Latest Speaking Tour

Thanks to Pictage, who sponsored the 1st 11 days of 20+ in my "Character Marketing" speaking tour to the Pictage user groups, or PUG's. It was an open invite however to photographers in each city. Here is Nashville

The Nashville crew here with a wireless flash setup on each side. Simple.

Here is a shot from a friend who was shooting me speaking.

The week earlier I was in Portland, Oregon and met with a sweet group of photographers there.

Eric Farewell's wife, Nellie was there, they were such a help to me during my shoot in San Francisco and again here in Portland. Great people.

Eric shot these shots of me sharing about character marketing and growing ourselves as much as our art.

The Portland skyline, Here we used the YongNuo wireless transmitters, which powered my Canon 580ex II flashes at 1/128th power.

Same exact settings, just a couple, and you get sweet light.

I stopped in Seattle and this was the 1st day that I was able to speak after 5 days of being on 100% vocal rest. Thanks to everyone who was praying. It was a blessing to be able to share that night!

Again, a great group of photographers in Seattle as well.

Here is my view, for 2 hours sharing my heart and experiences. I was blessed to hear people share how they walked away with renewed vision.

Tech specs, 1/5 second, F 1.2, ISO 1000, shot on the ground so the middle ground was limited to the couple standing, the orange clouds are from the city lights.

Here is the view of the photogs surrounding and the flash setup. Simple 1/128th power on the flash heads. I did 11 demos, and 2 weddings on the same batteries before I had to switch them.

San Francisco. Thanks to Gene Higa for helping out shooting this shot!

On Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, this is the leftover crowd from the demo shoot we did for the Los Angeles PUG.

Detroit Michigan. All I can say is that it was 13 degrees out! But it was worth flying up and sharing with another great group of photographers here.

This was the 1st stop in the tour in San Diego, thanks to the Youngrens, and the La Vida Crew, they took great care of me.

Near the end of the 1st 3 weeks, about the 1/2 way part of the tour, we stopped at Kevin Swan's house for the presentation, where we did the camera toss. I should have had my fisheye on for this shot, as in the Camera toss which was a few posts earlier.

I wanted to give a special thanks to Pictage, for sponsoring this, also for Drobo, for giving away a gift certificate, Album Exposure for giving away a year subscription, and to Show-It sites, for giving away a special discounted rate on their AMAZING slideshows and websites for photographers.

Upcoming on the tour are the following cities: Philly, DC, NYC, uptown NYC, Baltimore, Boston, Salt Lake City, Pheonix, Orlando, Miami, Hartford, Chicago, Sacramento, East Bay Area, Vancouver, and maybe Kansas City. I hope to see those of you in those cities coming up. For more info, check out my workshops site.

The 10.22.08 KISS Workshop in NYC!

We are announcing the 2008 KISS And the winner of the free Seat I'm giving away for the NYC KISS workshop on 10.22.08 is mike steelman Congrats man! Hope to see you there, as for the rest of you guys, check out more details on KISS's BLOG. Thanks for all your comments and inquiries on the Blog post earlier.

Here are the details for the workshop:
Oct 22nd, in Manhattan, just before Photo Plus. We're still trying to iron out a location. Kevin Swan will talk about branding and albums. Mike Larson will talk about character, leadership and how that effects everything, and then lead a photo shoot with a bride in downtown Manhattan!

The cost will be $140 per person, with a max of only 12 people.
The seminar will be all day and include lunch.
If you want to book, or have questions, email Kevin@KissWeddingBooks.com

There will be the option of One on One Mentor Sessions as well, if your interested please email either Mike or Kevin, or you can decide later at the Workshop if you want to switch.

If your interested in signing up for the Workshop, Click here

Inspired

I have been inspired tonight. Honored to be asked to speak here at
WPPI, in front of a lot of people, to share my passion and my heart
for the wedding photographer industry. There are 11,000 photographers
at this convention.

This is the most humbling thing that I have been a part of. in my career here. Now, we all came before for a rehearsal to listen to Skip Cohen talk to us, basically the guy who runs WPPI. So as we all were circled around, he shared with us that there is 1 reason alone we were invited to give this presentation. "You guys are shaping the future of the industry, you are on the front edge. You are keeping it up. Each of you have been inspired and are inspiring others."

Wow. It's a very humbling thing to be asked to be here and I feel more responsible to be even better in every area of my business, my life and my character. I agree when DJ, says that "its easy to be the same as others, to copy and to follow, its hard to lead," Its a mind frame to be constantly thinking of new ways to push the edge and to do different stuff.

There are so many good friends here and I have met
so many new ones. This week has inspiring and has changed my life. I've
learned more than I've shared. Thanks to all those this week so I
met, say hi and stay in touch.

SO Cal Pictage PUG Tour

This week, i am visiting and talking to the Pictage PUGS, which are the groups of photographers who have gotten together to grow and learn and hang out. Everyone was great tuesday night at Lauren Hilary's House. I chatted about my talk in chicago at Pictages Partner con, We just met last night at the Baumans Studio in San Diego. They rock and there was about 15-20 people hanging out. The conversations and discussions were intensive and sweet. Thanks guys for letting me join you! I am heading to Beverly Hills for the LA pug today!

2007 Pictage Parter Conference : Chicago

Thanks to Pictage, I was honored to be chosen to speak in Chicago for the 3nd Annual Pictage Partner Conference. This was a great time of break out seminars and haning out with friends and collegues, as well as making new friends from around the country. We flew straight from Italy into the conference. The Fabulous list of Speakers are as follows:

Mike Colon , Denis Reggie , David Jay , Carlos Baez , Jefferson Todd , Pepper Nix & Mitchel Burt , Nathan & Amber Holritz , Liana Lehman , Me Ra Koh , Robert T Williams , Bob Davis, Robert Evans , Michael & Anna Costa , Sara France , Brody Dezember, Davide Greene , Millie Holloman , Millie Holloman , Millie Holloman , David Salomone , David Salomone , Jared Bauman


Thanks to David Jay for taking the photo of Rachel and me.


Here are the Fabulous Lacour team with Rachel & I, at the end of the session, they have an awesome program called Shoot-Q. which is in the beta phase, but, already i Highly reccomend it for photographers to help organize their workflow systems. In the end, its all about saving time.