Conference, Camera, ILTA!

I’m going pretty old school for ILTA’s EdTech 26 conference starting later this morning. I’ve already blogged my presentation and I even brought an actual camera and I’m uploading the shots to a Flickr album. I’m rocking it like it’s Norther Voice 2007.

I’ve had a Sony Mirrorless camera for a while now, but I was using it as my mounted desk camera because I’m an idiot. I switched up things in my office and got a more reasonable camera for all my video calls and podcasts. So, I finally liberated this beast to do what it was meant to do, take pictures in the wild. ILTA will be a practice-run of sorts, and my niece’s wedding next week back on Long Island will be the test.

Anyway, I’m including a couple of shots I took yesterday while walking around DCU’s campus and the surrounding neighborhood. It felt pretty awesome to do a photo walk. Tom Woodward would be proud. Hell, even the Canadians like D’Arcy and Cogdog might approve of this American’s latest decision. In fact, I’d been planning on bringing the camera to Long Island, but a recent post from D’Arcy on Mastodon wherein he busted out his 20 year old DSLR confirmed I was in the right head space 🙂

A few shots were better in my viewfinder than in reality, like the guy riding his bike in front of a bus seemed like a full on chase scene with the bus barreling down on him. Turns out he was very much in control, so much so he could still look askance at me taking his picture.

I liked this shot of the conference co-chairs and ILTA president doing a pre-conference huddle during setup:

While walking around the conference space I found a “rainbow bridge” with multi-colored windows that basically handed me a bunch of really fun shots. It was like photography for beginners and I loved it.