Making My Virtual Friends Real Friends: Auburn Soul Edition

I am making it my 2010 mission to meet as many of my favorite bloggers as I can.

Favorite Blogger: Stephanie from Auburn Soul Photography
Stephanie is based in TX and I absolutely love her work. Our BFF relationship started after she posted a lens for sale on her site. We emailed back-and-forth about it (even though she'd sold it by the time I contacted her) and she was happy to answer a bunch of my questions. Soon after she sent me an email letting me know about Mamarazzi Boot Camp. Within hours I had my ticket booked and had recruited Trish and Tracy to join me. It was a phenomenal class that covered both technical and creative aspects of photography (and with two professional photographers teaching 5 students, could you ask for a better classroom ratio?). Each participant received a questionnaire a couple of days before the session and we were able to post any/all questions that we had. By the end of the session, I had ALL of my questions answered and then some. And, I got to spend all that fun time with this super cute, fun girl -- who is also short like me! I mean, seriously, how did we not meet sooner?! Here is Stephanie's post about the day. Love that she included a shot of us on her blog. :)

Bonus Blogger: Emily from Emily Murdock Photography
Emily and Stephanie launched Mamarazzi Boot Camp together and I was so excited to get to learn from/spend time with Emily too. She is an amazing photographer as well and I've loved following her blog since our session. Emily is one of those people that you just want to be around....someone I'd like to text and say, "meet me at the playground in 30 minutes?" Love her.  Oh, and I triple love her because she sold me her 17-55 2.8 lens, as it doesn't work on her new full-frame camera. Its my current all-time favorite lens, and has not come off of my camera since I put it on in February. Love it.