For the last three years I've attended a Hoorah in Billings, Montana hosted by Jacque and Leslie King at their studio, The Pit. Photographers, models, agents, reps, makeup artists and others come from around the U.S. and Canada for a week of informal networking, photography, ribaldry and general hell-raising.

In that week there is great food, little sleep, and incredible opportunity. Photographers I've known on the web show up, and faces and personalities are at last associated with the names. Stories are swapped, lies are told, equipment compared (cameras too) and plans are made.

We share food bills, hotel rooms, shooting spaces and cars, informally scheduling models and makeup artists to take advantage of whatever light or timeframe we think will make the photographs we've daydreamed about. There are no rules, no curfews, and very little protocol except to respect the rights of each other.