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WPPI Thoughts

WPPI 2010, Las Vegas

As some of you may know I recently had the fantastic opportunity to go to one of, if not THE, largest wedding photography conference: the WPPI Conference (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) held at the MGM in Las Vegas. It was amazing. Twelve THOUSAND photographers in attendance. Let me say that again: 12,000 photographers.

This was my first time at WPPI. I was a complete noob! I had actually decided to not go, the price just was too high for me. I am blessed with some amazing friends. One of those, the owner of Portfoliositez (who incidentally designed this blog!), gifted me with a Full Registration to the conference. How could I refuse an amazing opportunity like that?! I rushed to grab a hotel and a flight and proceded to think about WPPI for the next 3 weeks, plotting and planning the classes I would go to, the sites I would see, and the people I would meet. I was so so excited!

I saw some AMAZING speakers. Among those: Dane Sanders (whom I see at every conference I go to if he’s speaking), Jasmine Star, Vickie Taufer, Lori Nordstrom, Johnathan Canala, and Sandra Aires and Jerry Deck, not to mention the speakers presenting at the vendor booths: Steve and Jen Bebb, Still Motion, and J.P Caponigro. Many of you may be like “who?” And that’s perfectly fine. These people are photographers and videographers who pushed the envelop and did the risky thing: what they wanted. And it paid off. In spades.

The most important message, I think, gleaned from WPPI is to Follow Your Passion. My father told me when I was a little girl “Kati, do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life”. And he’s right. Photography is something I love, and it is never work.

Every year we have more people picking up DSLR’s to enter into the wonderful world of photography. Some just want to have a camera to take better images of their friends and family, while others pick it up and decide to start a business. It’s the latter that make this industry so interesting and entertaining, bringing their new vision and ideas to the table and the world of “professional photography”. The commonality between us all? We LOVE what we do and want to do nothing else. It’s a passion and we don’t want to stop, we go full tilt. You know what’s also amazing? Each photographer photographs differently. Each sees the same seen in a different way.

Dane Sanders stated in his Anatomy of a Creative seminar said “there is an intersection of 2 sides: who you are and what you’re meant to do. What happens at the intersection is what matters.” Photographers share. They share their ideas, their thoughts, their current passions, they don’t hold back when it comes to their love (photography) and the possibility to help another to get further along in their passion. That’s what this conference is about. Every year it’s held in Lost Wages, oops i mean Las Vegas. Every year it’s full of amazing speakers who took their idea, their passion, and went full tilt until it it consumed them and they created something amazing for themselves and those around them. And while that is amazing, it’s what you do with that information you’ve just gathered that matters. What do you do with all the information, how do you use it? What do you do at the intersection?