Child & Family, Lifestyle, Engagement & Wedding Photography In Northern Virginia
Continuing my photographic journey in Downtown Las Vegas, I met up with the great guys from PhotogShootout to hang out and photograph two gorgeous models in Downtown Las Vegas, near Freemont Street. We spent the afternoon walking around the beautiful old buildings and movie theaters and best of all, a beautifully restored classic Corvette. Check out some of my favorites from the day.
Last week, Las Vegas became a temporary home to some 15,000 photographers from all over the country (and many from other parts of the world) during the annual WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International) conference. There were classes on every topic imaginable from how to run a smooth business to how to work with and master the use of light with everything in between, not to mention one of the largest photography related trade shows in the country. Naturally, this wasn’t enough entertainment for me so I had to find something interesting to do in the 3 hours that I wouldn’t be otherwise occupied, so when I happened to chance upon an available seat in Mike Colón’s workshop, I didn’t waste any time. The workshop lasted most of the day and was very laid back, with all of us asking questions and discussing topics that included business sense, marketing and various photographic techniques. Afterward, we all drove out to the Nevada desert in order to put some of what we learned and talked about to use on a bridal model shoot. Here are some of my favorites.
Thanks again to Mike Colón for hosting the workshop and to Ray Santana for hanging out with us and providing some invaluable advice as well.
Be on the lookout for another blog post with more photos from a workshop I did with the Bui Brothers, a well as a fun model shoot involving two gorgeous models, a gorgeous Corvette and Old Las Vegas.. stay tuned
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As I spent the better part of five hours shoveling roughly half a foot of ice beneath a foot of snow from my driveway, my dog, Jake, was entertaining himself in various ways, mostly involving eating and playing with the bits of snow and ice coming from my shovel. He was about to call it quits and go back inside to warm up when another dog ( or possibly a small Polar Bear ) came by for a visit. I managed to take a couple photos. Enjoy
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I recently had a chance to accompany Terra Dawn for a quick photo walk around Manassas. We initially decided to check out the Manassas Battlefield Park, finding the visitor center completely plowed, but unfortunately closed. It was then that Terra discovered that the area right next to the Stone House was entirely covered with kids ( and adults! ) of all ages using sleds, skis, snowboards and anything else suitable to slide down the hill. After managing to make it halfway up the hill in waist deep snow and realizing we could instead use the well trampled path, we walked around and took pictures for a bit, doing our best to avoid being rammed into. After about 20 minutes, we headed to Airlie, a very interesting Farm in Gainesville. This place supposedly had a beautiful garden maze. I say supposedly since it and everything else was buried under roughly 3 feet of snow. I did manage to only fall face first into the snow once, which I was quite proud of. And now, on to the photos
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There were two significant events that happened last week, with one impacting pretty much everyone within a 50 mile radius of Washington, D.C., and one that concerned a small group of like minded artists from Manassas. Let me back track a bit, before I got started with wedding and child photography, I primarily photographed landscapes and had been doing so for the previous several years. Recently, I joined the Manassas Art Guild, where I was able to meet and network with several very talented local artists. About two months ago, I got an opportunity to join with the guild and set up a small art exhibit at the Virginia Wine Showcase to be held in the first week of February. There were six of us there, which gave all of us ample room to display our art, even including my gigantic 20×40 photograph of two grazing horses during sunset.
Coming back to that other event I mentioned earlier, or as it came to be known. “Snowmaggeddon 2010″ ( a.k.a “The Snowpocalypse” ), which happened to coincide with our little event and blanket all of the Northern Virginia are with roughly 2-3 feet of snow, reducing our anticipated crowd down to somewhere between 30 and 60 people instead of the anticipated 8-10 thousand. Ordinarily, I’d label this a complete and utter failure, but this was my first exhibit or show of any kind, so even though Phil the groundhog was cranky after his nap and brought this upon us didn’t bother me too much, after all, good or bad, it was still an experience.
Of course, I did manage to take some pictures. Enjoy
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