I just got back from speaking at SYNC, held at St Pete’s Beach, Florida. It’s a gorgeous location and an incredible event run by some wonderful people. I was very impressed by the incredible turnout. My room was setup for 550 people and was packed!
I asked my “out-of-town-girl-buddy,” Angelina to come help me run my table, and I’m so glad I did — we were swamped. We ended up needing even more help, and other photographer friends that were there came and chipped in to help me fulfill all the orders. So thank you to Angelina, Travis, Troy and Teri for your much needed assistance. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without you all.
Afterwards, Angelina and I went out on the beach to take photographs and had a great time. It’s exhilarating to just create photographs for fun, outside of any job. The sunset was awesome and I even shot a little video. Here’s a 1 min collage of clips I shot that day. I edited it to look like 8mm film.
Here’s how the sunset looked that night.
And one of Angelina doing a self-portrait with her camera phone for one of her personal art projects.
A day or two later, we went back out to the beach and just played, creating fun images again. Here’s a sampling of the images I created that day.
One of me because I seem to always come home without photographs of myself.
A fun one together…
Angelina is a great model. She’s got a great style and she moves very well. I’ve actually used her as a model now many times on shoots, even when I have officialmodels on site, because she’s usually better than they are and more fun to photograph too. Take a look at some of these images and see if you can see what I’m talking about.
These are all shot with no particular purpose in mind, just having fun on the beach with our cameras.
And then the light started to go. The sunset wasn’t as dramatic this night, but I was still able to use it for some great portraits.
And then one closing image of some palm trees. This is a true motion blur, created by spinning my camera as I shot. I took one blurry and one straight, and I like this one much better. The blur adds some great interest for sure.
If you’re a photographer and would like to attend one of my events, please check out my speaking website for an updated schedule, BryCoxWORKSHOPS.com. Also, if a big event isn’t your style or if there aren’t any events in your area, you can host a small and intimate event at your place as long as at least 8 photographers attend. Call me for more details.
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