I spent the last week in Boston with my good buddy Dave at Photoshop World. I’ve been to Boston before, ages ago…I think it was early 2003. Although I stayed close to the hotel for the most part, I did get around a little bit…Newberry Street was close by after all!

It’s always fun hanging out with Dave, and we were lucky enough to meet up with other photog­ra­phers who live in the area or who were there for the show…Kristin, Sarah (who is way taller than I expected!), Bill and espe­cially Melissa and Rene: it was great to hang out with you all!

As for the show itself, I was one of about 6 people in the seminar entitled “Photoshop Extensibility” aka Photoshop for Geeks, in which I learned some new stuff that I plan to put to use in Proofmaker and Autoloader.

It was also neat-o to meet some of the giants in the world of Photoshop…people like John Nack and Russell Brown (that’s Russell and I holding the Photoshop World commem­o­rative football, and yes I still have it

It was a great time!

…Mike

The conference was great, the trade show bustled, and the parties were wild…I’m exhausted.  5 days in Vegas can put the zap on you after a bit…so much noise and so many flashing lights!

Tonight Christine arrives and the vacation part begins for us.  The plan is for a few photog­rapher friends of mine to take a few engagement-style pictures of Christine and I tonight…but it’s pretty cold here right now so I’m not sure that’s going to happen, but we’ll see

Can you believe that I haven’t take any pictures yet!?

…Mike

I’m about to leave for Las Vegas to attend the annual WPPI conference! It’s been two years since I went to the last one, and I’m looking forward to the conference and friends I haven’t seen in so long!

Afterwards Christine and I are planning a mini-vacation to some of the places I’ve been wanting to visit for more than 10 years: the Grand Canyon of course, but also Antelope Canyon, Bryce National Park and if we have time, Zion National Park too Watch this space for pictures

…Mike