{"id":7877,"date":"2008-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/tampa-dwf-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T00:00:00","slug":"tampa-dwf-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/tampa-dwf-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa…DWF 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am finally back for a while! Right after the new year, I headed down to Tampa for the Digital Wedding Forum convention. What an amazing trip! I got to reconnect with old friends and meet some new amazing ones that will be in my life forever! This trip I learned so much about myself. This was not like other conventions and I know we all feel the same way. We had a ton of fun too. Each night we went out to karaoke, dancing, the Aquarium for a party, and each night, I stayed up to at least 5:30 am and learned more than I did in class. We even put on a mock wedding “The Wedding From Hell” as a teaching tool for what to do in any situation. Yours truly was the Maid of Honor! Just imagine the most extreme things happening at a wedding. Dresses too short, crazy Mother’s, drunk groomsman. everything…. The 3 photographers were awesome and handled everything we threw at them! Here are some from Susan Stripling<\/a>
\n I also was able to spend a few days talking to Tony Hewitt<\/a>. He is a photographer and motivational speaker. He would sit up with us at night and really get us thinking about who we are and what path we should be on. I am a different person because of him.
\n I had a mentoring session with Jen and Steve Bebb<\/a> who really gave me a swift kick in the butt. Because of them…you will be seeing something a little different around here…
\nThank you to all my friends new and old who made this trip what it was!!
\nAnd now on to the pics……Me and Rita<\/a>Humza and Desiree<\/a>Danny<\/a>. (Desiree shot this……)Bridget at the aquariumDesiree, Tony and MeMe and Joe<\/a>Jason<\/a> and meMelissa and Austin SchmidDesiree, Chelsea<\/a> and me at the aquarium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am finally back for a while! Right after the new year, I headed down to Tampa for the Digital Wedding Forum convention. What an amazing trip! I got to reconnect with old friends and meet some new amazing ones that will be in my life forever! This trip I learned so much about myself. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}