Mark Hurd, CEO of HP visit in Hoston TX

So today the CEO of HP visited our site here in Houston, TX. For those who don't know, I do have a regular job at HP. Technically Mark came to the Houston HP site on Friday. He had a nice 1hr speech with live streaming on the campus televisions. For the first time I really enjoyed the speech and the information Mark provided us about the company and it's future.

It was a last minuted deal for me to volunteer to be one of the photogs for today. Mark is an ex-pro tennis player. He joined a nice large group of HP employees and spend almost an entire day playing tennis at a local racket club. It was fun and HOT!! Boy was it hot out today. But we got some good shots and it was 4 of us who teamed up and had some shooting fun.

I was responsible for the shot of all the teams and Mark together. I had set up the flashes and crossed my fingers that it was going to come out right. The nerves really did not kick in until the shot was done. After the lost shot I was about to fall off the ladder. I realized I just took care of a group shot with our company's CEO in the middle. Not a thing you get to do everyday.

Well enough story telling. Here are a few shots from the day. Hope you like and don't forget, comments are appreciated.

We first did all the group shots. Clai took the individual teams and I did all the team together.

Group shots by Clai Duvall









Group shot by "mua" ;-) In this one everyone was a "CEO" ha ha, got them all to laugh though!!



Clai and I!!


Rex, Clai and I putting our equipment together after the group shots.


Testing the speed of the ball!








Mark warming up for the challenge rounds




Mark serving








Check out Rex in the right corner with his mighty telephoto toy!! NICE!!


All photogs for the day with Mark


Mark and yours truly!! ;-) (BTW, my camera adds about 25lbs for ME only!! Really, it's true!)


Well, I overloaded this site with images so now the spell check will not work. I apologize for the misspelled words if you find any, but I'm sure you can forgive me since in Russian you may not understand much!! ha ha

Have a wonderful weekend!!

P.S. I finally figured out how to make an animated GIF file! Here goes nothing! ha ha