Last week I had the pleasure of photographing Ignite Portland 8 at Portland’s historic Bagdad Theater. The Ignite events are always fun, with a variety of fast-paced presentations on all sorts of crazy subjects. This event lived up to that description with topics including barbershop singing, makerbots, and pants-less comedians.
Ignite at the Bagdad is always a photographic challenge – the theater is very dark and I’m shooting without any strobes. Here are a couple images from the event, as well as my sponsor message. The event sponsors are featured in 30 second videos… I came on board rather last-minute, but I was able to put together a quick video for Hockley Photography.
Wednesday night is the eighth iteration of Ignite Portland. If you’ve never been to an Ignite event, I definitely recommend finding one in your area and attending. The presenters have five minutes to give their talk, accompanied by a slide deck of 20 slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. It’s a challenging format for the speakers (I’ve given two Ignite talks… one on social network terms of service and one on railroad photography) and the presentations are nearly always top-notch.
I’m excited to be the in-kind photography sponsor for Ignite Portland 8. This will be the fifth time I’ve been the official photographer, and it’s always an interesting event from a photo standpoint since the theater is very dark with a variety of lighting in play. If you’re at the event (and especially if we’ve never met in person), be sure to say hello! I’ll be the guy wandering around with the cameras…
Rabbi David Kominsky talks about Spirituality in Community at Ignite Portland 4
In a few weeks I’ll be photographing (again) the kickoff gala for Portland’s Relay for Life event, a fundraising effort for the American Cancer Society. Last year’s event featured a survivor sharing his story, information about fundraising, and lots of food, fun, and fellowship. Everyone knows someone affected by cancer… I’d encourage you to find some way to raise money or otherwise support your local cancer-fighting efforts.
A few photos from last spring’s event:
As I mentioned previously, I’m excited to be a sponsor for the 30 Hour Day, a first-of-its-kind charity telethon being broadcast for 30 continuous hours. As I type this, there’s around nine hours remaining. With the tagline of “No sleep. All for charity.”, Hosts Cami Kaos and Rick Turoczy (and an all volunteer crew of 25+ folks) are running a great program of entertainment while raising money for three worthy causes.
I was onhand for the first 12 hours of the event and I’ll be headed down for the last six hours. I’m uploading photos to this set on Flickr; here are a few of my favorites from last night:
A few weeks ago I photographed an evening of sales and marketing discussion for the Software Association of Oregon. It was a fun night with a lot of spirited sales stories being shared. Here are a couple of my favorite images, featuring two of the speakers.
Let me capture your event in photos – contact me and let’s work out the details.
