Woods Lake Brook Trout

I love fishing Woods Lake because they have a ton of brook trout in that lake. It seems like every time I go there I catch one. Here are more pictures that I took with my 50mm f/1.2 of the only fish I caught that afternoon. Don’t worry the little guy lived after I was done with my fish photo shoot I unhooked him and he swam free.

Woods Lake

Yesterday I went up to Woods Lake to do some fishing and photo exploring. I end up doing more photo exploring than fishing. Part of the road was closed to go up to the lake, so now one was up there. I messed around for about an hour taking pictures with my 50mm f/1.2 lens set at f/1.2 the whole time. For you non-photo geeks that equals very little is in focus in the picture. When I first started doing landscape photography I shot everything to be tack sharp. So over the last year or so I’ve been shooting my nature stuff with very little depth of field and I’ve been loving the results! Here are a couple shots and there’s more to come.

Snow Flower

Yesterday while I was mountain biking I found these little guys right off the side of the trail. They are the California snow flower or also called the California snow plant. Usually every year I get to see a couple of them blooming in the forest. They are such a bright red that they are hard to miss. Here are a couple of photos that I took with my point & shoot camera.

Back in Lake Arrowhead for Mother's Day

I was back in Lake Arrowhead last weekend for Mother's Day. I had a really good time with my mom. We actually celebrated on Saturday so we didn't have to fight with all the other moms for dinner seats on Sunday. Also on Saturday morning I got to shoot a family portrait session with the Mullendore family. I had a good time during the shoot and their little daughter did too, but her fun took place at the playground. So here are some of the pictures.

Mac Mail + Verizon=Bull

All right to all of you out there that use my doug@dougmiranda.com email I can’t use it anymore. I know that’s not that many of you, which is good. I have Verizon Internet and they won’t let you use a Mac account on their servers because they want to regulate incoming spam and make you get an email account through them, which is bull. So today I tried to switch Internet providers and at Charter they said since my electric bill is included in my rent the owners would have to set up the account for me, which is bull. If I owned rentals there’s no way I would be setting up Internet accounts for my renters. So I solved the problem and got a gmail account through google, which is supposed to be great or a lot better then hotmail. So pretty much I will be just using the new gmail account for my business. So here is the gmail address: dougmiranda.com@gmail.com

It's Alive!!!!!!!!!!

Yeaaaaa! My website is finally alive on the information highway aka the Internet. I just want to say to any of you out there thinking of trying to build a website while looking for a place live, then moving, unpacking and then opening up a business legally don’t do it if you want to stay sane. I wanted to give a big thanks to the Davis family, the Halbergs, Amy Howard and my Mom & Dad for helping me through my journey to start up my own business.

So here is the link: www.dougmiranda.com

Ok I was going to post these early, but I’ve been so busy with getting my website done which is finally finished. Yeaaaaaaa!!!! It won’t be live on the web until Sunday or Monday. I will let everybody know when it does go live. These photos are from a wedding I shot with Tim and Cheryl Halberg in Mill Valley, Ca on April 21. Megan and Christo had a beautiful wedding, even though it rained. So here are some of the pics that I shot.









Tim is so good now he has a personal assistant to hold an umbrella wherever he goes.

Golden Gate Bridge

On April 21 I was in Mill Valley shooting a wedding with Tim and Cheryl Halberg ,which is just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The next day before I went back up to LakeTahoe. I went down to Stanford to check out a photo exhibit that they had going on there. So I got to go across the Golden Gate Bridge and take some photos up on the hill before I went across. I went about ¼ of the way on to the bridge and then there were all these people standing on one side. Pretty much everybody was holding hands. I am sure they were protesting something and there were more walking down the bridge so that they would have people holding hands from one side of the bridge to the other. Let me tell you there were a lot people. When I got to the other side that’s where the first person was, crazy. So here are some of the pictures, note I am a professional photographer so I’ve had training in driving with one hand and taking pictures with the other.

On Sunday I rode my road bike from South Lake Tahoe to Meeks Bay. It was a great ride it was 33.55 miles round trip about half way to Meeks Bay you get to ride by Emerald Bay which is so beautiful. So here are some pic’s that I snapped with my point and shoot camera of Emerald Bay.