funto's visit

My friend funto came for a visit today and it ended up turning into a photo shoot. Its funny how some of my favourite images come from very unexpected places.

through a window

I was waiting for a video interview to finish today so i could do the stills for a very nice client. Since i had a camera in my hand i passed the time shootng. This was the view out one of the windows.

remembering

These images are from a great trip to france for the dday anniversary this year. I took over 14,000 photos on the trip but none affected my emotions more than the last photo above. It was just a ceremony that happened that we did not know about or plan to attend. The image of this man holding the flag just got me and it was one of only two times over the 15 days that i had tears.

NYC Photo Conference

I was very very lucky to attend the Photo Plus Expo in New York recently. I have been to a handful of other photo conferences in the past and i highly recommend them. Not only are you in a huge crowd of people that love the same thing you do but you also get to listen to some of the worlds best tell you about why they love what they do and how they do it. A walk with zack arias (http://beam.zackarias.com/#!/index) was really cool but the highlight for sure was listening to dan winters (http://www.danwintersphoto.com/html/) for an hour. If you have an opportunity to take in a photo conference then go, don't hesitate, just go. Be prepared to be exhausted but also inspired. So some tips you say: Stay at a hotel close to the conference, go a day early and do a pre conference session, plan your lectures well and if one is not what you thought then leave and head to a different one, spend time on the show floor (lots of lectures there too plus all the equipment you want to get your hands on), if they have a party night go (you will get a chance to talk to other attendees and make friends), bring a sweater (the conference areas are always air conditioned and cool), stay an extra day if you can for shopping and street shooting. I have been to photo plus expo and photoshop world conferences and i would recommend both.