Andy & I work really hard together and love to share milestones and achievements with all of our friends, family and clients. Without any of these people we wouldn’t be where we are today and they continue to give us the support we need every year. I am so proud of Andy, this is an amazing achievement in his career:) Getting this from an organization that puts on the largest convention and trade show in the world for wedding photographers. We found out a few weeks ago Andy is going to receive two certifications from WPPI next year. Andy is the first photographer in the state of Colorado to receive these. Now onto making sure I am the first female in colorado 
Accolade of Photographic Mastery (APM)—total of 20 Exhibition points
Accolade of Outstanding Photographic Achievement (AOPA)—total of 30 Exhibition points
A little about the Society from WPPI:
“The Society’s primary function is to recognize and encourage excellence in photographic artistry and confer Accolades on its Colleagues in recognition of their photographic achievement. Three (3) yearly competitions allow photographers to gain Exhibition points, and Instructional points can be earned atthe WPPI Convention and at WPPI-accredited educational events during the year. In order to participate in The Society’s recognition program, one must complete an application to become a Colleague of The Society.
A&A Photography receives 8 awards of excellence for their colorado wedding photography
I have been in love with the collodion wet plate work of Mathew Brady and others since I was young. Untill recently I had never had the opportunity to learn this very complicated process. For those that don’t know much about the process here is a little from wikipedia. There are very few people world wide using this process. I would say there are less than a dozen here in colorado that even know how to do it.
“The first recorded photography on glass was by Janez Puhar, a Slovene priest, in 1842. In 1851, Frederick Scott Archer introduced a wet plate process, sometimes referred to as the collodion process after the carrier material used. The process is very simple in concept: bromide, iodide or chloride salts were dissolved in collodion, which is a solution of pyroxylin in alcohol and ether. This mixture was poured onto a cleaned glass plate, and allowed to sit for a few seconds. The plate was then placed into a solution of silver nitrate and water, which would convert the iodide, bromide or chloride salts to silver iodide, bromide or chloride, respectively. Once this reaction was complete, the plate was removed from the silver nitrate solution, and exposed in a camera while still wet. It was developed with a solution of iron sulfate, acetic acid and alcohol in water.”
I wanted to share the first 3 plates that I poured, exposed, and varnished myself. We will be using this technique very soon for our wedding clients for both portraits in the studio and for bridal sessions. Stay tuned and please inquire if you are interested.
When on a a clear glass plate it can be used as a negative. The image shows up when put against anything black as positive image. We will be shooting on tin as well as blue and red glass.
The two pictures in the front are the same process but put on tin. They are called tintypes and you may have a few of these from your own family.
This is going to be my new camera but it is going to be bigger and will accommodate plates as large as 8×10. I have chosen a period lense it was made in 1912 and is a petzval design. (information for all those photographers out there)
We are super excited about this process and glad we could share it.
Kids… well you have to love them. Andy and I love to take pictures of them at weddings and have acquired a lot of really cute pictures over the years. We haven’t really shown them off as much on the blog. They can be challenging and very rewarding. I am going through the archives and will show some more in the next few weeks. Isn’t she adorable.
Angie is speaking to Femme Photographers today at 5:00 ( a group of female photographers in denver). She will be speaking on risk and how its important to embrace it. Other topics will also include the secret to becoming a better photographer. Angie will bringing some competition prints that didn’t make the cut for the 16 x 20 WPPI print competition and why the composition was wrong or what technical problems may have existed.
Hope you girls have a great time:) Angie is fun to hang out with. I might be baised:)
If you would like more information you can sign up at http://mhphotographers.ning.com/
