Saturday night I drove into my garage, opened my car door and set each bare foot on the cool, hard, garage floor. I walked in the door and plopped down on the couch, so excited to share the events of the past 12 hours with Nathan. I talked and talked until I virtually talked myself to sleep! I was so honored to have been with such a great group of photographers for my first workshop ever! It’s truly a great feeling to give back and help others.
The workshop started off with introductions, then going over all the great products that some really amazing vendors donated, and then we dove into what it takes to set up a photography business. I’d like to thank Brandon Perron for coming up from Portland as a guest speaker to present and teach with me. We had lunch and then the fun began. We had 7 models and a huge 2 hour live shoot along the Bremerton waterfront. We finished the day with discussions on workflow and editing. My favorite part of the workshop was the interaction we all had as photographers. I’m a firm believer in all learning from each other and I’m so happy to be able to add 15 more photographers to my friend circle!
If you missed the February workshop there will be another in May with more guest speakers like Brandon and more awesome models! The cool thing about this workshop is that all the attendees get to use their images for their portfolios. My motivation behind this was to put together something that I wish I could have had when I was first starting out or even as I grew and wanted to focus on my business more. Thank you to EVERYONE who helped out with this! From the caterer, to the vendors, the venue, the attendees and speakers, the AWESOME models and the salon who helped out! It was an amazing day and I hope to have many more!
Now! A quick update of other awesome things that are happening in my schedule. First and foremost I’m so STOKED to announce that I’ll be speaking at WPPI this year! If you’re not familiar with this convention, it’s the largest Wedding and Portrait Photographer convention in the world! It happens every year in Vegas and this is my first year going. Well I guess I wanted to kick it off with a bang, so I’ll be helping out at the Shootsac booth on the tradeshow floor on Monday 3/8 from 1-4. And then the closing program of the convention is an all new Photographers Ignite program. I’ve blabbed all about this on my Facebook page and even have an event notice on my Fan page, so if you’re going to be in Vegas at the beginning of March stop by and say hi or come support me at Photographers Ignite! I’ll be speaking on some business topics
It’s just so surreal sitting here thinking about how 3 years ago I was surfing the web looking at WPPI, hoping that someday I’d attend and following some really awesome photographers that speak and present there. Now I’m actually going and speaking in the same program with a lot of the same photographers I started following 3 years ago and look up to in the industry! Truly a surreal and UNREAL opportunity that has been dropped in my lap!
If you’d like the chance to go to WPPI both Shootsac AND the [b]school, two of my FAVORITE things in photography are giving away 10 FULL REGISTRATIONS over then next week or so! Click on each of the links above to see how you can win a registration and join me in Vegas baby! and BELIEVE me, both the Shootsac AND the [b]school are SOOOO worth the money spent!
I also have some very exciting projects coming up in the next 6 months. Here’s a small recap of my schedule, I’ll for sure be blogging about them as they get closer! So if you want to schedule your portrait session OR your wedding send me your request soon! I’m booking up FAST!
March 7-11: Vegas/WPPI
March 25-April 4: Boise
April (end): Hawaii
May 8: Out of the Box Workshop #2
May 29: Star Shooter Workshop
June starts my wedding season as of right now!
August 31-September: AFRICA for Star Shooter international workshop
I’m SO excited about this year to come. I have lots and lots of other stuff going on behind the scenes and hope to be able to share those things with you as they develop too! As I leave, here’s an image that I just loved from the workshop! Thank you Taylor for being such an amazing model!
by Katie
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