Excellent Indeed!

We finally had a chance to learn from the masters and pioneers of modern wedding portrait photography at that - Bambi Cantrell and Jerry Ghionis. Vancouver was the last stop on their wedding and portrait photography seminar on the road Bam and Jerry's Excellent Adventure and let me tell you, man, I was like putty in their hands. Now this was just a full day seminar but I still learned a lot from the photography side that throughout the seminar, I kept thinking "oh, I wish I've been to the seminar before we did so-and-so's wedding, etc". Not only that, I also found nuggets of gold on the business side of photography that I left the seminar really inspired and couldn't wait to share with Rico (he was supposed to go to work but our precious one got sick over the weekend and he pulled a muscle on his back, poor guy!). It was excellent indeedy! Bambi and Jerry were great as teachers. Jerry was so hilarious and his Borat impression is right on the money... very nice!

Now, get this, as if I wasn't star struck enough (I walked around the room with a sort of glazed look on my face) when Jennifer and Stephen Bebb of the Bebb Studios came walking through the door. These guys are Canada's representative on The Top 10 Best Wedding Photographers on the Planet (American Photo). I was a bundle of nerves when I walked up and introduced myself to Jen and she was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO nice!!! Oh and have I mentioned that Jen and Steve are a smokin' hot couple? No wonder Jerry kept calling on them to demonstrate tips and tricks for bride and groom poses.

Ok, so my jaw was already dragging all over the floor, right? And I really felt like I was the only one star struck by seeing these celebrities (in our wedding photographer's eyes) but the list didn't end there, other people in the audience were Jesh de Rox, Dave and Quin Cheung of DQ Studios and another up and coming wedding photographers from Vancouver, Ral and Danelle Nicanor of RaD Studios.

All in all the day was so worth it. Rubbing shoulders with these big hitters, I hope some sliver of talent would rub off on me. Sigh...