This is the first summer that I have had an intern, and it's been so fantastic!  I just LUV Bonnie and I am going to be so sad when she leaves me next week.  Bonnie is the sister of a bride of mine from 2008 who I became friends with on Facebook and who was interested in moving to CO from New Hampshire for the summer to work for me.  My intention for her was to have her help me with my marketing because I never seem to have the time to submit my work to magazines and blogs and it's an area of my business that I know I need help with. She has been great at it!  And the weddings she has submitted over the last few weeks have been getting snapped up by several different weddings blogs! It feels so great to get to share my work with more people.  I can't believe I haven't been doing this sooner...

Charli and Chad got married in Beaver Creek and are being featured on Couture Colorado. The Lucy Dylan Weddings blog is currently featuring two of my  destination weddings-Julie and Nate, married in Jamaica, as well as Lori and Kevin who got married at the Four Seasons in Mexico.  Colorado Wedding Magazine is featuring Erin and Nate, who had a beautiful spring wedding at Phipps Mansion in Denver.

Blog features coming soon... Kari and Ryan, married in Aspen, Erin and Dave, Erin and Sean, and Paige and Jeff all married in Beaver Creek, and Amy and Kevin, married in Mexico.  Stay tuned!

It's been two months since my last blog post and I am a little embarrassed that I have let myself get so far behind.  Traveling can have that effect on me and fortunately I've gotten to travel a lot in the recent weeks!  The first trip was for this incredible photo workshop with Doug Gordon (a posing and business genius) that was a week long in Lindenhurst, NY.  I met a bunch of great photographers from all over the country and world, learned a lot of new things from Doug and his awesome team, and had a really fun week in a new city!   It was my first time to New York and I was not disappointed.  And...I may or may not have 'almost' won a car bomb competition with Vinnie on our last night out together.  ;-)

I woke up bright and early on Sunday morning after the Weekend Wedding Retreat at the Hotel in Orlando and packed up for my next stop, Vegas for the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International trade show and convention!  WPPI is always a true highlight of my year.  I get to see and spend time with some of my best and most passionate friends. I get to learn, be inspired, see all the new products, and of course... party!  After all it IS Vegas!!  WPPI is different every year for me, in that some years I have gone there looking for information, some years I have gone there with products to research and seek out at the trade show, some years have been focused on the programs and education, but this year, my focus was on the photographic community that I am so entrenched in and that I hold so dear to me.  Seeing people from all over the country that I have gotten to know so well either virtually or in real life is always interesting, usually eye-opening, and ultimately a rewarding experience.  This year that seemed especially true.  Thank you to all of the wonderful friends I have for being so...well... wonderful.  You know who you are...

My favorite program of the year was the closing program, Photographers Ignite.: Ignite is a style of presentation where participants are given five minutes to speak on a subject accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds, and slides are automatically advanced.  Some were moving, some were just plain funny, some more inspirational and motivational, and all mixed together it was a really FAST two hours! You can find the videos from the ignite speakers here.   Don't miss Kevin Kubota, Jed Taufer, Doug Gordon, Joy and Jules aka the Bianchi twins,  Uncle "Bob", or Gerry Gihonis!

Thanks to Daria, from Daria Bishop Photography and Karen, from Karen Pike Photography for the photos!