{"id":3581,"date":"2010-03-14T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T20:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2010-03-14T13:15:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T20:15:39","slug":"colorado-springs-portrait-photographer-wppi-part-one-alison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/colorado-springs-portrait-photographer-wppi-part-one-alison\/","title":{"rendered":"colorado springs portrait photographer &#124; wppi part one &#124; alison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie and I headed off to Las Vegas last week for the annual WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) event.\u00a0 This was my second year attending, and it is such a highlight of my year.\u00a0 Not just for the room service and housekeeping, not just for the classes and amazing speakers and inspiration, but also because it&#8217;s an opportunity to see some of my closest friends. Thanks to the beauty of the internet, we talk to each other every day, have known each other for years, and they are the people I go to when I need advice&#8211;both business and personal&#8230;but we rarely get to see each other because we&#8217;re spread all over the country!<\/p>\n<p>This year only three from our group made the trip, but we had a blast.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/photographybyalison.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alison<\/a> and I roomed together again this year (along with my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamiesmithphotography.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie<\/a>&#8211;they were both very brave to be roommates with a 5 week old), and we continued what&#8217;s become tradition of doing one portrait shoot while there and then catching some headshots of each other.\u00a0 (We need to break the tradition of doing it last minute on our last day next year, though!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here&#8217;s Alison in action during our portrait shoot (my non-behind-the-scenes pics from the shoot coming later this week!):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3586\" title=\"colorado springs portrait photographer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/wppishoot-6.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs portrait photographer\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photographers are crazy.\u00a0 New white sweater?\u00a0 Middle of the street?\u00a0 No problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3589\" title=\"familyportraitphotographercoloradosprings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/wppishoot-25.jpg\" alt=\"familyportraitphotographercoloradosprings\" width=\"782\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My favorite from our quick headshot session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3585\" title=\"portrait photographer colorado springs headshots\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/wppishoot-6-21.jpg\" alt=\"portrait photographer colorado springs headshots\" width=\"581\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie and I headed off to Las Vegas last week for the annual WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) event.\u00a0 This was my second year attending, and it is such a highlight of my year.\u00a0 Not just for the room service and housekeeping, not just for the classes and amazing speakers and inspiration, but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[241,270],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grown-ups","tag-colorado-springs-portrait-photographer","tag-headshots"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}