Sunday

5:45 – Bui Brothers Workflow Workshop

9pn -1am Airhorns and Lasers Party and also Go|Bee Party

Monday

Hanging out at the tradeshow @ 10am. Make sure to say hi if you see me {and get one of my awesome specially made for WPPI business cards}

10:30 – Picking up my In To The Darkroom T-shirt. It has a super secret twitter code on it. So make sure you stop and look at my shirt… I would also like to meet you

1-1:30 – Baby As Art speaking at the Asuka Booth

4:30-6pm Fast Track Photographer Shootout at the Hard Rock

6:30-8:30pm Jasmine Star’s class

8-10pm WPPI Pool Party

Tuesday

8-10 am Tamara Lackey’s class

11:30 The Bui Brothers speaking at the Smug Mug Booth

6:30-8:30pm Brianna Graham’s class

Then a plethora of parties – PIF Party, Pictage Party {assuming I get tickets}, and after maybe the Smug Mug Pajama Party

Wednesday

Hanging around the tradeshow

2:30-4:30 Amber Holritz class

Another party

Thursday

9-11am Photographer’s Ignite

12-3:30 Sondra Ayers and Jerry Deck’s class

Hanging out till Midnight when I head home

I will be tweeting the entire time, since my wonderful husband let me borrow iPhone. So look me up: lydiashannon

I can’t wait to meet everyone! Happy Sunday!!!!!

First up, the toothless wonder!

I LOVE this one.

I think this is pretty typical Austin

Seriously Danielle… you are going to have to keep this handsome boy locked up!

Since I was over with them I had to snap a few shots of Ayden in his baseball outfit.

These make me happy.

Check back tomorrow for my WPPI schedule!

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Here is her awesome {if I do say so myself} Graduation announcement

The back – see we both love making silly faces

And also I wanted to post one of my FAVORITE pictures ever.

I am usually so good at taking self portraits… luckily this time I was off just a bit {so Jeremy, my brother, could sneak in}

It makes me LOVE it that much more!

Do you have any advice for Mindy on starting a new life after college????

Post it as a comment below, or you can just tell her Congrats!

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To give you an idea of our surroundings.

It didn’t look like much, but it made for some awesome images.

Here is the talented Kyle Burnell, who I met last year at WPPI and who was visiting from Portland, Maine.

The gorgeous Mirelis, who is a photographer in Fort Lauderdale.

I LOVE this one sooo much.

And last but not least, Giselle, who is a talented makeup artist and second shooter for her sister.

I am loving the black and white.

I wish I could look as beautiful as Giselle when I am laughing!

Stunning!

And last but not least, the winner of my contest with Craig and Nicholle’s pictures. Ironically enough is…. Kyle Burnell.

Here is the Fruit Machine shot to prove it.

Congrats Kyle. Stay tuned to my blog for more contests and of course tons of pictures!

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I took this the morning after she was born. It makes me want to cry, mother/daughter love.

Her little sleeping smile.

Seriously, how cute is all her hair?

Another one of my favorites. I love the simplicity of it.

This just makes me smile.

What a little peanut.

I love her profile and her cutie nose!

Hello sweet baby girl.

I just had to post this one again, because it is one of my new favorites.

Don’t forget… get your last minute comment in on Craig and Nicholle’s post here and you could win a $10 iTunes Giftcard.

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So I decided I am going to do another little giveaway. This time I’ve decided to give away one of my favorite things and I’ve upped the ante a little to a $10 iTunes giftcard! Woot woot!

Here’s the deal. Leave a comment and tell me which image of Craig and Nicholle is your favorite and why. It’s that simple. You have until Friday @ 12am EST.

#1 – I love this one… they used it for the front of their “Save the Dates” I made.

#2 – The Design District in Miami had some awesome backgrounds. This background was my fav!

#3 – I love their happiness in this picture.

#4 – Umm… Nicholle, you are INSANELY gorgeous!

#5 – Oh and I forgot to mention, Craig is not just any hockey player, he is the STARTING goalie for the Colorado Avalanche!

#6 – Nic loves this one! Now you can see what I mean about how happy she looks.

#7 – This is why I live in Florida!

And these are just an added bonus.

They are going to have some seriously cute kids someday. Oh and P.S. Look at Craig’s smile… he is no typical hockey player!

So get to voting, maybe you will win an iTunes giftcard, like Theo won a Starbucks one!

Okay, I haaaavvvveeee to post this one too. More of Baby Alyssa on Friday!

Happy Tuesday!

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Here’s the into video to our adventures:

We decided it would be cool to take some fun shots using the self-timer on Lan’s Canon. Oh the craziness that ensued.

So we tried to do the quintessential “jumping” shots.

Poor Kaci is pregnant and couldn’t get on the log before we all jumped.

And here is one of our final shots of the day.

I thought Lan was sooo sweet.

Oh and some fun facial expressions. {See why I was deceived by Lan?}

In all seriousness though, I had the best time on our beach excursion. And honestly, I can’t say enough good things about the Bui Brothers. They are some of the NICEST most GENUINE people I have met in the industry to date.  When I am famous {which is coming very soon}, I am going to treat everyone the way the Lan and Vu do. For example, I couldn’t figure out how to download these images form Flickr and Lan emailed me a diagram complete with pictures on how to do it! And Vu helps me all the time with things like getting music for slideshows and how to get into the coolest WPPI Parties. I could seriously go on and on. But, best of all, they like my humor… and that makes them pretty awesome in my book. I’m sure I will have many more adventures with them in Vegas!

I can’t wait to go to the Workflow portion of their workshop at WPPI. Also, for all you Florida photographers… I am working on getting them here to do a workshop in our area!!!

Check back tomorrow for a fabulous contest!!!

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I am thinking about doing giveaways every other week… what do you think?

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I love all the attitude!

Look at her smile… so cute!

Her eyes are just beautiful!

STUNNING!!!!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE these two!!! Umm… Can anyone saying Modeling Contract?

This is by far my favorite. I loved all the beautifully colored walls at the Weston Town Centre, especially this one!

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Also, stay tuned because tomorrow I am going to announce the Starbucks giftcard winner!

Thank you so much to the 23 people who voted!!!

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This past weekend at Scarlett Lillian’s workshop, I was blessed to be able to photograph America’s Next Top Model WINNER, Whitney Thompson. She was super sweet and totally down to earth… not to mention GORGEOUS! I love that Whitney’s entire message is about women being confident in what they have. I’m watching an interview of her right now and she says one of her biggest tips is to “Look confident. If you think that you are beautiful than everyone else will too.” Make sure you check out Whitney’s new candle and jewelry line, Supermodel.

Now on to the giveaway. Choose one of the images and leave me a comment as to why you love it. I’ll be choosing the winner of the Starbucks card late Sunday night! So get your comments in now.

Although these are together, they are really photographs number #1 {on the left} and #2 {on the right}

Seriously, isn’t she breath-taking?

#3 – This was taken in this gorgeous spot at the One Ocean Resort on Atlantic Beach.

#4 – I was proud that some of the crazy things I was saying/ doing were making her smile. Whitney’s smile is killer!

#5 – Whitney and Wes were total troupers out in the freezing cold.

#6 – It is not hard to tell why she was the WINNER of America’s Next Top Model!

Now it is all up to you. Choose your favorite, tell me why, and hopefully you will be America’s Next Top Scarbucks Card Winner… okay that is a stretch.

I am looking forward to hearing everyone’s favorites! On Monday, I will be announcing the winner and also letting you know which shot was my fav!

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