Fremont Street

While I was at the WPPI convention down at Bally's I took about a thirty minutes of time and headed over to the Fremont Street Experience. It is just an area I have always wanted to photograph, so I took my camera and saw what I could see. I became slightly infatuated with the way the signs looked and especially since I was there during the day the way the neon lights look with no neon. Plus being a Vegas native, I can tell you that these signs mean more to Vegas then some of the big ones down south. I still want to go to the graveyard of signs where they have all the ones from the imploded hotels. Anyone want their pics done there - it would be awesome. Maybe one of you edgy seniors, I cant think of a better way to say "I'm from Vegas baby!" then having your pics done there.

Anyway, random tangent, back to my Fremont Experiment. It felt a little like an old school assignment from Val Brinkerhoff about lines and colors. But I kinda like the graphic quality of the images that came out of it. My two favorite pictures of course ended up being of people (plus a fascinating graphic background). I had fun, leave a comment and let me know what you think... Click here to see more.

Finding my Keywords

I am trying to find three keywords to describe my style and my images. If you could take a moment to help me out it would be greatly appreciated. All you need to do is take a look at the seven images I picked out that I love and then pick the three words you feel best describe the overall style. Only three words per person please! Remember I am looking for the overall effect of all the images as a whole, not three words per image or anything like that. The poll is in the post below. Thank you for your time!

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Mary and Steve

I was lucky enough to be their photographer! They were such a fun couple to work with and I just loved it all. They got married out at the Ritz Carlton at Lake Las Vegas. It is a gorgeous venue, and has lots of great spots so we just had a great time ... laughing. They are kinda like me in that they just giggle a lot, so that made for some great candids and a lot of real smiles (My favorite thing!) They just had such great design elements throughout their wedding with their programs, table numbers, menus and Steve's socks! It is always such a blast to work with other artists and really get creative. Here are a handful of my favorites. For the full collection click here. Can you believe she can jump like that in a wedding dress! She's amazing! Some of my favorite shots actually came when Steve took all the men outside the reception for cigars. It was so Godfather and mafia. I loved it!

Reprint Sale!

Hey guys, I have a sale going on for all reprints right now through March 24th.  It is combo my birthday + Easter sale.  So enjoy!  Click here to go to my online proofing.

WPPI

I had a great time at the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Convention this weekend.  It was inspirational and delightful.  I feel like I learned so much.  For the most part I went to classes focusing on business and just am so stoked (a word from the 1990's for you youngins out there) to implement some new procedures and marketing things that will just help everything run smoother for me.  I am also really excited to announce that I am switching to a new lab, they are called White House Custom Color, and I just know that you will all love the new products with them.  

Although I loved the business part.  My two favorite classes were creative ones of course.  The first was with a guy named Chris Conrad.  He is a fine art photographer who lives in Moab, Utah.  He just totally took me back to my photography professors John Telford and Val Brinkerhoff, and inspired me to work on my fine art more.  He does amazing all night long exposures of star trails and moon trails.  They were great.

After him we went to the program by Jesh de Rox.  If you want to see some amazing wedding photography and be inspired go to his site.  (Or you could go to mine, cause Im amazing too...:)  But Jesh really inspired me, not all because of his images which I like, but because of his philosophy on life.  His entire talk was on the beauty that each of us as human beings have inside.  How each of us can reach inside learn things about ourselves and create beauty, whether it is with words, paint, music, cameras, digital media, or any other form of beauty.  As I write about it I worry that I cannot get the feeling across to you, my audience, and that it might all sound cheesy and artsy fartsy.  It wasnt though, his entire talk was full of principles I find to be very true, and after listening to him I have  a greater resolve to open my heart to others and to encourage you all to do the same.  He talked about how much more beautiful the world would be if instead of having superficial conversations all the time, we really found the beauty in each human being.  We should all be like children and open our hearts the way they do.  At any rate go to his site, and you will get an idea of what the talk was like.  I loved it!  

If you are a photographer and havent ever gone to WPPI I highly recommend it.  It was great!

Dr. Bryson LeMone

I got to do a really fun job for Dr. Bryson LeMone. Bryson is a new dentist in town who has just started his own practice. They started from scratch and him and his wife, Kathryn, have made a gorgeous office. They just wanted some creative fun stuff in addition to a couple portraits of him. I loved what they did with the interior design, and it was a really fun shoot. Check out more of the shots here. And Dr. LeMone's website here.

Natalie and Jordan Engagements

Photographing Natalie and Jordan was such a blast, they are just so happy! We did the shoot at Town Square Mall and I really loved every minute. Here are a few of my favorites and click here to see the rest.