Kiwon and Lucas E-Session

I was contacted by an old and dear friend who put me in contact with a friend of theirs that needed an E-session. I had a great time as usual shooting! It is obvious that Kiwon and Lucas belong together and they were such an easy couple to work with. As usual, I'm stuck with hard decisions on which images to post so as has become par for the course, I'll post a bunch.

California Dreamin

Rick Berk came out to shoot some stuff here on the left coast. We traveled to Monterey to shoot Point Lobos, which was a bust due to the fog. We then went to Lake Tahoe. After that, we hit up the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and ended our tour with two nights in Yosemite. Between the fog, fires, and falling boulders we managed to get some decent shots! Here are some images from my camera.

Above image was shot with the new 17mm Tilt Shift, composed of 3 shots using the shift to make a panoramic. Great feature! I really love this lens.

Another shot this time with the 24mm Tilt Shift breaking out the tilt this time.

Thanks for the 24mm 1.4 loaner Jim! And thanks to Jenifer Wu who taught me how to take this shot! Shot at 1.4, one of the only ways to get "points of light" instead of trails with stars. Check out the Milky Way over Half Dome. One of my favorite shots from the week.

Probably my least favorite of the bunch, but who can go to Yosemite and NOT take Valley View...

Shot at Sand Harbor while at Lake Tahoe. When there wasn't 30 kids hopping on the rocks, this was a beautiful scene!

Had a fairly decent sunset that night. Not spectacular, but maybe next time.

Thanks to the fire, we lost a lot of good opportunities, however it did give us this one opportunity to get some nice color over the Merced River.

Sun about to show itself over Half Dome.

Broke out the 500mm F/4 with a doubler to catch this guy at Point Lobos contemplating going in the water after seeing us eyballin him.

This guy was getting what I was not going to be getting much of the rest of the week....sleep!

Meet me under the cactus....

So, this time on my trip to Arizona I had a day where I could go take some pictures. I decieded to venture down to Saguaro National Park. My miss planning is evident as I should have left a lot later to get better light..as I had planned on being there for sunset, but after 4 hours of being in the heat and another 3.5 hours left to wait, my mind kept wandering to the paperwork still needed doing. Bad plannign on my part.

Goofy little car I rented...

Side view...

View from the back...

Visitors Center

Visitors Center, liked the graphic look.

Bored...driving...you get the picture..(pardon the punn)

No trip out here is complete without the old gass station..

Suzanne and Chris Adam

When I first met Suzanne and Chris, I knew photographing their wedding was going to be fun. Funny thing is I felt as much a guest at the wedding as I did the photographer! And, let me say Suzanne looked STUNNING. Chis, you wern't so bad yourself. As usual, I had a hard time choosing which photos to include as there were so many to choose from. I can't wait to get together to decide exactly which photos to include in the album. I think sushi may be in our future...