Traveling has been a passion of mine since I got my first passport at 6 months old (no joke!) I sat on my moms lap and made gaga sounds at the photographer. I started traveling alone at age 6 to visit my Aunt in Missouri every Summer. I haven't stopped since. Where I go, my camera follows. I love experiencing new places and capturing each one in my own way.
Last Friday a group of 17 photographers (and 1 dog) got together for a little networking, a smidgen of posing and a lot of laughs.
We met at Balboa Trails in San Diego with the plan to take new headshots of everyone there! We had so much fun, and I am currently planning our next outing! If you are a photographer and want in on the fun, leave me a comment or send me an email (melissa@melissamcclure.com)!
Hang on, this is going to be a long post!
Here is most of the group:
Photo by Samantha
My fish eye portrait 🙂
The beautiful Susan Yee:
Meet my karaoke partner in crime, Ally:
The person in charge of the get together, Emily! I’m very excited to be shooting with her in July:
My new good friend, Alyssa:
Emily again:
I took quite a few behind the scene shots. That’s David Baxter squatting in the middle. He likes to avoid the camera. I got one real photo of him but I am saving that for when I need to blackmail him for his 24mm 1.4 lens! haha
Ally again. I used some Boutwells Totally Rad Actions on this. You likey?
Another of Susan, with some more help from the TRA!
Jasmine is sooooooo sweet. I love her to death already!
Emily shooting my good friend Julia:
I’ve been getting to know Susan better lately and I really think she is an awesome person and absolutely fabulous photographer!
The lovely Jamie. I would link her name…but she is slacking on the blog! 😛
I thought this was cute!
Ummm…Shootsac anyone??? Alyssa and I have the same cover!
Hiking up the hill. It was worth it, they got some awesome shots up there! I decided me and my flip flops would stay on solid ground!
Ann, another new person I hadn’t met!
Kimi (better half of David), Julia and me! Photo by Tim.
See I told you there was a doggie! Aaron and Samantha just adopted Barley!
Whew, I told you that was going to be a long one! I had soooooo much fun, can’t wait for the next one! Networking rocks!
xoxo, M
Melissa!! I love them all! You’ll have to send me the full size if you can. Do we even get to do that?? 🙂 I have to post mine in a few days! 😀
p.s. loved hanging out with you again 🙂
So much fun!
Looks like you guys had a blast!!!
yeeees! my bunnies didn’t make the cut phew!! 🙂 they all look awesome. we are all so ridarndiculously good loooookin! can’t wait for the next one. hook it up melissa!
Loved the Picasa album! Great portraits and I loved the ‘behind the scenes’ type shots too. Let’s definately do this again. I had so much fun! See you Thursday!
I love that shot of Susan Yee and the Shootsac shot is fun, they’re all great. Oh, and Jamie needs a blog…help her out people!
You all look great! Next time you have to invite me 😉
Looks like some fun! Editing looks awesome!
wow – these look so great!!! I wish I was there, but I wasn’t able to make it.. I’ll be at the meeting thursday though… see you then!
Fun shots Melissa!
-nate
(from PFTP)
yay all of us!! so fun!! great job Mel !! hope you enjoy hollywood! see you thurs! (no class this wk so I’m there!!)
Sounds like you guys had a blast… Maybe next time I could tag along.. Great shoots
Thanks for all the pics, Melissa! It was fun. I’m definitely in for doing it again.
you guys look like too much darn fun!!!
M:)
i love this whole thing i have already started the plans for us to do this. i love #7 more than i could even begain to tell you!!
Oooo! I want it on the next one. Thanks!
Looks like so much fun! Great work, Melissa! I love the behind-the-scenes stuff, especially!
It was nice to finally meet the famous Timissa last night! 🙂
Awwww…barley…my love!
Wait… something’s not right with these pictures…. I’m missing! Boo hoo!
Hey I wanna go next time!!! =) give me a heads up when you all do that again.
Hi Melissa,
I found your blog through a friend of mine named Jasmine, *which you photographed her on this post!!! This networking get together looked soooo much fun. I just got my first SLR camera in January so I have been having fun taking lots of pictures. I want to be on the next get together if you are having one soon so I can meet you and other awesome photographers. I even dropped a comment on Melissa Koehler’s blog b/c I saw Jasmine on her site. Both your photos on your blog and her blog look amazing!