Here are my favorite photos from Ignite Seattle 12
Buster Benson
Karen Cheng
Adam Philipp
Joel Grus
Gregory Heller
House of Cards
Here are my favorite photos from Ignite Seattle 12
Buster Benson
Karen Cheng
Adam Philipp
Joel Grus
Gregory Heller
House of Cards
What do I do with all those photos? This is a question that I frequently get asked from folks at events I photograph.
At the last Ignite event, I took 1600 photos and posted 46 of them (just about 3%). Not all of the unposted photos were duds, but they weren’t as good as the photos that I did post. While I want to thoroughly cover an event, I try to post only the best photos of the night.
Taking pictures at many events (especially Ignite) are challenging due to unique and difficult lighting situations. Couple that with people who are moving around a lot and talking about something that they are passionate about, capturing a passable photo, let alone a good one can be hard.
I aspire to always 1. make the person look as good as possible and 2. capture the essence of the speaker and their material. Occasionally, I succeed.
Here’s a quick, three minute video (really a super-fast slideshow) that shows you the photos I posted among all the pictures that I took. Hopefully it conveys the pruning and curating process I go through before I post a photo set.
You can watch the HD version on YouTube and the final photo set from Ignite Seattle 7 is here.
Filed under: better late than never.
Gnomedex 2009 marked my 4th Gnomedex and it seems that they get better every year. Gnomedex has always made me think in ways I hadn’t thought, meet people I had not met and do things I wouldn’t otherwise do. I view going to Gnomedex as a kind of engineered randomness with known constraints.
Gnomedex is also a place for me make new friends and to catch up with friends that I don’t get to see all that often. This year was no different (although I did miss one person in particular). Drop me a line if I haven’t said hi after this year’s Gnomedex.
If you’re looking for a wrap up or summary of Gnomedex 2009 in words, rather than pictures, here are few of best that I’ve read.
Here are my favorite pictures from this year’s Gnomedex (some of which have been posted over on my photoblog).



Lee LeFever and Kris Krug

Big thanks to Chris Pirillo and all the folks that put on Gnomedex every year. Their tireless hard work that makes Gnomedex very special to me every year is very much appreciated.
More photos from my Gnomedex 2009 photoset
Here are my favorite pix from Ignite Seattle 7. See more about Ignite Seattle here.
More pictures after the jump.
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Here are some of the pictures that I took and notable quotes from The Naked Truth event in Seattle on July 9, 2009. The event was held by Redfin, Madrona, Fenwick & West and Square 1 Bank.
“what’s the worst kind of failure? one that takes a long time and costs alot of money” (via jtgameover)
“the idea that you cannot build an important tech company outside of Silicon Valley is a crock of shit.” (via Fred Wilson)
forget the money, just sell yourself like YouTube did before you ever make any money. Twitter is going to sell for $2 billion to Microsoft or Google by the end of the year, and they’re going to have absolutely no revenue whatsoever.
(via Techflash)
There’s a lot more commentary out there (mainly Twitter) and video of the event will be posted on Seattle 2.0 later.
Had a great time at last week’s Social Media Club Seattle meetup. Met lots of interesting folks and took a number of photos.
Little known fact – I was the first to give it a go as a Social Media Club organizer here in Seattle, but life got in the way of me doing it as well as I could. Glad to see so many good folks taking the ball and running with it.
Vanessa Fox – "Oh, really, Chris?"
Showing Jeremiah the love
More pictures after the jump