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The Basics Workshop in San Diego

Last weekend, I attended The Basics Workshop with Melissa Koehler and Amber Dawn, two awesome photographers in San Diego. I met a great group of ladies who share the same love for photography and we had a blast learning and absorbing everything Melissa and Amber had to share. Not only was the workshop fantastic, but the house we stayed in was AMAZING. What a perfect place to have a photo workshop, look at all that light we had to work with!

So while Amber and Melissa were showing us the ropes, letting us see how they shoot, interact with clients, how to see light and other technical parts of photography, I tried to get some behind the scene shots. These are always my favorite and love seeing other photographers show their behind the scenes photos.

Thank you Melissa and Dawn for being so awesome and sharing your knowledge with us! Looking forward to WPPI… reunion in Vegas anyone? hehehe…

Here’s Amber climbing on furniture for a maternity shoot.

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Melissa hovering over the tub. I might need to learn to have good balance…

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Melissa doing our head shots.

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The class shooting little Carolyn and her mom on Coronado Beach.

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Amber showing Patty and Leif thier probably their most awesome photo.

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Crazy Melissa with her plethora of cameras.

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More photos coming soon!

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DC Rollergirls

I attended a bout a couple weeks ago at the DC Armory. A coworker of mine is on the DC Demon Cats and I had to see the team in action. She’s told me many stories about their bouts and practices and I just had to see it all in person. Being a former quad figure skater (ok, stop laughing now) I have an appreciation for this roller derby. But this is different – tough girls + skates + speed = awesome and brutal! I sat in the suicide lanes to get an upfront view of the whole thing, and there’s a reason it’s called the suicide lane. You don’t want to be the unlucky fool to get hammered by one of these girls when they get bumped off track!

There’s a roller derby girl inside me, and maybe one day I’ll be brave enough to try out.

Check out the DC Rollergirls on their website www.dcrollergirls.com

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