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Every year brides on the Knot.com vote for their favorite local wedding vendors.  I’m proud to have just received notice that I was awarded the ‘Best of Weddings’ for my photography.  It’s always nice to get recognition and awards, but particularly when it comes from the clients, the brides and grooms who’s weddings I have already photographed.  I take it to mean, ‘If we had to do it all over again, we would still hire you to photograph our wedding!’

I want to thank all the brides and grooms that chose to hire me for their wedding in 2009.  Trusted me with their most intimate, private and joyful moments, and then voted to make me one of the ‘Best Wedding Photographers’ in Baltimore, DC and San Diego! I’m thrilled, honored and humbled.

Let’s do it again in 2010!

I’m thrilled to announce that Destination I Do Magazine recently posted Kim and Ben’s Bahamas wedding on their blog for their featured Real Wedding Wednesday article!  If you remember, Kim and Ben had an awesome wedding, but had to deal with not only the stress of organizing a destination wedding, but once in Nassau, the added stress of the iffy weather.  Showers rained down on and off through the morning, and were forecast to continue throughout the day.  Undaunted, Kim pressed on and chose hours ahead of time to have her dream destination wedding on the beach at Compass Point Resort.  The weather held, and we have amazing images to prove it.  You can see the blog post over on Destination I Do’s Blog.

I’m thrilled to say that Destination I Do Magazine recently published Kim and Ben’s Nassau Bahamas wedding on their blog.  Destination I Do Magazine features a ‘Wednesday Wedding’ feature on their site and I’m so thrilled that they chose to run Kim and Ben’s wedding.  It was a blast traveling with them to Nassau and documenting their beautiful wedding.  Jump over to their blog to see the full article.

What happens when you sort through the thousands, and I mean tens of thousands of images that you’ve shot in the previous year, select the few babies that you want to share with the world, and submit them to an international photography competition among some of the most amazing wedding photographers from around the world?  If you’re very lucky you get a nod for one or two of your images.  

So then what happens when your images place Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh and Tenth in one of these competitions?  You hit your head on the ceiling from jumping out of your seat, your heart jumps into your throat, you try not to hold your hand to your mouth like you just won the Miss America pagent and you keep that ‘I just pray for world peace speech’ in your pocket.  

It is just a photo competition after all.

The International Society for Professional Wedding Photographers holds quarterly photography competitions for their members from over 30 countries around the world.  The photographers are accepted into the society based on portfolio review, and references from other photography professionals so membership in itself is an honor.  I’m thrilled to announce that in the latest quarterly competition six of my images placed in the top ten in their respective categories placing me 12th among all ISPWP photographers worldwide.  

Many many thanks to all my couples who have again trusted me to document their wedding day in the past year.  Without their faith and trust in my photography I wouldn’t have a single image to submit to be considered for the competition.

Check out the images below!

I’m thrilled to announce that three of my images from 2008 were placed in the top twenty of the Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA) year end competition.  The process is a difficult one, starting by going through the tens of thousands of images I shot throughout the year and narrowing those down to my favorite 20 – 30 images.  At best one image from each wedding could make the cut for the competition; less than 1% of the images I shoot in a year will end up making the cut to even be considered among the year end images.  When you multiply that out over five thousand photographers from 87 Countries world-wide it’s humbling to have a single image selected let alone three.  

A huge thank you to all the couples that entrusted me with their wedding images in 2008.  Without the belief that I could faithfully document your day, there wouldn’t even be the 1% of images to submit.