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I can’t really express how excited I am for WPPI coming up. WPPI stands for Wedding and Portrait Photographers International. Every year in March they put on the LARGEST wedding and portrait convention and tradeshow in the country… maybe even in the world. The majority of my fellow photographers in the country will be there where we can meet face to face instead of just being twitter friends or Facebook fans. We get to meet all the vendors that make all the amazing products that we sell to our amazing clientele, and we get to learn from the best of the best in the industry. You wouldn’t think that one would be jumping up and down in excitement to go to a work conference/convention, but there are over 11,000 photographers in the country that are doing just that! If you doubt, just do a twitter search for #wppi and you will see the amount of excitement out there!
This is one of the oh sooo many reasons I love my job. To spend a week with other people who see the world like I do and everyone is there to help out others and grow as much as we possibly can to be that much better of a photographer and a person by the end of the week, is amazing. I have always wanted to go to WPPI, but for so many years I have not had the chance to go.
This year I was determined, just to have to change my mind last month because we are moving. I was crushed… and then on Thursday, I decided it was too big of a deal and to big of an experience to pass up on it again! So, I will be hopping on a plane early Sunday morning to get my learn on, to get my networking on, to get my playing on (of course!!!) and to find new and exciting ways to grow my business and myself.
Soooooooooooo excited!!!! Can you tell? :0)
So, good bye until next week. I will be out of the office and growing with 11,000 other people who share my passion! I will see you again at the end of next week 
… and to end with a sneak peak of next weeks blog post about my recent trip to Tucson
**updated with a couple more pictures on March 5. Check out the lovely lady I’ve added at the bottom of the post****
Back in January I did my first boudoir marathon event, and it was AWESOME!!! I love the idea of boudoir, because the fun that all the girls that I photographed had while being confident and sexy in front of the camera was AMAZING! One of my favorite things about my job is the opportunity I get to make people feel good about themselves. There is nothing better than seeing my clients face after showing them an image that they love. An image that boosts their confidence because it is something showing them how beautiful they are, instead of all the advertisements in our society telling us that we aren’t and how to fix it.
We had a super fun day shooting in a suite at the Hotel Alexis in downtown Seattle. I found a specific room through their website and requested it. I loved the walls, the windows, the floor, the EVERYTHING about this sweet! Each lady came and had a half hour with makeup artist Whitney Boot, who did a fabulous job and then an hour shoot in the suite. It was sooo much fun and I can’t wait to do another marathon event!
Here are a selection of images from all the shoots we did that day. Thank you ladies! You know who you are, and thank you for letting me show some of these images up on my blog. It means a lot to me
     
    
  
Comments are welcome!
** added more pictures after getting the go ahead to post from Ms. J’s session**
  
I absolutely love the series where I am looking through the door at her on the bed. I think it gives the image a really private feel. To note, she was laughing at me the entire time I was doing this, as I was shoved in the closet squeezed between the wall and the safe to get the right angle for the shot. Whatever you have to do for the shot right?
 
Thanks again ladies! It was a blast
Well, he’s a pretty awesome musician at the very least. Back near the beginning of the year (I know, it’s rediculous how behind I am on blogging!) I photographed musician Caleb Ingraham for a cd he was putting together. Now Caleb is a pretty talented guy… and I am not saying that just because he’s my brother. It should be said that he must be pretty darn good if I am shouting to the world about how awesome he is… I mean, really, there were years of him sitting on me so that he could get access to the remote and have control over the tv! So, even though I am scarred in that way  I am still willing to talk about his skilzzzzz.
He goes the acoustic route so it’s just his voice and hands plugging away on the strings that keeps you nodding your head along with the beat. His style is something similar to Jack Johnson and Ray LaMontagne with his own Caleb flair. All the music on his cd is written by him, and good to boot!
You can tell I like his music as his songs is the opening song playing when you check out my website. I have a distinct love of that song as he wrote it for and sang it at my wedding. Most of my family is musically talented. They pretty much all have these amazing voices or amazing musical talents, but me  I must have been adopted when it comes to that catagory as I make banshees cringe when I sing.
To prove my case, my hubby Pete had Chinese food for lunch today, and when he read his fortune cookie, he laughed and said he must have to make me sing to make it work. Confused I read the fortune and it said ” you will have an entertaining musical experience soon.”
I’d be offended… but he’s right
All I have to say is that at least I walked away with the mad photo taking skillz cuz I’d be lost creatively without them!
Anyhoooooo…. here is the amazing Caleb Ingraham in all his awesomeness
    
 …what you thought there wouldn’t be detail shots? nonsense! There are always detail shots!
 
  
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