Brandi & Josh

This past Saturday I was down in Santa Barbara to photograph Brandi and Josh’s wedding over the hill at the Crossroads Estate/Firestone Vineyards. On my way down there it was raining, the day before it was raining and then finally no rain on the wedding day!! A storm was moving in though, so I was just praying that it didn’t start raining until after I was done talking photos of them. I was so stoked to be able to take them outside to take photos!! About 10 minutes after we were done with the photos and back inside it started to rain. We all lucked out and ended up getting so really great shots!!! The whole day Brandi and Josh were laughing and smiling, you could really see the love that they have for each other. Another great thing about this wedding is that I got to have my good buddy Tim Halberg second shoot with me. Tim and I started out at Brooks together and stayed friends since. Brandi and Josh ski a couple of runs for me while you’re in Whistler/Blackcomb. Click here to see the slideshow.

Christina & Matthew Lubbes

On Sunday I shot my first wedding of 2008 and it was one to remember. It was a Tahoe winter wedding and Mother Nature was in full force with a snowstorm. Christina and Matt are huge Charger fans so while they were getting ready the game was playing on all the TV’s at both the guys and girl’s cabins. Unfortunately the Chargers didn’t end up winning. But Christina and Matt won my trooper award for taking photos out in a snowstorm in 20-degree temps. I think Christina and Matt will hold on to this award for a long time unless someone else decides to have their wedding photos taken in crazier snowstorm. All I know is that when we were done I couldn’t feel my hands for a while, but it was well worth it!!! Thanks Christina and Matt I had blast!!! Click here for the slideshow.

Waylon Having Fun

Here are some photos that I took of Waylon when I was down in San Clemente taking photos of his new sister Avalon. Waylon is always a riot to take photos of he's just so crazy fun. Last time I was down there he would only let me push him around in his car and I had take pictures of him at the same time. Thank God for wide angle lens!! Well this time I ended up holding a book for him in one hand and taking pictures with the other. So he could eat his O's and read at the same time. This kid is living the high life!! Here's a little slideshow of the fun.


Here's a pic that I stole off of my cousin's blog. Nobody took a pic of me this time pleasing Waylon and taking photos.

Here are just a couple of photos of me holding the book and taking photos of him at the same time.

Happy B-Day to My Blog

Well today is this blog's 1st B-Day. I can't believe that I've been blogging for one year already. In this blog's life my life has changed a ton and for the good. I still can't believe myself all things that have happened to me, I feel so very blessed. Well enough writing!! My first blog was about me skiing in Mammoth. So here are some photos from Wednesday of me skiing at Sierra At Tahoe doing some storm riding. Please wish my blog a happy B-Day.

Wong Family

On January 2nd I had the privilege of photographing the Wong family over at Sand Harbor. For the past couple of years they've come up and stayed in Incline Village for New Years. Well this time they decided to get a family portrait done. It was a great winter day up here in Tahoe and I had a blast. They got lucky with the weather because two days later the big storm rolled in. Here are just a couple of photos from the session. Also a BIG THANKS to Michael Escalera for helping me out on the shoot!

Powder Day At Kirkwood

So today was only my 3rd day of the season and it was a great one. It ranks up there with one of the best powder days I've had at Kirkwood. I've been sick so I couldn't go out storm riding the past couple of days. So I've been sitting inside going crazy while the snow came out of the sky. We got about 5 feet here at lake level, but out at Kirkwood they got up to 11 feet of snow. Today was the day when the sky's finally cleared up and they opened up all of Kirkwood. This photo was taken with my I-Phone, right before I dropped into ski that run on the right. Which you can see I got first tracks and it was great. The season is finally in full swing so come on up and have some fun!!!

Avalon 12/29/07

On 12/21/07 baby Avalon was born into this beautiful world and only 9 days later I had the privilege of photographing her. Avalon is my cousin’s 2nd child and this is the first of many sessions that I will be doing for my baby’s first year package that I offer. Avalon is the youngest baby that I’ve photographed to date at only 9 days old. She was so small and slept a ton while I was there, as they say girls need their beauty sleep. I can already tell that Avalon is going to end up being a beautiful girl, just like how her bother as turned out to be one handsome boy. I can’t wait to go back in a couple of months to take some more photos of Avalon and see how much she has grown!!! Click here for the Slideshow.