Wedding Pictures of the Year 2007

Happy New Year! It's time for me to reflect on my images from the past year. This is a tradition that goes back to when I made my first portfolio in high school. Looking for the pictures that define my style is a labor of love.
In high school the purpose was to get a scholarship to college. It worked.
In college it was about grades, entering pictures of the year photojournalism contests, and getting my first job.
After graduating and getting my first job, I actually had my first staff job before I even graduated, I would enter annual POY contests and build a better portfolio each year.
Every two or three years I would get a better job because of my improved skills and imagery.
After I finally made it to an A-level newspaper, The Denver Post, I still performed my yearly personal reviews for contests. I managed to win my share of awards year after year.
Then for the first time, the purpose of this review process changed. It became a mid-career/mid-life assessment.
I began focusing more each year on different categories of photojournalism such as sports, hard news, or magazine stories.
When I left the newspaper industry and starting photographing weddings I quit entering the annual contests because there weren't any wedding photojournalism categories. So I would try to get my best weddings each year published in national wedding magazines.
Fast forward to 2007, this year I am doing two POY portfolios, one for weddings and one for my slice of life photography. I am not planning to enter any POY contests this year as my purpose is based on measuring my personal growth. How much fun did I have last year photographing weddings? How much fun did I have photographing personal projects and other jobs? I just finished my Wedding POY today. It was hard to edit my selections down to 120 images because of the blood, sweat and tears that went into each of these weddings. 2007 turned out to be a very good year for both the quality of my work plus I looked forward to every wedding. Please check back soon to see my Slices of Life POY post!
If you would like to see my POY slideshow, CLICK HERE: Wedding POY 2007
Cheers, Kent