Sunday, March 23, 2008

WPPI Conference - Las Vegas, NV

Wow, thats all I can say write now about WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers Conference). I stayed 5 days in Vegas to listen to some of the top wedding and portrait photographers in the world. ( Such as Jerry Ghionis, a personal favorite) As we sat in on these classes we learned new techniques, ways of thinking and approaching the art of wedding photography.
On top of that I roomed with some great people Monica, Chriselda and Stacey at Bally's in Vegas, please checkout their blog for more pics. I also met some great wedding photographers who extremely friendly and open to talking some in particular : Anne Ruthmann, Scarlett Lillian, Gary Fong, Jillian Kay and plenty more.
We attended the Pay it Forward / Photo Love Cat party and had the times of our lives, we all acutually ended up helping out Anne Ruthmann throw out alot of the prizes. ( as you can see from some of the pics)
In addition to all that we did some fun photoshoots with Myra of Twigs and Honey
faboulous teardrop/ hairpieces for her website. However I think some of these photos that we took of each other are going to be used for a new blog header, hmm not sure yet.
Anyway WPPI was an amazing, amazing experience, I can not wait to go next year!
Please enjoy the pics from the shoot-
Some of Monica's and Chriseldas photos are mixed in with mine, its all good we are all talented :) Right Monica and Chriselda?

Paris Hotel

Mucho Dinero

Taking photos of a duplicate of a Roman Bath



In the Bellagio

Diamonds

Chiptole, Big DEAL when we found it !!! So good




View from our hotel :

then when Chriselda showed up on Monday we had a fun photoshoot with Twigs and Honey Hair Pieces:


WE like reflections:





With our shootsacs


How the photo came out

In the convention:

Monica meets Gary Fong

10,000+ photographers = Chaos
slice of heaven in the Paris Hotel:


Chriselda loves Crepes

& Finally
the amazing Pay it Forward / Photo Love Cat party at the Rio
So yeah we all sort of became prize giveaway people.. lets just say we had a great time helping out the hosts:

Chriselda shooting me, I am shooting her





More to come ....

3 comments:

Chriselda said...

yay! i had so much fun!
but honestly, i got back home
and it really was such a big blur, vegas..
that i don't really think i was even there

hmmm.
love the crepe pic!!! too cute!

Myra - twigs and honey said...

Beautiful! It looks like a several days straight party! hehe. I can't wait to see more. So glad you had a safe trip back! Of course, I'm going to post a blog post on your post! Thanks for the twigs & honey support!! --Myra

The Boudoir Divas™ said...

Awesome shots! Looks like you had tons of fun!!! :) Thanks so much for joining us for the boudoir shoot.