{"id":7949,"date":"2007-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/13\/ac-and-dwfu\/"},"modified":"2007-07-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T00:00:00","slug":"ac-and-dwfu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/13\/ac-and-dwfu\/","title":{"rendered":"AC and DWFU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got home from an amazing week in Atlantic City.  I went down the DWFU workshop.  (Digital Wedding Forum)  What was great is that there were only 50 photographers and we have created life long bonds.<br \/>\nWe had a class each day on different topics. My main reason for going was to see <a href=\" http:\/\/www.tinawilsonphotography.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Wilson<\/a> .  She is an incredible children&#8217;s photographer in Tennessee.  Right away when she started to talk and describe her life and where it was, I said&#8221; that is me!&#8221;  I knew this was something I needed to work on.  I talked to her the next night and we had a life changing conversation.  (I am gonna try not to cry again)  That made the trip soooo worth it!<br \/>\nTuesday night, was our <a href=\" http:\/\/www.trashthedress.com\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Trash The Dress&#8221;<\/a>. shoot.  It was organized by Heather Zawalick and headed up by <a href=\" http:\/\/www.markeric.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mark Eric&#8221;<\/a>.  and <a href=\" http:\/\/www.dominguesphotography.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Jason Domingues&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nAbout 10 brides who wanted to do something a little different, volunteered to come to Atlantic City and have amazing photographers shoot them in their wedding gowns.  This wasn&#8217;t about ruining a dress.  It was about getting the shots you are too scared to do on the wedding day because you don&#8217;t want to get dirt on your dress.  My group had Lisa.  She was so beautiful and the camera loved her.  I was so happy when she said we can do anything we wanted&#8230;.as long as the dress was able to be washed.  This was a media frenzy too!  Their were TV cameras and news stations everywhere.  It was really weird to be on the other side this time&#8230;.(yeah ok ;)&#8230;)  I even made the newspaper!!  Woo Hoo!!!<br \/>\nThe last 2 days we were there, we had a class with Cliff Maunter who helped us with lighting and running a business.  Thursday, I got to see John Michael Cooper again.  Just a few months ago I saw him in Las Vegas when he did a shoot off in the desert.   I had to cut out early to get home, so I missed him shoot this time&#8230;.  But, I know I will have so many opportunites to see him again.  If I wrote everything we learned this week, I would run out of space&#8230;..But all I can say is that I met some incredible photographer&#8217;s and made some really great friends!   See&#8230;.now I am crying again&#8230;..<br \/>\nHere are a few from my Trash the Dress&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/giggle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hotel.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lay.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/loveit.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rock.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sand.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blue1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/beach.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/board.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got home from an amazing week in Atlantic City. I went down the DWFU workshop. (Digital Wedding Forum) What was great is that there were only 50 photographers and we have created life long bonds. We had a class each day on different topics. My main reason for going was to see Tina [&hellip;]<\/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-7949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949","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=7949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}