Gina McLean Photography

I keep thinking that I need to post more personal pictures on the blog. Because, in my mind,  the off-the-job pictures are more of a statement who I (and Gina) really am. In a recent marketing seminar, the speaker was encouraging the audience to bring forward the person that’s behind the “business”. I couldn’t agree more with that. I guess the theory behind it is that a potential client has a better feel for who you are in the real world. Gina and I try to go places where “something’s happening” as much as we can (while raising kids, being a family etc.). Most of the time they are community events like SparkCon, the International Festival , and many times they coincide with a wedding shoot (Hey, I’m not complaining). I do enjoy these outings, because they give me a chance to play around with the (or new) photo equipment, there’s no time pressure, it’s all fun. These following pictures where taken at the last SparkCon Festival Downtown Raleigh (for last years SparkCon pics click here), right before it started raining and our daughter Anna was complaining about being cold, it was very windy and I believe it was the first cold day after the summer.  I had a radio triggered speedlite with me, but since I didn’t pack a post (I was too lazy to haul it around) I just placed the flash on the ground for these few shots.