The PPN, or Professional Photographers of Nebraska, is an affiliate organization of PPA (Professional Photographers of America), this weekend was the fall conference in Grand Island, NE. I drove out with Will and we stopped to take some pictures along the way…
The actual conference was a blast too! I met some great local photographers like Keith and Holly Howe of Photographic Images in NorthPlatte, Jeff Bauman of Bauman Photography in Lincoln, Bob and Angie Alberts of Fowler Photography in Ogallala, Jessica Galaska, Shane and Erin Melenbacker of Melenbacker Photography from Kearney, Ron Deyo of Deyo’s Photography, and more. A special thanks goes out to J. Michael McBride for introducing me to such a friendly, welcoming and inspiring group of people – thank you! I also met a great bunch of vendors from Unique Photographic Equipment, Miller’s Professional Imaging, ACI (American Color Imaging), and Burrell Colour Imaging. But the best part of the conference was Bryan Welsh of MIT Studio in Oregon and Mike Fulton of TriCoast Photography in Texas.Bryan was a deep thinker and amazing communicator – I gained so much from listening to him describe the process of creativity, from conception to formation to an end product that’s treasured by our clients. Sometime later, I’ll have to devote a post to fleshing out his ideas because they really moved me. Mike was a typical guy’s guy – a little rough around the edges, but yet extremely relationally astute and just plain fun to be around. He had a system for on-location, studio-quality lighting that just blew me away – suddenly the doors that limit the possibilities of the still image have been opened. Thank you Mike and Bryan!
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