Nelson, NV Spring Portraits

Spring Portrait Day was a fieldtrip/portrait session.  Debbie & I stationed ourselves out at El Dorado Canyon (Nelson, NV) and prepared oursleves for the onslaught.  We started with Kindergarten & went all the way through the High School students.  The students had so much fun and I think the teachers did as well (once it was over).  Between Debbie & myself we shot over 1200 images.  Crazy!  I am going to be editing for hours.  Thanks to Lightroom it's much easier though:)  I LOVE LIGHTROOM!  I am posting some cute ones of my boys.  All the rest will be up on my site by the end of Spring break.

WPPI

This past week I had the opportunity to attend WPPI (Wedding, Portrait Photographers International).  It's the largest Photography organization in the world and they come to Vegas once a year for an amazing conference.  I haven't attended for the last 3 years and am so glad that I got to go this year.  I sat in some great classes.  My favorites were Kevin Kubota, Jim Garner, Jerry Ghionis & a special Adobe Lightroom session.  I also got to meet up with my old shooting partner Sunny Smith and my new partner Kristin Wilson.  We had so much fun catching up & talking about photography.  WPPI is a great time to check out what everyone's doing, all the latest styles & ideas that are coming out of some amazing photographers.  I tried to focus mainly on weddings, so saw some great album designs.  I am feeling inspired and ready to try some new things & just have fun!

Journalism fieldtrip

I get to teach Journalism at American Heritage Academy & I love my kids!!!  We create the newsletter for our school and the yearbook as well.  So, I get to do what I love and talk about Photography a lot!  We had so much fun the other day when we went out to Nelson, NV.  We were on search of some creative images to display at AHA's Annual Fine Arts week.  I am sooooo empressed with their images.  There's some real talent in this class.  I took a group shot and some individuals of each of them as well.  We had so much fun we're going back out with the entire school for a Spring Portrait Day.