Christmas Cookie Party Fun!!!

So, two weekends ago we did a Christmas cookie party and filled our small apartment with friends and frosting. It was loads of fun. I had some lights left over from a shoot so I set them up in the bedroom with a camera and a clicker. People were able to go in and take as many pictures as they could possibly stand without anyone manning it. It ended up being like an old fashion photo booth but a little better quality. Lots of fun and here's some photo's for those of you who missed it. And for those of you in the photo's I"m working on getting them emailed out. Everyone should let me know how you want me to send them to them. There are quite a few.

Enjoy!!

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MY FIRST FILM!!!!

So, this is my first film project that I've been able to act as producer. It is called Apartment B and will be available for viewing in the near future. I think it went very well. Here are a few photo's from being on set.
Enjoy!!

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Palm Springs Wedding

This was a wedding I shot in Palm Springs a few weekends ago. It was pretty. We even got snow in the mountains that night.
Enjoy!

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Animal Explorations:

Well this was a t.v. show I got to work on for a few weeks. Its a kids based show on ABC Saturday morning. Overall it was a pretty decent experience, a bit hard when your in a new hotel every night and city every day. But the animals were awesome. We went to a big cats rescue out in the Mojave dessert that had leopards, jaguars, and my favorite, the tiger. He was really cool. Got the chance to see lots of animals big and small. Some big cats purring, little coatimundi that sounded like a squeak toy, and got to get in and hang out, and pet some mountain lions. Then got to go out to a guys place that trains animals for movies and specializes in movie style attack scenes with lions, tigers, and bears. He demonstrated and it was awesome. He did the big scenes with the tiger attacks in all the big movies including Gladiator and a new one with Will Ferrel that's not out yet where Will wrestles a grizzly bear. That's what we got to see. Anyways, lover these animals and here are some pictures of them.


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Such Great Heights

This is a film I worked on last week. It was a lot of fun. Our pastor Erwin played the main character as a hitman who finds himself after a long life of missing out on his family who faces himself and who he has become head on. There were guns, squibs, guys jumping out of five story buildings, exploding glass, blood real and fake, and good old fashion chaos.

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A wedding...

Here are my fav shots from a wedding I shot last weekend. It started raining pretty hard during the outdoor ceremony. Created some drama and weird atmosphere but here it goes.

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Joshua Tree Adventure

A few weekends ago Laura and I went camping with some friends in Joshua Tree. We grabbed our sleeping bags, some grub, and our climbing gear. It was a fun weekend. It was the same weekend with the big California winds and fires. The drive home was interesting. Looked as if a dark creature had deceded on the city from afar. Thanks Ryan, Ruthi, Ryan, and Katie.

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Vagabond Opera....

These are a few shots from a music video I worked on with the band "Vagabond Opera" their from Oregon. They were pretty cool. There goal is to keep everything as old style as possible including his awesome curley mustache.

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Climbing In The Sun

Last weekend Laura and I went out with some new friends climbing in Malibu. We went out to Tick Rock then hit up the beach climb at Point Dume. These are some pictures of Ryan and Ruthi, and Laura and I. Good times, I hurt myself, Ryan hurt himslef, good times. I'm not sure why I keep torturing myself with things like this but I enjoy it. Enjoy!

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Weekend in the Dessert

A couple weekends ago Laura and I got a chance to get out to Palm Springs to just chill and relax pool side at a friends condo. It was awesome. We were alone for the most part excluding a few old folks, some good food, and just a good chance to get out of the city for a few days. The pictures we got, turns out Palm Springs is pretty boring for good things to photograph but just outside the city is some amazing views of these huge fields of wind power generators.

So, here's a few shots of them. Click on the photo to see more pictures. Enjoy!

A B&W Sensation

So I have this new camera that I got for my birthday. I kept thinking that I wanted a small digital camera but I decided that I wanted to get a traditional old style film camera. Its amazing. I love it. Right now I just bought a couple of rolls of black and white film and here's a few shots from my first roll. Enjoy.

Weddings and a sunrise.

I went home a couple weekends ago to shoot another wedding in Seattle. It was an enjoyable short trip. I really got to hang out with my sister who just started 5th grade. Crazy I know, but they grow up. We had determined that she had never seen a sunrise before like on purpose. So we woke up at 5 am and my sister was all awake making snacks and a little basket for breakfast for our little trip. We grabbed our rubber boots as most Washington beaches are not really sandy but more muck and drift wood. I grabbed my camera and she grabbed hers and we set out in the dark. It was beautiful and good to just hang out with my sister. Here's some best of pics of the wedding and a sunrise. Enjoy!

Trip to the Emerald City...Seattle...home...clean air,love it.

These are pictures from our trip home a couple weeks ago. Its always good to go back and see friend and family again. Its such a beautiful city, I've never flown into Seattle during the day time and it is just surrounded with water in all directions. Love it. We celebrated my 24th birthday up there with a trip through Seattle to all these little places I've never been before even though we grew up there. Got some coffee in Fremont, walked out to thisi little penninsula at the UW campus, drove through there, what a beautiful campus. Those are reasons you go to schools out there. It was even pretty sunny up there while we were visiting. One morning that it did rain, I woke up after having the window open all night and was totally confused by a strange noise, turns out, it was rain. It had been so long since I've really heard rain I forgot what it even sounded like. I'm not complaining. Hung out with some of my long time friends, grabbed a beer and dinner and just chilled, memorable. Its a great feeling when your with true friends that when you seem them again, it doesn't really felt like you ever left. Just click on the picture for more. Enjoy!

Night Fun!

These are some pictures I took one night while I was playing with my camera avoiding girl talk at my place. Click on the pic. Enjoy!

Firetruck Mayhem!!

We woke up one morning with a helicopter circling over head, sirens going off, thought it was somewhat normal then all of a sudden we look outside and our street is full of trucks, 9 large fire trucks, 4 aid cars, 4-5 police cars. It was kinda crazy. Turns out an old couple fell asleep with a cigarette in there hand in the morning and caused a matress fire. Everyone was fine just some smoke inhalation, thus the officers on the air masks. Kinda fun, check out the pics. Just click on the image. Enjoy!

Ole' San Francisco trip

After our trip to Yosemite Park we headed our way to San Francisco to stay for 6 days. We've never been before and really enjoyed it. After traveling Europe for a few months, this is a place that really does have a European flavor to it. But its a bit of a rip off from the real thing, but good to know that I can get some real Italian style coffee a mere 6 hour drive away. Laura and I stayed at a really cool hostel just a few min walk from Union Square. It was filled with Aussies and Kiwi's (people from New Zealand). There was some fun group stuff every night, pool table tournaments, movie night, drink youself silly nigt wich we didn't partake in, but it was all fun. They also had a big pancake breakfast with tea and coffee all day as well that was free. So, good fun there. The first day we traveled we went on this walking tour from a podcast we download called Walks of a Lifetime put out by National Geographic. It's a 5 mile round trip walk which we've become accustomed to, it took us from Union Square to some historic building, in through China town, to some excellent people watching spots, then to the spot where fortune cookes were invented (not in China, but San Francisco oddly enough), they hand made them and let you taste warm ones, they were pretty good. Then we headed into North Beach area that is officially Little Italy, this really brought back some memmories. We visited a bar where a lot of the beat poets, and folks like Bob Dylan got their start called Vesuvius Cafe. Next door is a great spot to get old books and poetry that you'll never find in a normal book store. Then we ventured down streets and alleys and came to the first cafe in San Francisco called Cafe Triesta. Also a good place to people watch and have an excellent cup of coffee. Then a trip to Coit Tower and back home through downtown.

Throughout the rest of the trip was spent wine tasting in Sonoma Valley, hanging out on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge, Ghiridelli Square, riding the tram car, visiting what's called the Painted Ladies, those famous houses in the park on Full House and So I Married An Axe Murderer, then we retraced out steps back to the coffee shop and got some dessert.

Here are some photo's, more to come when I get my film back.




I love these faces.


Some coffee.


Nice.


China Town.


A typical street.


These faces are a series of weird heads we saw in windows.










The Golden Gate.






Cafe Vesuvius.


China Town.


China food in China town.










The aquarium.


Doing what I do.






Some sunset love.


The trolley train.


This man was writing on this but turns out to be just scribble.




The clouds rolling into the bay.

A trip to Yosemite Park

So this was a pretty amazing trip, well at least the two and a half days we spent there. We woke up about 7:30 am after staying out at an all night party not getting in until 3:45 am. Let me tell you, yikes. But after some strong coffee and a bagel I was ready to hit the road. Then once on the 101 North, I totaly skipped the exit to get to I-5. About an hour or so to late I realized this and had to trek my way back through small highways. This extended our drive for about an extra hour and a half. We show up to Yosemite Park, holy crap is that place gigantic. It litteraly took hours to drive through it. We later realized that Yosemite National Park is about the same size as the state of Rhode Island. We get in late, find our tent, which was excellent, light our candle and fire and slip into bed. We are at this point at about 10,000 feet high and its pretty cold up there. We wake up early the next morning to hike the epic Half Dome. It was a bit of a late start after getting breakfast, and the one hour drive just to the trail head. We figured it would be ok. Half Dome is a 16.5 maybe a 17.5 mile round trip hike. The last three miles you hike an additional 3500 feet in elevation to get to the climing stairs. At the 5.5 mile marker we ran out of water in the hottest part of the day, only to realize that this is typically a 12 hour stay the night kind of hike. We were forced to turn back because of fluids and darkness creeping in. Silly me being a photographer I decided to bring a good amount of my gear with me thinking I was going to get some amazing images from the trip, well a 70 pound pack with two camera's, lenses, and a tripod was a bad choice. I was so sore. Also disappointed from not being able to gaze out upon Yosemite Valley. It is probably on the of the most amazing places I've ever been in my life based on natural beauty alone. We saw bears, rattle snakes feet from our feet on the trail, drank from a raging river, soaked our feet in a ice cold stream that lead to an amazing waterfall, and witnessed a climber 5,000 feet above us reach hit pinacle in darkness only to let out a scream and we had a flashlight conversation with the rest of the climbers. Amazing. Here are a few photo's of this leg of the journey. This trip will definitely be the first of many.


Here was our awesome tent.


Our humble abode.


This would have been us at the top of Half Dome.


Our bear friend.


Here's a nice little dude for our friend Shaddy.


Half dome on the left, the waterfall we crossed on the right.


The amazing Yosemite Valley with Half Dome in the distance.


Here are those climbers camping on the side of a mountain...my next adventure.


A close up of the climbers.


Some giant Sequoia's.


A tribute to Ansel Adams.