WPPI in Las Vegas, no less!

I just got back from a week in Las Vegas at the Wedding and Portrait Photographer International convention. What a trip! I took about 20 seminars on topics ranging from business to lighting to random anecdotes from photo shoots. There was a massive trade show which took me 15 hours over 3 days just to get through! It was intense! I learned a ton, though, and I got some good research done on some new products we will be offering soon.


I just love cloud shots, what can I say?



The MGM Grand, where it all went down. I’m standing outside a conference room, looking over at the hotel. The tunnel from the hotel to the convention is hidden behind the foliage here. I checked once and it was an 11 minute walk from my room to the convention!



The teeming hordes, about to break down the doors of the trade show if it doesn’t open soon!



This is me with my idol Laura Novak, who gave an awesome lecture.



Here’s another guy I really look up to, Australia’s most famous wedding photographer, Jerry Ghionis. He’s hilarious, and a really awesome photographer.



So the MGM Grand had a lion habitat, of course—it’s Vegas! The lions slept a lot on top of a glass-covered walkway, and in this shot you can see a trainer sleeping *with the lions.* He would scratch the lion’s head and the lion would nuzzle his face a little closer, right on top of the trainer’s head!



This is the view of *half* of the hallway I had to walk down to get to the elevators from my room.



More airplane shots! This is downtown Las Vegas.






Fun with escalators during my layover in Dallas.






A fun shot of the isthmus in Madison.