Speaking at HOA in Kansas City!

Update: Oh, and did we mention we have an awesome give away from our friends Bob and Dawn Davis for one lucky person attending? :)



We're only three days away from the class we will be teaching in Kansas City, MO for the Heart of America Professional Photographer's Association. The class itself will be a very small group of individuals, providing those who attend a close-knit setting to talk with us about their specific business needs and questions. During this session, we're an open book. If you've every wondered how we run our business, work and connect with our clients and keep track of it all, we'll be sharing our secrets here!

We'll be talking about internet networking and business tools such as Blogger, Facebook, LinkedIn, online storefronts and studio managers, showing you how we incorporate them in our workflow and use them to stay connected with our couples and clients.

We're so excited to see you! If you are one who will not be able to attend the class, we'll be in Kansas City Saturday afternoon and will be having lunch somewhere in the area. I'll announce the place and time via Twitter sometime Saturday. Whether 2 or 20 come, we'd love to meet you there!

Boys Will be Boys...even when they're men.

I love this shot!!! Kenny just sent this to me and although we weren't going to put up another post for a couple days, I had to show this one. I think this will be a classic for a while. Everyone was so fun to hang out with and this is one of the reasons why (left to right: Kenny Kim, me, Mike Colon, Bob Davis, Ray Santana.

Fun at WPPI

Here are some fun pictures we took throughout the week and some awesome people we met during our time at WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International).

From Left to Right:
Picture 1... with Mike Steelman, Ray and Anna, Mike Colon, Harald, David and Travis.
Picture 2... with Becker and Geoff, Picture 3... with Gary and Jim, from Boda Bag


Picture 1...with Gloria, Jose, Picture 2...US!, Picture 3...with Anna.


The Hoover Dam...it took hours to get here because of all the traffic :)


Having some fun out in the desert!


And from our friend Kenny... Picture 1...a group of us after an awesome dinner buffet, Picture 2... at the tradeshow.
Picture 3...Erin and Julie having fun while me, Kevin and Geoff try to take a real photo.

Woooo....hooooo!!!

Welcome to the new blog (Surprise #1)! It's been in the making and now finally finished. A big thanks to Rudy who created the blog we were envisioning. Rudy, you did an awesome job and we loved working with you. For our friends out there, leave us a comment and let us know what you think :)

Below we have linked a fun slideshow of Shane's adventures with Mike, Bob, Kenny and Kenny while in Chicago.

Chicago Photo Fun

On Saturday, Kenny, Kenny and I went to downtown Chicago for a little photo field trip. We had planned on walking around a little bit and then hitting up the Museum of Art but ended up spending all our time in Millennium park. After four hours it was getting pretty cold out so we headed out to the best Chinese food place I have eaten at called Great Seas. It was a great weekend and I had a blast hanging out with everyone, a few who Erin and I will see again in a couple weeks at WPPI. As much fun as it was, It's great to be back home with Erin.

I think I'm going to start a project called reflections :)

Master Your Craft

Today was the Chicago Master Your Craft workshop and it was a full house with 110 registered. Everyone there was really into it and asking a lot of great questions. This workshop has some great information for photographers who are just starting out and those that have been doing it for a while. There are only three stops left on the nine city tour, Dallas, LA and San Fransisco, so sign up quick. Mike flies out tomorrow morning and then Kenny and I are getting together with some other photographers for the day. Hopefully I'll post more tomorrow but just in case I don't, I heard one of the surprises may be revealed soon :)

Bob sharing his knowledge

Theses guys were awesome, they arrived a 6:30 to help the Graphi Studio ladies set up and they stayed until the end to help tear down. After it was all said and done, Mark, David, Alex and Kenny (not Kenny Kim) went with us get some food along with Martin (pictured below) who is the Aperture Product Marketing Manager for Apple.

Chris and I with Kenny Kim and his new shirts

Hang'n with Mike, Kenny and Bob

It's been a blast in Chicago so far with Mike, Kenny and Bob. We meet at the airport at about 2:30, dropped off our stuff and headed out to eat. Traffic was a little backed up so it took a little while but we finally made it to Lalo's, a great Mexican restaurant. From there we decided it would be a great idea to get some Cold Stone ice cream while the temp was about 10 degrees. From there it was to the Apple store and then on to Bob's house for a little Guitar Hero, Boxing and Tennis on the Wii. As any of these guys will probably tell you, I'm definitely no Guitar Hero :) Since it's past 3 am I'm going to let the pics do the rest. tomorrow is the Master Your Craft workshop so I'll post more about that later.

Mike caught this one of me

Kenny Before Ice Cream

Kenny After Ice Cream

Bob's autographed Mohammad Ali gloves And some boxing to go along with the gloves

At the apple store we met Faye, who had this camera. If your reading this Faye, you can get film for this camera online from a place out of NY. Sorry I can't remember the name.