The One Conference

I wanted to talk a little about the conference we attended last week. It was not a conference about photography, even though it was only for photographers, and one awesome videographer. It was a huge lesson into looking at ourselves as a husband and wife team, not just in our business, but in our lives.

We heard amazing stories from some of the industries top husband and wife teams. We met some great couples who have the same challenges that we do, that I am sure we will remain friends for a lifetime! There was a lot of good times, a lot of laughing, and a few tears.

One of the things we learned was that we need to put each other and our family before the business. It is something that we always knew, but is really very hard to do. It is something that we are working on changing starting today.

I want to share some of the images from the seminar. These were all taken by the very talented Kenny Kim, based out of Chicago. The whole thing was also filmed by the very talented Ron Dawson of Cinematic Studios. Ron was there with his wife to partake in the seminar, too.

I had to post this pic, there is a great candy shop next to Jeff and Julia's studio. We brought back gummi butterflies, gummi fried eggs, and gummi army men for the kids. We also brought back marshmallow ice-cream cones.

This was the panel of speakers, from left to right, Jeff & Julia Woods, Jen and Steve Bebb, and Tami & Dane Sanders. Missing from the pic is Zack Arias, who spoke our first night there. All the speakers were truely inspiring, they opened their hearts to us, and made us realize that even they face the same challenges we do. What is even more inspiring is that Jeff & Julia have 4 kids!

We all had the oppertunity to go on a date night. We chose the pottery class. We should be receiving our projects in the mail soon, and we will proudly display them at our studio to remind us of this awesome experience. After class we all went out to dinner.
Some of the other couples went to a cooking class, I think they drank to much of the cooking wine! The other option was dinner & a movie, complete with a limo ride!
Here is the whole group. We all grew a lot closer after this experience, and I hope to see all of them next year at the next "One Conference"! If you are a married photographer reading this, and you are thinking about how to spend your education dollars for next year, this is one of the most important seminars you should attend. It really was a life changing experience for us!I want to thank Jeff & Julia, from the bottom of my heart for putting this together!