ESTOY FELIZ!!!!! = I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! Matt and I placed an image on the most recent WPJA Contest!! , this is really a BIG honor among the wedding photojournalist industry, since there are thousands of great photographers around the world compiting...., every year the number grows, and it gets harder to place an image...

And , here we are!!!!.... one each..

Matt has a FIRST PLACE!!!!!!



I got a 7th place




This contests area a great way to keep challenging ourselves trying our best to capture great images at everywedding.

Check out the WPJA Website to view all the Award Winning Images in the contest, it is really cool!!!

Matt and I are very proud to offer our Associate Photographer Coverage, Vincent Guihard.

Vincent has been working as a part of Del Sol Team, second shooting at Sol's and Matt's weddings, and recently we are commission him to shoot weddings on his own under our contract.









His work is great, he shoots the images, and our studio edits and delivers the final product to our clients.

Check out the website to see some of this great work.

www.delsolphotography.com/vincentguihard

Packages starting at $2,500 usd.

We are verey relief with this news, after hurricane DEAN threatened the area as a category 5, it missed Playa del Carmen going south..

My second shooter, associate photographer Vincent and his friend Alban, remained in the area, and sent us some photos of the "aftermath" ...

The first 5 photos are right after the storm













This images were taken yesterday Aug. 22, 2007. As you can see, there's some work to be done to clean up, but the people is back in the beach, and it looks beautiful!!!










This is Vincent...our associate photographer in the Riviera Maya

As Hurricane Dean is dangerously approaching to Mexico., Matt is down there!!! on assigment... He was hired to shoot a wedding on the Island of Holbox, which is located 30 mins away from Chiquila a very little town in the middle of no where...

Anyway... This is a really amazing story....

The wedding was schedule for yesterday afternoon but the plan had to change as the Mexican Goverment ordered an Immediate Evacuation of the island.

The bride, family and guests had to leave!!!!...

With 35 guests and no idea where to go, they quickly were able to set a PLAN B

This bride and groom got to get married, in a very old town "Valladolid"... approx 3 hours away from Cancun.

Matt wrote more of this incredible story and photos that tell it, in his blog.... I felt that I needed to share this as is really incredible.

He was able to jump in a plane yesterday evening and he's back in Atlanta with me, so we are safe, keeping our fingers crossed hoping that our family , friends and all the people (including lots of couples on their weddings or honeymoons, down there are ok after DEAN.

Our associate photographer Vincent is in Playa and he will be sending us reports and photos on how things are.

PLEASE CHECK MATT'S BLOG to read the story and see more images



This is the image from the satellite as I write this post., pretty scary...


Matt & Sergio are ready to leave the Island


Bride & Groom, check out the huge clouds behind!!!


As they were riding the boat out of the island, a very strong storm hitted them, the bride is protecting herself under the groom's shirt


They got in to this little town, Valladolid, the Bride & her sisters crossing the street to get to the hotel where they had dinner


Nothing stopped this Wedding, they are MARRIED!!!!!!!!

Isin't this story amazing!!!...

Matt's BLOG

Trashing the dress has become a huge world wide buzz, and Matt and I are so thankful with the couples that have given us the opportunity to create "art" .

Our images have been featured on the PRESS, on this two big websites:

Good Morning America First photo is ours.
The New York Times 9th photo on the slideshow is ours,

This are the 2 images featured :


Ashley, you rock!!! Want to see more images of her trashing the dress??... Click here!


Jenn & Joseph, you gave us the chance to create true "art"...
Click here to see more of them!

And here a VIDEO, on how we did it

If you want to see more, check out the Trash the dress Website

I'm soo looking forward for my next brides willing to have fun!!! and to say, "This is the man I love, this is forever, I'll never wear this dress again"


Sol Tamargo - Trash the dress photographer