Last week I attended an amazing wedding photography workshop taught by world renowned photographers Denis Reggie & Joe Buissink in Denis' home in Atlanta, Georgia. I was joined by photographers that traveled from all over the world including the United Kingdom, British Virgin islands and all across the United States to attend the workshop. The workshop was limited in size providing an intimate setting for us to learn from Denis and Joe. I loved that about the workshop because we were able to pick Denis and Joe's brains as much as we wanted to! They were so sweet and helpful. One of the many things that I loved about them was that they were down to earth and real with us and never acted like "celebrities". Denis has photographed the weddings of JFK Jr. & Caroline Bessette, Arnold Schwarzenegger & Maria Shriver, Vera Wang, Martin Luther King III, Mariah Carey, and many more. Denis has a gorgeous home in Atlanta, Georgia.

Joe specializes in celebrity weddings as well, Jessica Simpson, Christina Aguilera, Kelsey Grammer, Hilary Swank, Christina Applegate, Jenifer Lopez, and many more. He and his lovely family live in Beverly Hills, California.

I will never forget this experience and the wealth of knowledge I gained. They taught us all so much. I am so grateful.

I would like to thank my friend Gary Fong for encouraging me to take this important step in my business. I'll always be grateful, and I'd recommend this workshop to anyone! Please check out his blog too! http://garyfong1.xanga.com/ He is such a talented person.

Here are a few pictures from last week...

We went to a church to practice what we were learning and to see Denis & Joe demonstrate stuff for us.....

Joe did a little modeling for us:)

You may remember me posting about me going to watch Denis' lighting demo a couple of months ago. You should check it out!

My friend Web Marshall asked me to photograph a firefighter house burn training they were doing in Milledgeville a couple of Saturdays ago. Several different surrounding counties joined in for this big burn. It's a rare occasion that they have this big of a house to burn for training(it was already burned severely in the inside a while back due to a computer fire I believe). The people that owned the house were nice enough to donate it to the fire department for training. They started off by doing a lot of training before the house started burning by crawling in and out of the house and "rescuing" some dummies through the window along with a lot of other exercises. I had fun seeing how they do things. I was able to go into the house before they set it on fire and take some pictures too. I had to wear a helmet inside the house and that was a challenge taking pictures without that thing falling off haha(I secretly thought it was really cool to wear it though lol)! I just have to do a shout out to my awesome brother-in-law JW Thaxton who is a firefighter in Gwinnett county. He used to be a firefighter for Milledgeville too. I'm very proud to have so many firefighter friends. Y'all are awesome. I also want to do a shout out to EVERY firefighter out there. Thank you for doing what you do and keeping the people around you safe.

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