“{Tampa,FL} – January 23, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce Life Writing Photography has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Photography!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Life Writing Photography was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

Life Writing Photography is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Life Writing Photography for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that Life Writing Photography is one of the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.

How are the winners determined?
The WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards ™ recognizes the top local wedding professionals from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism. Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the organization, the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ are awarded solely based on the reviews from over 1.2 million newlyweds. Awards are determined by a combination of four factors: Overall rating (quality), total number of reviews (quantity), review performance from 2011 (recency), and consistency of reviews from year to year (consistency). This year’s recipients represent the top 5% of WeddingWire’s vendor community, across all service categories and all regions throughout the US and Canada.”

- press release written by Wedding Wire

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As stated above, the award is given to the top 5% of Wedding Wire vendors based on reviews from their wedding clients. Thus, I have to THANK each of my 2011 brides who took the time to write raving reviews!! I LOVED working with each and every one of you and cannot thank you enough for the opportunity to photograph your wedding day. You are what makes Life Writing Photography what it is!!

2011 brides – each of you are uniquely gorgeous! Here’s your shout out:

The following bride {Stacey} you have not gotten to see yet . . . her April 2011 wedding will be published soon . . . we are waiting for a surprise, but here is a glimpse:

PS… If you have ever had photos taken by me and have never written a review (it does not matter how long ago your shoot was), please consider doing so. It takes 5 minutes and tremendously helps Life Writing Photography (plus, I give a free 5×7 for each review, so it is so worth it!)

Here are directions for where to post:

……….~ If you were a NON-WEDDING client (family, engagement, senior portrait session): (1 review, 1 post) Google Places Page

………..~ If you were a WEDDING client: (write 1 review and post to 2 places) Google Places Page and Wedding Wire Page.

Again – THANK YOU to ALL of you who took the time to write a review.

~ Janie

It’s the rainy season here in Peru – the time of year that they discourage tourists from coming.  But – Kenzo and I have found it to be the most beautiful season since we arrived in August.  We’ve been taking advantage of weekend time off to hike in these breath-taking Andean Mountains that surround us.  These photos are from a day trip to the ruins of Tipon just outside of Cuzco.  Tomorrow morning you can check out our Peru blog to see and read a little more about the day.  Enjoy!

(PS…to clarify – for those of you who did not know (or potential clients who are really confused), my husband and I are living in Peru from August 2011-May 6th, 2012.  I am still booking photography sessions and weddings for anytime after May 7th 2012.  I will also be in town this coming FRIDAY!!  And have one evening slot available on on Tuesday, January 31st and plenty of daytime availability while I am home (until Feb 5th).  Let me know if you’d like to book a session!  Because I moved out of the country, I do not currently have a cell phone number BUT you can email me at janie@lifewritingphotography.com and I am very quick to respond!)

{yep, an onion!}

more peru photos to come tomorrow!

happy saturday.

The family shoot with the Daniels was absolutely beautiful – bursting in color and laughter. When I finish editing a session, I go back through the photos and choose some of my favorites to duplicate in black and white. I had originally mixed these black and white photos in with their actual post – but, they just really did not go there – they took away from the color and the color took away from the artful b&w. So thus, you get a {reverse teaser} of this lovely family.

I am ALL caught up on posting clients’ photo sessions.  If you are a photographer – you know what an A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. feeling this is.  Since I started my business, I don’t think I have ever been completely caught up like that.  Want to know the secret?  Move to a foreign country and reduce the amount of clients you’re working with!  Haha, no, while it has been great for us, I wouldn’t recommend it because it doesn’t really allow you to have an income.

Anyway, all of that is to say that I get to {play} here on the blog for a few posts (and I say few because I will be home in two weeks and am booked up with lots of fun shoots!)  But, in the next few posts, I’ll be sharing photos that I have taken in months past that I have never shared before.  I am starting with wild and wonderful West Virginia.  This past summer when I traveled to West Virginia to photograph Taran and Jamion’s wedding, members of my wonderful extended family came along with me.  We had an amazing time camping, white water rafting, relaxing, playing games and just being together.  While I took many many photos – these were some of my favorite “artistic” shots.  The beautiful bomb-shell you see is my cousin, Caitlin.  And the handsome lad is of course my husband, Kenzo.  Enjoy wild and wonderful West Virginia!