Last August I was approached by the marketing director for the Professional Photographers of America (PPA). She had seen some of the work I did at Social Media Day at Terminal West last summer. She said she really like my event work and that they were unimpressed by last year's event photographer at their yearly Imaging USA event. I was extremely flattered to be chosen as the photographer to photograph photographers. :) It was last Sunday through Tuesday at the Georgia World Congress Center. It was a ton of fun, albeit a little crazy with over 10,500 photographers in attendance!
Though they had pre-classes Thursday through Saturday, Sunday was opening day of the Expo. I had my lovely assistant, Curt, with me for part of the day. He was a great mule on the Expo floor carrying my gear and also gave me the idea to borrow a monopod from Manfrotto to get some of the "aerial" shots of the floor. People did look at my pretty crazy hoisting my rig 7 feet in the air, but it captured a few neat shots. First up, I have a few shots from one of the most popular speakers, Jerry Ghionis:
My favorite shot of the weekend. Can you tell who the excited audience volunteer is in this photo?
As people gathered on the 3rd floor for the Expo opening and ribbon cutting ceremony, my event contact, Sarah Ackerman, snapped this photo from above and posted it to Twitter. With all the hustle and bustle of the #IUSA13 tag, the photo was at one point trending on Twitter. :)
After the ribbon cutting:
My mule assistant heading down to the Expo with me.
