We’re still grinning from receiving the 2011 Brides Choice Award and we just got notice that we won an Award of Excellence at the WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Professionals International) 2011 print competition! Yeaaaah!

The winning print was a photo-journalistic (or as we say reportage!) image from Todd and Aline’s wedding last September. Maybe there was something lucky about the date also being our wedding anniversary!?

Maria rode in the limo between the ceremony and reception and got this fabulous pic, which we think is a really fun capture.

The print competition required a mated 16 x 20″ print, which we printed and mounted ourselves. We’re really pleased that our printing and mounting skills have also been awarded at such a high level of competition.

A while ago I posted a mini review of a retouching DVD tutorial set by Gry Garness. That original review can be found here.

Gry has just released the e-book equivalent. I’ve just received
my copy and since I was again truly impressed, wanted to let other photographers know about this great resource!
At £29 ($48 approx.) this is phenomenal value. The techniques described are high end, but you don’t have to be a fashion or beauty photographer to reap rewards from this book. There are so many workflow tips and basic methods described to maintain image quality, that it would be great value just to understand the basics of digital image quality!
I have digested the previous CS4 version (not that the latest version is only for CS5…) and highly recommend this material to all photographers – especially those who have basic retouching skills and are frustrated with learning options out there.

Where does this leave the DVD? I think this complements it well – there’s lots of clever use of the latest pdf technology to present rollover images and other interactive methods to better demonstrate the techniques.

Simply excellent, and highly recommended!

Absolutely thrilled to receive the news this morning that tobeadored had been selected to receive WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2011 for Wedding Photography!

We would like to thank all our wonderful clients that have made this possible.

tobeadored only shoots a select number of weddings a year, so this has been especially gratifying. May this be the first of many!

Full press release below:
Santa Clara, CA – Jan 26, 2011 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce tobeadored llc has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for Wedding Photography!

Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.

tobeadored stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud tobeadored for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”

We are happy to announce that tobeadored is among the very best Wedding Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and WeddingBee. We would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at www.WeddingWire.com/tobeadored or our main website at http://www.tobeadored.com

For more information on the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011, please visit www.WeddingWire.com