High Impact Imagery

After checking in to the Hotel I am staying at in Joliet, I proceeded to head on out to CPX Sports, To walk around the field, Meet up with the group, Register, Pick up my media pass, get a general feel for what I am doing tomorrow, And of course, Getting all you guys the first peaks at the tradeshow..

First off, Im guessing you guys are wondering... Who has products there?!   Well:

- Ninja Paintball Tanks
- Pinokio Hoppers
- Tippmann Sports LLC
- JT Sports
- SmokinProducts.com
- Exalt (Under the Pinokio tent you can get Exalt Products)
- Hammerhead (Under the Pinokio/SmokinProducts/Tippmann tent, You can get some Hammerhead Barrel Kits)

People that we saw setting up:

- Battle Tested
- Smart Parts
- Dye
- Special Ops Paintball

- RPS

Other companies that are expected to make it out:

- Eclipse
- Empire
- Angel
- Guerrilla Air
- Invert
- Paintball Sports Magazine
- V-Force
- Paintball Indiana
- Extreme Rage
- Luxe


As I reflect on what all happened today, the one word that keeps popping into my head is simply.. Wow!, Over and over again. It was a phenominal day at the field, I walk up and introduce myself, and I feel as If I have been hanging out with these people for months.. Yet its my first time meeting them in person... 

Im looking forward to tomorrow, Where I get to meet up with even more people, cruise the tradeshow, Test out my new marker.. And I should be testing out a pinokio as well, Which, Is late overdue, But, for all the readers, I will review it!

I am very happy to say that I met two of my paintball "idols", for lack of a better word at this time.. Gary Baum (Of http://www.paintballphotography.com/   and  Rob "Tyger" Rubin (Of WebDog Radio). These are two of the most influencial people that have affected the way I have gone with paintball.. If it wasn't for Tyger and Mike (Of TechPB)'s awesome youtube videos, I probably would not be playing paintball still, There knowledge of the sport has helped me out greatly in the past, And I hope it can continue to help in the future. And if it wasn't for Gary Baum, I possibly would not have gotten into Paintball Photography seriously.. After seeing some of his shots.. I was hooked, and ever since then it is what I have wanted to do for a living.  So, If any of you are reading this... Thank You.

I am going to be watermarking the pictures and posting them up now, Before I have to pass out from exhaustion.. Pictures should be up within the next half an hour or so of the first day fun times.. "Adventure of the TechPB Monkeys"

Patrick "Hollywood" McEachern
High Impact Imagery

P.S. Excuse any gramatical, or spelling errors.. Its late, and I am tired. Haha