Hello everyone!
2 posts in a week? yes, I'm getting back into it - I promise!!
This past weekend Jeff and I(Tracy) attended our annual Professional Photography Convention in Des Moines. We have 2 conventions each year, one in October and one in February. The February one is 5 days long, morning to night all photography! Its like the best vacation ever!
Photographers from all over Iowa come to Des Moines for these days to learn, discuss, shoot, and talk with other photographers! We all come home with our heads packed full of new ideas on how to change and improve our businesses and our shooting!
On top of all the learning we also have fun with all of our photog friends! We also always enter Print Judging. We take our best (usually 4) images from the year, or even shoot specific images, to make technically perfect in every way we know how! They get judged and all prints that get a high enough score get to be sent onto a National Competition! Its pretty cool when we get good enough scores for that!
I just wanted to share our Competition Images as well as some random ones from the Convention!

Citizen Soldier - Jeff (merit and 2nd place)

A Beautiful Ending - Jeff

Olympic Gold 2012 - Jeff (merit and 2nd place)

Sweetest Slumber - Tracy

Lost Hope - Tracy (merit)

Dark Angel - Tracy
Tracy also entered the Lil Miss and Lil Mr competition and got 3 honorable mentions for those!



and as always, at least one of us photographers has a camera! here are just some fun shots from the weekend!

Jeff and his friend John doing the Step-Brothers pose.. its a must have every year!

Tracy and MacKenzie at the banquet Monday night.

Jeff did lots of work at the convention, so he and Kenzie were taking a much needed break.

Jeff and Tracy at our formal banquet Monday night