New Blog!!!!!!

So this will be the last post on this blog. This blog has severed me well, but at the same time it just can't keep up with what I need it to do. So I finally got a new blog that well go with my new look and my new website, which should go live in the next 2 weeks or so. Sorry to say that in switching to the new blog some how blogger went all crazy and lost almost all of the pictures to most of the posts on this blog. The good news is that all the slideshow links on this blog still work!!

So go on over to the super cool new blog and bookmark it, so you can stay up to date with my crazy cool life!!!


Sacramento Wedding Photographer

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Sacramento Wedding Photographer

Kendall & Lucas

On June 28th I photographed Kendall and Lucas’s awesome wedding over at Zephyr Cove Resort. I had such a blast shooting their engagement shoot that I knew the wedding day was going to be even better and it was!!! The day before I was holding back the tears at my friends wedding and then during Lucas’s speech I was holding them back again. My gosh, two days in a row. When two people are sooooo in love like Kendall and Lucas it makes my job really easy. Thanks you guys!! Also I have to say that Kendall and Lucas win my award for the best first dance. It was amazing and I think they’re going to hold onto this award for a long time!!!

Click here to view their slideshow.












Lucas isn't a small person!!! I wanted to shoot these photos at the engagement shoot and didn't. So I had a second chance and shot them. I love these next two photos ;-)

Anika & Luke

Hello, I’m still alive and doing great!!! Things are finally starting to slow down a little on the shooting end and now it’s time to catch up on the processing side of all the shoots I’ve been doing.

On June 27th I shot Anika and Luke’s wedding over at Edgewood golf course. I really don’t know where to begin on this special wedding. I’ve know Anika since high school and have been friends with Luke since I was 3 years old. So it was surreal to photograph their wedding and to be apart of one of the biggest days of their lives. The wedding turned out to be prefect and went off without a glitch. The only thing was that in the afternoon there was some smoke for all the fires up here in Nor Cal. The smoke made for one fabulous sunset though and some bad a$$ photos. I’ve never cried at a wedding yet, but this one I had to hold back the tears in order to keep on capturing all of the moments that were happing in front of my lens. Anika and Luke you guys are sooooo in love and will live a long wonderful life together.

Click here to see the wedding slideshow.

A little side note: Luke’s dad made the beautiful wooden wedding archway.

Happy 4th of July!!!

Happy 4th of July!!! I hope that all of you out there have a happy and safe 4th of July. Eat lots of food for me because I'm going to be 2nd shooting a wonderful wedding today for Catherine Hall, who's an amazing wedding photographer.
Here's a sneak peak photo from my really good friends wedding that I shot last Saturday.

Christine & Alex

Two Saturday ago I got to 2nd shoot for Denise Neufeld. I had such a great time!!! The couple getting married were soooo nice and the location was also great. It was right on the Truckee River at the River Ranch. It's so fun for me to 2nd shoot, I have no worries and can just try new stuff with my camera. I just pick some quick photos for this post because I'm still super busy. I wanted to blog this because if I didn't do it now I don't think I would've done it. I have one wedding tomorrow and another one on Saturday, so I won't be blogging again until next week sometime.

Kate & Mike Carey

This past Friday I shot an intimate wedding, which turned out to be super fun!!! Kate and Mike got married down at Lakeside Beach and then after tying the knot we got to go on a fun boat ride. The last couple of weddings that I’ve done I’ve been lucky enough to shoot some photos at sunset. So I was stoked to be able to do that again and get some great shots!!! Congratulations you guys!!!!
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Happy Monday!!!

If you're having a not so happy Monday take a look at this happy flower and it will make it all better ;-)

Lynette & David

I photographed Lynette and David’s fantastic wedding on Sunday June 8th down in Grass Valley CA. Lynette and David are such nice easygoing people. Also all of their friends and family were so nice too so it made it that much easier to get some great shots. It was an early wedding, which was good because then we had tons of time to get some beautiful photos after the reception. We ended up going over to the Empire Mine in Grass Valley for some photos and then drove up to Sand Harbor in Lake Tahoe for some sunset photos. I have to say that both sides of their families are sooooo musically talented. During the ceremony and reception it seemed like almost every family member either sang or played an instrument. It was really fun to watch them all perform.

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Talk about some flare and yes it's real flare. Not FAKE flare!!!

Jill & Ben Lake Tahoe/Edgewood,NV

On June 7th I photographed Jill and Ben's amazing wedding over at Edgewood Golf Coruse here in Lake Tahoe. This fabulous wedding was put together by Aimee Chesebrough over at Sierra Weddings. If you're thinking of hiring a wedding planner for your wedding, you should definitely hit up the girls over at Sierra Weddings!!! I had such a blast photographing Jill and Ben's wedding all day long!!! Jill and Ben are some of the nicest people that I've ever met, which made it soooo easy to take pictures of them. This was the prefect wedding to start my summer with!!!!

Click here for their totally rad slideshow ;-)

P.S. If you watch the slideshow you can see my brand new logo!!!















This was my last shot of the night. This kid was dancing all night long and then I found him sleeping when I left. If you look closely you can see Jill's garter that he caught.

Busy Bee

I've been super busy and it's going to stay that way for a while, which is good. This weekend I shot two wonderful weddings, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. So I wanted to give you a sneak peak of the wedding I did on Saturday because I'm headed down to Sac for Christine's birthday. Enjoy ;-)

June 7th Free Fishing Day In California

I just found this out today that tomorrow June 7th is free fishing day in California. I love to fish and I would be out there tomorrow fishing it up, but I have a wonderful wedding to shoot. So if you have nothing to do tomorrow grab your fishing pole and the kids and head out to your local fishing hole. Here's the link to the site.

I shot this the other day at the Taylor Creek viewing area.

More Epic Lake Tahoe Sunset Photos

Last week we had thunderstorms two days in a row in, which means good sunsets. They weren't that colorful, but both sunsets had super cool God beams coming out of the clouds. I never get tired of taking photos of this wonderful Lake and hanging out watching the sunset. Here are some photos of the sunsets!!! Enjoy :-)

I just love this photo!!! the sun come out for maybe 30 seconds and I just fired away knowing that it wouldn't last long.



A self portrait with my fisheye lens.

The same thing happened here too were the sun came out just for a couple of seconds and then went back behind the clouds. Gotta love the fisheye view of these photos.


Day 2 and the path leading to the lake.

Kathy & Peter Engagement

This past Saturday I had a blast photographing Kathy and Peter's engagement shoot!!!! We headed over to the Tallac Historical site to take some photos by the shore and then took a quick drive over to Fallen Leaf Lake. I love shooting over in that area because there are some many great locations within a short drive of each other. It was super fun to hang out with Kathy and Peter before their big day on the 5th of July. They had me laughing the whole time and has you can see by the photos I had them laughing too ;-)
Click here to watch the slideshow.

Kaya

Last weekend Christine's bother and his family came up to Sacramento from L.A. for Memorial Day weekend. Their daughter Kaya is such a little cutie. On Sunday we all went over to the park for some fun at the playground!!! Here are some photos that I snapped while the fun was taking place.


Christine and Kaya having some fun!!!

Monterey, CA

Christine and I went down to Monterey 2 weeks ago for my cousins Mari's college graduation from Cal State Monterey. Way to go Mari!!!!! We had a super good time in Monterey celebrating her graduation and doing some site seeing. I haven't been to Monterey since I was in the 4th or 5th grade, so it was great to be there again. I remember as a kid I loved it when we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and I still love it now!!!! Here are some photos of the trip.

Mari about to graduate.

My gosh she graduated!!!


There were tons of sea otters everywhere we went.




My #1 model ;-)

Switching Blog URL's

Blogger broke again with lots of people's blogs including me that use their own host and domains. So I couldn't FTP any of my post to my host sever. I know that pretty much all of you out there don't understand any of this besides the fact that I haven't posted anything in about 2 weeks. So I'm switching back to my old blogspot address http://dougmiranda.blogspot.com/ so this doesn't happen again. The good news is that in about a month or so I will have a new website along with a new blog and then I can use my old blog address again. SO PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK TO SEE ALL MY BLOG POST UNTIL I GET MY NEW BLOG UP http://dougmiranda.blogspot.com/

Tilt/Shift Photos Of S.F

Hello to you all in the land of the internet!!! I'm going to be leaving later today for Sacramento and then to Monterey for my cousin's college graduation. It's going to be a super fun time!!! I'll post some photos when I'm back from all the fun. So here are some more photos from S.F. All of them were taken of my tilt/shift lens even the last photo I just didn't tweak the lens all crazy.

Susan G Komen Walk & 100th Blog Post

This last Saturday Christine, her parents and I went down to the California state fair grounds to walk for the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. It’s really amazing to see how many people showed up!! It had to have been way over 10,000 people there walking and some running. We only did the 1-mile walk, but next year will do the 5k. This post is the 100th blog post on this blog!!!!

Tilt/Shift Photos Around Mammoth

Here are some photos that I took while I was down in Mammoth. These photos were all taken with my tilt/shift lens while I was out and about fishing. Every afternoon the thunder clouds would come up, so I couldn't pass up the chance to take some photos.

Convict Lake



It's so hard to take a self-portrait with a tilt/shift lens and I was super stoked on this one!!! I'm not a vain person, but when I was in community college we had to take self-portraits for every class and I hated it. Now I love seeing what I can come up with!!!


The playground right behind my aunt's condo.

Mammoth Creek

Last Day Of The Season

I was down in Mammoth the last couple of days skiing it up for the last time of the season and also doing some fishing. It was super nice the first two days of skiing and then the last day it was super windy with thunder storms, so I ended up just driving home. Bye Bye snow see ya next year. All of the photos are taken on my point and shoot camera.

Some self-portraits while skiing!!! Don't try this at home kids.


Views out of my last gondola ride of the season.

More S.F. Photos

Here are some more photos that I took while Christine and I were in San Francisco about a month ago. It's always fun to walk around a big city and just take photos of random things. Ok I can't think of anything clever to say so enjoy some photos!!!!


An intense game of chinese checkers


Random shot of the sun while waiting for the trolley

Our very skillful trolley driver

Almost every time I saw a trolley I sang the Rice- A-Roni theme song.

Kendall & Lucas Engagement Sessioin

This last Saturday Christine and I had a blast shooting Kendall and Lucas’s engagement shoot all over South Lake Tahoe. When I went to Brooks we always used some kind of lighting in are photos. I haven’t done any of this in a long time and I was able to break out my ring flash and also do some off camera lighting. It was so much fun doing this again!!!! Kendall and Lucas were a riot to photograph and it was fun to hike all around to get some great shots. Their wedding is coming up in June and can’t wait for the big day. I know it’s going to be super fantastic. A big thanks to Christine for being my lighting assistant. Click here to view the slideshow.

Lake Tahoe Sunset

I just got back from riding my bike down to the lake to watch the sunset. It was a really good one and I'm glad I rode down to the water. I only brought my point and shoot camera since I was on my bike, but I got some great shots with the little guy. Here are some photos from tonight.

Alia 4/14/08

So I’ve been trying to blog for the past day and blogger has been freaking out on me and not letting me publish through my FTP onto my sever. For all of you that didn’t understand that, it means that I couldn’t upload anything onto my blog. Some how all of a sudden I was messing around with stuff today and now it finally works. Don't ask me what I did, but it works now and that's all that counts.
I was down in So Cal last week for a great portrait workshop called The Modern Portrait. I learned soooo much and I know that it’s going to help my portrait business a ton!!! While I was down there I was able to photograph my cousin’s baby. Alia is now 5 months old and has grow a ton since the last time I saw her. She was so much fun to photograph and was such a happy baby. Click here for Alia's slideshow.