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Monica, Me and Chriselda

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 ....

WPPI - Leaving las Vegas

Well I am back !!!
I promise a long blog entry about this weeks adventures at WPPI. Lets just say I found a great new album company to work with, the clue is on the photo booth pics.
I leave you with single pic because its to late right now to write a long entry with two many pics to count:
Me ( on the left ) & Monica Z

WPPI Conference - Away from March 14- March 19

I will be attending the WPPI Conference this week. ( Wedding and Portrait Photographers International )I am so excited to be going for my first time. Its one of the biggest trade shows for professional photographers, some of the best photographers in the world will be there. One of my big goals is to look for new album companies for the 2009 year, learn some new techniques, network, all that fun stuff and of course lots of photo shoots.
I am happy to meeting up with some fellow photographers and of course the ones I am sharing a room with :) :
Monica Z of Monica Z Photography, Chriselda of Chriselda Photography and Stacey of Venture Photography
I can't wait to get on that plane tomorrow! I have to finish packing !
All emails will be answered after March 19.
-L

Engagement Photography- Flat Iron Building - NYC

I met this lovely couple today.. we talked about marriage, children, what happens when you turn 30. (I will find out this year) We had some interesting adventures in the cold, cold weather. I have to give it to them, a little over an hour in the freezing cold to brave it that long. We ended the shoot in a cute diner with red stool seats with coffee and tea, you don't see to many of those anymore. The owner there let me go behind the counter to take photos and gave us advice on marriage, quite a character! I had alot of fun, pulled some muscles in my leg from sitting to long in front of the Flat Iron building hopefully I will recover soon! (for the love of photography)
In this set, I have been really experimenting with tilt shift photography. I had dabbled a little into last year, but its really been growing on me. I went to a photo class where Vincent La Foret had spoke out about his travels as a National Geographic Photographer and his use of the tilt shift lens. Thats what first sparked my interest back in Oct. 07, I think we are going to see a little more use with the effect this year!

New Photography Sessions coming soon!

I am soooo excited for the upcoming weeks.. There are so many great things happening..
1. Some engagement shoots this weekend (keeping fingers crossed for great weather)
2. First 2 weddings of the year in March
3. WPPI !!!!!!!! Leaving March 14th for Vegas - Its a amazing photography convention for Wedding and Portrait photographers. I am going to be doing many workshops, I am looking forward to learning more and adding to my knowledge of photography and spending time with my photography friends!
4. Please keep those entries coming in for the Destination photo contest we got so many great ones so far.. Its going to be a really tough decision..