It’s great to see one of my photos featured as the opening shot in the special wedding section of Southern Vermont Arts & Living magazine that just hit news stands today. The article focuses on weddings in southern Vermont.

A Vermont wedding I photographed was featured in the magazine last spring, and it’s really nice to see my work published again this year.

I am excited to announce Steve Holmes Photography has been chosen to receive the Wedding Wire Bride’s Choice 2011. This award recognizes the top 5 percent of local wedding professionals from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate quality and service excellence in the wedding industry. Thanks to all of the wonderful people I worked with this past year that made this possible!

I just got back from a week of professional development at the Wedding and Portrait Photographers Internation (WPPI) convention in Vegas. It was a great opportunity to learn from some of the best people in the industry. I’ve come away from it with tons of great ideas about how to make my business stronger and provide my clients with the very best images possible.

In addition to getting ideas from many of the great speakers there, I also had the opportunity to go out on a couple of shoots with models from the area.

The first group of images were created during a workshop in and around the MGM Grand where the convention was held.

The next two were taken in the hallway of the MGM in front of the Cirque du Soleil Ka painting (which was an awesome show, by the way).

The second shoot was out in the desert at Red Rocks with three other photographers, much more of my pace compared to the craziness in Vegas. The last time I was here was 17 years ago on a climbing section NOLS course, so it was fun to return.

I am excited to see the current issue of Southern Vermont Arts & Living features a Vermont wedding I photographed last summer. It was a beautiful wedding in Westminster, Vermont that combined eastern and western traditions.

More photography from the wedding can also be seen in my blog post from the day.

Hot off the press, gift cards are now available:

These are available in the amount of $100 or $50 and can be used for any purchase with Steve Holmes Photography: family sessions, high school senior portraits, prints and more.

For the next week, I am making these available for an introductory price of 20% off. If you are interested, they are available for sale online.

I’m excited to announce that my newly redesigned website has just made the Slideshow Pro top ten user examples for February. I’ve been using Slideshow Pro on my website for years, and they just released a number of new features that I incorportated into the design. I’m using the new features of their flash SlideShowPro & ThumbGrid components and serving all of the images from SlideShowPro Director. They make great products and have excellent service, and I’m honored to be included in their user examples.

The Patagonia blog The Cleanest Line just featured an article about the coronation of the new King of Bhutan, an event that I was lucky enough to attend with my brother Matt, president of adventure travel company Boundless Journeys. The article includes several photos I created during my visit to Bhutan.