Back in January I went to the Professional Photographers of America national convention.  I love going every year.  They have a big trade show and we get to check out tons of new products as well as take classes and hear experts speak on various topics.  I found some great new items for my clients this year including some really beautiful new frames and albums.  I'm excited to start showing them off. 

I was also honored with an award for my new website.  The website won "Best Website" in a national marketing competition!  It was a huge honor for me.  They are also going to do a feature on great web sites for the April issue of the magazine and they interviewed me for it, very cool!

My fellow winners were Wendy Rouleau and Jeff Woods- awesome to be included in such a great group. 

After the awards ceremony we all went an after party at the Tampa Aquarium.  It was hilarious to see so many people taking pictures of the fish!  I guess that is what you get when you put a bunch of photographers together somewhere...the cameras come out!  I joined in too.  Here are some little pictures of the fish with my iphone.

I also got to meet Gina Alexander at the trade show.  Gina makes the photo handbags that I sell at the studio.  She showed us some of the new bags, which are great and I can't wait to get some sample for the studio.

Now, back at the studio, it's time to sort out all the cool & new information and get back to work!