A little late than never…..
If you know Andy & I or read our blog you will know that every year we attend the world’s largest photography convention in Las Vegas. The convention is for WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International) and this year was our 5th year attending. From the beginning WPPI has been a great resource for our company and we can’t thank the small yet awesome group of people who run it enough!
This year was especially exciting for us because WPPI not only asked us to speak for them again but asked Andy to be a print judge in their international Print competition. So the first couple of days we were there Andy sat on a panel next to some truly inspiring photographers and judged hundreds of wedding prints. It was so much fun to watch him up there and I was so proud!
This Photo taken by Elena Hernandez
This Photo taken by Elena Hernandez
Thanks Elena for capturing this awesome memory!
It is always interesting to have your wedding photography critiqued and we both have learned so much over the years watching. Over the last couple of years, Andy and I have been doing some old photography called Collodion Wet Plate. It is a process that takes time but in the end you have a one of a kind photograph on glass or tin. So this year I decided to take a chance and enter of the tin plates I created over the year of some wedding shoes. I wasn’t expecting see my print be judged knowing there were hundreds of them to go through but I got lucky and was in the room at the right time! With my heart pounding I watched them talk about the print for what seemed like forever, discussing whether it was a real collodion wet plate or not. Finally they came to a conclusion and I received a merit for it!
We were also excited to have one of our close friends come with us this year and for the first time enter the print competition. Matt is an amazing landscape photographer and after some prodding we convinced him to enter. I sat with him as he watched each of the 4 prints he turned in come up and cheered when each one received a merit! I still don’t think he knows how good he is but he was excited and we were so proud of him! Here is where I insert his website so you can all go admire his work….:) http://www.kennedyphotography.net/
Here are the images he won with:
Andy & I taught a class again this year; it was a Masterclass and we spoke about marketing, wedding blogs, burn out, personal projects and all of the things we do as a company to handle them. We were lucky enough to have one of our awesome sponsors, WHCC support us again this year and they provided us with some beautiful standout prints to display in our class. We had people from all over the country in our class and a few from Australia who apparently woke up in the middle of the night to register for the class! It was a great class full of amazing people, each one giving us the reason to keep speaking. Thank you to everyone who came to hear us, we had a great time with all of you 
The last couple of days we spent going through the enormous trade-show, attending other photographer’s classes and chatting with with all of the new people we met. It’s hard to describe the energy of a convention like this; everyone is excited to meet each other, learn new things and most of all get inspired.
Thanks Again to WPPI for all that you have done for us!
