More fun with the Holga

I finally picked up the film from the lab (shooting digital, it's totally out of habit for me to purposefully take a trip by the lab these days....)

Our vacation to Napa and Big Sur was the perfect time to bust out some pictures of my BEAUTIFUL wife and myself. As you can see, I love it when she kisses me! She's so hot! :-)

Ok ok, and yeah, there's some engagement pictures in there from our engagement shoot in Livermore!















































































































































Oh, and if you are ever in the Napa Valley, definitely try the Center Cut steak at Rutherford Grill... it really is to die for!!! Simply AMAZING!!!

Good morning self portrait

My buddy The [B]ecker recently posted a self portrait he did title "Bed Head."

Then, he challenged other photographers (he's a wedding photographer based out of Orange County, California) to take similar pictures of themselves. Then, he's going to vote on the best "Bed Head Self Portraits" and post them on his blog.

This is what I came up with for myself:






















I hope I didn't scare too many of you!

A break from wedding photography and work, and I still manage to shoot too many pictures!

I finally cruised through and narrowed down to some of my favorite pictures from our vacation this past week.

What an awesome trip!

I was trying to embed the slideshow... but it's not working out so much... so, click here to see the slideshow. Enjoy! :-)

Playing around too much with the IR 10D

Another IR tree pic!!! I shot way too many of these, but I just LOVED how everything in infrared just looked so black and white, almost like Lith film, but not quite as extreme.

Catching up on vacation pictures...

I've been trying to pump out some pictures from our little vacation trip, but I'm working at a snail's pace right now, and there's a bunch of pictures.

Here's a few quick ones for now... I'm going to create a slideshow to share the rest! Hopefully that will be up tomorrow. :-)




























Wow... I've been shooting my IR camera soooo much lately. (actually, I think the majority of vacation I shot with IR, but I did shoot a few in color, and some on Holga)

Our little vacation (wine tasting and shooting)

Yep... we're finally taking some vacation time!

We were photographing a wedding this weekend in Mill Valley at the Outdoor Art Club and then shooting engagement pictures in Livermore, so we decided to stretch out our trip to northern California by visiting Napa and doing a bit of wine tasting. We found a great room at the Napa Marriott and have been LOVING our time here!!! Amazing wine, good food, and sleeping in! That's not a bad little vacation!

I've been shooting a bunch of pictures on my Holga... but since that camera shoots medium format film, I won't be able to share those until we get home.

In the meantime, here's a shot of the Culinary Institute of America Greystone Napa Campus. We stopped at the beautiful campus, but ended up trying a few other restaurants around the area. (Rutherford Grill serves an AMAZING center cut steak! Mouthwatering... over the top... I can't say enough good things about it!)

Shopping at Costco...

When I shop at Costco, I always tell myself, ok, I'm going to spend about $100-$150... that's it, that's all I need. But... I've never once walked out of there spending anywhere near what I'd planned on. (Yes, I tend to lie to myself before walking into Costco...)

Yesterday we went to Costco to buy some stuff, planned on spending $150... Walked out $350 later...

So, I was shocked as we stood in line, and I looked to my left, and this lady had a shopping cart with ONE!!!! item in it, and not something I'm thinking she saved enough money on to merit a trip to Costco. It was a small bag of almonds. I couldn't help but laugh, smile, giggle, wonder, and snap a quick picture.