WPPI 2009

Last week, Adam and I spent our week working REALLY hard ... in Vegas. I know, I know ~ our life is so tough. We were actually there for work, though we found a few minutes for a little play as well!

Hanging out at the Bellagio:


Every year, the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) conference is held in Vegas and this year it finally worked out with my schedule to attend! We stayed at the fabulous MGM Signature which we would highly recommend ~ and spent several days attending workshops and checking out the newest products available.

Our view from the Signature ~ not bad!



Our little industry is so full of fabulous artists and wonderful people. It's always awesome to see old and new friends, and, let's be honest, the sub-culture of the "famous" photogs, the newbies, etc. is always entertaining! We got to hang out with the guys from A Bryan Photo and saw a sneak peak of their WPPI Top 10 which I'm sure will not disappoint ~ be sure to watch his blog for it in the coming days!

So we are home and back in the loop. And, while we unfortunately won't be adding woven photo blankets to our product line, our heads are packed full of new ideas for our clients in 2009 ~ it's going to be an awesome year!!

Talking Tweet

So I was hanging out with some of my favorite people last week when the topic of Twitter came up. I've been pretty resistant to it thus far but my buddy Jonathan from Matchbook Creative convinced me to take the plunge ... so now I'm in and kind of excited about it!




See right there on the right? You can read what I'm up to on a smaller scale than my blog.

For those of you who don't know what Twitter is (aka mom), it's a constant update of what I'm working on, where I am, what chocolate item I'm trying to pursuade Adam is good for me ... you know, the usual!

Here's my link if you want to follow me (is that what I'm supposed to say? still figuring this out!!):

www.twitter.com/maryrphoto

Hope that you are having a great week!

Sweet Caroline

So I've been out of the office for a couple of weeks for a very good reason ~ I have a new niece, Caroline!


My older sister Anne had her first child a little over a week ago (time flies!) and I was so lucky to get to go out to Birmingham for the anticipation, birth, and first few sweet days of her life!



Here are a few favorites from my time there ~ isn't she great?
















I'm sure she'll be making many return trips to this blog, so look out for more of this sweet little one again soon!