BCMKE3 – Where did all these photographers come from?

Note to self: I need a Nikon SLR.

I just got back from BarcampMilwaukee3, the technology and creativity “un-conference”.  I wasn’t prepared for the creativity side of it, but I found this to be more refreshing than the discussion about web technologies I had throughout the two days.

It seems interesting to me the sheer number of photographers in the crowd.  I would put this number at one out of five participants either had a camera at the conference or were active flickr users for their blogs.  The photowalk was one of the most popular sessions.  Maybe this is a release for the sometimes mundane tasks of writing code.  But the creative side is important for programming, so maybe this is another means to foster that creativity.