Check out Ritchie's shot, the first one. Looks like something from M.C. Escher's work! Very cool!

I have always had a fascination with the Great Salt Lake. I love to cook with salt that is processed from there. So getting a chance to shoot by the lake was cool! Tim and Heidi were excelent hosts and fantastic people! I really enjoyed sitting on their couch talking about the world. There is some good food in Utah! They have a great studio in an artisitc district of Salt Lake City. Thanks again Tim and Heidi for hosting a wonderful workshop!

Pepper Nix and Mitch put on a great Meet and Greet party with fun foods and warm personallities! Thank you guys! Mitch has been experimenting with smoke photography and it will blow you away! Pepper has a new baby boy named Zen. I think we should betroth him to Asia our daughter! Zen and Asia, cool names!

The shoot started off at the lake with some old cement structures and a burned out train car. This progressed under an overpass and then on a rocky outcropping next to the lake. Funky fun stuff! The rest of the day was finding urban shadow-casting, lines, streaks of light and reflectivity. The last night we shot video light around train cars and underpasses. Totally fun!

Utah is one of my favorite states! Hope you guys invite me back next year!!

The Oregon workshop was a blast! Our wonderful host Sara, invited Kassandra, Asia and I into her home. They have a baby girl (Lily Rose) just a few months older than Asia. They looked like sisters and had fun together. They have 3 little steps going from their kitchen into the living room. Asia had a blast going up and down them (her first time). Corvallis was a really cool little town with big trees and brick houses.

Sara’s husband Joe works at the college and got us permission to shoot a model in the football stadium. I jumped at that and was glad I did. What a cool place to shoot! No one was there and we had the run of the place. I love that kind of thing!! Cold windy breezeways and steel structures and LINES! The lines were everywhere!! I pulled out the red veil to stand out with the green grass of the field. Fun!

Later on that day we showed up at a ranch. They were working on the ranch to become a wedding venue. It would rain and stop (with great sun rays) and then rain again. No problems! It just made the sun more dramatic!

We had the second day critique in an old train station fixed up for meetings. Loved it!

Angela helped host also and I loved one of the shots she took! It is the first one I will post here. Wow!

Thanks everyone for a great workshop!!

Here are some of my favorite shots from many of the photographers at the workshop.