Justin and Crystal

What a fun and absolute picture perfect day for these two to get married. The day was perfect for taking pictures at the Redlands Temple and they were both so cute and so willing to quickly move around the temple to get some pictures taken so we could make it to there luncheon in the upper desert on time. The luncheon was so beautiful and they had lots of friends and family there to share in their celebration.

Adam and Marla

After having recording setting heat the week before (in the mid 90’s) I was worried that Adam and Marla’s beautiful “spring” wedding might be more like a summer wedding but luckily the weather cooled back down it was a beautiful day in Los Angeles for their wedding. This was such a fun couple and I really enjoyed being able to spend the day capturing the memories of their day. After being married in the Los Angeles Temple they held their reception later that evening at the beautiful Castaway Restaurant in Burbank where they spent the evening celebrating and dancing the night away with lots of family and friends. Here a just a few pictures so you can see the couple and the lovely colors she chose for her bridal party. They were gorgeous and vibrant and photographed great.

Adling Family

I got to take Family pictures for a wonderful family today. This family is especially close to my heart as two of their older boys were very good friends with my younger daughter when they were all in High School. I have known this wonderful family for years and felt honored that they trusted me to capture the last family photos they will have in a while as some of the older kids are staring to head off in different directions and they are unsure how long it will be before they are all together again. It was a hard time to shoot portraits (early afternoon in the full bright sun) but with so many work, school and life schedules we had to work with what time frames we could. We got some great family pictures and had some fun too!

Here a a few of the "fun" one we did.

Chris & Elizabeth "Happy Anniversary"

Make a Smilebox slideshow

I just wanted to post a little something to say Happy Anniversary to Chris and Elizabeth. Their 2nd anniversary was yesterday (March2nd). Only 1 day late…GO ME! You know the saying “The shoemakers kid’s never have shoes”, so it goes with the photographers daughter. I never did them a slide show (which I am now working on getting done for them) but thought since I need a little practice I would also do one of these short smile box music web share slide shows so they can post links to if they want. I’m also going to practice burning this on to DVD to see how it works on my regular player.
I choose this song by Clint Back “Something that we do” because it reminds me so much of their relationship with each other. They truly have the concept that “love” is a verb.

"Will You Marry Me?" Chris & Veronica

What a beautiful day it was to take some pictures and what a fun couple! I can't wait until their wedding in June. I'm so glad I get to be a part of their special day.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

You could never tell by the pictures because he was such a trooper but Chris hadn't been felling very well the day of our shoot, but once he got moving around he started feeling better. I guess it didn't hurt that he was looking at Veronica. That seemed to make him feel better and put that wonderful smile on his face.

There are still trying to decide on their invitations so I did up a few ideas for them to give them some ideas. Who know they might not use any of these but hopefully will give them some ideas to get them started.

sample slide show entry

OK, so I am not very good at this blogging thing at all but I am trying to figure out a way to make a short slide show for Brides to link to their Facebook and My Space pages. The slide show I credit for them are way to long and too large of file so I thought I’d try my hand at a short slide show on Smilebox. It turns out it is fairly easy and it’s made to be posted on the web but then the couples can download and burn to a DVD if they want to. If anyone else has a different program that they like for posting slide show to the web please let me know. I posted a sample slide show below. If you view it let me know what you think.

I hope to get better at this blogging...but hey, how could I get any worse?!?!?
Have a wonderful Tuesday.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Motorcycle Shoot

OK, so I am committed to do better with this blog and keep updated on work, fun and friends. I got to do a quick shoot for a very fun couple (Rosemary and Howard Lee) who wanted a photo with one of their bikes for a matted sign in frame at their reception. These two were such good sports… literally. We had set up for them to ride out here to Riverwalk from Orange County and it was cloudy and threatened rain. I was sure they were going to get caught in the rain on their bike and kept waiting for their call to re-schedule but here they pull up ready to go. We had a great cloud cover for some gorgeous pictures and they were both so great to work with. Rosemary told me she seems to have a blessing of good weather whenever she really needs it. She told me later that they actually made it all the way back home before the rain started. I believe her “good weather blessing” because it started raining out here minutes after they left and they must have just been out running it the whole way home. You can see that they were both great looking but anyone who knows me knows I was drooling over the bike! I contemplated cutting my fees for a trade of taking his bike for a ride but it has been a lot of years and I thought it best to just look and not touch. What a fun morning. Here are just a few shots so you can see the hot bike….I mean couple…Tee Hee Hee!

Finally getting my blog started

I’ve been reading and enjoying so many blogs now that I thought I’d start a blog so that the three people who might read this might find some entertainment value. Also, I though it would be fun to start posting my photography adventures. This is all new to me so be patience as I get this blog going. I love a good book and a good quote and I have acquired many of both over the years. Here are two quotes that might give you a little insight to me.

“We may be the products of our past but we are also the architects of our future.” –Unknown and “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” Charles Schultz .

As the first quote might suggest I think more people need to accept reasonability for who they are and what they do and not try to excuse their behavior on their “past”. We all have a past… work on the future! And of course the second one is kind of my humorous way to remind myself not to worry about things I can’t control. Be prepared, pray for the best and trust!