The Wacky Wilkinsons: January 2012

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Dinner in the Historic New Orleans Garden District

SEE!!! I told you we liked taking our pictures in this mirror!! We even had a guy with big feathers who wanted to jump in with us on another night! This was our last night after tearing down the booth. We were heading out for our last dinner at Commander's Palace in the historic garden district.

However, when we got there, they were no longer serving dinner. I guess they stopped seating people at 8:00. WHAT? I thought we were in New Orleans. So I took a few snaps of the inside and we headed out. They suggested another restaurant named Coquette that was just down the road. It worked out well because we were able to see some of the beautiful houses as we walked. I guess this is the neighborhood Sandra Bullock lives in.

On the first day of Imaging we were lucky enough to get to go to Jerry Ghionis' class. It was a wonderful class on lighting and photography. So we are practicing one of his techniques here..lol. We were always looking for "Jerry light". Lisa was just playing around!

Walking over to Coquette.

The restaurant was so beautiful inside. We were all snapping away!!

We were all enjoying our drinks and wonderful food when who do we spy two tables over? We are thinking Will Ferrell. Lisa is positive it is him. So we decided to ask his friend as he was walking out of the bathroom. However, to our surprise..we were so focused on Will F, we didn't even realize that was Jason Sudeikis. So we were equally excited when we were talking to him and he shook all of our hands! Later as they headed out...Lisa was brave enough to ask Will if we could get a shot of them and he obliged!!

Sneaking in a shot or two in case we did not get a shot with them. We are so sneaky!! Like my framing?!?!?

Here we all are as happy as can be posing with Will Ferrell. Jason Sudeikis is not in the picture because he is using MY camera to take the shot!! So cool!! He was in the next shot. Sarah took one for the team and used Lisa's iPhone to take it!! :) What a great way to end such a fabulous week!!! I am so very grateful for getting the opportunity to work and hang out with such wonderful women!!

Some other highlights of the trip were having dinner with Erin Cobb and her friend Amy Shertzer at The Gumbo Shop. Erin made us try alligator sausage and it was actually pretty good! It was AWESOME meeting Jerry Ghionis and watching him speak, he even told me I had beautiful eyes....awwwwww. I also enjoyed our time hosting our CM party at The A Gallery, meeting Jaime Schultz, meeting Sandy Puc, chatting with Jason from Millers/MpixPro, meeting Joel from Adorama and spending time with everyone! These are all the images I captured with my camera, but when I get a few more of Lisa's shots I will post them! :)

Here are all the iPhone shots!! Most taken by Lisa and a few from Sarah W!

And one from the LENSBABY booth!!

Hanging out in the French Quarter!

I am heading out..on my way to meet the many CM girls that I have known online for the past 4 years in New Orleans!! Here is a picture flying over the Colorado Rockies!

Just finished setting up the booth and having some lunch!! From left to right: Me, Lisa, April, Courtney, Sara S, Leah, Sarah W, Sarah P....and then it should have been Kathryn, but she was on the phone.