I was asked to shoot the Day in the Life of WPPI book with a four other photographers including Andy Marcus, Brett Tyler, John Arcara andTony Corbell.  Each year, WPPI and my album company, GraphiStudio produce a book documenting the convention.  Here are some photos I took at the convention for the project.

While I was on the WPPI show floor, I spent a lot of time speaking at various booths.  One of the booths was the Shoot dot Edit booth.  This company takes over the post production work for small and large photo studios so they are freed from the time consuming process of selecting, adjusting and delivering images.  They are a great company.  I highly recommend them if you want to off load that part of your business and concentrate on other aspects of your business.  I love the dot man doll.  I kind of wish I had one, but apparently, it is a limited edition, so they wouldn’t give me one.  The have the Flat Stanley version in paper, but I want the real thing.

The show floor and the classes can be an overload.  You will see photographers sitting against the walls and windows trying to catch their breath and absorb the information and a little sun.  I particularly loved the back lighting on the banners in this photo.

This is Brett Tyler, one of the other photographers on assignment on the Day in the Life of WPPI project.  He’s a fun guy.  We spent an afternoon walking around vegas taking in the sights and the masses of photographers with their cameras.  I took quite a few photos of him that day.  It’s always nice to have a ready model with you wherever you go.  Anyway, this is a particularly beautiful photo.  I love the bright whites and the few rich blacks.  And I love the person on the cel phone in the background by the window.

Later, at a small private gathering at the Shoot dot Edit suite, I was able to get a nice view of the city.  The greenhouse looking green building in the foreground is part of the MGM Grand hotel where the convention was held.  I think it is the casino floor.

This is Tony Corbell giving a lecture.  He is a very skilled photographer.  I enjoyed listening.

This photo is from a Lecture by photographer Jesh de Rox.  He’s a very entertaining guy.

Pictage, my online printing partner had a number of people running around the show called the pictagerazzi.  These guys were a couple of cool cats.  I liked them a lot.  If they email me, I will send them some photos of them.  Nice to talk to you guys.  Shoot me an email.

One of the evenings, I forget which one, we found ourselves at the Pictage party at Studio 54.  That is one flashy place.

At the Pictage party, there was a little impromptu fashion show put on my KISS BOOKS.  That’s Kevin Swan down there from KISS at the end of the runway.  It was a fun evening, but I called it a night pretty early.  I’m not much for parties.

I have never used the Renaissance album company, but as I walked by their booth, I was struck my the piles of books and the lone man in the left corner trying to organize them.  It is the framing that struck me the most.  I love the emptiness at the bottom of the image with the heavy intellectual weight of the name of the company juxtaposed with the cluttered pattern crammed into the top half of the image and of course the poor guy in the corner, trying to make some order out of the whole thing.

Well, that is my show and tell for the day.  I have so many more photos from Vegas to show.  I will post again tomorrow with a set of my favorite photographs from the GraphiStudio Fashion Show.  It was a great event and I came up with some fantastic photographs.  So tune in tomorrow for some more images from Vegas.