Last week I spoke in Illinois, right across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. I took an afternoon to go visit the arch when I first arrived, and took some self portraits.
I used an extendable pole to control my camera, rather than relying on someone else or using a tripod. This way I can see what I’m doing and get exactly what I want.
I’m still in my flight clothes, with jacket (great for pockets which are much needed on a flight), and Skull Candy headphones (great for movies on the plane, tunes on a trip alone, as well as iPhone calls too). A local looking at these photos on my iPhone commented that he’s never seen photos of people by the arch where the arch looks small. Everyone gets images up close, he said. I specifically choose not to do that, because you just can’t see anything that way — but I did create some more artistic images up close.
It was a fun afternoon and a great start to an awesome week of speaking, teaching, and creating some awesome images! That part of the week is coming shortly.
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I set up my samples and hung out to answer questions with people.
it was a full event and they sold not only my packages, but a lot of other things as well and raised some good money for their cause.
I’m grateful that they called me and asked me to participate. It’s a great feeling to be able to help groups and organizations that better our society.
The idea was a hallway of photographers, each posed doing something else that they loved besides photography. Aside from photography, I really love guns, music, and I guess I could add girls to that list too. But not having any props prepared, I used my ipod as a substitute for a musical instrument. I also really like comedy and so I over-posed in a fun way, really low. This was the resulting image.
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.
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.
Our friend Benton, who is an expert fly fisherman, took my cousin Tony and I on a fishing expedition up the Colorado River. We started here, just below the dam. I call this image, “The best dam image of me.” 🙂
Here’s Benton showing off one of Tony’s catches. With his help, we caught a ton of fish — all however were too big to keep. It’s a funny rule on this part of the river.
Here was one of my catches, one of the biggest of the day. If I could have kept it, it would have made a great dinner!
Here is a pano looking out from our boat.
Because of my recent knee dislocation, I wasn’t able to wakeboard with everyone else. I’ve been working hard on rehabilitation, because I like being active and don’t want to miss out on summer fun. My knee was feeling pretty good so I tried some light surfing behind our friend Mark’s boat. It was great to get in the water.
If you haven’t seen or heard of this, you start behind the boat with a rope in order to get started, and then throw the rope back to the boat once you get your balance. A pro can surf on that wake indefinitely.
It not only was a great trip, but a reminder for me to photograph my casual moments in life, as well as the professional. Photographs are a great way to preserve memories not only for us, but for future generations.
