Brian C. Idocks Photographics, LLC

This has been an exciting week!

In about a week and a half I will be attending the Florida Professional Photographers Convention in Orlando.  Its a full week of print competition and education.  In addition to individual competition among photographers, during this week there is also an Interguild Competition.  Essentially, Each guild in the state (there's 12) competes against each other.  Guilds choose 4 photographs from all their member's entries and they act as a team to get the highest score from a panel of judges.

I'm happy to announce that 2 of my prints were chosen to represent both the Bay Photographers Association and Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association.  That means I have a one in six chance of winning!  :)  It's a real honor to be included in this.

Last night at Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association, we had our monthly competition as well.  My Mom was in from Pennsylvania and she attended as my guest.  I guess she's a good luck charm, here's the results:

Social Function Category --  First Place

Portrait Category --  First Place

Unclassified Category --  First and Second Place

I couldn't be happier.  These results and the results from the earlier part of this year put me in a very good position to be named "Photographer of the Year", If this happens, that makes two years in a row!  I'd be the second person to ever win this title more than once!

After checking the scores, it appears that I will better my score from last year as well.  Last year was a record-setting score, so this is a grrrrrrreat year!

Thank you to all my customers and supporters, I really couldn't do any of this without you!

Last night I photographed Christina & Richard's engagement session.  We went down to Bayshore in Tampa and walked around and created some awesome photographs.  Then we headed to Jackson's Bistro and used the entire area!  This is such a great couple and we had a lot of fun.  I'm really looking forward to this wedding!

Here's a very special couple of photo shoots!  Jennie & Mike are getting married in Richmond, Virginia next June and Melissa and I are photographing the wedding.  They were in town last week and we did Jennie's Bridal Portraits and their Engagement Session.  Wow, lots of photos!  But.... these are very special to me because Jennie used to be my assistant!  She moved to Richmond to pursue her own Wedding Photography business last year.  Here's their sneak peek!

Jennifer and Paul were married on Saturday at The Kapok, damn I love shooting there!  The grounds are just so incredible for photos!  Jen is simply beautiful and they are one of the nicest easygoing couples I've had the pleasure to work with.  While Melissa and I were there we got to see another of my previous couples, Caitlin & Garrett, and Caitlin is pregnant!  Looks like some baby photos coming in three months?