Viva La Revolucion is going on in San Diego, and artists such as Shepard Fairey, Banksy, and Invader are in town. Can’t wait to spot a real banksy. For now, here’s a Shepard Fairey print he put up on the wall of Urban Outfitters in Hillcrest, San Diego.
My friends are baby-makers. 9 babies to 9 couples in 9 months. Yesterday I had the opportunity to photograph the parents of Baby Elijah, due in approximately 3 weeks.
Travis and I have been friends for a long time now, our parents even work together. He met Olivia and fell in love. They are total nerds, and completely awesome. They were married in May of 2009, and just a little over a year later, they are going to be parents!
It was an honor to photograph my friends, and I eagerly await the arrival of Baby Elijah!
Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.
All You Need Is Love
Today was a mixture of many things. Far from ordinary. Triumphant yet tragic.
Today, I finished my 1 year check up. I finished my blood work, got my CT Scan, and even met with my surgical oncologist. By the end of the day, I was told that I am as cancer free now as I was the day I came out of surgery (May 15th, 2009). Amazing! Such a relief!!
Back in January, a friend told me about her cousin. He wasn’t as lucky as me in defeating cancer. He had stage 4 colon cancer. Stage 4 is a bad place to be. I have personally known people to come back and beat it, but it’s rare. Today his cancer took his life.
I didn’t know him. We never met or talked, not once. But I feel attached to Him as this is a story I’m familiar with, having lost my dad in a very similar way. The day my dad died, I assumed cancer was out of my life forever. It was done, it won, and now it could leave. I didn’t think I would turn my music and photography blog into a music, photography and personal cancer-fest blog. For that I apologize. I still give you a photo though! :)
Long story short, listen to your body. If something isn’t right, ask about it. Find out. I was forced to ask because of the intense pain, but most people with my cancer don’t find out until it’s too late. My dad didn’t find out until it was too late. Listen to your body!
A little over a year ago, I shot a few, very unprofessional, photos of my great friend (and our wedding photographer) Beki and her family. I did a quick no-planning portrait session just to get a headshot of each one. This is what I got. Four generations of ladies, all together. I had a blast. Beki is absolutely wonderful and a fantastic photographer as well. Her site is: www.BekiDawnPhotography.com
As for me, as soon as this rain stops here in San Diego, I’m going to go take a few shots around town and post them up. You’ll probably get a few more wedding shots as well, and maybe some “vintage” photography of mine. I’m on this kick … going through hard drives to see what I’ve shot in the past.
Weddings. They are something I’m usually not interested in shooting. Sure, I’ve shot a lot of high-stress things in my life. DVD covers, People, Pooping Rhinos … but weddings, man, that is someones BIG DAY.
Anyways, that said, I’ve 2nd shot a couple weddings with my good friend Anjuli, owner of ::photorange:: and I’ve truly had a blast. I think where she excels (and I fail) is in posing the bride & groom, bridal party, family and what not. So that leaves me to take pictures of people looking their best, in a great pose. Don’t get me wrong, Anjuli also takes a fantastic picture after posing, just from a different angle. It’s kinda sweet.
So yeah, weddings, not my thing completely, but still pretty fun. I’m sure I’ll have more of them in my near future, and you can be sure I’ll write about them here.
I recently shot a wedding with my friend Anjuli and this is a shot I took. Check out the blog about her wedding here:
photorangephotography.com/blog/?p=1780
Living in San Diego for the last … well, almost 27 years of my life … has made me a bit spoiled when it comes to weather. It’s always perfect. We have 340 days of beautiful sunshine, and a handful of rainy days. Over the last few years, I’ve even walked on the beach on Christmas day. All this considered, our scenery isn’t always the prettiest. Our “greens” are usually “browns” and our sky is the average sky-blue color. Nothing colorful in San Diego except for the bikinis and the people living here.
As I said in the previous post, I spent Easter in Petaluma, CA. The hills are GREEN. The sky is BLUE (with gorgeous clouds of course). This place shows me a side of California that I don’t see often. Just north east of San Francisco, and just west of Sacramento, Petaluma is a hidden small-town with amazing scenery.
Hop Stoopid at Lagunitas Brewery in Petaluma, CA.
I love my friends. A lot of my friends make music. Some of it is pretty good, and some is amazing. My buddy Jimmy plays drums in the band Brighten (his bro also plays in ‘A Rocket To The Moon’) and they make fantastic music.
They release all of their music independently and have no financial backing. They just make good music I don’t buy all the music I listen to, but I did buy this album. So go buy it and let me know what you think.
Buy it on iTunes!!
Petaluma, California. The land where my wife is from. Beautiful part of the great state I live in. This will be where I am spending my Easter.
More pictures to come from this weekend, but this post is just to test out my new Tumblr blog. I’ve imported all of my blogs from blogger, and will hopefully be sticking around for a while. Thanks for checking in.
Oh, you’ll notice the format is a little different from post to post. That’s because over time I’ve changed the layout elsewhere.
