Well, I just spent well over half an hour typing out an epic blog post about our busy month of March and our trip away, linking to all our photographer friends that we got the opportunity to see in Vegas and somehow when I added the photos to the end of the post I managed to delete the text without having saved it anywhere! Needless to say, I can't remember what I wrote because my memory is atrocious and sitting at the computer for yet another half an hour+ on a Sunday afternoon isn't at all what I had planned!! Had this blog not been so public there would be a few expletives floating around in this paragraph!!
Very briefly, Vegas was AWESOME! <<< Just a little word I picked up from the Yanks! It was great to see our old friends (Jason, Tana, Chris & Jen, David & Kim, TimCo, Adam & the Greek crew from Greece), meet new ones (Steve & Karen) and even meet old friends (Shannon & Frank) face to face for the first time - yes, it sounds odd, I know! Shannon, you're as mad as a hatter :) & Frank you have the best New York mafia sounding accent ever and I could listen to you for hours!
I think we spent a little too long in Vegas and almost felt like locals by the end of it. One of the highlights was seeing Ka by Cirque du Soleil but the trip was made all the more enjoyable by a pair of real locals - thanks to Helmi & Jens for all the insider info on what to do in Vegas!
The road-trip didn't quite turn out as planned and for those of you that know me I like to plan these things! We had a rather bum-numbing week driving for well over 25 hours through Utah, Nevada, Arizona & California and quite unexpectedly decided to go to San Diego to visit a fantastic pair of photographers and friends, David & Kim and their daughter Rain. We got to spend a couple of days around San Diego with them which was great fun especially watching the surfers at La Jolla as the sun went down!
Coming back to Cyprus, things didn't really die down. We've had a busy few days with two 2 hour seminars on Photoshop last weekend - in GREEK! Picture me speaking village Greek with an English accent .... plllllllllllllllllease, never again!
For those of you that I promised to be in touch with - I apologize profusely. I haven't done a lot of that "being in touch" thing since my return or before the trip even - I shall try hard to rectify that soon!
We also had a couple of unexpected shoots on our return as we were fortunate enough to be loaned a H4D!! For those not in the know, that's a brand new Hasselblad ... that calls for a little 'oooooooo' on your part if you're reading this far down! Sakis from Photometron was visiting Cyprus last weekend for a tradeshow (a little smaller than WPPI!) and he was very kind to loan us his H4D for a couple of shoots. OMG! What a camera! The quality of the images are outstanding - I'm a stickler for sharp images and this thing (I really shouldn't call it a thing because it deserves far more respect than that!!) can take some sharp and detailed images! I shall post some of the photos in the next couple of weeks to give you an idea of the kind of quality you get from a 40 mega pixel camera!
In the meantime, for those of you that aren't my friends on Facebook (tut, tut, you should be!) and haven't seen any photos from our trip here are just a few that I've had the opportunity to edit:
The view from our room at the MGM:the Vegas Strip (obviously!)


Utah: Arches National Park





Leaving Utah earlier than planned because of the snow storm heading our way:


