I am a California girl at heart who is lucky enough to live in one of the most wonderful, un-California cities in the world, New York. Most days, you'll find me exploring my new home with my amazing husband and our dog, Friday. I love to travel, eat just about anything with peanut butter, meet new friends, shop, read, take pictures, and spoil other peoples' kids and pets rotten. This blog includes my rants and raves about my personal life as well as my adventures in the photography business.

Inspired by fashion, art, and pop culture, I love to capture images using natural light. Although I enjoy taking all kinds of pictures, my style veers towards lifestyle and editorial photography and my favorite subjects are people. I am a photographer purely for the love of it, and I think you'll see that reflected in my work.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Can you feel the love?


Scott and I headed to Las Vegas this long weekend because we got tickets to see the fabulous Elton John in concert! (The show rocked!) I'm not a big gambler and Las Vegas, with a nickname like "Sin City" seems like the last place for a romantic getaway. Yet somehow, whether strolling through the fake canals of the Venetian or watching the water show at the Bellagio the weekend still was quite romantic!

Even better, we realized we would be in town overlapping with the Wedding and Portrait Photographer International Conference. As a very new, very green photographer, I felt too clumsy and unready to even attend the lectures and workshops. Still, one of my early goals was to network with other photographers and learn more about the industry at every opportunity. So with free passes to the Tradeshow in hand, we wandered into the MGM Grand on Monday morning and were greeted by friendly faces at every turn.

Can I just say that I have been overwhelmed by how nice and willing to help out almost everyone in the photography industry has been? (I regularly go into Samy's Camera and ask completely stupid or simple questions and they are always super nice anyway.) We gathered tons of information and were given free advice at every turn. On the car ride home, as I happily sorted through business cards of new contacts and brochures, I started looking forward to attending next year.

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