Get mentored by Pepper in the 2010 ThirstRelief Mentor Auction! Grow as a photographer while saving lives!  Good and happy things!!!

Hey everyone, did you know that every 15 seconds someone dies of a waterborne illness? That’s 5760 people every day! You can totally help. Bid on a mentoring session with your favorite wedding photographer!  100% of the proceeds directly benefit Thirst Relief. Add to that the incredible wisdom and talent that is being shared in the one-on-one mentor sessions and you have better and more successful photographers! It’s truly a win win for everyone involved!  $50 buys a family a water purifier for life, so the more you bid, the more families you give access to clean water.  Children and infants are the most vulnerable to waterborne illnesses, so this really is an amazing thing you can do.

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HEY PHOTOGRAPHERS! Did you know that one of the world’s premier wedding album manufacturers has its albums produced RIGHT HERE in Salt Lake City? IT’S TRUE!

KISS Wedding Books – ‘the world’s simplest book company” - has enjoyed such success that they’ve had to expand their production facilities earlier this year and chose our own back yard as their new production home! Want a tour? YOU GOT IT!

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Dana and Bryan’s wedding was featured in the latest edition of Latter-Day Bride Magazine! They were married early spring / late winter in the Salt Lake Temple. Their wedding day was very relaxing because we went out before their actual wedding day to get pictures of them dressed in their best!

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Mitch & I just came back from the 2007 Pictage PartnerCon in Chicago!!!! MANY thanks to everyone that came to our presentation ( and a dirty scowl to all those who didn’t….YOU know who you are!!! We’re keeping an eye on you…).

The conference was packed (SOLD OUT, actually) and everyone we spoke with seemed to really get a lot of information and ideas out of it. If you didn’t make this one you should seriously consider gettin’ your butt over to L.A. for the one in September!!

These dont’ relate to our presentation….actually here’s not really any rhyme or reason to these pix and flicks at all, but we thought we’d share a few of the impressions that we got with our new point-n-shoot:
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Pepper will be presenting at the 3rd Annual Pictage Partner Conference in Chicago on May 8th. Their program, titled “Building the Dream Team: A Strategy for Long-Term Marketing Success”, will focus on the importance of vendor and client relationships and will discuss how they have been able to successfully grow their business year-over-year with NO paid advertising after their first year.

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Today the photographic community learns of the passing of a legend, Monte Zucker. Monte was one of a handful of photographers whose work defined portraiture and lighting in the 20th century. His influence reverberates today through the literally thousands of students with whom he shared his gifts over the course of his 50+ year career. Many of today’s most celebrated photographers credit Monte for helping them ’see the light’, literally and figuratively. We are diminished by his loss, yet have been enriched to such a greater degree by his presence that it seems most fitting to celebrate his life rather than mourn his passing.

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Wednesday, March 21 from 4pm-6pm PST, we are being featured on Pictage’s Pro Forums as part of their weekly ‘Ask & Learn Wednesdays’ series.

Loosely, our ‘topic’ is Building Your Dream Team of vendor relationships, but really its pretty much a free-for-all Q&A session. So if you’re a Pictage photographer, come join us and fire away!

Pepper & I want to thank the membership of the Professional Photographers of the Sacramento Valley for the incredibly warm reception that we received from them last night. We came to speak about ‘Creating Your Own Personal Marketing Army’, and the group of ~120 was energetic, focused, and savvy, with a great set of questions. We really had a fantastic time. (more…)