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Emma & Danny

November 20, 2008 – 11:26 am

I had a super awesome time with a new couple I am working with, Emma & Danny.  They are getting married in January and it was time for their engagement photos, and a beautiful day it was!  We went to the La Encantada mall (big thanks to Melanie for allowing us on the beautiful property) and just had a blast there!  Beautiful place, hard to take a bad picture with a great couple and great location.  Anyways, the original plan was to go to the Zoo afterwards for some more photos, but it had closed at 4pm :(  For some strange reason I was under the impression that it stayed open later, but I was wrong I guess.  We left La Encantada mall and headed downtown for some more casual type portraits where we wrapped up the evening.

Super awesome couple, great locations, what more could I ask?  Thanks again guys, you are the best!  Here’s a couple teasers . . .

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Nashville Wedding!

November 17, 2008 – 6:40 pm

It’s hard to sum up the experience I had shooting on Saturday in Nashville, it was a totally different experience than I am used to.  Many of you may know (that have worked with me or have followed my work) that my style is a mix of traditional and photojournalistic.  I don’t like to control parts of the day, but I do like taking the time to get some cool, sexy and creative portraits of the bride & groom.  At the same time I like to let things just work themselves out, let the day unfold without me asking people or groups to “say cheese”!  Shooting with Evan Baines was different because I was not the one with all the pressure on my shoulders, I was just another photographer in the background with a different eye.

I will say that I love working under pressure . . . I like a little fire under my pants to keep me on my toes and to keep me thinking outside the box.  Saturday was a day full of photojournalistic approach with little intervention and guidance.  The couple was super relaxed and just relished in the joy and beauty of the day, so capturing awesome moments was a common occurance for the day.  Getting to see how another excellent photographer works is always awesome, and to that I can thank Evan for the great experience.

Out of the many thousand photographs we captured that day, here’s just a small small small few of my favs :)

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Headin’ to Nashville!

November 14, 2008 – 11:34 am

I don’t remember commenting about this, but I get to head off to Nashville this weekend to shoot a wedding with a friend of mine, Evan Baines.  Evan is an amazing photographer whose work is simply top notch!  He asked me to come out and help him with this important wedding he has and I couldn’t be more delighted to go.  I’ve always wanted to travel to Tennessee and I’m looking forward to it.  I’ll be sure to spoil you all with some awesome wedding pics on my way back :)

You can view some of Evan’s great works at www.evanbaines.com

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Nikki’s Pics!

November 12, 2008 – 12:44 pm

I had a super fun session with Nikki yesterday at Agua Caliente park.  I had totally forgot that it would be a holiday and that the park would be packed . . . but we worked it out and still had a lot of fun.  I’m not sure if they were prepared for my goofy-ness and I kept them laughing at myself the entire time :)  Beautiful day with an a-m-a-z-i-n-g sunset.  Thanks again Nikki, you rock!

Aren’t her eyes just amazing???

Super awesome sunset, couldn’t have seen anything more awesome.

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Nathan’s rockin pics!

November 6, 2008 – 12:57 am

Got to shoot an awesome senior today, Nathan from Benson High.  It was just a whole lot of fun and we were laughing all afternoon. These were shot in a pretty remote location in AZ along the freeway, very very cool area to shoot.  Texas Canyon to be specific (just East of Benson about 15 minutes or so).  The weather was absolutely amazing, so it was extremely pleasant outside.  Spent quite a while out there getting some really cool stuff, then we went back to his school to get a few more, worked with the stage and had some more fun.  Nathan is a big sports guy but we focused more on his wide variety of musical talents (like guitar, electric violin, electric guitar, piano, etc).  I had a blast!!!

I don’t know many photographers that go out of the way to plan Senior pics as cool as these are!  Thanks again Nathan, it was a super rockin’ afternoon!

This one is probably one of my favs . . . doesn’t he look like he’s a country music star??  This pic belongs on a CD album!

If I got too close to him we would both start laughing, lol!  Super fun dood.

Look at those eyes ladies!

I don’t know why but this makes me think of guitar hero or something.

I told him to do a mix of Kurt Kobane and KISS.  I think he nailed it!

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Amber & Carraig guestbook . . .

November 3, 2008 – 6:01 pm

I just got done with a super awesome engagement guestbook for Amber & Carraig, who are getting married this coming January in the Virgin Islands.  We shot their engagement photos in St. Croix back in May, and it was extremely extremely awesome (I don’t use the word extremely very often).

This is not my normal engagement guestbook, because this is going to be a 12×8 wide format, making each spread an amazing 24″x8″!!!  I can’t wait for this one, it’s going to be super duper awesome.  If you are looking for the best engagement books, look no further . . .

(they may look a little small here, click to see a larger size!)





















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