A Big Thank You!

As stated in my end of the year blog post, I have had the distinguished honor of having an amazing collection of photographers assist/join me for workshops, portrait sessions and weddings over the past year and I really want to showcase their phenomenal work! I am incredibly grateful to all of them for allowing me to "give back" in various ways with my photography. With this being more of a transitional year, I am super excited about building deeper relationships with all of these fantastic photographers and helping them anyway that I can with however I can and then developing new relationships in Houston! Thanks again everyone for helping me be a better photographer!

Onto the photographers! On very short notice, I asked if they could send me a few of their favorite pictures that they've taken either through an APW, portrait session or wedding with me or from their own sessions so that I can share with you their awesomeness! Definitely click on the link of their photography names so you can follow their blogs to check out their recent work and to contact them for a session!

A. Staats Photography - Wamego, KS

From APW III

One of Amanda's favorites!

Amanda Michelle Photography - Boise, ID

From APW IV

From Phun Photographers having Phun! of me!

From Tara & Andy's wedding!

Amanda Seymour Photography - Manhattan, KS

One of Amanda's favorites!

Cathy Mores Photography - Manhattan, KS

From a Fashion shoot!

From The Beach Family session!

ELS Photography - Manhattan, KS

From a Fashion shoot!

One of Eric's favorites!

J Grogg Photography - Manhattan, KS

From APW VII

One of Jill's favorites!

Kim Kravitz Photography - Junction City, KS

From APW VI

A behind the scenes of yours truly in action and Brandi modeling! Thanks kim!

La Brisa Photography - Brandi - Manhattan, KS

Quick side note, I didn't know Brandi until she attended one of the APWs! Random, but fun, right?

One of Brandi's favorites!

Another one of Brandi's favorites!

LS Photography - Manhattan, KS

One of Lauren's favorites!

Melanie Summers Photography - Manhattan, KS

From APW V

From APW V

Michelle Haskell Photography - Manhattan/Kansas City - KS/MO

From APW IV

One of Michelle's favorites!

Ruth Elizabeth Photography - Manhattan, KS

From APW VII

One of Ruth's favorites!

Ryan Edick Photography - Manhattan, KS

From Jennifer & Brady's engagement session!

Trisha B. Photography - Olathe, KS

From APW V

From APW VI

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Photographer Meet-up in KC!

I can't believe I never blogged about this! The evening before Laura and Jake's amazing wedding, Kristen Murphy Photography and Jenifriend Photography put together a little rendezvous with awesome photographers from around the area! We stuffed a lot of people into a tiny booth at Baja 600 where we enjoyed fun drinks, fantastic company and hilarious and loud conversation! Then we walked around The Plaza and do what we do....that's right, we took pictures of us taking pictures! Yes, photographers are dorky like that. There was a fabulous turnout and we hung out well into the night! A huge thank you to Jeni and Kristen for getting things organized and I can't wait till we can all do it again!

The rockin group of photographers and graphic designers!
Bill from William McNeil Photography - Manhattan, KS 
Brandi & Chris from La Brisa Photography - Brooklyn, NY & Manhattan, KS
Eric from ELS Photography - Manhattan, KS
Grant from Grant Watkins Photography - Manhattan, KS
Jason from Jason Atherton Photography - Kansas City, MO
Jeni from Jenifriend Photography - Olathe, KS
Kristen from Kristen Murphy Photography - Tonganoxie, KS
Lindsey & Sonya from Element Creative Studio (amazing graphic designers!) - Kansas City, MO
Mike from 4 Honor Photography - Kansas City, MO

Now, onto the pictures. For the most part, it felt like a black and white kind of shoot. I was testing out the high ISO capabilities of my Canon 5DII and so most of these are shot at ISO 6400. We can say that I was infinitely impressed :)

The gorgeous Jeni

Agua

Grant in action

The Human Tripod...she swears it works!

The mysterious Jeni

Grant. Stud. Period.

Mike in action

Mike looking to the heavens

Brandi seeing and creating shots that only she can

Jason striking a pose

Showing Eric some flash techniques

Bill in action

Kristen - ready to take on the world

Absolutely love how you can see Brandi chillin in this shot!

Last shot of the evening

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Happy New Year!!!

After a week of festivities with family, friends and absolute strangers who became your new best friends (come on, don't tell me that this only happens to me at New Year's Eve parties!), most people are being extremely unproductive at work today and so I thought I would assist you with your inefficiency with a few photos! :)

I had the distinct pleasure of hanging out with Sara of Sara Mays Photography (who assisted me on a TON of photo shoots this past summer) and her awesome husband, Cameron, who were visiting New Year for a week! We spent a few days together taking photos and celebrating the New Year! For whatever reason, Sara insisted that she didn't want to take any photos with her hubby (for which I was quite bummed), but I did sweet talk them into taking a few shots underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. Come on, how cute are they? Really wished we could've done a full session (yes Sara, I'm giving you a guilt trip)!

And this is Sara and Cameron getting snugly close!

Sara and Cameron also joined us for a low key New Year's Eve celebration at a local Irish pub with a few of Brisa's co-workers. Even with Brisa sick and most of her co-workers having just worked a 12 hour shift, we still managed on having a fabulous time :)

There definitely was a theme with these two...

What can I say? We party like rockstars.

On New Year's Day, there was a Polar Bear Swim at Coney Island that I heard about a little too late, but I decided to make the trip and snapped a few photographs of the late arrivals/participants. If Brisa was with me, I probably would've jumped in too, but she was working and as a result, unable to take care of me after my stupidity so I stayed dry. More than 1,000 revelers participated and the water temperature was a tropical 44 degrees. You can view more info and pictures from other photographers (whom I assume were male): Coney Island Polar Bear Swim

Looks like someone forgot something...

Although I didn't eat there, when you think Coney Island, you think hot dogs!

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