Fer Juaristi has always been a great inspiration for me. After meeting him and taking his workshop, he is even more awesome. I learned a lot from the workshop and he was such a great person to learn from and hang out with all day. He has such a deep love and passion for the wedding photography industry and is truly happy to share his knowledge with everyone from doing these workshops, or as he calls them, Fershops. I know that my photography skills have improved from taking this workshop and hope that I can continue to improve. It was also a lot of fun meeting the other attendees in Denver as they were such a great group of photographers!

Models: Kassie and Johan

Hosts: Sarah Fischer and John Bosley

Dress: Marie-Margot Bridal Couture

Hair and Makeup: K Schell Designs

Thanks to Brandi as well for treating us to pizza afterwards!

Last month, I went to New Orleans for the SWPB (Starting A Wedding Photography Business) Flickr Group Workshop. SWPB is a Flickr group that comprises of wedding photographers that share their work, feedback, comments, discussions, etc. It was a two day workshop camp where we met up in New Orleans. Everyone stayed at the same hotel, and basically hung out and talked shop for a couple days.  Thanks to Christine Tremoulet and Laura Burlton for organizing. We had about 20 people from all over drive and fly into New Orleans, although majority were from Texas. The first day consisted of Amazon Photographer blogger and WPJA photographer of the year 2008, Ryan Brenizer speaking about his business, tips and tricks, and some demos. The evening consisted of a mockup photoshoot with two couples. The second day was more of a chill day but we also managed to get one of the photographers, the beautiful Lynette to model a wedding dress for everyone else to shoot. It was great hanging out with photographers from other cities while eating awesome Southern Cooking and Seafood. If anyone is ever in New Orleans, Fiorella’s Cafe has the best Southern Fried Chicken that we have ever had! 

We managed to experience a very interesting rain thunderstorm while walking around in the French Quarter

Here is the group of attendees

Ryan showing Holly and Lynette something on his laptop