The workshop was AMAZING!!

Seriously, wow. I have not had so much fun in a LONG time. I am so glad I went, it was totally worth it Odin did just peachy without me too (almost 11 hours the first day, 9 hours today!).. I think he really likes my MIL. I missed him bunches, especially when Cheryl had her little girl up on stage since my little guy is almost the same age, but I think I had a harder time of it than he did.

There is so much I am going to do differently now as I step into the business side of this.. things I am sure I never would have thought of before. Goals I wouldn’t have EVER thought to set for myself.. or had the guts to dream of, all of which is a very VERY good thing. I didn’t learn too much new technical stuff, which I sort of expected.. since that’s not what I really went for, I wanted to know more about the business side, and I came away with more inspiration in that area than I was really expecting, and a HUGE confidence boost as well.  I was a bit surprised at the lack of functional Photoshop skills among some workshop attendees.. a few of which were actually in business.  I didn’t expect that at all - since post processing is such a huge part of shooting digital, I guess I take it for granted that not everyone knows Photoshop as well as they probably should.

Anyways, I got to shoot some of the absolute CUTEST kids!  They were ALL wonderful. I didn’t shoot nearly as much of some of them as I wanted (and some not at all), because it was hard to get good positions with SO many others trying to shoot too (there were 40ish photographers total?) but even if I didn’t get some of the images I wanted, it was a lot of fun.

So, some of the fruits of my labor.. these are WAY more saturated than I’d normally do, but it’s part of the urban “look” (and that’s not something I normally do - but WOW am I going to have to get out and do more!!)

I need to track this girl’s mom down.. she was the most patient and adorable model there, and only a couple of weeks older than Odin (hint, if you stalk my blog, COMMENT PLEASE!  I totally want to do a shoot with her, she is *darling*)

This wall/mural kicked butt. I’m taking Odin there tomorrow (by sheer luck we were already planning it though, but I wouldn’t have been thinking “photo shoot” before yesterday, I was just going to stroll through the Pecan St. Festival)

This is the daughter of one of the photographers attending the workshop who lives about an hour from me.. I think I am going to see if I can shoot her again too (and possibly her other two siblings) - maybe mom will want to borrow my kid(s) too

This girl was soooo easy to work with.. I swear you’d think she did this all the time (these weren’t actual models)

And Cheryl Muhr’s baby, Kennedy, since everyone loves a BF CD’d babe (though she was in paper dipes for travel) She’s 3 days older than Odin and something like 7lbs heavier.. a very chunky monkey (and SOOOOO cute!)!