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WPPI 2009: Vegas Wedding Project
The awesome and amazing Anne Ruthmann came up with the idea this past winter for the Vegas Wedding Project (still under construction!). Basically in a nutshell it’s a blog and book project aimed at showing modern Vegas weddings – since the majority of the wedding images you see from Las Vegas are all the hokey…
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WPPI 2009: Plus Class with Cliff Mautner
Last year was my first year attending the annual WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) convention in Las Vegas. I made many friends and learned so much that I was very eager to return this year. This year the convention was held in the middle of February and I attended for 8 looong days. Vegas…
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Hawaii Day Six: Whale Watching
Growing up, I always wanted to be a Marine Biologist. I don’t know how or why this started but I’ve always had a fascination with aquatic animals – dolphins, whales and manatees in particular. However this profession was not meant to be mine as I am allergic to cold temperatures (literally – I break out…
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Hawaii Day Five: Luau
My hubby got me a treat for our last night in Maui, he got us VIP seats to see The Drums of the Pacific Luau at the Hyatt! I was so stoked and excited. The reality of it was that it probably wasn’t worth the extra cost that we paid to sit in the VIP…
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Viva Las Vegas
Ack! I’m sorry I’m a slacker posting this week but I do have good reasons… the big one is that I’m leaving for Las Vegas in the morning for a week! I’ll be attending WPPI for the second year in a row. Last year I learned so much that I couldn’t wait to go back…
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Hawaii Day Five: Sightseeing
On my fifth full day in Hawaii I finally got to go see Maui!! Don’t get me wrong, I loved being in the workshop but my lifelong dream was to go to Maui so being there without being able to SEE it was killing me. I added on a couple days to our trip and…
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Hawaii Day Four: Kona Storm
On the final day of the Mike Colon Workshop we didn’t do any shooting, just some learning and the end of the day was tied in a bow with a party! We originally were going to do some shots of each other but a massive Kona Storm rolled in and it was a downpour all…