Picture This Photography Education

Each year I try and attend some sort of continuing education on a national level.  This serves many purposes: such as learning from master photographers, current industry trends, new products, seeing large trades how, and just meeting and mixing with peers.

This year was a bit special as I was inspired to take a journey and attend two that were back to back on the southern coast.  (Florida and Nashville!)  So, I did just that and made a Southern Road trip out of it.  I had a few special people along the way so my oldest daughter and I made a “loop of FUN” out of this education adventure!

To condense the story:  It was 21 days, 1500 air miles, and almost 3K driving miles. We had sunshine in Florida, Snow in 5 states we were in, Awesome relatives and Friends along the way.  We visited two college universities, countless museums, Virginia History (and a really KOOL Mote!) ,and had a very powerful day seeing several Civil Rights Movement Monuments in Alabama.

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Then there was education:   I attended SYNC, a national conference that specializes in High School Seniors and Family Business.  This was the first stop of the trip and was fantastic.  I meant many wonderful photographer friends, listened to hours of discussions about creating and how to effectively run business and .   Of course it was 4 days of learning broken down into one sentence.   But, i am excited to implement some of the things I learned.