A Weekend on the PPO of Ohio Conference

I’m simply again from the Professional Photographers of Ohio conference, and my ft are nonetheless catching up.

As president, this weekend is de facto the end line for a venture that runs many of the 12 months. Setting the schedule, lining up audio system and distributors, managing the logistics on website… by the point everybody else walks within the door, I’ve already been dwelling with this conference for months.

Everything occurs onsite, meals included, and audio system and distributors are proper there with everybody else by means of lessons and mealtimes. That’s by design. It retains everybody in the identical house all weekend, which is de facto what makes the conference work.

Because truthfully, my favourite half is not any single session. It’s the individuals. Meeting photographers I’ve by no means talked to earlier than, catching up with buddies I solely ever see in individual annually, all of it at meals, between lessons, throughout setup, all weekend lengthy. That’s the entire level of gathering like this, and it is the half I look ahead to yearly.

I did communicate this 12 months too, a brief program on AI assistants for photographers, and it was nicely obtained. And I obtained to spend a full day in a workshop with Marisa Balletti-Lavoie, which was an excellent reminder that there is nonetheless loads to be taught.

Saturday night time was our annual picture competitors awards ceremony. I took house Artist of the Year, together with two first place trophies in class, and it capped off a weekend I’d already name an excellent one earlier than a single award was handed out.

Read the total announcement in regards to the Artist of the Year win right here.