The Special Event

This is a good example of what can be done with an unexpected opportunity, 2 lenses, 1 camera and a GO|BEE Card Holster…

I had the rare opportunity to participate in a really great event for Coordinators called The Special Event.  It is a really cool conference that is done one time a year and is always in a different city.  This year it was in San Diego.  A great coordinator I have had the opportunity to work with and get to know, Cynthia Zatkin, approached me to do a cake themed slideshow for the cake room that she was in charge of during the The Special Event Wedding Luncheon.  The Wedding Luncheon was held at one of my favorite venues, The Hard Rock Hotel.  The top of the line event designers came to show off some of their incredible design ideas and they did not disappoint.  There were so many cool rooms but I have to say the White and the Red room as you will see for my favorite on top of just the great backdrops that the Hard Rock Hotel provide.

So, I show up at the event to make sure that the slideshow of the cake fight / trash the dress goes off without a hitch.  I brought with me one camera and 2 lenses in case I wanted to get a few shots of the cake room.  So, I am there with very little gear and out walks these beautiful models in the gorgeous gown provided by Ines Disanto and M Bride.  

I can not describe the excitement that comes over me when I see a beautiful bride.  However, I was not there to shoot the models and I felt like it was going to be stepping on someone’s toes if I started to ask them to do anything but stand there.  So for a couple hours I just let that burning desire inside of me to eat away at me.  Then I got up the nerve to take a couple shots as the girls headed up for a break and finally towards the end of the day they were still on the clock but that part of the show had died down and they were bored.  Here was my chance!  

I immediately made sure I was not pulling them away from anything and took pictures of some of the girls.  Then I talked to Michele the owner of M Bride and she asked if I would get shots of some of the other girls and that was all I needed to hear.  That gave me the green light to go hog wild.  

Keep in mind that all these shots were done in less than an hour with no lighting accept for the uplights that my dear friend, muse, and mentor, Monique Feil, pulled up and used to give me the best light she could.  Check out her mad lighting skills in the red room shots.  

At the end of the day I was so excited that I was given this incredible opportunity and that I was ready and willing to jump on it.  Here are some of the images that came from that event.