Holy cats, batman! Molly Bennett Creative was just accepted into the Wedding Photojournalist Association!

From their website:

Leading the way in Wedding Photojournalism, WPJA represents the most discriminating talent around the world technically, creatively and visually. Qualified members hold industry-leading standards, skills and business integrity.

The Wedding Photojournalist Association grants membership to the most talented professional wedding photographers in the industry–photographers who focus solely on using their photography skills in documenting weddings.

The WPJA is an extremely competitive association; so many people apply that they only contact you if you’re actually accepted as a member. They have strict membership guidelines, and only the very best are selected to be members. I’m sort of falling all over myself with excitement right now; it’s a huge honor to be accepted!

Lara Swanson, of A Softer Image Photography in the Washington DC area, interviewed me for a blog article about my post on inclusive wedding documents.  This is exactly the kind of grassroots change I was hoping to get started by writing that post.  Other wedding pros reading this—please let me know if you’d like to implement changes like I did!  I’m more than happy to help. 

For now, though, go check out the article and interview!

Since I was transitioning the blog and website during the time this happened, I didn’t get a chance to blog about the awesome recognition that one of my projects received recently…

I just finished a 4-month contract with PayScale, and one of the projects I worked on in that time was the GigZig. GigZig is an awesome tool that you can play with to think about the direction your career is taking. You simply type in your current job title, and the GigZig will show you two things: what people with that job title were doing five years ago, and what people who had your job title five years ago are doing now! It’s a really awesome tool, so check it out!

…and I’m not the only one who thinks it’s a great tool! The GigZig was recognized by three prominent business technology sites: TechCrunch, the O’Reilly Radar, and Business Week (scroll down to “Where you are headed”).

And by the way, while you’re over at the PayScale site take a moment to register and take the salary survey. Make sure you fill in the question “what were you doing five years ago?” so there’s even more data for the GigZig to use!