I spent all of last week at a workshop with Jerry Ghionis, who has been rated as one of the top 10 wedding photographers in the world. It was a rare opportunity to study under such an accomplished photographer, who came all the way to Dallas from Australia. The workshop was held at the gorgeous Hotel ZaZa in Uptown. It was quite an amazing experience – I learned A LOT and can’t wait to start implementing all the things I learned!

Here are a few of my pictures from the week:

The rest of these pictures were all set up as examples, so I can’t claim the posing as my own, but it should give you an idea of some of the things we learned:

We met Ricky’s sister, BJ, last summer at Nikkie & Daniel’s wedding, where she was the videographer. (We always recommend her when anyone is looking for a videographer, because she’s great!) So we were excited when she contacted us to take pictures of her brother, Ricky. We went to the train station in historic downtown Grapevine, which is an awesome and very fun location. Ricky was really more interested in climbing on trains and throwing rocks than having his picture taken (as any kid would be), but he was very patient with our cameras and bad jokes!

A while ago we did some pictures of our friends’ kids so they would have an alternative to the typical school portraits. I was shocked when I realized a year had already passed and it was time to do it again! We headed down to Arbor Hills Nature Preserve in Plano and took some fun pictures.

This one was totally their idea and I love it:

Last Saturday we had the opportunity to take pictures of our friends’ kids as an alternative to the typical school pictures. We went down to Addison Circle (which is a great place for pictures, if you’re trying to pick a spot) and had lots of fun – especially with the fountains.

We did a few pictures with the whole family while we were at it: