Photowalker: Al Higgins

Hello there.

A brief history; My old man had a camera or two, and knew a thing or three about them. I guess I picked up on that at some stage. When I was 15, I happened upon a fantastic wee 1.3 megapixel camera in the airport coming back from Amsterdam. A few years and a few thousand photos later, I was starting a FETAC portfolio course, which had a photography module. I decided to pick myself up an incredibly overpriced 300D… and went from there…

…Another 4 years of college, a degree in Fine Art, and near 40 cameras later, along with plenty of years experience shooting just about everything and anything one could imagine for mischief, fun and profit, and here I am.

Photowalks? They’re great fun. You meet some interesting people, and get to some interesting locations, that you’d never have even thought of without the help of twenty other complete strangers from the internet. There’s a good social athmosphere, and some good chat to be had at any of these events.

The first one I attended was quite a few years ago, I’d just moved to Dublin, and didn’t really know anyone – Posting on a message forum to see if anyone else wanted to do something involving taking photos proved a success, and within about 2 weeks, I was flying down a motorway at about 130mph in the back of a strangers Ford Focus, with Queens of the Stone Age blaring out. Fantastic. I met a few of the faces that still attend the photowalks, or at least provide some of the banter in the pub afterwards.