Everyone I want you to meet Allison. I met Allison a little over 5 years ago at her cousin’s wedding then I shot Allison’s wedding the next year.  Well this past winter Allison contacted me and wanted to shadow me this summer at my weddings.  So I’ve been running her all over Southern Indiana shooting wedding with me.
Having her with me this summer has been a different experience for me after years of shooting by myself,  I’m becoming spoiled.  She’s been carrying my extra bag and generally babysitting me. She comes to all the weddings with her pink strip and flower in her hair. Which everyone at every wedding comments about. She’s been a fast learner too. Now that she’s got her new camera her work blends in quite nicely to where you wouldn’t think there were two people shooting.  So if you see her out and about tell her hi but don’t saying anything about asking for a raise.  LOL

Like I mentioned before, I did participate in a couple of photo shoot out of Vegas. The first shoot was a group Trash the Dress session. There was about 40 photographers and 5 models. We traded models every 15 mnutes or so. It was a fun shoot. My group got booted off the brooklyn bridge at New York New York cause it was private property. I didnt think that concept exsisted in Vegas… maybe that’s privacy.

The second shoot was a pin-up/boudoir shoot. So Ill warn you there are risque pics below but nothing nude. this shoot was done in a local photographers studio. I wont lie it was a crowded studio but still a fun shoot. we had a nice variety of models that day. So it was a nice mix of Pin-up, boudoir, and kinda high fashion. See below… you’ll understand.

Just wanted to share a few better images from the drive out as well as the convention itself. Im going to give some props to all my favorite vendors too, after all they do make offer all my clients the wonderful products and service, I give, possible.

I think I may have mentioned that this year was a huge experiement in time management… Ive made so many friends at WPPI that I have to manage my time in order to see all my friends, attend seminars, the tradeshow, and this year a couple of shoots.  Attending seminars was easy this year cause they were really enforcing the fire code so I didnt get into some of the ones I wanted to go see.  I did get to see Kevin Kubota, Kay Eskridge, John Micheal Cooper, and Cliff Mautner… who I might add Ive been trying to hear speak for a couple years now. I would say he was my favortie.

Everyone meet Troy and Rebecca… They are the husband and wife team that developed Pickpic, which is the awesome shopping cart that you use to buy you images through on my website. This year theres going to be some changes that will make your experience, and mine, even better. For you it will be faster and easier to use, also now that they are part of my lab I will be able to offer so many more products and make it easy for me to fill your orders on the backside of thing. so we are hoping tby the end of the year youll be able to purchase so many different things through the cart.

Next is Finao. Finao is the company I get the beaitful albums that all my clients just love. Christine had the most creative booth at the trasehow… probably the most creative booth Ive ever seen. It created such a wonderful atmosphere to just walk in sit down and look through countless albums.

Then of coarse, the next thing on my list is the tradeshow.  Ive gotten to where now at least I have just a handful of vendors that I make it a point to go see. It defiantly makes going to a tradeshow this big way more managable.

This is Christine… the architect of the chaos and one of the funnest people Ive met in the industry. Couple new things from Finao this year…. one is all the albums are no longer going t come in thsoe white pizza boxes. Past clients and fellow photographers know what Im talking about. the boxes they are going to be delievered in are much nicer. Second.. they are now offering a designer box that you can have pne of your wedding photos printed on the cover… and can I say they are gorgeous. Can’t wait to get one to show it off.

This guy here is Fundy. Fundy designed the amazing software I use to design all my clients albums. Ive been through so many different template software over the years and what he created is by far the best thing Ive used. So to all my fellow photogs out there… if youre looking for a way to make your album designing go easier go look up this software.

Last but defiantly not least is ShootQ. ShootQ is a service I use that allows me to book my clients online thus saving them the time of having to drive back to my office just to fill out a contract, plus it handles some of the day to day tasts that i tend to put off till the last minute, thus allowing me more time to do what i like to do… play on facebook with my clients and friends amd shoot.

Ok so this year, I decided not to put up more images of the same old things I see walking up and down the strip. I decided to give some credit to the vendors that allow me to offer my cleints the top quality products and service that they come to me for.

So now below I just wanted to show off more of the images I shot on the journey out to and back from Vegas. Then later Im going to post images from the 2 shoots I was appart of. So please enjoy.

Well this past Sunday was, of coarse, Superbowl Sunday. It was also, for all of us locals, Superbride Sunday. This was the first time in 7 years that I didnt do the show. I’m relying on my wonderful and happy clients to tell all their friends about me. Just kidding. I did make it into check out the show and have to say it was the smallest Ive seen it in years.
This year instead of being in the show I got to actually go to a Superbowl party. Julie, a friend from a networking group I’m apart of, invited me and some others over to her house for food, fun, and football. I was there more for the food and fun. The last time I posted about football was when the Colts won the Superbowl. Not the case this time. I spent most of the evening over with Julie, nancy, Tom, and Leah chatting all night. I did catch the occasional commercial but even most of those were disappointing. All things being equal though i could get used to doing Superbowl parties over Superbride shows very easy.

Leah didn’t like the wine. Can you tell?

Hey everybody, Well I’ve got another chance to attend the WPPI Convention next year again for free. So please sit back enjoy the video again this year.  Things are going to start picking up soon so there will be more to show you soon.