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Karen & Jensen | Laguna Beach

August 28, 2010 Posted in Engagement No comments

Congratulations to Karen and Jensen! (today is actually their wedding day) As I write this post I’m charging up my batteries, going through my checklist, and getting ready to shoot their big day. I’m sure that they’re prepping as well, getting hair/makeup done, and feeling the excitement as I am!

Their engagement pictures were taken San Juan Capistrano, the train depot, Laguna Beach, and the Montage Resort.

Side note: I wanted to experiment and see if I can NOT use PhotoShop actions at all, so all these images were processed from RAW to JPG using only Lightroom2 with no additional post editing.

Posted in Engagement Tags: Laguna Beach Engagement Pictures, Laguna Beach Wedding Photographer, Orange County Photographer, Orange County Wedding Photographer

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Ruth & Leonel in the Snow

August 24, 2010 Posted in Life Portraits, Wedding 1 comment

Back in February there were a couple of storms that hit Southern California hard. It was during a time when I was trying to schedule Ruth and Leonel’s post wedding/trash the dress photo shoot. They wanted to try something cool (literally) that I had never done before, which was shoot up in the mountains. In the snow. So when the storms came and went, they left snow capped mountains for us to play in!

Definitely not the typical wedding photography, but it was refreshing to shoot in a new environment and loads of fun because Ruth and Leonel were up for anything.

We saw this fallen log in the lake so naturally I had to say “hmm that would make a great image with you on it”. I almost regretted saying that because once Ruth and Leonel got on the tree, in the lake, a branch that supported the tree broke and it came crashing down! Fortunately they were both agile enough to stay on it without falling in the water.

It did make for great pictures but now the dilemma was how they were getting back to shore…

Note: Ruth and Leonel’s trash the dress, post wedding photos, Big Bear wedding photography.

Posted in Life Portraits, Wedding Tags: Big Bear Wedding Pictures, Trash the Dress, Wedding Photography in Snow

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Nature’s Textures

August 19, 2010 Posted in Personal Work No comments

I just found these images on my Mac – almost forgot about these so I was thrilled to see them. Last December I went on a scouting/hike with Ray and Erwin of Apertura. We ended up walking a couple of hours to find Sturtevant Falls in Arcadia. It was not an easy “walk” because of the treacherous terrain – steep inclines, jagged rocks, slippery trails, wild bears, you name it. Well.. ok, it wasn’t really like that, we were probably just out of shape. But on the way, I manage to snap a few images, nature’s textures that I wanted to hopefully be able to use later on. It’s different from my wedding photography work and it helps me stay creative.

Posted in Personal Work Tags: Nature Photography

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