Imaging USA Boudoir Speakers {Better late than never}…

So… YES, we realize that Imaging USA was waaaaaaaaayyyyyy back in January 2010. And YES, we realize that by now nearly THREE MONTHS have passed. But, better late than never, RIGHT?! 🙂 M & I were incredibly honored to have been invited to give our speaking presentation, “Boudoir Is The New Black”, as  PLATFORM SPEAKERS at Imaging this year – woohoo!!! We are honored and humbled to say that we were the first boudoir photography platform speakers to grace the stage at a major photography convention since the resurgence of popularity w/ boudoir… and we know it’s because… “BOUDOIR IS BACK!”™ (That was our speaking program title for our 2008-2009 speaking tour!) 🙂 If you joined us for our presentation at Imaging, you will remember that we were COMPLETELY blown away at the turn-out during our program. You guys, honestly, we were expecting maybe 300-400 people (we even printed out just 200 fliers to put on the first 200 seats). You can imagine our utter surprise, then, when we walked into a room that held over 1000 seats. And you can ALSO imagine our complete shock when, on the day of our presentation, there was standing room only… we heard a report that there were up to 1500 photographers packed into that room… and that some photogs were turned away at the door and told to find another room, because ours was already packed! What the….!? CRAZY, right??? Here’s a little video that shows a little glimpse of that day:

*NOTE: If you missed our speaking presentation at Imaging, you may know that we were able to do a mini-version of our presentation for a PPA webinar this last month! If you’re interested in watching the webinar, you can actually download it on PPA’s webinar site! We’re also excited about a few upcoming speaking programs that we have scheduled for 2010 & 2011… and we’re crossing our fingers in hopes that WPPI will finally catch on and let us speak there next year! (We’ve been asking them if they’d let us speak for the last 2 years… we figure it’s finally time for a little ‘divaliciousness’ to take to the stage in Vegas… *wink, wink… we love you, WPPI!) 😉  We know that WPPI may need a little encouragement, though, from our lovely/wonderful friends & peer photographers – SO – if any of you MIGHT be interested in helping us get on stage to share our boudoir love during WPPI 2011, why not shoot a little message over to WPPI? (*another double wink inserted here… pretty please w/ a cherry on top)!

ALSO, we have to give another big THANK YOU to our sponsors from Imaging USA: SHOWIT & BAY PHOTO!!!