As a professional wedding photographer, there are many organizations you can join. Some take any photographer while others are very selective on who they allow to become “members”. I just received an email a few days ago from the Artistic Guild of the Wedding Photojournalist Association (AGWPJA) saying that I qualify to be part of...
Pomona, CA: A good friend of mine Dan Roditi runs an annual flag football tournament at Cal Poly Pomona for the LA Church of Christ. He asked if I could take some photos of the game so I headed down to Pomona to see what I could capture. I am by no means a sports...
I joined the Wedding Photojournalism Association a few months back. It is a very selective group of wedding photographers. I actually applied three times before I was accepted into the WPJA. The WPJA does a quarterly contest in several different areas’ of the wedding day ranging from getting ready to creative portraiture. I submitted several...
Los Angeles, CA: I had the pleasure to shot with Ari, Jason Q Tran, Conrad Lim, and a bunch of other photographers down in the heart of LA. Ari planned it all out with models, makeup artist Christina Chen, and even got his wedding photography professor Greg Bumatay to help out. We were able to...
Sometimes you do things that you would not suggested to your client to do. The word I am looking for is hypocrite, but I have learned my lesson…let me explain. I got married a little over 3 years ago. I decided since I was a “photographer” that I would not pay the extra fee to...
