The last several months have probably been the craziest most busy time of my life, Both business have been going well, photography and web design, that its been hard to keep on top of things.
Flosites is a custom web design business for professional media professionals such as photographers and videographers. We first started this business in August of last year, with my first paid project from a now good friend Oleksandr Havrylyuk with his logo:
Since then Flosites has grown rapidly, which has been a real blessing, but like in any business there are growing pains and hard times, and LOTS of stress :) i have only God to thank for the blessings on the business. we keep still growing and getting bigger and bigger, and have some yummy new things coming out for photographers, I just wish there where more hours in the day. on a side note, if you know any good Flash or PHP programmers let us know :D we are always looking for more talented people to hire.
March was the first time I had ever been out of europe, to the States. I went with Lesya to Vegas to a wedding photographers conference called WPPI, it was a pretty long trip in total.
While there we got to meet some of the most amazing photographers, and a lot of good friends through working closely with our clients. One lunch we got the opportunity to meet Oleksandr and Gabe from perspectiveye, both incredible photographers, its a must to check their work.
Lesya was offered an opportunity she couldnt turn down to help at the notorious Champagne Shootout for non other than Mike Fulton of Tricoast Photography. As you will see from Mikes blog he has a heart of gold, and it clearly shows when you meet him. Lesya also was a model for some of our buddy photographers from Trash The Dress (which is a must for you married ladies) to the famous Neon Boneyards in vegas.
Jason Cohen Looking his best :) check that guys M8! it does some serious work!
We also got plenty of time to go around and site see vegas, the place is gorgeous, quite different than anything I have ever seen before but the one thing I hated was the climate, after several days I thought we were going to be burnt raisins, drying up with the heat.
On the last day in Vegas, we went with the guys from Trash the dress + Dont box Us In to their workshop in red Canyon, vegas called Leavin Las Vegas
there were about 60-70 photographers there if i remember correctly, but the atmosphere was dynamite, when you have so many talented photographers in such a small place with some awesome models its hard not to get excited as a photographer. Here are a few snaps i took while helping at the workshop.
John Edgar from stillmotion giving some art direction
2 of the worlds funnest photographers to be with, in the bright yellow is David from Ohana Photography one of our sponsored photographers and down bottom is Chris from Jen Stewart Photography.
some fun shots of photographers:
Erwin Wijanto - probably the gadget guy in the photography business, hes loaded with flashes, cameras and everything wrapped all around his body!
david Beckstead - Known throughout most of the photography business as one of the worlds top wedding photographers, his images clearly show his talent, so check them out if you havent already.
Paul from Amorphia Photography - Quite easily one of the funniest guys ive met, and its not because he's Greek, both he, his wife Sofie and Tana where a huge help in setting up the workshop, and paul's landscape photography is inspirational.
Jason Groupp propping up the famous model in Black, and to the right we have the famous Bobbi, jocelyn and Heather Cole.
Before we left though we all met up with all the photographers to say our goodbyes before we went our seperate ways.
Myself, Mark Eric, lesya and Tim Co.
Lesya, Paul, Jason D, Me + Mark Eric.
Lesya, Jason G and Me
But it wouldnt be any fun without visiting the Welcome to vegas sign!
A fun ones of all the guys jumping before leaving home to san diego with David.
Sorry folks for the long post! it was a fun one bringing back the good memories.