This was my first year to WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International), which occurs right before wedding season each year. I am not an official wedding photographer, but my friend Brittany of Brittany Nichole Photography (awesome wedding photographer by the way) is and I decided to go with her to this convention. While there I was able to a see and touch all the new albums, prints, and techniques as well as here a lot of great speakers.

Monday through Wednesday was the actual conference, which was a ton of classes and the tradeshow. The classes were great and I learned a lot about marketing, lighting and photography techniques.  I also got to catch up with a few of my favorite photographers (Christy Penn, David Edmonson, and  Luke Edmonson, for example).

Here are a few pictures from the event. The rest can be found at my site: thomasgarzaphotography.com