Imaging USA 2018
Updated: Jun 30, 2020
After a wonderful experience at last year’s event, I jumped at the chance to attend the PPAs annual conference again, this time in Nashville, TN. It was a longer trip and quite a change in weather (see the snow storm captured below), but with a year of working as a photographer under my belt, I was ready to dig in deeper. We stayed at the beautiful Opryland Resort & Convention Center, and what a venue! It was like being in a self-contained town with no need to go out into the snow of that’s not your cup of tea. The complex had open air spaces with a glass roof and even some water features resembling river deltas. As you can tell, I was still prone to exploring in between volunteer shifts when I wasn’t attending one of the insightful lectures or checking out the trade show. Fellow volunteer friends had returned and we got to work together, catching up on what we’d accomplished over the course of the year. All in all, I highly recommend this event to photographers who enjoy geeking out about their craft!
Reading about Imaging USA 2018 instantly took me back to my first trip to the conference in Las Vegas a few years later. I remember walking into the exhibit hall, the buzz of cutting‑edge cameras and the smell of fresh coffee mingling with the hum of the crowd. One booth caught my eye—a small startup demoing a portable 3D scanner that could capture objects in seconds https://egamingcuracao.com/ I spent an entire afternoon there, watching the device spin and render a vintage watch I’d brought from my grandfather’s collection. By the end of the day I’d swapped contact info with the engineers and later integrated that technology into my own freelance work, which completely changed how I approached product photography. The…