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*)

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The secret workshop is tomorrow TODAY!

The mixer was fun, but LOUD.  My gosh..I could hardly hear myself think, let alone carry on much of a conversation with anyone.  I did meet several people I “know” online, which was fun… so I officially have people I can sort of hang out with tomorrow, I hope

I’m supposed to be up in just 3 hours (ack!!) getting myself ready, then getting the kids ready to take out to my IL’s house, since they’ll be watching the two younger ones while I am away aaaaall day.  I haven’t had two full days to myself without any kids with me in.. well I don’t even know how long, it’s been that long :)  I am hoping my son does okay… he still won’t really take a bottle from anyone and he’s going to be without me for about 10 hours, possible a little bit longer if there’s horrible traffic.

I have some pictures from last weekend to proof still, that I will probably post this weekend.. if I’m not too exhausted from the workshop!