My first WPJA award!

As all of my faithful blog readers may know, I was accepted to the Wedding Photo Journalist Association just a few months ago and of course its recommended that you enter competitions.

So I did.

I entered in 5 categories and I am happy to say that I actually came in the top ten in one category...fourth to be exact. Considering the standards of the WPJA I think this is a excellent start. There are many more competitions to come and now I've had a taste of victory I'm gunning for more!

Here is the actual page...you can see more at www.wpja.com

The photo that got placed is one of Tarin and Lorenzo from their engagement shoot. Lovely!!! If I do say so myself.
The Judges comments were: "Perfect lighting and directing. Elegant and sensual without being cheesy."

You can see the actual page here >>

Rain can't stop the flow

Seems alot of my friends are getting married these days.

Sheldon Mason, my good friend (As in was the best man at my wedding friend) and my other friend Allison are getting hitched in October (About time people!)...and finally someone who I know is actually letting me be the offical photographer at their wedding. So what do I do? I say "hows about an engagement session?".

So yesterday after a ton of rain and expectations of nationwide flooding we ventured to a location that they chose and had the shoot. Besides the challenges of mud and wet benches things went pretty well. I can only show one obscure pic from the shoot seeing as they haven't seen the pics as yet but the gallery will be up soon, keep checking flowfoto!

Well as you can see (or cannot) Shelly and Ali are in the background of this pretty flower