Headed out to Montreal this weekend to take a few photos of my roommate Nicole and her boyfriend Andrew. Awesome people, in an awesome city. Good weekend.
A few random iPhone snaps. Poutine seems to be the reoccurring theme.
Jesse and Whit are getting married on my birthday this summer! We hung out Monday afternoon in NYC and took a bunch of pictures. It was awesome. I honestly could not think of a better way to spend an amazing spring day. 20C and sunny — with a snowball fight, and an afternoon beer at a little pub in Brooklyn.
Ms. Nova Markina came along to help out. She is one of my favorite humans in the world, and I can’t wait to spend more time with her over the summer.
This is where we went:
These are my favorite 6 photos:
The 6th favorite is up top.
Here are a few random iPhone photos:
A lot of people ask me why I end up in Vegas so often. Somewhere between 35 – 45 times in the past 6 years. The truth is that I just really like the Jalapeno Chicken Tacos from Diablos at Monte Carlo.
This trip was for WPPI. It’s one of my favorite weeks of the year because so many people I’ve met from so many places all converge on Vegas for a week. A good chunk of people that attended the What If conference in Cabo made a reappearance at Airplanes and Blazers 2. It’s a pretty legendary night during the conference every year where Flashdance reaffirms why he’s my favorite DJ. If you need a DJ in the LA area, don’t even look at anyone else.
Emma set up a rather awesome shoot at an old mining village. I took a few photos.
People that made this happen:
Event Organizers Emma & Josh Smith www.emmajanephotos.com coutureclicks.emmajanephotos.com
Venue- El Dorado Canyon Mine Tours (Ghost Town) http://eldoradocanyonminetours.com/
Hair/Makeup by Hair by Liz- Liz Gopwani – www.hairbylizz.com
Wedding Gowns – The White Dress www.thewhitedress.com
Fashion Wardrobe- Kristy Rose www.krosekouture.com
Hair and Makeup by Sarah Diaz Professional Makeup Artist and Hairstylist https://www.facebook.com/SarahDiazMUA
Menswear- Tuxedo Junction www.tuxedojunction.com
Accessories- Renee Pawele Bride – www.facebook.com/pages/Renee-Pawele-Bride/164189221263
As per always, I took way too many photos on my iPhone — here are a few:
Went to London a few weeks ago for some fun shoots and took some pictures on my phone. I’ll do a full blog post when I get back from Las Vegas this week!
The What If Conference is the Grand Canyon of photography(/artistpreneur) events. I say this because, it’s impossible to convey the true experience over photos or stories. It’s the general overwhelming feeling of awesomeness.
Everything about this week was perfect, and exactly what I needed as an established photographer.
To attend this was one of the best decisions I’ve made in life. I was skeptical at first – almost didn’t book. I feel like I’ve attended 50 of the same wedding photo conference/seminar/speaking tours, and was kind of burnt out of them. This one is different. I went in not really knowing much about any of the speakers, and left with the largest respect for each of them.
Random assorted facts:
– To just spend the week with 44 amazing, inspiring people was so valuable on it’s own.
– Most of the group was from Toronto and Australia.
– Jesh is easily one of the best humans in the world. He has such a unique energy about him that I’ve never seen in anyone else.
– Jesh played a little acoustic concert on the beach last night.
– Tyler fell asleep in a bathtub for somewhere between 5- 7 hours.
– Justin is a producer at Yo Gabba Gabba. That’s pretty awesome. The other parts of his life story are just as awesome.
– Everyone hung out from 9am – 3am pretty much every day. Met so many people from all over the world.
– There are 2 talks a day. You leave the first inspired and feel like you can’t handle anymore for the day. Then you listen to the second and you get totally re-inspired by them.
– I think we’re all going to need a week to decompress.
So go next year – your reality will be a little bit altered, and you will change for the better. I hope that everyone that attended this year will come back next year (even though half of you are from Australia!)
Big thanks to Jen and Steve for everything.
Dave & Jenn being all cute and stuff
Ms. Scarlet Oneill jumped around in the water for a bit.
And a few random iPhone snaps of the trip:
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These are great! I especially love the one of Jenn and Dave, and the one of Scarlet. Great images, and so glad I got to meet you! Hope you’re having a great week!
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Aron - These are beautiful dude. Nice hanging out with you in LV.
Melissa Mercier - Absolutely gorgeous!
Denise - Hey, why is there a photo of sushi on your blog…thought you were allergic?….hun hun?