WPPI: 2008

I am so excited for WPPI this year. For those of you who aren't geeky photographers, WPPI is a big photo convention held down in Vegas. There's a tradeshow, tons of awesome classes, inspiring photographers, and great networking. I came down a few days early this year to go to the Business Institute. Tonight, we had the first speaker, Jerry Ghionis. Man, I am already so pumped! I could've listened to him forever. I am so excited to implement all the things I am learning into my business.

For your info, I will be checking emails periodically and returning phone calls, but I will get to the bulk of my correspondence with you all when I get back into Salt Lake on Thursday the 20th.

These are some pics I took today of some Joshua trees outside of Vegas. It was nice to actually stop here (I've wanted to photograph them since I saw them from the freeway when I came down in January), stretch my legs, lose my keys, and enjoy the sun. P.S. I'm glad to be down here where it's pleasant and warm rather than Salt Lake, where it's cold and wet.

Cheers!

Self Portraits

I don't know what it is about me, but after a few months of living in the same environment, I need to spice things up -- so I rearrange my room. Last week turned out to be the time that this needed to be done. I love coming up with new ways to do it and I am almost 100% confident that it has never been the same in almost 4 years since I've had this room.

Anyways, as I was dejunkifying some stuff, I ran across a project from my college years, which I did about 4 years ago in one of my final classes. It was a series of self portraits. At the time, I was realizing many things about myself and tried to express them in photographs. This top image was not ever used in the final series, but I still like it.

What do you think?