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I wanted to post a quick note that I will be on vacation (yaaaaahooo!) next week. To all of my loyal blog followers hang in there as I might be a little slow with new postings.

Of course no post is complete without a picture or Studio News, so here you go!

Over the weekend I attended the Create Better Images Workshop hosted by a couple of my photography idols, Jennifer Bowen and Kimberly Jarman. If you follow my blog (If you do I totally love you!) you know that I design wedding albums for a couple of local photographers. Jennifer is one of them and she has the most amazing images. This workshop was a perfect opportunity to learn from the best!

We did a mock shoot with a family.

Jen and Kim talked a lot about using natural light and avoiding the use of flash if at all possible. It was great to be on location with them and compare camera setting and images.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures capturing a little mother-daughter time…without using a flash of course!

Love a cute pair of shoes!

There were about 15 other photographers shooting all at the same time. When this little guy finally looked at the camera you could hear everyone’s shutters firing like crazy!

Big sis was totally over the photo shoot by this time.

The workshop also touched on using Adobe Lightroom. Until now I have used Adobe RAW and Photoshop, but I think I might make the switch to Lightroom.

Here is one more of my favorite images that I touched up while learning Lightroom.

I also learned that I should be using 72 DPI for my blog images instead of 200-300 (whoops). Hopefully this will make viewing the images a lot faster!

We also did a practice bridal shoot and I will be posting some of those images soon.

Thank you Jen and Kim for sharing all of your awesome knowledge and for being so down to earth.

I am so excited to share that pictures from Chrichelle and Kamanu’s wedding are featured on the Arizona Bride website.

Arizona Bride is a great local resource for couples planning their wedding. They have tons of information on current trends, local vendors and pictures of real weddings…like Chrichelle and Kamanu!

Click here to see more of the pictures featured on their website.

I am so thrilled that I have been listed on the Best Wedding Photographers Website.

This website is dedicated to finding and publishing the best of the most current wedding photography information. They have sections dedicated to photographers, photography and wedding albums. They loved my recent post on Stephanie and Kevin’s album.

This is actually the second time that I have made their list and I couldn’t be more thankful!

You can view the link here.

Note-they are constantly updating their site so if you check out the link and you don’t see Ali Girl Photography here is what it looked like!