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Holy cow! Me and Grace Ormonde Magazine? Pinch me.

March 29th, 2010

Okay, for anyone who really knows me.. I am a huge GRACE ORMONDE WEDDING STYLE MAGAZINE fan. big fan. total fan. It’s like Vogue for weddings to me…It’s like any of the European Vogues for wedding-yum. So, I blogged a while ago about seeing Grace Ormonde in person at the WPPI event I attended and I NEVER introduced myself and I meant to but I didn’t. oh well, there will be other opportunities.. sigh. Well, I wrote to her. I figured out her email address and emailed her. I let her know how excited I was to have been able to almost meet her and that I was so impressed by her generosity towards the Thirst Relief project in her magazine. I meant every word that I said to her.

Blah Blah Blah… what am I blogging about anyway?? Ok, here goes.

I have been chosen to be one of the photographers on their platinum list. You can’t just get on the list. You have to be invited. From what I understand, Grace sent my information ; after reading the email I had sent to her; to her team member Carolyn, that I had been chosen to be on that list. That was cool. I have wanted to be invited for 2 years-yay.

Anyway, if you are getting married, I highly recommend this magazine, it is so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! So, here is is…the logo they gave me to me-it is true: I am officially on the list. cool.

See ya!

Maria

Tags: grace ormonde, platinum vendor list, wedding style magazine
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WPPI-International Print Competition 2010

March 16th, 2010

Hello everyone. It has been a little while since I blogged because I have been so busy ! I have just spent the last nine days away again. I was in Las Vegas where I was attending the WPPI International Print Competition.

WPPI=WOW.

That was the best way for me to sum up my feelings. 14,000 photographers from around the world to compete, to educate others, to learn from others, to buy lots of stuff from the tradeshow. Holy cow, I don’t think I have ever been around so many photographers at once. This was my first year to go to WPPI and also my first year to compete. Seven Maria Bernal originals proudly hung in the Awards of Excellence gallery and I am so excited. over 3500 prints and less than 1/3 “merited” and a few less than that were given awards of excellence. Might I also mention that there are two levels of awards of excellence denoted by a white ribbon and a black ribbon (you love the white ribbons but you looooove the black ones). I got a black one and six white ones. That was cool.

After all the judging and they choose who did well enough that their prints should be given the honor to hang in the gallery, they go hang them. Wanna know what I thought was cool? Walking into the first gallery room to see my first print -right there, dead center, right under a Jerry Ghionis print. woh. Jerry is the number one wedding photographer in the world-total celebrity (I met him btw) and there is my print, right next to his. cool.

So, enough about the competition, I also got to go to two classes. One with Jerry Ghionis (he is from Australia and a cool dude) and one with John Paul Caponigro who is a genius on color and color theory and I love his work. That was super cool.

Then… I got a chance to go to the tradeshow as well. HOLY COW!! if you wanted to buy something for your studio there was no way you would not find it there! INCREDIBLE–two HUGE rooms with booths everywhere. Of course, my sponsors were there…BWC, Profoto (the MAC group), Lowepro (my newest sponsor) and many many others. New albums, new props, new everything. left my wallet in the room (it was safer there). Had dinner with Zida (from Studio Z, the one who did my cards and who I just adore!)

Then…a HUUUUGE treat. I got to see GRACE ORMONDE in person. For those of you that know me, you know I love her and her magazine and if there is anyone that I ever wanted to meet it is her. well, I went to listen to Mike Colon about his trip to Africa and the work they did there for their Thirst Relief project which is awesome and there was Grace in all her Grace. wow, I so wanted to introduce myself and she was sitting a few seats away from me but I did not introduce myself. Oh well, maybe another day and one day…maybe I willl get to be in her magazine. that would be AAAMMMAAAAAZING.

Anyway, it was a great trip, I had a good time. I didn’t end up with a first place trophy on my first time but you know…I am pretty proud of having the honor or having 7 photos with an award of excellence on my first time and to know that my photos were hanging side by side with some of the top, most famous photographers in the world. pretty cool. I want to put the photos up but I cannot at this time. I have two other competitions coming up and I cannot risk any of the judges seeing them or they will not be able to judge them if they know that I am the maker of the prints… so stay tuned and I will share them soon

Tags: bwc, grace ormonde, jerry ghionis, las vegas, lowepro, mac group, mike colon, Print Competition, profoto, studio-Z, wppi
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Wedding Goodies: Veils!

May 21st, 2009

Weddings have a lot of details. Everyone knows it. One of the details is the veil. I do a lot of photo advertisement for UNVEILED BRIDAL DESIGNS and it is truly one of my favorite commerical shoots that I can do. I looooooove wedding veils: long ones, short ones..Anyway, I was thinking the other day that I should totally blog about the work that Dorene does. Who is Dorene? Dorene is an artist. She is a veil artist. She makes some of the best veils in the country. Bridal shops everywhere beg for her to sell to them but she chooses not to. Dorene likes to work with the bride directly – how many people do that these days??

Anyway, I just did some new photos for her advertising and I thought you would like to see them. She makes long veils(cathedral veils), short veils(blushers) and birdcage veils.. There isn’t anything that you can think of with respect to a veil that Dorene can’t make. So…if you are a bride or know a bride to be-introduce her to Dorene at Unveiled Bridal Designs and consider something super special for your veil.

Here are the photos for Dorene’s new advertising. The top veil is the FLEUR birdcage veil and the bottom one is the WORLD PREMIERE of the TRIANGLE veil. We shot the TRIANGLE in black but you can certainly get it in any color you choose… One of Dorene’s headpieces (and my photo) was chosen for the online blog of Destination I Do Magazine blog (MAy 11th, 2009 blog)

BY THE WAY…In case you were wondering who did the makeup for this shoot–MARIS MALONE CALDERON. YES, she is THAT GOOD!! Maris does makeup for all occasions including, but not limited to.. weddings, bridals, pageants, commerical, editorial. Give her a buzz (you can also find her on my wedding vendors page)

THE FLEUR, combined with white feathers on the head.