I was setting up in a hurry for a meet and greet. It was a generic hotel ball room, subdivided into bland breakout rooms. Airwall to the left, airwall to the right. Airwall in front. There were a few round tables scattered about, with slightly stained hotel tablecloths hanging a bit askew. A few chairs […]
I don’t know his name, but over the course of the Skeeter Boat Owner’s Tournament, this kid wandered around riding his bike. The bike looked fierce, and it was clear the kid enjoyed riding it. But at one point I looked up,and he was doing circles in my greenscreen photobooth area. Hmmm. Probably not a […]
I call it “instant intimacy”. My mom calls it “the friendly dog approach.” Whichever. Often we are hired to go to corporate offices, nationwide to photograph the entire team for updated headshots. And, when it’s a large office, that means shooting about 25 people an hour — or one every 2 minutes 40 seconds. The […]
I’ve stopped checking the New York Times COVID Tracker every morning. I’ve stopped looking at every little bit of COVID news, and trying to read the tea leaves about how tiny COVID changes might impact events moving forward. The reason why is simple. At some point last month, there was a fundamental change in people, […]
Every morning starts the same. It’s like the loop the robots live in HBO’s Westworld. Except, my loop is: wake up. Feed Kat. Start coffee. Back to bed. Grab iPad. Open up New York Times COVID tracker. Then, the CNN news application. Then the Apple News application. Then Facebook, LinkedIn, and finally Google My Business. By […]
To understand the Big Fat Hairy Idea that slammed into me at the end of 2021, you have to go back to 2005. I was sitting in a cab with my dad in Las Vegas, NV, going between the first conferences I’d ever photographed and the second conference I’d ever photographed. Sitting in that cab, […]
Events are coming back. At least, they are beginning to come back. For 2022. 2021, not so much. However, just as you thought our international collective nightmare of COVID, DELTA, and all things variant is winding down, and just as search traffic for keywords related to event planning is starting to tick back up, and […]
March, 2020. I was standing at the baggage carousel at BWI Airport, waiting for my luggage to drop from my Birmingham flight. I’d just finished the Bassmaster Classic, a green screen experiential photo marketing event we do every year. I glanced up at the CNN news loop on the flat screen above, and thought, “Wow, […]
Everyday, I woke up sad. Every. Single. Day. This is not me. I am not sad. I am never depressed. Even during the hardest times in my life, there was never an overwhelming cloud of doom descending every morning when my conscious brain would start to revive. But every morning, as wake glimmered, pushing sleep […]
The cat meowed next to me, tired of being in the carrying case, tired of riding in the car. The meowing became more and more intense. He threw his body against the door of the crate, clawed at his sheepskin pad, howled at the top of his little cat lungs. His crate was perched on […]