My friend Dani Burns recently interviewed me for her video conversation series, The Green Room. Dani is super smart, super cool, and a great person to spend an hour or two with talking about anything and everything. So it was a pleasure being her first victim -- er, I mean, guest -- for The Green Room.

Thanks, D.

I recently photographed Social Fresh, a social media conference here in Charlotte, and I had such a good time. Here are some of the photos.

Welcome to Social Fresh © Armando Bellmas

Social Fresh volunteer Christa Hanson © Armando Bellmas

Wray Ward’s oranges © Armando Bellmas

Social Fresh being all about the social web I decided to post as many high res photos online just minutes after they were made.

I did this using lots of CF cards, a card reader, a MacBook Pro surfing a sketchy wifi network, a Tumblr account with direct-to-Twitter posting, the #sofresh hashtag, great subjects, and a top shelf assistant.

Jessica, my assistant © Armando Bellmas

I’d shoot a small round of posed and session shots, download the images to Lightroom on the MacBook Pro while Jessica loaded a new card into the camera, find the best one or two photos, post them to Tumblr, which automatically posts them to Twitter with the #sofresh hashtag, and puts the images out there for the conference and everyone on Twitter to share, comment on, and enjoy.

The social web.

A Charlotte Observer photographer and keynote David Armano © Armando Bellmas

Nathan Richie got his orange crush © Armando Bellmas

Social media — Twitter, in particular — has been a great way to get myself out there. What fascinates me most is how easy it is to connect with someone if you just have patience and good intentions. It takes me directly to people that need to know about me. It introduces me to some great minds and motivated people — much like Social Fresh bossman Jason Keath (thanks, man) and others that I’ve gone on to meet or work with in person.

And many that I have had the privilege to photograph.

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