Photo: (Above) Desert road and fog over Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada
I’ll be spending next week in Las Vegas for the North American Nature Photographer Association (NANPA) Bi-Annual Summit Conference. I’m looking forward to seeing many of my photographer friends again as well as getting to meet many new people, or finally meeting in-person for people I’ve only known online.
For my photographer friends or other folks who will be in town for the conference, please let me know if you’ll be there.
As I’ve done at a number of other NANPA Summit Conferences, I’ll be doing Portfolio Reviews on-site, and offering a Super-Session Class on Developing Your Personal Vision and Communicating with Photography for Nature, Landscape, and Travel Images. The class will be on Sunday morning and you can sign up for it on-site as well.
I know they say “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” However, I personally have a huge dislike of Vegas, so as soon as the conference is over, I hope to spend a few days detoxing in Death Valley or the Eastern Sierra, maybe the Grand Canyon if the weather calls for snow.
So hopefully, I’ll see some of you in Las Vegas, and for everyone else, pray I survive my Vegas experience. 🙂
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Gary Crabbe is an award-winning commercial and editorial outdoor travel photographer and author based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. He has seven published books on California to his credit, including “Photographing California; v1-North”, which won the prestigious 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal award as Best Regional title. His client and publication credits include the National Geographic Society, the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, TIME, The North Face, Subaru, L.L. Bean, Victoria’s Secret, Sunset Magazine, The Nature Conservancy, and many more. Gary is also a photography instructor and consultant, offering both public and private photo workshops. He also works occasionally as a professional freelance Photo Editor.
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I will see you there, Gary! The weather will be cool, too.
Ditto on your feelings about the massive energy, resource and soul-draining fake-glitzy hole that is Las Vegas. Wish I could join you for class, but it would be so cool if we could just skip the Vegas part, despite the alluring flashing lights, ringing bells, slot machines and dancing girls, and just meet in ironically named Death Valley. Wouldn’t it make more sense to call the city Death Vegas and call Death Valley the Paradise, Treasure Island, Suncoast, Tropicana, Flamingo, or Ceasar’s Valley? Never in a civilization that parks cars in driveways and drives cars on parkways. Oh well. 🙂