Meeting with wedding photography giants

Last Sunday evening I had the greatest pleasure hanging out with 30+ photographers at La Bodega. Louis Pang was generous enough to share his experience about WPPI such as what is it about and what it's not, how can photographers benefit from it and about the WPPI conference held every year in Las Vegas. After hearing his sharing I'm even more motivated to attend the WPPI conference. I'm setting a personal goal to be able to attend the conference in 2011. It'll give me enough time to prepare myself both financially and mentally to absorb the tonnes of knowledge and experience that I will get there. I'm also motivated to join the WPPI print competition where Louis shared a few tips on how to submit an entry. It is heartening to see a successful Asian photographer like Louis winning awards and gaining recognition. It's given me more driving force and confidence that anyone with enough passion, lots of hardwork and endurance is able to make it as well.

I was also pleasantly surprise and excited to see the likes of Zung, Patrick Low and Jenny Sun at Louis' sharing. It's was great chatting with them as I just love their work and follow their blogs closely. They were such warm and friendly folks that you would guess they are very successful high-end photographers.

At the end of the night the most important take away that I got isn't just Louis' great sharing or meeting the Signature Photographers, but feeling the energy and passion of a group 30 odd folks so keen on photography that you just feel drunken with enthusiasm and camaraderie. I'm now really looking forward to the ShootFest Unconference where I'm going to meet another large group of enthusiast that's just going to re-energize me!


Here's a quick grab shot of Louis, Zung and Patrick chatting away.