I Heart Faces Photography Conference | Speaker Announcement

We’re thrilled to announce our amazing speaker line up for the I Heart Faces Photography Conference in Dallas! We can’t wait for October 6th… it’s going to be a blast!

This one day photography conference for women will be like no other! Filled with inspiring speakers, hands on lessons about how to use your camera, business advice, social media and SEO secrets, photo editing tips, crafts and live educational photo sessions located at the beautiful Southfork Ranch, home to the TV show Dallas.

We hope to have more great announcements as we get closer to registration. Registration will begin in May. There will more details announced soon our conference website.

It’s so exciting to share our first round of speakers with you!

Meet and learn from the best! We’re happy to bring you teaching photographers specializing in fashion, weddings, families, seniors, children, food, and the commerical industry.  It’s a dream to host so many talented, creative entrepreneurs, bloggers and photographers.

We can’t tell you how happy we are to bring you two amazing keynote speakers!

Sue Bryce is a one of a kind photographer, creative entrepreneur, teacher and speaker. Her wealth of knowledge, advice and fantastic story will encourage you to soar to new heights. Kelle Hampton is an incredible story teller. She will inspire you with her story and how photography has made a huge difference in her life. We can’t wait to meet both of these incredible women!

Sue Bryce

• Australian Portrait Photographer of the year 2011
• New Zealand O/S Photographer of the year 2011

Sue Bryce has been a Portrait Photographer for 22 years and has spent her career shooting Glamour.  When all others turned their backs on this old style genre Sue evolved it, modernized it and then built a beautiful business out of it.  From humble beginnings building her own boutique Studio in her country garage in 2003 to creating her successful high volume inner city Studio & Make up room a year later.  Sue redefined Glamour Photography. A strong believer in the Business of Photography, modern marketing concepts and mad posing skills have taken Sue abroad these last 2 years Educating Photographers Internationally.

Kelle Hampton

Writer and photographer Kelle Hampton chronicles the simple joys of motherhood and daily life on her popular blog, Enjoying the Small Things.  She has been recognized as a Babble Top 50 Mom Blogger, and her blog was named The Best Special Needs Blog by The Bump and The Blog You’ve Learned the Most From in the 2010 BlogLuxe Awards.  Kelle lives in Naples, Florida, with her husband, Brett; their two daughters, Lainey and Nella; and her stepsons, Austyn and Brandyn.  Her memoir, Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected will be published April 3, 2010 by William Morrow/HarperCollins.

Along with our key note speakers, we will have break out sessions, panels and live teaching photo sessions with a mix of fantastic photographers, bloggers and the I Heart Faces team. All of whom have a passion to help and teach others what they know!

Lori Nordstrom

Lori Nordstrom {M.Photog.Cr., CPP, ABI} owns a boutique studio specializing in children and family portraits located in the picturesque town of Winterset, Iowa . Lori began her career photographing her own kids in her backyard 15 years ago, and is now known not only for her simple and sweet portraits of children, but as a leader in the photography industry in the areas of business, marketing and sales.  Lori is a PPA approved business instructor and marketing consultant for Studio Management Services. Sharing with other photographers and small business owners is one of the things she most enjoys. In 2009 Lori started Photo Talk Forum, an online community of photographers working together to grow their businesses.

Lori has always had a heart for children and believes in giving back.  She has run a successful fundraising campaign for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) for 10 years.  Her work for LLS has been featured in magazines and on television and as part of “Oprah’s Big Give” in 2008.  In 2011 Lori began her own non-profit organization, Dando Amor which focuses on helping orphaned children in Ecuador.  Photographer Travis Gugleman, and Lori have been taking groups of photographers to Ecuador to fundraise and work with the children.  Lori and Travis hit their goal of raising $100,000 the first year of Dando Amor existence.

Lori has earned several Kodak Gallery, Fuji Masterpiece, and PPA Loan Collection awards for her images and storybooks.

Kyle Dreier

Kyle Dreier and his talented team provide food photography for a variety of editorial, advertising and corporate clientele, but this has not always been the case. You see, Kyle has a dark past which includes wearing titles such as art director, graphic designer, illustrator, internet business developer and brand consultant. Some know him to be “driven, proactive, curious and light-headed.” According to his wife he is  “sensitive, creative, thoughtful and mildly handsome”, but his three boys consider him “tall, strong, old and silly.”

When not contemplating the thermal effects of friction and gravity on ice cream strung to the side of a frosted mug of rootbeer, he enjoys making crème brûlée for his beautiful wife Amy, wonderful boys Blake, Jacob and Matthew, sweet dog Bella and the occasional fish.

Kyle grew up in Dallas, Texas—home of the best enchilada to date—and moved to Nashville, Tennessee to not pursue a career in music.

Laurie Turk

Laurie Turk is a creative soul who has a passion for embellishing life.  She lives in Ohio, is a mom to 3 boys, cruise director for her family, and all around girly-girl. Laurie is a successful entrepreneur and an innovator in new media. Her mission is to promote creative women through their fabulous ideas and products with Tip Junkie, a website and creative community that features the best tips and tricks from everyday women. Therefore, on Tip Junkie you’ll find over 20,000 pictured tutorials including free printables, homemade gift patterns, DIY decorating, party themes, a giveaway directory of free products, and much more!  There’s even an iPhone/Andriod App ‘for access on the go.

Along with helping and encouraging women in business, Laurie has a passion for technology, social media, online marketing and doing things that have never been done before. She has created an amazing online community, attracting over 7 million readers per month.

Amy Karp

Amy Karp is a Dallas Wedding Photographer who has been published on numerous magazine covers and recognized nationally in publications such as Southern Weddings Magazine and Texas Wedding Guide. In 2006, Amy began specializing in weddings and quickly turned her business into a thriving one, even becoming well known in other niches such as underwater photography. While also managing a successful photography business, Amy is a mom of a preschooler and co-owner of Groom Sold Separately, a wedding professional guide and inspirational blog for weddings.

Pete Lacker

Pete Laker is a commercial photographer based in Dallas, Texas. With over 25 years in the industry, Pete has photographed celebrities and sports figures  to construction workers and CEO’s. Pete’s down to earth and positive attitude is infectious and after hanging around with him for a short while, you can see just why he has become a success in this industry. He has as passion for helping photographers who are excited to learn more and is always the first to learn about the latest technology and tricks of the trade. With clients such as Cracker Barrel, Ritz Carlton, Hilton, Brinker, Salvation Army and many more, Pete has photographed a variety of interesting people and projects to create inspiring images and amazing stories.

Jennifer Tonetti-Spellman

Jennifer Tonetti-Spellman is a children and family photographer in Westchester, New York. She is passionate about capturing candid and natural images of people as they truly are at that moment in time. She loves being able to tell someone’s story through photos. As a part of the I Heart Faces creative team, Jennifer has written numerous photography tutorials and become a wonderful teacher to the community, helping many people grow and learn more about their hobby. Jennifer claims to be as goofy as they come to get real smiles from her photography subjects! She lives with her husband, daughter and shelter dog. None of them are safe from her camera.

Stacy Reeves

Stacy Reeves is wedding and portrait photographer in Dallas, Texas.  She began her career as a photojournalist and sports photographer, covering local sports and events for various media outlets such as the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Associated Press, and Sporting News.  In 2007, she made the transition to wedding photography, and in early 2012 opened a studio focusing exclusively on portraits of women.  Her work has been featured in Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, Country Living, Ladies Home Journal, Inside Weddings, The Knot, Southern Weddings, Brides, and Modern Luxury magazines.  She is also the author of a free pricing guide for photographers that has been downloaded over 100,000 times and is being used in college courses across the country.

Angie Arthur

Angie Arthur is Co-Founder of I Heart Face, professional photographer and former teacher living in Ohio who has been recognized by Parent Magazine as a top mom blogger for her website TheArthurClan.com. Angie is a busy wife, mom of four children, dog, and various farm animals that her children raise for their 4-H Club. The love of capturing her children in photos is what sparked her passion for photography. After many years of learning about her camera and working in various photography niches, she now specializes in seniors and stylized photography. Angie has is a natural teacher and can’t wait to meet the amazing women from the I Heart Faces community to share her knowledge and passion for photography.

Amy Locurto

Graphic design, photography, styling, social media, branding, blogging, crafting and stationery design are just a handful of the services that Amy Locurto can be caught working on. With 20 years in the design industry, she loves to do it all!  Amy moved to Dallas from a small Oklahoma town and started her career as an Art Director for Fossil in the early ’90s, eventually opening her own design business, Atomic Egg, in 1999. Besides running a graphic design firm, Amy is co-founder of I Heart Faces and publishes Living Locurto, a top lifestyle blog focused on crafts and entertaining. She also designs whimsical party collections for purchase in her shop, Printables by Amy.

Amy’s love of technology and branding has helped her create several fantastic online communities. Living Locurto has become a top craft blog with millions of page views per month and I Heart Faces has grown to become one of the most thriving websites to inspire and teach women about photography.  She’s happy to bring together many of these special women and creative entrepreneurs from the online community for a dream day at the I Heart Faces Photography Conference!

Holly Homer

Holly Homer started a mom blog 5 years ago called June Cleaver Nirvana.  She had no idea what she was getting into.  Since then, she has become quite a social media and blog maven, working with companies galore, starting numerous web based businesses and has even been known to make extra long videos about how to use Twitter. Her other projects are a local website for women – She is Dallas, a place where companies could find bloggers – Business 2 Blogger, a site for Dallas area bloggers – DFW Bloggers and a kids activities blog – Quirky Momma.  She still has no idea what she has gotten into, which she believes is 65% of the fun.  Really, 65%.  Are you going to question that?  She continues to be a stay-at-home mom of three boys who partially home schools giving her blog fodder for years to come.  You can find her on FB and Twitter as Texasholly or just yell really loud.

Andrea Riley

Andrea Riley, a photographer and teacher from Ohio, has the distinct honor of being the first follower of I Heart Faces. She has been an enthusiastic cheerleader as she has watched the site blossom into an incredible resource for beginning to professional photographers.  Andrea has taught special education classes at the middle school level for fourteen years, and she loves to apply her teaching experience when writing tutorials, teaching at workshops, and interacting with other photographers in the I Heart Faces Community.

Andrea started her own photography business in 2011.  Her photography experience mixes well with her teaching career as she can often be found with Canon in hand capturing portraits of the Students of the Month, action shots at sporting events, and the chaos of pep rallies and Tailgate parties.  Photoshop Elements has become Andrea’s area of expertise. She also enjoys working in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. In December of 2010, Andrea received her Master’s of Education in Instructional Technology with an additional certification as a technology facilitator.  When not in the role of photographer or teacher, Andrea enjoy spending time with her husband and three children.  They love biking, boating, and playing with their new puppy.

We’re also happy to have a team of teaching photographers and even a social media correspondent for the day to keep all of you in the know who can’t attend!

Dana Suggs

Dana Suggs is a wife, mother and family photographer from Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Dana has been a member of the I Heart Faces team for many years inspiring thousands of women and making them laugh with her humorous photography tutorials. She started out as a painter and as her family grew, found less and less time to paint and sketch, but her artistic eye never stopped capturing the scene she wanted to paint. She soon moved to photography where she could have that almost-instant satisfaction of seeing what was in her minds’ eye, come to life. Instead of oil, Dana now uses Photoshop, instead of a brush, she uses her camera. Dana loves photos that evoke emotion and make you long for the story behind the photo. She has a passion for helping others and someday hopes of doing Missions photography.

Amandalynn Jones

Amandalynn Jones is an award-winning portrait artist and freelance photographer, focusing on creating images that tell stories of genuine emotion and character. With a life long background in fine art Amandalynn’s clear understanding of light and composition allows her to provide quality images with an artistic eye. Her clean, vivid, & romantic semi-candid (and often photojournalistic) style of shooting people enables her to capture alluring moments that reveal the genuine spirits of her subjects while still maintaining the quality standards of traditional portraiture.

Amandalynn provides portrait, event, & product photography in Madison & Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is married to her college sweetheart, mom to a six year old son and a nature enthusiast. You can find her in the IHF Community, a forum with over 15,000 members, where she provides helpful and knowledgeable photography advice to thousands of women.

Danielle and Anne from Creatively Chic Photography

Anne and Danielle have been running a successful photography business for a few years as a team.  Long before that, they became best friends and find it a bonus that they get to work together every day.  They have explored all types  of photography, but have discovered that capturing families is their passion.  Perhaps this is because they are also busy raising their own families.  Between the two of them they have 7 children under the age of 11 and two patient husbands who support their creative outlet.  Creatively Chic Photography has won several photo contests, a people’s choice award and many of their photos have been published on the cover of Suburban Parent Magazine.  They have also photographed clothing lines and accessories for several children’s boutiques.  They have been active in the I Heart Faces Community for a few years and are looking forward to meeting many new talented photographers!

Cheryl Sousan

A self-proclaimed neat freak, Cheryl Sousan chronicles her journey through homemaking to millions of readers each month on her blog, TidyMom. With a teenager at home and a 20-something making her way into adulthood, Cheryl is a cross-generational blogger who relates to a wide demographic of women. Online since 2002, this St. Louis wife and mom has been navigating the world wide web and its changes as they pertain to blogging and social media. Since the inception of TidyMom in 2009, she juggles her passion for life and family with baking and photography. Cheryl, aka TidyMom has built her brand and online persona via social networking on Twitter and Facebook, and through her blog, all while her obsession with tidiness cleans up the trail blazed behind her.

Thanks to all of our speakers, teachers, sponsors and people behind the scenes making our dream day come true!!!!!

Registration Information

We know you want to know more details and we are working on putting everything together over the next few weeks. More details will be on our conference website very soon.

Here is what we can tell you today…

Conference Times will be 8:30 am – 7 pm

October 6, 2012 at Southfork Ranch, Dallas Texas

Our conference is geared towards all levels of women photographers, bloggers and moms with cameras.

Registration will begin on May 18th with an early bird price of $375.

Regular price will be $475 after June 1st. So sign up early for a savings of $100!! We will have limited spots, so be sure to mark your calendars for registration on May 18th if you would like to attend.

Price will include a one of kind day full of  inspiring speakers, hands on lessons, a wealth of business advice, photo editing, photo sessions, crafts, shopping, prizes, a Texas sized lunch, snacks, plus admission and tour of the legendary Southfork Ranch.

We are planning to have some fun parties and extras also. We hope to announce more soon!

You’ll leave with useful knowledge to apply to your business, learn more about your camera and taking good photos, be moved to tears by inspirational speakers, walk away feeling more confident, meet new contacts and friends for life. It will be a fun filled day of inspiration, networking and learning. We absolutely can’t wait!

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