day trippin’ | the salton sea

Lost shoes, “beer and burgers” (‘restaurant’ that specializes in mexican food/pizza/fried aspargus), dead salt crystallized fish, in n out, homemade cookies, great people, nonstop laughs, sharing, experimenting, mentoring, falling in quick sand, shootsacs galore, equality for all (canon and nikon), strobes, more food, unknown smells…

These words are a lame attempt to summarize a day on the “town”, with fellow bschool photographers.

Tuesday, I carpooled out to “California’s Crown Jewel of Avian Biodiversity” (according to the .gov website), The Salton Sea with 3 other photographers, Jenny Smith, Heidi Ryder, and Kevin Wynn.  I’m sure I talked their heads off all the way out and all the way back.  But, as is the nature of the bschool, these 3 were up for answering my mundane questions and chatting about the one of the things we all love, photography. Once we arrived, we met about 2 dozen other bschoolers and continued the day gabbing, posing, experiment and shooting.

Personally, I spent the day trying not to “shoot” people. Weird, right? I know a weakness of mine lies in landscapes and inanimate objects, so i forced myself to avoid putting live things (hence the dead fish) on camera.

Many thanks to [b]ecker for creating an environment that breeds “pay it forward” (i’m totally cheesy, i know) & Joe Photo for spear heading these outings.

Here are a few shots from the day:

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ok 2 people, but they are silhouette (matthew saville with camera)

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Here are some of the other photographers that joined us out there, besides the 4 in our car (previously mentioned), so you can see their perspectives:

greg shaw

matthew saville

paige green

becker

meg perotti

alfred bertulfo

heather kincaid

joe photo

hanssie trainor

more to come…

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JACK.RATANA - Stellar Jen Berry! Great job.

Catie Ronquillo - Nice textures! That place looks really interesting…I heard that it was smelly too, lol. :) Great shots!

Hanssie - Awesome silhouette shots! I didn’t see half the stuff that you saw. Great eye!

Michelle Yam - Awesome shots, Jen! Loving your angles!

Heidi Ryder - You’ve got such an awesome eye, Jen. Seriously. My favorite is the first one on the left with the birds. I named the bird on the pole “Marvin.” Hope you don’t mind. ;)

Michael Campbell - Love all the details you captured. Man, seeing all these great shots makes me even more bummed to have missed this trip! Hope to make the next one. Great images, Jen! -Mike

Kristin Rogers - I love these!! Beautiful pictures and I love the color!!

Julie Ann - what a pecululiarly beautiful place! some of the most awesome “biodiversity” i’ve seen photographed…this looked like so much fun!

Briony - this looks like an amazing trip…that dead fish pic is wicked!

Meg - Love these- particularly that one of the drawer just chilling on the rocks. What an odd but beautiful place- great job capturing the details!

Alfred B - Love the UWA silhouette photo! Awesome detail in all of them. You forgot to mention Sony in equal-ness (just for Paige)!

Candice Brooke - Love all of these. Mark and I love taking pictures of “stuff” and nature. Your rock!

Duane - great shots! what a cool event to be a part of.

MaryAnn Ashley Bever - Hi Jen Berry,

It was so fun to meet you yesterday. I wish I would’ve picked your brain more about the Salton Sea:) Your eyelashes look amazing!

Jan Oscarsson - Great captures Jen,

I really love the colors, Vivid!

You have a good eye for details.

I do those kind of day trippin’ shoots myself sometimes, without people in the shots and it’s soothing. Last time it was on the beach with my German Shepherd Erro.

Take care/

Jan

Kelly Ley - Gorgeous landscapes!! I love love love the colors and textures :)

Blair Van Bussel - First off , these pictures are awesome!!! Second, Ive always wanted to go to the Salton Sea, so jealous! Third….. I just joined the B School today (I know…it took me long enough) , woo hoo! Hopefully we can meet soon! :)

Dana Wade - Jen, these pics are amazing. I love the colors and textures.

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