Now I don’t normally post your average, every day “vacation snaps” type photos . . . but this is a little bit different.

These are photos from the recent Happiness Engineers meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, wherein most of the customer support staff of Automattic, Inc got together for some face time (since we are a distributed company which works all over the world).

Shenanigans naturally occurred, most of which I didn’t capture because I was too busy taking part, but here are a few photos which I did manage to get!

I took a photography class back in the day.

And this was one of my micro assignments. This was actually a dial from inside the electricity meter on my house.

Believe it or not, this beauty was my costumer for years.

She asked me to shoot some of her original pieces, and in return I got to shoot her in them.

Yeah. Fair trade.

(and yes, she’s the same girl who I shot the engagement photos for here)

I’ve known this couple for years. They asked me to take their engagement photos (and wedding photos, but unfortunately I was already booked), and I couldn’t resist, especially with their plan to go 30′s retro.

So we went to downtown Phoenix and found some great architecture and did a few shots.

I especially like his hand on her ass. Hey! If your fiance looked like she did, you’d keep a hand on her ass too!!

Clearly I spend a lot of time at Renaissance Festivals. OK, confession: I work at them. I have for . . . well . . . ever. Like almost 20 years. It’s a bit embarrassing. But it’s a place to meet chicks and take awesome pictures.

Like this one.

This guy works out there with me. He dresses like an arab mostly so he has the excuse of putting the veil up over his face so he can’t have his picture taken, but I managed to get one. I felt special!

This is a young woman that I’ve known since she was in early grade school and is one of more talented people I’ve met!

I genuinely feel sorry for whatever boy young man ends up trying to get with her. Sure, she has a bunch of “uncles” who are already uber protective of her, but on top of that, they’re going to have to deal with her too! She graduated high school at the age of 15 and has black belts in two different martial arts.

Poor soul!