Saturday, February 28, 2009

Marssa -2 year Anniversary Party

Marssa, the Pacific Rim style restaurant at the Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort celebrated its 2nd Birthday with a reception style party. The menu included Chef Fuji's sushi as well as many different dishes from their main menu.

Master Sushi Chef Osamu “Fuji” Fujita the only sushi chef in the United States to earn the Japanese Chefs Association’s recognition of achievement in 2006-2007. He is the only Master Sushi Chef in Nevada.


Master Sushi Chef Osamu “Fuji” Fujita with the Charles Gowen, Restaurant Manager


The birthday cake


Lobster Cake

Assorted desserts from the dessert station


The Chefs who made this party happen

Friday, February 27, 2009

Jennifer's Birthday Celebration

Jennifer invited 7 friends to Las Vegas to celebrate her birthday together. They had such a great time together! It was such an honor to take pictures to this ladys. We had fun!





Thursday, February 26, 2009

Valerie & Marc -Album pages

Here is my favorite pages from the Album of the wedding of Valeri & Marc (the whole album is on my website):




















Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Edina Dibusz Wins Two Accolades of Excellence

I just received the press release from WPPI that I won Two Accolades of Excellence on the 16x20 Print Competition. Here is the press release (pictures are under this post)


Edina Dibusz Wins Two Accolades of Excellence
in the
2009 Awards of Excellence 16x20 Print Competition

Edina Dibusz of Henderson, NV, has received special honors in the WEDDING & PORTRAIT
PHOTOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL (WPPI) 2009 Awards of Excellence 16x20 Print Competition.
Designed to recognize outstanding photographers, the judging was held in Las Vegas, NV on February 14 and 15, 2009.

"Valerie" received an Accolade of Excellence in the Bride or Groom Alone category. "Wild Przewalski horses" received an Accolade of Excellence in the Animals / Pets category.

Dibusz competed against an international field of photographers to win such honors.

The Awards of Excellence 16x20 Print Competition awards are presented each year at the largest trade show, educational platform and convention in the United States for professional photographers. The 2009 competition included 2717 prints in 19 different categories submitted by photographers from all over the world.
For more information please visit www.wppionline.com/competition/

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Henderson house fire

It started out as a beautiful day. I was driving home when I saw the big smoke. Two minutes later the smoke was really dark. I saw a couple of fires destroy in minutes in the last 2 years.
This house was equal to earth in about 20 minutes. When you wake up you have a beautiful house, and in 2 hrs all is gone...
The cause: a bike blow up in the basement
When I got to the place this is how the house looked like:




Friday, February 20, 2009

WPPI 2009 Awards of Excellence 16x20 Print Competition Winner of 2 Awards!!!

Last year I decided that I want to enter the really well respected WPPI print competition.

So this year was my first year I put images in WPPI's Award of Excellence 16 * 20 Print Competition. 2 of my images score as consistently high, over 80 points and it was hanging on the Exhibition wall during the WPPI between images of internationally renowned wedding photographers, such as Yervant, Jerry Ghionis, Jim Garner, Bambi Cantrell, to name just a few.

When I entered to the Exhibition room, I saw my first image what was entered at the Bride alone category. When I stepped to the other room and saw my other image of my wild horses, what was entered in Animals / Pets category I was thrilled. I couldn’t believe I won awards in 2 categories! I receive An Accolade of Excellence in both categories
The world’s most highly-regarded photographers judge and critique some of the finest phtographs.2900 entries were entered this year from the best photographers to the Awards of Excellence 16×20 Print Competition.
It is a huge honor for our work to be considered as some of the best photography in the world.
A big credit goes to Valerie, my wonderful bride who trusted my creative vision and allows us to capture this wonderful image! You helped me make this all possible!
Also thank you for Hortobágy National Park in Hungary to make it possible to take images of this wonderful animals!

Here are the images that received honors!!! (the photos of me at the exhibition were taken by my wonderful friend, Grisel Vasquez)

Bride alone category/Valerie:




Animals / Pets category /Wild Przewalski horses:





Thursday, February 19, 2009

WPPI 2009 in Vegas!!!

WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International) annual Convention & Trade Show in Las Vegas just finished. This was my third year in a raw to attend. This year it took place at the MGM hotel. This is the photo industry’s biggest and best trade show and educational convention in the United States for editorial, commercial, nature, portrait & wedding photographers. The convention attracts over12,000 wedding and portrait photographers from more than 30 countries worldwide.

I love to go to the tradeshow and the seminars to learn from world's best photographers. My goal is to learn and be better at what I do from time to time.
I also spent time with a couple of members of our local chicks who click club (talented group of female photographers). I also had a chance to meet and talk to a couple of other talented photographers, and listen to well-known photographer speakers from all around the country, who inspired me.

I walked away with new and exciting ideas. Stayed tuned for the new things coming up!

Bambi Cantrell is a great photographer with this feminine touch to posing and capturing the details of the wedding day. On her Platform seminar:

Bambi Cantrell and Jim Garnerhosted the award night event:

Bill Hurter receives the Lifetime Achievement award:


Joe Photo has a real heart. It was great to listen to his seminar about relasionship in life. He put tears to the eyes of the attendies.