OSP West - The Unconference

The weekend before last I stepped out of my comfort zone and did something a bit extreme. I woke up at 4:00am on Friday and drove to a girl named Jillian's house who I'd never met in my life. I got into her car and we drove to pick up two other girls, Nichanh and Melissa. We then proceeded to drive 3 hours south to one of my favorite places in all of California...the Central Coast. What the hell was I doing you ask? Meeting up with over 100 photographers from across the country to attend a conference sponsored by BigFolio.

It was basically a conglomeration of photographers where everybody pitched in to to put on a 3 day event jam packed with seminars, model shoots, studio shoots, and networking. It was an awesome time and wouldn't have been possible without the generous efforts of some great people: Erik Dungan, Colin Michael, Robin, John Michael Cooper, Jose Villa, and Jefferson Todd.

I learned a crap load, met some great people like: Ricardo Tirado, Manus Chau, Shannon Hodson, the Stewarts, and David & Ham, and took some SWEET pictures. I almost fried my 30D since we were shooting in the rain 90% of the time, but it was well worth it. It was great meeting so many new people and I can't wait to do something like this again.

Here's some of my shots from the weekend complete with my snappy new Edgington Photography border I whipped up in photoshop. Enjoy.