Hello world. I am back to blog now.
I hope nobody misses us too much during our absent. It was a fantastic year at our first year in 2010. I started something that I have been dreaming of for a whole of my life, to inspire others to share and to learn. Because of that I personally felt 2010 was my best year because I learnt a lot from teaching and also met so many people who are so passionate in photography not just doing for money (of course I also met some who are 
).
From last year, it made me to consider that I needed to take a little break from my wedding projects in 2011 so I could spend more time in this project. That’s why I made the commitment to enter my sabbatical period for not shooting in 3 months (April-July). Well, of course the habit was definitely difficult to break. So in the first one and a half month on my sabbatical period when I supposed not to take any job, I was still shooting portrait films and portrait sessions (phew only one wedding). Well, that’s why I made myself clear that I wanted to get away. Here I am now. I am in Jakarta, Indonesia again (Yes, I am also still scheduled to shoot. 
). And soon I’ll be in Singapore to attend Mayad Academy, who I admire their cinematography talents. Before flying to Singapore, I’ll stop by in Kuala Lumpur to hang out with the Malaysians
This Asian trip was a bit unplanned honestly. My initial plan was to try to organise everything via web. But I knew that if I happen to make WSP’s vision accepted among fellow Asian wedding artists, I need to try to understand every Asian country’s needs. If that’s the case, That’s why I am so excited that I am finally scheduled to meet up some talented people in Singapore especially talented dudes from WPN, Malaysians and not to forget, my home country Indonesia.
Talking about Indonesia, I’ve accomplished one of WSP’s goals in 2011 that is to start a web forum exclusively for Indonesian wedding photographers and videographers. Any pro Indonesian photographers or videographers who wish to join, please free to visit here. I am so pleased to know not long after that, my friends pioneered the first wedding photography association, Indonesian WPG. That proves how much hunger they are to compete at the world stage. I hope I’ll get the chance to interview some of my friends from Indonesian WPG. I have the meeting tomorrow with some of them. I am so excited to share the result of the meeting yayyyy..
I know when I started the wedding artist forum in Indonesia is never about quantity but more about quality. But I am so pleased that 300+ (after only 2 months) gathered to exchange and to network everyday now in this forum. My personal opinion after learning from this group is that some of their wedding photographers definitely have rooms to grow/improve especially mentally. They are bunch of very creative people. Their enemy is themselves. Sometimes, they are too creative to forget the term “Photographers must be recognised by their works”. But they rather taking to learn shortcut. I heard that most of their problems are from the customers wanting too much. I saw a lot of photographers confessed that they were inspired by some good photographers, but their results are not reflecting to what they believe. They are more business driven. I have no doubt that the customers need to be educated. But I believe the customers only look for what’s on the market. If what’s on the market provide healthy and good wedding arts, then the customer will learn to follow tooIf what’s on the market provide healthy and good wedding arts, then the customer will learn to follow too
. I hope WSP can be a good media to help them to prepare them to utilise their full potential. I’ll also be along with other established Indonesian photographers and videographers hosting the first official WSP full wedding workshop, planning to teach the art of storytelling in every wedding we shoot. We will reveal as much as we can to help them grow. I honestly most of the educators don’t care how much they will earn from this event, they only care to share what they know. I hope this event can be educative for the attendees. It’ll be 4 days (12-15 July) events. If you happen wanting to join, please drop me some email in workshop [@] wikischoolpedia.com
I hope 2011 will be better and improvement of what we achieved from 2010. I am really excited to see the future online school for photographers and videographers (Yes, I started to think I want to explore the potential of that WSP can be a good institution for wedding videographers to share too).
I promise I’ll update more often starting today. That’s another goal that I set for 2011. I’ll share my thought and the journey of what I wish to achieve in this tiny project.
If you have any questions of WSP, please do not hesitate to email me to wiki [@] wikischoolpedia.com
Btw, I started to call this thing WSP instead of Wiki School Pedia, I tell you later why I decided to prefer to call it WSP Also, do you realise this new blog look much cleaner and simpler
Bye for now 