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Coming up soon in Las Vegas is WPPI (Wedding Portrait Photographers International) is the annual convention for photographers in the wedding industry to meet and learn about new and interesting things going on from people around the world.  Going into my third year of wedding photography, I’m determined to go to WPPI for the first time this year.  I’m grateful to Lawrence Chan over at Tofurious for providing a great contest for winning 10 free registration passes this year!  On a side note, I attended Lawrence’s SEO (Search Engine Optimization) workshop in SF this past year to help my google ranking and blogging and I’m glad that I did!  My google ranking has improved dramatically and I have booked few weddings just from google since then.  After talking to a lot of great new and established photographers this year, they were all buzzing about going to WPPI this year.  I decided during one of our latest East Bay Wedding Photographer’s get together that I definitely want to go this year to be able to see what WPPI is all about.  I’m looking forward to the possibility of meeting a lot of inspirational photographers that I only know off of their blogs through seminars or just on the floor at WPPI as well as being able to discuss what works and doesn’t with other professionals.  And hey, Las Vegas is a pretty sweet place to have this too! =)  Here’s hoping that I’ll be lucky enough to win a registration and have some great stories to post when I come back!

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When I saw a big envelop sitting in my mail box, I knew I received what I was waiting for….the newest issue of Pacific Wedding Magazine!!! I carefully flipped to the very last page of the magazine, and saw the picture of Poh Hui and Xinhong that I took on 08/08/08 in Half Moon Bay, with my name (in very small font) on the lower left corner….

THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN WITHOUT YOUR VOTE! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!

It was such an honor to have Chatti from Savady Photography shooting with me for Lisa and Stephen’s wedding. It was so much fun shooting with her and I’m so grateful that she came all the way from Denver to help me out.

This was our first time meeting Lisa and Stephen since they booked me over the phone without a formal meeting. It was a lot of fun to photograph their wedding especially with Lisa’s looong elegant veil. I was really impressed that she had 3 other dresses to change into during the reception. Chatti and I had the best vendor meal ever! We were having a traditional 10 course Chinese banquet meal, just like the rest of the guests. And the crazy part was there were only 3 people sitting at our table, which was meant for 10 people, so we pretty much had unlimited food like shark fin soup, lobsters, fish, sea cucumber with abalone etc etc..It was just awesome!

Stay tuned for more!!!

I am absolutely loving my new iMac! I believed I have been missing out for the past 29 years because the OS platform is much better than WIndows. It cost much more than a PC but I know my iMac will last many years without the need of backing everything up and reformatting the hard drive every couple of years.

Jeff and I will be going down to LA for my friend Debbie and Jun’s wedding @ The Huntington Beach Hyatt, and I know it’s gonna be an awesome wedding. I have worked with Debbie for almost a year now and she’s one of the sweetest pharmacists we have! I love how she called Jun a ‘groomzilla’ because he’s very picky on the wedding details even on the invitation, and has expressed his love to the world through the website he built for their wedding. I can’t wait to see them cry at their ceremony and to capture their speical moments.