Traveling has been a passion of mine since I got my first passport at 6 months old (no joke!) I sat on my moms lap and made gaga sounds at the photographer. I started traveling alone at age 6 to visit my Aunt in Missouri every Summer. I haven't stopped since. Where I go, my camera follows. I love experiencing new places and capturing each one in my own way.
It’s that time of year again!
The time when all the top wedding and portrait photographers in the world get together in Vegas and learn, socialize and shoot! It’s the WPPI convention held at the MGM in Vegas!
I will be hitting up the classes Monday-Thursday and also a few photoshoots! And of course all the fun parties at night!
If you are out there, or even just curious about my week, you can follow me on Twitter to see what I am doing.
How exciting is this! I got notice from my good friend Charise that Gretchen’s Trash the Dress session in Downtown San Diego is featured TrashTheDress.com today!
Head on over there to peek at some awesome photographers that have been featured on there in the past (and feel free to leave a comment there too!)
Big thanks to the Trash the Dress team!!
XOXO, M
Between planning my own wedding (which is happening in a little over 2 weeks), family portrait sessions, editing and Christmas shopping…I found some time to plan a group Trash the Dress session!
Lauren and Helena are two former brides who donned their dresses again for the sake of art!
A group of about 15 photographers came out to brave the chilly San Diego weather (like 60 degrees people!) We had a great time and met some new people! Thanks to everyone that showed up and thanks to our awesome models (oh and Helena’s hubby Erik too!)
Trash the Dress is just a term. Neither of the dresses were full harmed in this photoshoot!
First up! Helena!
And Lauren!
Batter up!
Lauren braved the icy cold water for the shot!
Here is one of the group shots I took…
I had such a good time with all of you! Let’s plan another outing (after my wedding of course!)
xoxo, M
Last week I organized a get together with some photographer friends (new and old) in Old Town San Diego. The purpose was to get together for networking, photographing new headshots of each other and drinking margaritas!
I’ll start off with the group shot, which happened at the end of the shoot. Photographers love their jumping shots! It was after sunset and pretty dark outside when we took this, so I shot this at a low shutter speed. I think its hilarious! I never knew Jamie was so flexible!
And here are a few of the headshots I took that evening.
Miss Sylvia Borgo! Look for this lovely lady and her family on my blog very soon. I am taking her family photos later this month!
And here is the fabulous Michelle Bellafatto:
And my good friend, Kim Irons!
And the beautiful Emily Faulkner {can’t find her link right now 🙁 }
The very sweet Marissa Feliciano:
Kim again, in some gorgeous light.
The always fun Vanessa Elders!
And of course my very good friend (and sometimes assistant) Jamie Lawler!
I love when she laughs 🙂
Here are a few photos taken by my friends!
Photo by Simeon (sorry no link!) 🙁
Kim and me playing in the leaves! (Photo by Michelle Bellafatto)
I love this shot (by Geri Goodale) of me and Jamie hamming it up!
Shot of the group shooting me! (Photo by Marissa)
Photo by Sarah Tolson
Don’t you remember me mentioning margaritas???
A shot my friend Ally took of our pool game after (Jamie on the left, then me with some bad pool form)!
Jamie took this shot of me!
Me, Jamie, Kim and Ally! (both these next two were taken by my camera’s timer!)
We got some weird looks for this shot!
I had so much fun with everyone, can’t wait till we do it again!
XOXO, M
This post is almost a month late 🙂 At the Kiss Get SImple Seminar in August I met Mike Larson. I was very inspired by him and his shooting style, so in the beginning of October I made the trek to Las Vegas to participate in a workshop that he held with Brittany of BLR Life Studios.
It was an awesome 2 days of learning, shooting and laughing with mostly new friends. I did drag along my friend Charise to room with me!
This is Mike talking to our group. Of course, I am always the troublemaker in the back of the class!
On our first day out! We shot 2 models in a dry lake bed. It was such an awesome location!
Here is Brittany working her magic:
And of course, Mike working his:
After Day one, a few of use stragglers went out to dinner and we surprised Mike with a birthday flan. I shot these at 3200 ISO, 24mm, f/1.4 hand held at 1/30th, Auto White Balance in a very red room (obviously)
I promise he did not eat the whole candle.
This is one of the lovely couples from Day 2 of shooting!
And the other lovely couple!
Poor Emily was convinced she could get a rad shot from the top of the wine barrel. But alas, the wine barrel didn’t think so…and she fell all the way through! Thank goodness she wasn’t horribly hurt! I wish I would have captured the falling motion, but I was too busy screaming at the top of my lungs. This is immediately after. Oh and she was holding on to Mike’s camera (Mark II, I believe) and she was able to save that!
My stomach aches for Jimmy Johns when I cross the state line. I cannot wait until this sub shop makes it to California. I seriously crave the Turkey Tom.
One thing that Mike is known for in the industry is his camera toss. I stole this image below off of his blog. You can see a video of Mike doing a different toss at this link.
And my girls. Chelsea Nicole, Charise Proctor, me and Emily Nelson. Brittany took this photo of us below and I stole it off of Charise’s blog. 🙂
Vegas was so much fun, I can’t wait to hang out again at WPPI!
XOXO, M
