Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Vegas, Baby

Aubrey and I just returned from Vegas and wow, it was AMAZING! We attended WPPI 2008 (that's Wedding and Portrait Photographers International for all you lay people.)
We spent Saturday through Wednesday in Vegas with our awesome photo friends Amy and Kelly.
We had SUCH a blast with you girls!!

Our week was jam packed with some awesome classes, and of course, parties!
Sunday night we hit up the Photography Mentor party at a posh penthouse at Mandalay Bay and then made an appearance at the Celebrity Suite at The Palms for the Pixel 2 Canvas party.









Click here to see some more photos of our adventures.

The Photography Mentor party was awesome and we got to rub elbows with some photography ROCK STARS: Jesh de Rox, [b]ecker, Jessica Claire, and LaCour. It was incredible.

Here's us with Jesh de Rox:


and Becker:


We didn't take many of our own photos, but you can check out this and this by the Lovecat herself, Anne Ruthmann

Anne also co-hosted our Monday night adventure with the Pay It Forward Blog. We chilled at the iBar at The Rio for a ROCKING party full of free stuff! I won my own set of Totally Rad Actions and Aubrey won a 16x20 Canvas Gallery Wrap from WHCC!

I actually have a photo of this one! Here's me and Amy with our new buddy, Phil from New Yawk.



Unfortunately, this was the only photo of mine that actually turned out. It was way too late at night to get anything in focus, as you can see here:





As you can see, I didn't take this one, so you can't blame the bad photos ENTIRELY on me.



But apparently, I take a better photo of the casino than of the people in it.



Luckily, there are more awesome people who take better photos than me. Check out the party from Abby's perspective.

And look! One of our most favorite companies ever, KISS wedding books had another photo booth at the trade show. Naturally, we had to show off their gorgeous albums!
(Note to our clients: We are now offering these BEAUTIFUL, leatherbound, flush-mount albums, so ask us for more info!)



So basically, it was the best week ever. I know I didn't really talk about anything photography, but the parties are more flashy. We did get some GREAT learning in the classes we attended. Jesh de Rox and Jared Bauman's presentations were by far my favorite.
It was definitely a great experience and we hope we can do it again next year!!

And of course, there is only one way to spend your last night in Vegas:

bed jumping

bed jumping

bed jumping

bed jumping

11 comments:

Fru said...

these photos are really showing all the fun you had!
way to go1
;)

Jared Bauman said...

nice, i love the bed jumping pictures! i'm so glad you enjoyed the presentation!

Leon said...

Hey you two! Sorry I didn't have the pleasure of shaking hands and chatting, but man was I busy! You definitely give off the fun vibes!

Love this shot from the Photolovecat party- do you have more that I could use on our blog and I'll totally link you out?

samunwritten said...

Hey Leon,
These photos are pretty much all we have, but you're more than welcome to use them. I love linkage.

Ardent Photography said...

Yes! These shots totally rock!

I learned a lot and had a blast.... thanks to you ladies I had a lot of fun! (and today I took a really, really long nap!)

jennifer said...

you girls are were too funny. the last jumping bed shot is hilarious!

Jules said...

Fabulous make up! Good choice in dressed! Your hair all looked awesome! And the photos are INCREDIBLE!! Can't wait to hang out!! Eek!

Molly said...

omfg, that was YOU guys in the In-n-Out hats? I stopped two of you in the tradeshow and asked why the heck you were wearing them (honestly, I thought there was an In-n-Out van parked somewhere giving away free burgers).

Instead of answering you gave me some rigamarole about a secret handshake. I thought you were drunk or something! LoL!!

abby said...

yay! so fun to meet you! Hope you are enjoying your action set ;-)

$teve said...

Great pictures!!! I just got back from a weekend in Vegas myself. Feel free to stop by & check out my pictures...though not as many hotties in mine. :)

Anonymous said...

Hey Its Dana I met you at the Neon Graveyard I was the guy with all the tattoos with nichole the girl with tattoos haha.
Anyways I lost your card but found your blog.
If you have pictures of nichole and I could you please email them to me???
Dana.vegas@hotmail.com
Or contact me thru model mayhem
www.modelmayhem.com/dana_anderson.
Thank you!!