If you haven’t seen already, we have re-done our website! Check us out at www.litwinphotography.com. Clients and event guests can now use our all new client proofing and ordering system easily but entering the gallery with the password, and then simply add your photo choices to your favorites using the link at the top of the page, then simply click the shopping cart icon when you are ready to check out and you’re ready to go!

Feedback is appreciated and welcome.

Hope

I am currently re-designing the website and the new one is going to floor you! It is gorgeous, slick, photo driven and is a fully integrated site that will provide our clients with EVERYTHING they need from a photo studio :)

Here is a teaser…keep your eyes peeled for the launch of the new site soon.

Hope

We’ve been so busy with the onset of wedding season that until now I haven’t had a chance to write about WPPI 2008. Better late than never, right?

In March Sarah and I flew down to Vegas for our first ever WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) Convention and Tradeshow, leaving the Litwins back in Lethbridge to look after Jaxen.

We arrived a few days early and had the weekend to play around, but I was eagerly awaiting the tradeshow so I could pick up my new 40D (among other goodies).

At the opening reception we got a feel of how big the convention really was – over 20,000 photographers were in attendance!

The Young Guns Show was one of my favorite parts of the convention, featuring some awesome photographers all under 30. I was excited that Mike Larson came ready to do a demo. Last summer we saw this video of Mike’s infamous camera toss, and I was pretty stoked to see it in real life!
(Here’s a link to the video of him in action)

You can see how daring (or terrifying!) it is even from where we were sitting in the back. (That object at the top of the photo is the camera, if you couldn’t tell.)

The Tradeshow took up a ton of time, and I STILL could have spent an extra day there!

Here is Sarah standing on the new Olympus camera. I tried to talk her into Canon, but to no avail.

At the tradeshow, I ran into familiar faces: Mark from de Jourdan’s with his wife Kristina! I never had time to arrange a meetup with them before leaving, so it was quite miraculous to run into them among the thousands of photographers who were there.

Sarah and I both saw some amazing speakers, but my favorite times were when we went out to the strip to try my new camera. We quickly learnt that when you have a camera and a model in Vegas at night, you get a lot of people who think they should be in your photos! Sarah was usually the model, but I took a few turns in front of the camera and even Sarah couldn’t help but admit Canon was great.


We barely slept while we were there but we had a great time, and I’m excited to go back again next year!

We want to announce that we were voted #1 Photography Studio In the Lethbridge Sun Times Best of the Best 2008! Thank you for votes, we are honored to have won and will work even harder this year to earn the title again for 2009!Our appearance at the welcome wagon bridal showcase was also a great success this evening, It was great meeting with all of the brides there and we look forward to working with many of you over the next year! Thank you for stopping by our booth.

Hope Litwin, James Litwin, Tanya Plonka, Jan Tajcnar and Sarah Underwood