Switzerland photographers................ whew! A tough crowd, but one I feel in love with. Bob and I taught a 2 day workshop in Zurich, Switzerland in March to an amazing group of photographers. I think we had about 38 attendees. Things are very different in Switzerland than they are here in the States. Things like First Looks, Engagement Sessions, and Mess The Dress sessions aren't really considered there. Networking isn't really big there either. As we all know here, networking with other photographers is huge! Our friend,
Daniel Zihlmann is a photographer in Switzerland and he's breaking all the rules. He's created a group called The Wedding Crashers and once a month they all get together to network. They encourage each other and they are bringing a different spin to wedding photography. It's pretty amazing. It reminds me of what's been happening in the States since things like David Jay's forum
Open Source Photo began. I love it! And I think the photographers from Switzerland are all going to make some huge changes there over the next year! It's pretty exciting!
A big thank you to
Paul Merki from Light+Byte. He brought us over to teach this workshop and we are so humbled by that. I was really awesome meeting you Paul. Thank you for making this workshop possible!
Here's some fun shots Bob created. You can also see some great images on Facebook from some of the attendees that I could find...
Daniel Zihlmann,
Colette Anderes,
Daniel Knecht,
Thomas Wuscher,
Jeanine Linder,
Felix Oberhaensli,
Simon Lutolf,
Claire Morgan,
Nadia Talamona,
Daniel Däppen.
Thank you to
Daniela Aregger and
Mike Leuenberger for modeling for us during the workshop! You're both so beautiful....!!!!!
I will be blogging about the rest of our amazing trip soon too!!! Stay tuned...!!! Here's a sneak peak at
Anton Lorimer's blog post about our trip. The Lorimer family ROCKS!!!