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The Atlanta ShootQ Party was a hit! People drove from Birmingham and North Carolina to hear about ShootQ. Thanks so much to everyone who joined the party. It was fun to meet you all!

After the ShootQ Set-Up Party tomorrow (Tuesday), the LaCour crew will be relaxing at Loca Luna. Come hang out with us at Loca Luna around 5:30pm. We'll be there for a few hours, so even if you aren't coming to the ShootQ party, stop by Loca Luna and order a margarita to celebrate summer! We'd love to see everyone!

Click HERE for directions to Loca Luna.

For those of you who haven't come across the Strobist.com blog, go check it out. It's a great resource for lighting tips and tricks. They also just put a blog post about our image that we made of a night beach ceremony which was featured on www.flashflavor.com last week.

*Click Here to check out Strobist!

WedPix.com just published their June issue and they interviewed me again, this time for an article about "Sideline Shots." They define sideline shots as "photos that are distinct from the standard reaction pictures that you may capture during the walk down the aisle, the vows or the cake cutting. This particular variety tends to be further away from the primary wedding day action, both geographically and thematically, but adds depth and essential perspective to the complete wedding day story."

It's an interesting story and they quoted me quite a bit, so brace yourself :) It's always a little weird seeing stories written that quote you. Especially after spending so many years working in the news industry where we were the ones photographing and quoting people, it's a very interesting experience being on the flip side of that. What's great, though, is that Michael Roney, the writer of the WedPix article has been very accurate with quoting me from the phone interview we had.

*Click Here to read the article.

We're having a wonderful time with the crew at Elevate2, Garrett and Joy Nudd's workshop in Orlando. There are so many talented photographers here, and we've been inspired by their passion and creativity. As Gene Higa told us earlier this week, it's a great time to be a wedding photographer! Thanks to everyone for a fun few days of sharing. It's refreshing to meet so many new friends, and reconnect with many old ones too! ShootQ is sponsoring the workshop, and we had a chance to give a demo to everyone today. We can't wait to incorporate new ideas into ShootQ. Thanks to everyone for giving feedback. It's the best way to grow and improve the software.

Rachel and Regina Holder

The St. Louis boys, Andrew and Dan Watkins

Frank DiMeo, Gene Higa, Kevin Meyers and Dan Watkins

Garrett during the shooting demo


Katie Torres of 6 of Four Creations


Ann Hamilton with her new Leica point-and-shoot

Rachel LaCour Niesen with Regis Chen

Dan Watkins and Zack Arias