love in legoland

weddings have such a pull on me that it appears i can't resist pulling out my camera even when it's....LEGO people getting married.

and did you know, there are weddings galore in San Diego's legoland! . . . lego limos, lego brides, lego CAMERAS, lego PHOTOGRAPHERS!



my folks treated my kids to a trip to San Diego last week, so i flew straight from the WPPI conference in Las Vegas to San Diego (and legoland's version of vegas).

after photographing the third legoland wedding (wow. . . did you know you can shoot a wedding every 3 minutes in miniland USA?) my kids just did some combination of laugh-roll-the-eyes-come-on-mom-let's-go-ride-roller-coasters.



between real vegas and miniland vegas . . . i think i preferred legoland's version . . . it just seemed . . . well . . . more innocent



and look, here's where we stayed in real vegas . . . but here it is in lego vegas . . . i felt like i'd never left



and then there was miniland Washington D.C. . . . jaw-dropping. Here's the inauguration . . . lego obama + michelle, lego aretha . . . amazing.



and now, back in the real missouri, amy and i are off to shoot emily + jeff's wedding in St. Louis. it's great to be back in a real wedding groove!

~kim

VEGAS, BABY!

warm sassy greetings from SIN city! . . .

(. . . though we've found we're clearly more "midwestern girls" thru and thru.....

we tell you, las vegas would NOT be an empire if only amys + kims came to town.)

WPPI workshops, classes + print + album competitions brought us here for the week.

BUT yikes, internet access is RIDICULOUSLY expensive here at the MGM Grand (beware!) --

so we might be spotty in keeping you posted over the next few days, but pictures (and of course stories) will be shared!

in the meantime; take a look at what we created in the neon boneyard:

BIG VEGAS-SIZED THANKS to JB + DeEtte Salle :

-- workshop instructors extraordinaire (and new parents to be!)

who went above and beyond in setting up this neon boneyard gig.

and see that wedding chapel pic? don't you LOVE that vegas sky! AND whooot-whoot!!: no windshields to de-ice and scrape.

yep, vegas, baby!!