[Leica] IMG: NOLA in Nov Images - non weddings

[zoeica at mac.com (Chris Williams)]

It's been a crazy couple of months with wedding work, and last week in  
New Orleans was the annual Pictage Partnercon photographers  
conference. http://www.pro.pictage.com/community/ppc/neworleans/

There were over 400 photographers in New Orleans during the week, lots  
of time for meeting, learning, and little time for rest. So much fun  
that Pictage has decided to hold the event again in NOLA next year!  
Used to be held in LA every year since that's where they are based.

These are just a few images from the week, as I spent most of my time  
meeting people, I barely took more than 50 images the whole time. I  
hosted my own workshop during this time where we took a busload of  
photographers to the Lower 9th Ward in NOLA. So amazing to see a bunch  
of photogs scramble off a bus and immediately start talking to the  
locals about what happened. Somewhat inspired by the LUG books, I'm  
hoping to put together a book from the workshop showing a collection  
of images taken that day, 30 photographers in all.

On the last day of the conference we had a Katrina Family photo shoot  
on the NOLA Westbank(across the river from NOLA). Over 100 families  
showed to have their images captured, many had lost family images due  
to Hurricane Katrina. A very long and tiring day, but very satisfying  
to give back to the local community. The last photo in this collection  
was of a man who came in just as we were packing everything up. So we  
grabbed a background, had some hands hold it up and gave him some  
great portraits.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/zoeica/NOLANov2009/

Enjoy!



Chris Williams
www.zoeicaimages.net
504-231-6261
New Orleans,LA
zoeica at mac.com