Alt Design Summit

Online Photography Classes and some other updates

by justin on February 13, 2012

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Alt Summit

ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES
From the Alt Design Summit website: We want to make Alt Summit available to everyone, everywhere, all year long. So we’ve created the Alt Summit Channel.

This week I’m teaching a couple online photography classes for the Alt Summit Channel, but there’s lots of other great classes, too. You can check out all the options and sign up here. And they’re only 15 bucks each. Wowza!

The two classes I’m teaching are Beginning DSLR, which I’ve taught several times and each time it gets better and better and more refined and the other class I’m teaching is 10 Photo Workouts To Make You a Better Photographer. The beginning DSLR class is for beginners (of course) and the Photo Workouts is for anyone at any skill-level.

It’s going to be great fun and I hope you can join us.

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30 STRANGERS 2012
In other news, plans are cooking up for 30 Strangers 2012. This will be the fifth year I’ve done this project. I have secured a location for the exhibit, which I’ll mention in more detail at a later time. And by later, I don’t mean around 11:30pm, I mean, later on in a month or so. For the past 3 years I’ve photographed the participants in the month of April, but I’m moving it to June this year so I can shoot outside more often. Last year it seemed like it was about 100 below zero every day of the month in April. Not my style. I like it HOT, see. So, in about a month or so, I’ll be making an full announcement about the exhibit/project and how you can be in the running to be a 30 Stranger. I’m so excited to do it again.

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WPPI PHOTOGRAPHY CONVENTION
This weekend I’m going to hit the road and head to Vegas. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Vegas? That town is so gross and fake and just a cheap copy of some place else.” Or maybe that’s just what I was thinking. In any regard, I’m headed to Vegas to go to WPPI, a trade show I’ve been attending for the past few years. All the vendors I use to run my business are there, so I get to talk to them and see what’s new and chat with photographers I always enjoy seeing. Plus, there’s an Eiffel Tower in that town! An honest-to-goodness, real-life, fake Eiffel Tower!

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Photographer Karen Walrond and Alt Design

by justin on January 26, 2010

in blogging,portraits

Last year when the 30 Strangers project was announced, we had far more requests to participate than we had spaces. Emails came, mostly from Utah, but from other places as well. One email was from Texas. The email said she wanted to be a part of the project. But in the end, it didn’t work out. That’s the first part of the story, but not the end.

Last week, I was on a panel at the Alt Design Summit. Let me just stop the story right here and tell you that the conference was so great. It was for folks that blog for a living, and it was specifically geared towards those that blog about design, but it was attended by all kinds of bloggers. For me, the best part was meeting the folks that write the blogs I love. I knew Kathryn Storke would be there from Snippet and Ink, because she was listed as one of the speakers. But I didn’t know Jen Campbell from Green Wedding Shoes would be there, so that was a great surprise. You can view the complete speaker list here, and as you can see, this was a real rockstar group of speakers. Heather Armstrong from Dooce, Stephanie Brubaker from Stephmodo, Sarah Wright from Sarah Jane Studios, Grace Bonney from Design Sponge and the list goes on.

So back to the story. I was speaking on a panel at the Alt Design Summit and the other person on the panel with me was Karen Walrond, a beautiful women, talented writer and photographer. And, as it turns out, she is the one that emailed me from Texas that wanted to be part of the 30 Strangers project last year. How about that! We had a great time getting to know each other the night before our panel. The next day, we photographed each other. Then we gave great advice to some people on the topic: Photography on the web. Thanks to the Alt folks for inviting me, and a huge thanks to Amber Roussel for moderating the panel and coming up with such astute questions. Amber, I wish I would have been able to photograph you, too. Next time, huh?

And now, I give you the effervescent and magnetic Karen Walrond:

Karen is sweet, sweet. When the panel discussion first began, when she was introducing herself, she said to everyone there, “…You know, I’ve been around celebrities and I never get nervous or anything, but when I found out I was going to be on the panel with Justin, I thought, Oh my God, JUSTIN HACKWORTH.” Ah, Karen. You are great. You know how to make a guy feel good about himself. At that moment, I was ten feet tall.

And here are some pictures she took of me and Amy.

I love those pictures. I’m uncomfortable getting my picture taken. Karen set me at ease, then knocked it out of the park.

One last picture from the Alt Design Summit. Here’s Grace Bonney in the lobby of the Grand America hotel just as I was leaving. I wanted to say hi, but she’s a busy girl and I didn’t get a chance.

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Justin Hackworth photographs photographers from Texas, bloggers from New York, and he wants to photograph you.

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Alt Design Summit

by justin on January 5, 2010

in blogging,Events

Alt Design Summit

January 21 – 23 in Salt Lake City are the dates for the Altitude Design Summit. It’s a conference for design and lifestyle bloggers. Love great design? Then you should go. Get this: Keynote speakers include Panelists Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, founder of Apartment Therapy; Grace Bonney, founder of Design*Sponge; Jean Aw, founder of NotCot, and Heather Armstrong, founder of Dooce.

And that’s just the beginning. There are so many more speakers including Stephanie Brubaker, founder of Stephmodo, Kathryn Storke, founder of Snippet and Ink, and um…me. I’m so excited that I was asked to be one of the panelists. You can see the full list here.

So far, 2010 is turning out great.

From their website here is who should attend

- People that love talking about design in all its iterations. What it is. How it’s changing. Why it’s important.
- People that read sites like Apartment Therapy/drive German cars/subscribe to magazines from Europe.
- Design or lifestyle bloggers who want to (finally!) meet their fellow design and lifestyle bloggers.
- People from across all the design disciplines: graphic, industrial, fashion, interior, product, textile. Plus illustrators and photographers too.

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