and the finalists are...

Hi Everyone!

Please go to the *Print blog and vote for your favorite couple to win free wedding photography with Christa! The voting is now open and will close on July 31st at 11:59pm.

Hello! Lucky / StyleMePretty.com contest!

I really need to go to sleep. I've been working around the clock trying to catch up after the power-outage that robbed me of several days' work. It's because of life's little kicks to the head that I obsessively back-up, and thankfully, nothing that couldn't be redone was lost...just a lot of my time....

But I just can't go to sleep without cluing you in to a fabulous contest hosted by stylemepretty.com! Go to the site and answer a few questions and you'll be entered to win 100 free single-colour letterpress save-the-date cards from Hello! Lucky. Mmhmmm...."free" and "letterpress" in the same sentence... Just so you know, these little beauties would run you about $400. So check it out, put in your .02, and make sure you send me one if you win!

agwpja contest

So this is old news, but few months ago, I had two images place in the Artistic Guild of the Photojournalist Association's contest. I was too busy at the time to post, but I still want to share them.


This first one was from Laura & Brandon's reception. It was a really lovely moment ~ everyone was dancing around them and for a few moments they were in their own little world.


This second one is from Pansy and Tej's September 15th wedding. Tej's dad was so overwhelmed with emotion while delivering his speech, took over the mic to deliver the rest of their sentiments.

Bragging rights!!!

Oh, hey, now I can ad one of those "international award winning photographer" tags to my resume! I came in 11th in the Artistic Guild of Wedding Photojournalists Association's top 20 photographers. Here's the image from Julie & David's wedding that took third place:


I've never been one for contests, really, but I'm pretty excited about this. The AGWPJA is an invite-only thing for membership and I get a little gold medallion thingy next to my name. Check out the site and the other AGWPJA contest winning images. Some seriously amazing stuff from people around the globe!

ooh, forgot to mention!

I had an image place in the WPJA's winter contest. Here's the image:
It was in the category for "silhouettes, shadows, and good lighting." I've always loved the buttoning up the dress pictures...I love the idea of a garment that requires five of your friends just to get into it!