Seattle and beyond.

I’ve been pretty quiet (read: absent) on the blog since my return from Seat­tle, so I sup­pose I should do a quick syn­op­sis for posterity.

Seat­tle was in a word, incred­i­ble.  The chance to learn from Zack Arias was a huge boost to my knowl­edge in stu­dio light­ing, an area of my knowl­edge I felt needed some devel­op­ment.   Gen­er­ally I shoot what I see, set­ting up and orches­trat­ing a photo is still a bit for­eign but is becom­ing a lot more intu­itive.  Zack, his fam­ily, and his staff were an incred­i­ble bunch of peo­ple, down to earth and incred­i­bly tal­ented the lot.

Cre­ative­Live is a project that I’m awfully grate­ful for as well..  I wasn’t sure what to think about it when I first saw the adver­tise­ments, but after see­ing the incred­i­ble amount of work they put in to their broad­casts, I’m hum­bled.  Their con­stant goal is focused around improve­ment of the pro­gram­ming they’re deliv­er­ing, and ensur­ing that as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble have access to to it.  Their com­mit­ment to the com­mu­nity is commendable.

Chase Jarvis is a key fig­ure in dri­ving the Cre­ative­Live events, and makes an appear­ance when­ever pos­si­ble.  As with every­body else at the event Chase, his wife, and staff are as with Zack’s crew just an all-around won­der­ful bunch of people.

Hum­ble.   If I’ve taken any­thing away from this expe­ri­ence it’s that you don’t actu­ally have to be the arrogant-jerk to suc­ceed.  Prior to my trip, I was begin­ning to wonder..

While we’re dis­cussing the peo­ple involved, I’d be remiss if I didn’t intro­duce you to my fel­low class­mates.  Another group of won­der­fully inclu­sive and incred­i­bly tal­ented peo­ple.  Well worth check­ing out if you need a pho­tog­ra­pher in their areas of oper­a­tion too… :)

Aileen Reilly: www.aileenreilly.com
Eric Krebs: edkphotography.com
Jeramie Shoda: www.shodaphotography.com
Nicholas Lopez: www.nicklopezphoto.com/
Rachel Thurston: www.rachelthurston.com
Wil­fredo Valle: www.wilfredovalle.com

So..  I did a lot of learn­ing with the crew, but didn’t actu­ally do that much pho­tog­ra­phy of note dur­ing the ses­sions..   I’ll include a few images here just for kicks..