Last week, not only did I sprain my ankle badly (don’t worry, it’s feeling much better these days! I’m happy to say that I can actually walk normally and not hobble/limp/everything) I went to an awesome workshop held by Lawrence Chan of Tofurious fame. Lawrence is awesome, he’s a really down to earth guy and willing to help everyone who he meets, seriously a photographer who wants to give back to the photography community! You’ll be seeing a lot of different and fun things from me in the near future!

It was also nice to network with a bunch of other like-minded wedding photographers! Most from Chicago some as far as Louisville and Toronto! I met Otto Rascon, Kenny Kim, Bob Davis, Ray Pryor, Jules Weigand, Jay Crihfield, Kenny Nakai, Eclipse Photography, Molly Michel and Dan Georgia

Really, it was a great time to be able to talk with other wedding photographers because sometimes it’s hard to network! Bob Davis brought us cookies and sweets which was awesome to keep our attention through the seminar! Kenny Nakai popped in after shooting the beginning part of a Hindu wedding and Jules Weigand taught us how to say Louisville the correct way. Afterwards we all headed to Giordano’s where we had pizza and a giant family appetizer platter that Lawrence said he’d eyed the day before and needed more people to eat! Gotta love Chicago pizza! Lawrence is a wedding photographer/guru out on in California and had some time to spend in our wonderful city so we told them where they HAD to go! And by the looks of his twitter feed, he really enjoyed everything Chicago has to offer! Plus, we all know there’s a lot of us cool people here

So if you’re a photographer and thinking of taking Lawrence’s class: DO IT, it’s worth every penny!

I’ve typed this entire post with Isabelle laying on me and my computer and then her waking up and getting angry at me. So I figure she wants some blog lovin’ too. In honor of football season and the bears win on sunday:

I hope we can all get together again sometime soon!!
Kara