BLENDED group of Friends

I still haven't posted some of my stuff from BLEND! I do want to share with you some of the friends I made while I was at the workshop. Everyone was super awesome and wonderful and incredibly friendly. Click on their names and check out their work too. They are talented photogs from all over North America: Minnesota, West Virginia, California, Canada, New York, Seattle, North Carolina and Indiana to name a few.

Emily Griffith
Michelle Waters - these girls were so loving and we clicked right away. I love those kinds of friendships :) Kelsy Nielson - sweet friend from Canada.

Jesh De Rox - you must go to one of his workshops.

Becker

Tamara Lackey -she is a fun girl. I loved meeting her.

Bobbi - they stole my camera and I found this.

Dale Benfield
Becker - loving on the sucker I passed out to my classmates from William Sonoma.

Intense times with the Kaisers
the image is found - oh yeah. light action.

Cheyenne doing the crouching tiger method to get her shot

Desiree - very crafty

Jose Villa - such a sweetheart

BLEND Group

These were the awesome people that were in the group with me this week at BLEND in Santa Fe, NM. I took this picture from Beckers [b] school.
In my group there were people from Australia, Kansas city, New York, Arkansas, California, Seattle, Boston, North Carolina, Indianapolis, and Wyoming.

More of Jeremy and Ashley

Another fun shot of Ashley and Jeremy from our session taught by Jose Villa yesterday. Today:

I'm tired and hungry, but can't seem to stop doing photo stuff. Today was super duper awesome. I was on the team of "Awesomeness". Today we were with the Kaisers and let me tell ya they are a team full of fantastic loveliness. I have SO enjoyed this week and wish I could take each photo instructor home with me, as well as a few new photo friends. Now I'm off to din-din.

Ashley and Jeremy.BLEND WORKSHOP

At the BLEND workshop we are split up into three groups, with different instructors each day. Today I was with the super talented Jose Villa. What a genuine, real and honest person. I could only say positive things about this guy. He talked about passion, and how he functions as a photographer and then some helpful tips on getting published in a magazine. I WANT to be published. And I want you as my blog readers consisting of family and friends to hold me to that goal.
In Jose's group we did a fun photo shoot with a sweet couple, Ashley and Jeremy Parsons. Two fabulous photographers from Kansas City with real love.
Here's a shot I took of them. My idea for composition on the image was; 1. I love to shoot through objects, 2. I wanted her to be a fashionista and him Mr. GQ, and 3. The way I layed it out in photoshop was a tribute to my college days. I used to develop my own film (35mm bw, 4x5 film, and 120/220 film for the Holga) and Jose is a film shooter. And he does matted art pieces for his clients and it brought back great memories from back in the day when I used to do all of that stuff. So below is a little square cropping on my digital matte board.