Last year, Stephen and I got invited to speak at the Dallas Professional Photographers of America monthly meeting. But we turned it down. Having just gotten married and merging our businesses, we wanted to wait to make sure that now together, we first and foremost could build a strong foundation of running our business before we got into the speaking scene again. Now having been a year since we officially teamed up, we finally gave in and agreed to visit Dallas to speak at their DPPA meeting. And what a great meeting it was. We truly enjoyed watching their print competition, meeting some of the best artistic photographers in the industry, and sharing our hearts with them about what we learned about customer service having just been a recent bride and groom on the other side of the experience.
While in Dallas, we also were asked to host our Scarlett & Stephen Workshop to a group of not just local photographers, but photographers who flew and drove in from all over the United States. I still can’t believe people would go to such distance just to attend, I promise we aren’t that cool, but we were thrilled to hear at the end of the day that their brains hurt with business info and that they’re lives were forever changed.
Here’s some of our favorite photos below from the shoot in the old fashioned streets of McKinney, Texas. What we didn’t tell the attendees was that the model, Brittany Nicole and her boyfriend were also Dallas wedding photographers. It was fun to surprise them at the end and have her give them feedback on pros and cons of how the shoot went from the client experience. It was also a neat surprise to to have world renowned award winning photographers, David and Luke Edmonson AND Paul Ernest pop by to say hello to the attendees at the end of the shoot. All three of them have won pretty much every award you could win at WPPI and more, and we are honored to call them our great friends.
As mentioned in the previous entry about our Myrtle Beach workshop, we love sharing our hearts in cities we are invited to host workshops. If you are interested in bringing us to your hometown and know about 5-10 photographers who could benefit from how to set up their photography business with a strong foundation, please email Stephen at [email protected] for more info! One of the Dallas workshop attendees, Michele Shore posted a thorough review on her blog, click here to read what she had to say about her experience.
