You're listening to the Improve Photography Podcast. Hey everybody and welcome back into the

podcast I am I'm gonna I'm being given the pilot seat in this episode

today and even though Jim's on I'm giving a try as the main host today

So we'll see how that goes as we record here in late March 2018. We all just got back from the awesome Create Photography Retreat held in Charleston, South Carolina and we wanted to do a roundtable episode talking about some of the unique things that we took away from the retreat this year.

Erica and Connor are going to be sharing their thoughts on an upcoming portrait session

episode, so be sure to check it out to kind of get their perspective on how things went at the retreat and what they took away from the retreat is kind of the biggest thing.

But today I have with me Brent Bergerm and Jim Harmmer. How are you guys?

Doing awesome. And I've got to say it's really nice to not be the official

host of the podcast. I think this is fun. Well we'll see what the people think as we get this posted. But I'm excited to do it. I've hosted the show before, but not with Jim. It's been because you can come. So it's kind of fun. All right. So I want to get some things from each of you that you took away from this retreat this year.

Something that you either didn't expect from the retreat, even though we had one last year,

so this wasn't completely new, but maybe it's something different that you didn't expect,

or might be like totally unique just to the retreat experience itself.

I mean, the conference, Create Photography Photography Retreat, we're trying to have that be something that's different

and unique from other photography conferences, primarily making sure there's plenty of hands

on throughout the retreat.

Lots of opportunities for people to get in there and shoot,

not just listen to someone else talk about shooting.

Which was, certainly there was plenty of that too,

but there's a lot of hands on on so I want to start off with the with the list I have kind of three things that were really stuck out to me as we were at the retreat and and get your thoughts along the way too because I'm sure you had similar

experiences I did and then we'll all let you guys share some of yours.

Does that sound good? Yeah, absolutely and I guess I just want to introduce the

retreat to those who don't know it.

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