Early Morning Cherry Blossom Photowalk 2010
Time to prove how much you love photography. 
Last year local photog Shawn Duffy organized this walk and it turned out to be a great success. This year he’s allowing Photowalk DC to organize it. For some examples of the kind of shots available you can view last year’s event at Shawn’s Early Morning Cherry Blossom Photowalk/ Flickr group and my event wrap-up post.
PhotoWalk Details
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
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5:30am – 9:30am
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We’ll meet up at 5:30 am in the parking lot of the Tidal Basin Boat House. From there we can find our spots, set up our tripods, share a cup of coffee and some conversation while waiting for sunrise (which happens at 6:25).
From our experience last year the crowds will start appearing around 7:00. After the early morning sun fades we can then break up in smaller groups and take a walk around the Tidal Basin to shoot different perspectives of the cherry trees.
Register
You can register on the Facebook event page or leave a comment here.
Bloom Dates
Bloom Watch released the following information AFTER we set our date.
Average Peak Bloom Date: April 4
2010 Peak Bloom Date Forecast: April 3 through April 8
2010 Blooming Period: March 31 through April 11
We’ve decided to keep our date instead of moving it up one week so that we do not conflict with Easter Sunday. There should be plenty of blooms left on the branches for our outing. Who knows, with our crazy weather this year we may see another crazy cold front which may delay the blooms for us.
If you would like to join in a group the previous weekend at the start of peak blooms, the Washington Photography Meetup Group is hosting the Photowalk: Cherry Blossoms @ night on April 3rd.
I’m looking forward to seeing shots from both events.
Tags: cherry blossom, Jefferson Memorial, photowalk, photowalk dc, Potomac River, tidal basin, washington dc
