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At the start of March I attended the Wedding & Portrait Photographer’s International (WPPI) conference/trade show in Las Vegas. It was a great week where I was able to catch up with Mark and Chantal, meet some friends face to face for the first time and learn some crazy new things (such as my American friends not having any clue what poutine is!).

Out of the 14,000 attendees I knew approximately 7 of them and was hoping to meet up with them at one point or another. Twenty minutes after the very first session I was in we were all sitting in a bar at the MGM. It was pretty crazy how in an area so large with so many people you are able to run into the people you were looking for.

I’ve added some shots below from the trip. For a photography conference I really didn’t shoot much at all. The first 3 are quick shots from a trip Mark, Chantal, Jes and I took to Walgreens – with 3 completely different looks to them. The last 4 were shot by the awesome Jordan Chan at the Denny’s booth during the trade show – he was short a model and I’m always up for having a fun time.

Look forward to seeing some new stuff from me in the next couple of months.

As an added bonus to the trip – Jes and I won an iPad – BOOYAH!

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Today is Jes’ birthday. Her present from me is so full of awesome that I had to wrap it in Christmas paper. I have this set as a timed post so it should go live while I’m sleeping. I’m not sure if Jes is waiting until midnight to open her present or if she’ll do it tomorrow but either way I’ll get some pics up of it when she sees it.

I’d like to think she had a good year – we got to take one crazy trip to Egypt, we added a new addition to our family in the form of hyper Harvey, she has helped me launch and successfully run this photo business and we got married. To top it off we’re heading to Green Bay on Sunday for their home opener against the Chicago Bears. For those of you keeping track at home – I proposed at Lambeau Field and she didn’t believe me thinking I was just “excited about the game”.

Here are some shots from the year. The first is from our engagement shoot in Las Vegas (if you’ve been following the site you’ve seen it before) and the next two are outtakes from our wedding invites.

And I’m going to end with two shots from our wedding shot by the extremely awesome Mark Ridout. The wedding day was great and having Mark there (along with Chantal) to help capture it made it even better!

A small story leading into the next image. We borrowed a farm about five minutes away from our location (thanks to Mark the owner of the farm). Mark (the photographer) suggested that it would be awesome if Jes somehow got to the top of all of the hay bales in the barn. Mark (the farmer) went to grab a ladder for her to climb but in the mean time Jes was bouncing off a tractor, climbing onto the first level of hay and then running and jumping up to the second level. All of this to get the shot below (aftermath to this shot and story was me getting to punt the bouquet into the lake!).

EDIT: She didn’t open her present last night. So pics will be delayed on that.

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