I felt so embarrassed when I went to meet Jasmine & Khoa. I had rushed out the door, and as I'm pulling up to pick them up to go take pictures... I notice my memory card was full and I hadn't brought any backups. So a quick trip to the camera store and some new cards later, we go rockin'.
Unlike my blunder, these two rocked every second of the shoot and we had a blast around the midtown, downtown, and southwest-ish part of town. If you run into any of us, you might ask us how we avoided getting a parking ticket at our last location. My first time... but apparently not Khoa's. Fun times!
Enjoy the pictures.
a personal request of theirs was to find this graffiti wall, which we did. How friggin' cool and different is this thing?
What a great looking couple... don't you guys & gals agree?
The wedding weekend is finally upon us! after slight hiccups earlier this year with the venue, I'm ecstatic to be finally doing my most anticipated wedding of the year (so far!).
What a fun couple. I don't think I've laughed so much during a session as much as we all did (my lovely assistants and I) on this shoot w/ Casey & Tim. Of course, the guy in the Speedo cleaning the condo pool across the street from us provided some laughs, and so did the shop owner that told us to "PROCEED!"... trust me, you just had to be there!
Casey and Tim did an amazing job and I'm so glad to have the opportunity to be a part of their special day coming up very soon. I hope you guys and gals enjoy looking at these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.
Tim made these signs when he proposed to Casey... so we found a cool way to put them to use. Again!
Thanks again for a great day and looking forward to the wedding!
So Kevin is my usual (Houston) 'Lovely Assistant' on shoots. He's an aspiring photographer himself and he made sure I knew how awkward it was for him to be on the other side of the lens when we were taking pictures. Looks like he didn't miss a beat though... they rocked it, and after a few jokes we were rolling. Literally.
Lauren's had these Chuck Taylors since 10th grade. you want to talk about a shoe thats well worn w/ some character, look no further!!!
When my brother Fred asked me to shoot his wedding, I knew I couldn't do it. Not because I wasn't capable or wanted to, because I did, but because his wedding was probably the most important to me (other than mine, of course) and I wanted to enjoy every minute of it. I know, selfishness on my part! So my job became the recruiter of his wedding photographer.
I knew exactly who I wanted to do his wedding photography, but there was one problem... he didn't live in Austin. Matter of fact, he lived no where *near* Austin. He lives in San Francisco. But I knew his work would speak for itself, and it did.
I flew Jason (www.jwlphotography.com) down to Austin for Fred's wedding for a few days. Since distance was an issue, Jason agreed to do their engagement shoot on the Thursday before the wedding. Not only did he shoot the engagement shoot, he stayed up until 3 AM the following morning editing and posting the pictures on his blog! Now thats dedication!
As amazing and creative as the engagement session was, I had no idea how amazing the wedding pictures would come out. He absolutely knocked it out of the park. He captured Fred & Regina the best anyone has done in my opinion. The pictures are totally them and its a great reflection of how fun the wedding really was. I hope you guys/gals enjoy the pictures as much as I do, because I've looked at them about 20 times, just today!
The only thing I ask is that if you enjoy the pictures as much as I did, leave him a comment and let him know how talented, appreciated, and what a great of a photographer he is.
Today while taking pictures of him, as I usually do, he was quiet responsive and kept asking to see "Kami" after each click of the camera. I'm loving every moment of being a parent and I look forward to the weeks, months, and years to come.
I just wish they would be a little slower. I feels like yesterday I was looking at him for the first time in the hospital. Now, he's starting to boss me around... which I'm totally ok with by the way!!!
I'm a tech nut, that's all there is to it. I have to have the newest and the coolest, may it be shoes (yes, shoes!), watches, phones, computers, whatever. When the keynote from Apple was coming up early last month, I was excited. I was wanting to know how the company was going to 'revolutionize' the Tablet market. I hit refresh on my phone following the keynote so many times, I think my phone almost died. But at the end, it just turned out that the iPad is a big iPhone with a faster processor, without the capability of multi-tasking, USB connection, or flash capability. Oh ya, it doesn't take pictures, either. WONDERFUL!!!
I sometimes joke to friends that I already own the "iPad Nano". It makes phone calls and takes pictures too!
But just because a device isn't to my liking, it doesn't mean its a bad device. Over the last 3 years, I've become a huge Apple fan and own my "iPad nano", and two apple computers (desktop and laptop). This Just means I won't be investing in it... just like Apple TV, or MobileMe, which amazingly are both struggling ventures from Apple (from what I know and read, no source to report off the top of my head).
So today, as I do most days, I'm looking at different blogs and such... and I run across the following video. Engadget featured an article on the device on their site, and as much as I hate to admit it, if Windows does produce this device and it is actually as the video portrays it to be... I would gladly invest in one. I think it would be a great device to have, and possibly replace a day planner I carry for my day job.
Here is the video of the Microsoft "Courier", let me know what you guys think about it!
Over the weekend, I had the wonderful privilege of taking pictures of the extremely talented Tracy Tesmer. She's a local film photographer who I met originally at the OneLight workshop with Zack Arias back in November of last year.
She recently contacted me about taking pictures for her to put on her new (soon to be) revamped and updated website. So on Sunday, we braved the cold and the (slight) wind to take some pictures for her.
