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Las Vegas: home of the $25 buffet and $32 cocktails

We had a long day at the WPPI Business Institute, from 7:30am to 9:00pm. After the last session, someone suggested grabbing a drink in the casino cocktail lounge. Sensational idea! We waited for nearly 20 minutes before one of the curvy waitresses took our order. Probably best to double up, because who knows when she’ll...

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Las Vegas: The tradeshow

There’s a huge three-day photography tradeshow in the Paris Hotel ballrooms. All our favorite photographic and software vendors are here– Canon, Adobe, GraphiStudio, Successware, etc. GraphiStudio is an album company from Italy and produces incredible leather-bound wedding albums. John and I are eager to use them because the things they can do– amazing. Now, John...

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Las Vegas: WPPI

We’re in session all day today, from 8:00am til 9:00pm. It’s a very full day. Then we have a date for cocktails with our good friends Michele Gauger and Monte Zucker. Hooray! At right is a photograph John took during our time with Yervant.

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Las Vegas: Weddings the Yervant way!

Yervant Zanazanian was born in Ethiopia, the son of the official photographer to the royal family of Ethiopia. He travels the world, has a French accent, and lives in Melbourne, Australia. He’s like a one-man United Nations. He’s an excellent photojournalist, and his Photoshop skills are stylish and cutting-edge. We learned a whole lot from...

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Las Vegas: Photography Convention

We spent nine days in Las Vegas, and we only left the hotel twice! We were busy the whole time. The first couple of days we studied with photographer extraordinaire Yervant, who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. The remaining six days went like this: Wake up, eat a hurried breakfast, attend a seminar. Double-shot...

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