a brand new Tourism Australia program, targeting digital influencers and opinion leaders, inviting them to share their images and experiences of Australia with their extensive social media followings.
Colby is a pro photographer based in Denver, Colorado and has 2.3 million followers on Google+.
“Australia has this sort of vibrant and active photography community that may be known world wide. I instantly knew that i wished to do a photograph walk in Sydney since it is the sort of beautiful location and provides an excellent opportunity to bring that thriving community together to celebrate and showcase much of what town has to supply the arena,” Colby Brown said.
Tourism Australia Managing Director Andrew McEvoy said that the integration of Colby’s photographic talent and big following of fans provided a strong platform to showcase a number of Australia’s ideal tourism experiences.
“With greater than four million fans, we have already got the most important destination Facebook fan page on this planet, and apparently we only need about 300 people to enroll in Colby in this Bronte-Bondi Photo Walk to make it a brand new world record for Australia,” Mr McEvoy said.
As well because the photo walk, Colby Brown might be also playing Google+ ‘Hangouts’ during his Australian trip, which also take up the natural landscapes and scenery of South Australia, Tasmanian, Victoria and Western Australia.
A selection of leading Australian digital influencers are supporting the realm record bid, including South Sydney photographer Michael Sutton, who will accompany Colby and share his own photos taken in the course of the walk along with his 52,000 Google+ followers.
The world record for a photograph-walk is currently held by another prominent US photography blogger, Trey Ratcliff. It happened in Melbourne in January and was attended by 289 people.
The Bronte to Bondi Photo Walk happens on Saturday 23 March: starting at Bronte Beach at 3pm and finishing at the North Bondi grassy knoll around sunset.
Participants taking the appropriate photograph can win as much as $8,000 worth of prizes, including cameras and photography equipment in addition to Bridgeclimb vouchers.
Colby and Michael will both be posting real-time updates of the photo-walk on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google+. The hashtags for the photo-walk are #Bondi2013 and #SeeAustralia
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