Food Blog Camp 2011 & Dancing Video
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We’re still buzzed with energy from last week’s Food Blog Camp at Grand Velas Riviera Maya, Mexico. There was plenty of beach time, pool hopping, margarita sipping and dancing at gorgeous Grand Velas Resort. Like we mentioned before, Food Blog Camp is a yearly event that we consider to be a workshop-vacation, or vice versa.
There’s always plenty of laughter, great conversation, good food and new friendships forged in Food Blog Camp events. These are just some of the highlights of the wonderful food blogging community coming together to share and learn from one another.
Chef Antonio Cortaza, Sen-Lin Restaurant
It’s always an honor for us to be invited to participate on the speaker panel along with our friends Adam, David, Elise, Jaden and Matt. These folks are not only so skilled and successful in their craft, but they’re so generous in more ways than we can count. They’re good people and to know them is to love them.
More highlights of the workshops was being able to meet so many great bloggers in the community, some established and many new to blogging. It’s such a treat to be able to know and finally meet great people face to face and to pass on bear hugs in person!
Chef Bruno Orteiza, Concina de Autor
This year was packed with hands-on workshops on food photography, food styling and seminars on SEO, Branding, Monetizing and other essential blogging topics. We presented two hands on sessions on photography and it was so exciting to be able to share our knowledge with all the attendees, cameras in hand. These workshops and sessions are the core to what make Food Blog Camp so informative and valuable. All the extra food demo’s, beach time and cocktails are what make the Food Blog Camp so fun and of course, entertaining.
We put together a little video to highlight some events of the week. Included are some talents of our dancing bloggers.
Thank you to Kate from Prose and Co., Grand Velas Riviera Maya and Kerrygold Butter for making all this happen!
plenty of food demos and tastings kept us busy
cocktails to stay hydrated during the busy workshops and sessions
Kent, the photographer/husband of SallyCameron.com stayed busy during the photo workshops
Us, Todd and Diane, on the other side of the camera! hello. 😀
Thank you everyone for a terrific week of friendship. See you next year!
That was so fun! I wanted to start dancing myself.
p.s. love the video!! 🙂 🙂
Dear Todd and Diane, What a treat it was to meet you in Mexico–you are such generous and incisive teachers! I know it will take me quite a while to absorb all that you threw at us, and I appreciate your sharing so much with all of us. You are a lovely couple and it is inspiring to see two people work together the way you do–you have a very calming style yet you are dynamically astute and great communicators. Thank you. I hope I will be able to see you when you come to Boston! Thanks again, Sally
Wow. You two are so impressive. The video was fantastic and the lighting was great. Thank you for all your hard work and words of wisdom during the camp. Who would’a thought a DSLR has an ISO setting! Keep walking on water….
Nothing would have happened without all of your hard work behind the scenes! #KateRocks
RADDEST video I’ve seen all day 🙂
Diane & Todd you are both wonderful mentors & inspirations to me. I love getting to know you both better & better as time goes on. Thanks for openly sharing you wisdom & super fun personalities with us!! Beautiful re-cap post & your video had me all giggly 🙂 XO
What a cute and sweet video 🙂 All the shots, lighting and color are very beautiful. Even the music fits so well!
You guys crack me up! Obviously I missed a great “work” trip. Hopefully I’ll catch up with you guys soon. Thanks for wheeling Jaden around!
Saving my pennies for next year! 🙂 Looks like a blast and very informative!
Looks like a fabulous trip! wonderful post
Great video, so glad to be a part of it. You really captured the spirit of the event. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us in such a lovely setting.
This is such a wonderful recap and the video is fantastic! The clip of Jaden dancing/wheeling is hilarious! It was fabulous getting to know the two of you. Thank you for all of your hard work and insightful teaching!
What a perfect setting for all minds alike! Will put it on my calendar for next year!
This is my kind of camp:) I hope to go next year! Glad you had such a great time!
LOL! Love the booty shakin’ and the wheelchair spinning! That is a gorgeous resort and it looks like so much fun! Hope to see you next year…..
I can only dream of how cool it would be to attend this!…
cheers!
cathy b. @ brightbakes