This is the Improv Photography Podcast episode number 216.

Hey everybody and welcome back to the Improved Photography Podcast.

I'm your host, as always Jim Harmer, and I'm joined by Sandy Duro and Brent Bergham.

Hey guys.

Hello.

Well, it's almost as if we've spent a lot of time

together recently.

But I think so.

Yeah.

This last week was the first improved photography conference. We held it in Phoenix, Arizona. And I don't think any of us can describe accurately the experience we had together unless you were there.

It was just absolutely awesome.

It was, I think it way exceeded my expectations of what it was going to be like. Everybody was just so

positive and happy to be there and supportive. I honestly did not hear one

complaint all week and that never happens.

It was so fun.

Yeah, I know I think people are getting sick of me talking about it and posting pictures

that I keep finding, you know like I put in an SD card and I'm like oh I forgot about these behind the scenes photos I got a post of people were like okay enough we know you went to a retreat

But it was that cool. It really was fun and everybody came back with a bunch of

portfolio pieces. That was really cool. I mean just the landscapes were

beautiful going out to the superstitions and

shooting but also the portrait opportunities Erica put together the the

shoot in the monorcked a photo studio and we just hung out to like two o'clock in the morning we had people well I think it was still 1 o'clock in the morning when the when the last people left and we just shot and hung out and played with different lighting setups and shot all the different models. It was just it was super fun and and we are looking forward to our retreat

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