Category Archives: Event Photography

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On the road again

October 22, 2008 – 6:28 am

This week your peripatetic (definition: walking about; itinerant; nomadic) blogging shutterbug is back in the place of his birth: Chicago, Illinois. I am here to photograph the goings-on at a huge water convention called WEFTEC. Water is, of course, a hugely important part of our world, and has, in recent years, become a real political hot potato. So it’s interesting learning more about the technological processes required to process the waste water that we produce in increasingly frightening quantities.

Here are a few photographic highlights…

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Advertising Week!

October 3, 2008 – 6:31 am

It was an amazing week of education, entertainment and camaraderie. Here’s a slideshow recap of my week!

Advertising Week

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Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated

October 1, 2008 – 11:19 am

I have just finished the busiest month (September) of my career, and I’m still working seven days a week! I can’t believe my good fortune that I get to wake up nearly every day, grab a camera or a computer and do this work. It’s truly a blessing.

Anyway, as for an update, the biggest event recently was Advertising Week in New York City (my favorite place away-from-home in the world). It was five days and almost eighty different events. I had two awesome assistants (thank you Lea and Sam!) and the regular crew of superheroes who put this thing on. I am still not quite dug out from under the over five thousand photographs I brought back with me, but here are a couple of me for your enjoyment. The first one is the Serta Sleep Sheep, one of the advertising “icons” who wandered about entertaining people. The second one is Ziggy Marley, who needs no introduction.

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Celebrities! Celebrities! Sep 2008 edition

September 9, 2008 – 7:52 am

So I am working this week as the official photographer for TechCrunch50, a very cool gathering of high-tech entrepreneurs and the real glitterati of the online world. But what made for some excellent photographic opportunities was when the real Hollywood types made some appearances.

Ashton Kutcher launched a new venture called “The Blah Girls”, and as if that didn’t create enough of a stir, he brought along his gorgeous (and I mean gorgeous) wife, Demi Moore. And later in the evening, Myspace.com hosted a big soiree in San Francisco and they hired Samantha Ronson to be their DJ. If you don’t know who she is, search on Google for “Sam Ronson” and “Lindsay Lohan”.


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Facebook f8: a brush with celebrity

July 24, 2008 – 11:00 am

I was the official Facebook photographer for yesterday’s f8 developer conference in San Francisco. As part of the event, Mark Zuckerberg, the whiz-kid founder, delivered an interesting keynote address. Naturally, I got some wonderful photographs of him, and today he chose one of them to be his new Facebook “profile picture”. If you know what that means, then you know how prestigious that is. If you don’t, you’ll have to trust me. ;-)

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13,000 networking folks in Orlando, Florida

June 23, 2008 – 3:18 pm

I am the official photographer for the enormous Cisco LIVE! conference in Orlando, Florida. These gigs are an interesting departure from my other types of work. Among other things, I get to listen to incredibly smart, well-informed technology people talking about the very latest issues and news in the world where I used to travel. So I stay at least well-informed enough to stay one step ahead of my own kids!

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Movers and Shakers

May 10, 2008 – 8:16 pm

Tonight I was the official photographer for a small political gathering in honor of Nancy Pelosi.

This photograph features Mrs. Pelosi and Gavin Newsom, the Mayor of San Francisco. Next to Mrs. Pelosi is Jennifer Siebel (Mayor Newsom’s fiancée), and John Burton, a long-time member of the San Francisco political elite.

Although very well-known in national circles now as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Pelosi is also the representative for California’s 8th congressional district, which covers most of the City and County of San Francisco. The 8th district is one of the most reliably Democratic districts in the country, though progressive third parties like the Green Party often poll well in the district. It is geographically the smallest congressional district in the nation outside of New York City. [source: Wikipedia]

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Those magnificent men and their flying machines

April 9, 2008 – 11:04 am

Your intrepid reporter/event photographer will go to great lengths (or heights) to get a unique perspective. This helpful show worker took me for a thrilling ride on a scissor lift from which I was able to get some really interesting views of the show floor here at Moscone Center. I’m the official photographer for the RSA Conference 2008 this week. It’s a gathering of more intellectual horsepower than I’ve been around in a long, long time.

Here is an example of what I actually did up there…

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The RSA Conference and Me

April 8, 2008 – 5:40 am

For several years running, I have had the honor of being hired as the official show photographer of the annual RSA Conference. This huge event brings together the best and the brightest to share the very latest in information security technologies and products. The name of the conference is shared with RSA Security (who actually hires me), but the “RSA” in the name is an acronym combining the initials of its inventors: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman at MIT. The RSA public key encryption algorithm is still today, over 30 years after its establishment, the basis of most secure transactions that travel over the internet.

Anyway, my background in this computer stuff has been a real help in documenting the goings-on at these shows because I actually understand a little of what the big brained folks here are discussing.

So my week is filled up with images of some of the smartest, most innovative people in the world. It’s a really good time. If you’re curious, you can see which of my photographs the Conference folks are publishing on the conference press photo website.

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Bonjour Events (my friend Rose)

March 9, 2008 – 11:09 am

My good friend and partner in many awesome corporate events Rose Lanham has gone solo with an exciting new venture, Bonjour Events. I wish her all the best. I’ve worked side-by-side with Rose in the most stressful situations you can imagine, and she’s always graceful and professional.

If you want to work with somebody for your personal event, your corporate event, or just need a shoulder to cry on when your event (or your event planner!) has you spinning out of control, I encourage you to contact Rose. Go check her out her brand new website at http://www.bonjourevents.com/.

Here are a few words from Rose herself:

Rose Lanham is an event producer with over 12 years of experience in sports and corporate event marketing, most recently as the Natl. Events Manager for Yahoo!’s advertising sales division. She wants to share some of the tips that would have helped her along the way and hopes you find this site to be a useful community for sharing ideas. Perhaps like you, Rose was always attracted to event planning and volunteered at every opportunity to learn more and gain new experiences. Knowing a career in event management was her plan, Rose pursued a role at the Atlanta Olympic Games Yachting division, experiencing first hand the importance of precise event logistics and the stamina it takes to work in this industry.

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