{"id":246,"date":"2010-02-23T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2010-08-05T19:56:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T02:56:35","slug":"pinch-me-rocking-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Pinch Me : Rocking SF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/psw-20-c1-782.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-247 alignnone\" title=\"psw-20-c1-782\" src=\"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/psw-20-c1-782.jpg\" alt=\"psw-20-c1-782\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/psw-20-c1-782.jpg 500w, https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/psw-20-c1-782-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/psw-20-c1-782-260x173.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a> You know, I don&#8217;t think that there is a day that i don&#8217;t go to (or come from) work that I don&#8217;t look at what I do and just beam.  Let&#8217;s see:  When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be a school teacher.  I went from that to becoming a corporate nerd.. to traveling the world.. to losing it all.. to reinventing myself and ultimately landing at the top of my game over where I am now.. it&#8217;s just surreal.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI have the pleasure to work with Scott Kelby &#8211; a person who I admire for many different things &#8211; marketing genius, Photoshop genius, Business Acumen &#8211; you name it.  I&#8217;ve been steeped in the photography in the people who I consider to be idols, and on a daily basis I get to get out there and share that with the masses..<\/p>\n<p>On top of all of that &#8211; I was able to go to San Francisco this past week, and stand on stage at the 20th birthday of Adobe Photoshop.  I remember when Photoshop came on the scene, and I remember what it felt like to first use it.  To think that I would go from that end user to the person standing on stage in front of the engineers was surreal to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>What was even more surreal was to give this presentation in the middle of a packed theater around the two people who made it all &#8211; John and Thomas Knoll.  People feel very very passionately about this program.. and to be able to sit back and just watch how many people&#8217;s lives were touched by it had to have been a great experience.  To stand on stage and provide testimony of that was even better.<\/p>\n<p>I even got a chance to shoot a couple of frames with the Knoll family!! Talk about nervous!  I wish the lights were better for the event.  All in all, I think I got some shots that are actually usable.  I chatted with Jennifer Knoll; John&#8217;s wife.  Man, was she cool.. one of the nicest people I met all day in San Fran.  Corey was about to come undone- standing next to John; what with all of his work at ILM.  Driving back we were gitty like schoolchildren- dreaming what it be like to be in the halls of ILM..<\/p>\n<p>Totally overlooking the fact that we had just given a presentation that we wouldve never seen ourselves give in our lives.  Its just blessings upon blessings&#8230;. and we are so grateful.<\/p>\n<p>RC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You know, I don&#8217;t think that there is a day that i don&#8217;t go to (or come from)&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-photography","8":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}