Bay Shore, NY - Landmark Photo Contest

I am pleased to announce that I came in 1st place again for the Bay Shore Annual Photo Contest for Professional Photographers
The subject this year was Architectural details and buildings. The photo will be on display at the annual community summit tommorow and in the historical society building.

Bridal Finds: Twigs and Honey Love

I am very honored to have collaborated to do some product photography with Myra of Twigs and Honey (her blog is http://twigsandhoney.blogspot.com/ ) who has an amazing store filled with handmade vintage style hairpieces, necklaces, boutonnieres. I first found out about her lovely designs from Brooklyn Bride Blog.
I think these designs are wonderful and compliment any wedding to give a "vintage look, " or the handmade route . I just love how they are so beautiful and refreshing to look at.
I would love for one of my 2008 or 2009 brides to go for this look!!
Here are some pieces from her store:




I am so happy for her that she was featured in Etsy Storque today.
I recently had the honor of taking two of her pieces to Vegas and doing a shoot with some of my wedding photographer friends, yes we did stop traffic with these hairpieces:
Photos are a collaboration of Myself, Monica Z Photography and Chriselda Photography.
Monica and I played model on and off, but we had such a great time and Chriselda had a blast photographing us when we weren't embarassing her in Vegas, anyway look at these hothairpieces, these are some of the photos from the shoot:




Monica rockin



a fun outtake of me and the fire hydrant



and from a seperate shoot a couple of weeks ago:

Quick Preview - Sean and Katrina

More to come later -


One of my favorites:

Missing my Photographer Friends i

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