Model Shootout in Downtown Tampa!

Our Meetup group got together on a hot Sunday.  We were split into teams of 3-4 photographers with 1-2 models per group.  We had to fan out in downtown Tampa and work together to each end up with one image to enter in the competition.  When we finished shooting we headed to Dave Cross's new Studio 3 in Oldsmar where we all went through our images, did some quick post processing and chose our best image to submit to Dave Cross, RC Concepcion & Brad Moore to critique.  The cool part of this was we had all the models there looking over our shoulders and commenting while we worked on their images.  They also were there for the critiques.  Several of them said afterwards, it was the best shoot they had done as they learned so much.   The best 3 images were picked and all the members of that photographer's team got some cool prizes from Kelby Training and Menual Art.   It was a hot & educational shoot.  Here are 2 of my images from the shoot.  There are more on my website. Enjoy!

That's all for now.

Lynn

New Mexico Adventure

Ok!  Its been awhile but I have been busy!   Latest adventure was to New Mexico.  Spent 9 days with 5 photographers & all we did was shoot!   Got very little sleep but it was worth it.  We rented a very nice house in Placitas (great hosts) and forayed out from there all days but one when we camped overnight in Chaco Canyon.   Jim Sykes, our friend & guide (he's been going to NM for 20 years) took us to so many places that it is hard to remember them all EXCEPT we took loads of images!    We had mountain day, church day, shopping day and a desert day among others!  We ate some awesome fiery food!  We saw hummingbirds, orioles & deer in the backyard.  We put over 1000 miles on that darn (killed my back) mini-van we rented.  It had so much dirt & dust on it that it was another color when we returned it.  The only problem we had was the wildfires that were flaring up all over AZ & NM.  We were unable to go to 2-3 places Jim wanted to go because of them.  There were also a lot of restrictions -- had to use a camp stove in Chaco Canyon as there could be no fires.  All in all we all had a very good time and got some great images.  Here are a few.  Check out my website to see even more.  Enjoy!

That's all for now.

LW