Connie Drapeau Kennedy, a RAW regular, sent us an e-mail about the Second Annual Worldwide Photo Walk being held this Saturday, July 18, in hundreds of places around the globe. She's hosting a walk in Marshfield, but there are 13 other walks in Massachusetts alone.

The walks are social events where photographers get together, usually in a downtown area or trendy section of town, to walk around, shoot photos, and generally have fun with other photographers. They last about two hours, and Connie says they're fun, free and it doesn't matter whether you're a beginner, serious amateur, or professional. All you have to do is sign up, using the event's web site, then show up.

I'm on the customer mailing list for Hunt's Photo & Video as well as Calumet Photographic in Cambridge, and each store has some interesting events and workshops coming up this spring and summer.

RAW denizen fairnsquare passes along a tip about what looks to be terrific multi-venue photo exhibits in Lowell next weekend. Seven Lowell galleries, museums, and arts organizations will host photo shows as part of Lowell Photography Weekend Friday, Jan. 30 through Sunday, Feb. 1.

Some of the shows feature the work of one photographer; others were open to all and juried. Here's the lineup:

Thought you might like a roundup of some photo-related events and exhibits to check out over the New Year's weekend:

Actress Jessica Lange, winner of two Academy Awards, discusses her book of photographs today at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge (call Harvard Book Store at 617-661-1515 for tickets, $5). "50 Photographs," a portfolio of work in black-and-white, features images from Mexico, Africa, Romania, Russia, Finland, Italy, and France as well as the United States. Lange describes taking photographs as "the opposite of acting."
-- The Boston Globe

Meet Brian Skerry, a corrugated-box salesman from Uxbridge. Once you've processed that snapshot and think you know who he is, meet Brian Skerry, globe-circling underwater photographer for National Geographic and other top magazines. His was a simple transformation, if you call 20 years of hard work simple.