Steve & Rachel ~ Union Station Engagement Session

Steve and Rachel are seriously one of my favorite couples to work with. We spent the evening in Downtown L.A. at Union Station, which is a top location pick for me. I love the style of the buildings, and I say it every time, but there's just something so old Hollywood about it with its Art Deco trim. The atmosphere of the train station is just magical, and sort of enchants me every time I go. It reminds me of when I practically live on trains for a few weeks while traveling around Europe. I stayed in some not so ...

Patrick & Natalie Wedding @ Fess Parker’s in Santa Barbara

This Last weekend was pretty crazy. My good friend Doug came into town for a last minute vacation to L.A. It was a lot of fun, I hadn't seen him since my wedding a year and a half ago, and it had really been too long. I had this wedding planned for a couple weeks. I assisted/shot second for Kelly Segré of Ventura. It was a very relaxing wedding, and the couple was a lot of fun. The venue, Fess Parker's Double Tree was absolutely gorgeous. Right next to the ocean in Santa Barbara, and within walking distance of the pier. ...

Caitie ~ High School Senior Portraits @ Caltech

It was a last minute portrait session. Caitie was graduating from Crescent Valley High School in La Crescenta. Her mom Sunny set up the shoot about a week before graduation... I needed to do a really quick turn-around in order to get graduation announcements out. I don't usually do that, but I was able to get Caitie's images edited and ready for print over night. We set up the Senior Portrait Experience at the Caltech campus in Pasadena. It's a beautiful campus with a lot of different and great backdrops. The eucalyptus trees were in full aroma(how else could I phrase ...

Wall Portraits – When did an 8×10 become a “large” print?

Jessica – Senior Portrait Experience ~ Thousand Oaks High School ’10

I met Jessica at a Habitat for Humanity gala. She was helping out, and serving appetizers to guests. Her mom asked me to get a few images of her and her boyfriend Jesse by the nice cars... So I did. Upon spending some time with them, I came to find out that they were Seniors at Thousand Oaks High School, and that they needed senior portraits. So, we set something up, and this last week, we went over to Orcutt Ranch. The lighting was perfect, the location was nearly free of other people, and we got some great shots.For the most ...

6 E-Sessions in One Day! – Sunset Restaurant in Malibu

For those of you who know me well, you know that I love being a part of a good cause. I stumbled upon a great opportunity: both a chance to be a part of something bigger than myself that helps a lot of great people, and also a chance to meet with 6 different engaged couples. LetMeSail is a great organization that helps disabled individuals live a more independent life The mission of LETMESAIL is to provide therapeutic, social, recreational, and educational opportunities for differently-abled individuals with disabilities (and their family members) enabling them to maximize their potential to lead a ...

Ginger Beef & Thai Iced Tea

What can I say? I'm not one to give up. I tried to cook a good orange chicken last week, but the recipe was really lacking in quality. Needless to say, I didn't make a GOOD orange chicken. It was just mediocre. Then I tried a beef and broccoli dish that turned out very poorly. So I decided to try again... I was a little worried, and rightfully so. I'm not asian. I'm a white boy. I don't have training in cooking good asian foods. But I'm persistent. And when you try hard enough at something, hopefully you will eventually ...

Eli – 1 month Portraits

Meet Eli. Eli is my little cousin Gillian's brand new baby. Born on the Ides of March, at almost 10 pounds. He's huge. Which isn't surprising to me; his dad, Ricky, is over 6 feet tall. The other reason that I knew Eli was going to be large was because EVERY time that Gillian had anything removed from her medically; Teeth, Tonsils, etc....  The doctors looked at her and said, "Those are the biggest (fill in the blank)s I've ever removed." So you can imagine the anxiety of giving birth to a baby that, in all likelihood, would follow suit. Either way, ...

Recipe Day – Mediocre Orange Chicken

I'm just gonna start off by saying that I'm completely bummed about how poorly this recipe turned out. Really disappointed. I'm a big fan of Chinese food. I grew up as a little kid, going to Chines food restaurants and learned how to use chopsticks. My parents would always go to a place called Unam with us, but now unfortunately it changed owners, and frankly I'm a little scared to try it. My new favorite place for some good Chinese is Szeschuan Garden on Roscoe and Topanga... Great stuff. Sarah introduced it to me a few years back. I've been craving ...

Jessica – Habitat for Humanity Builders Ball

I have a good friend Robert who is one of the strongest advocates that I know for helping out the underprivileged. Every time I talk to him, he's telling me about a a different project he's working on. But there is one specific corporation on which I've worked with him multiple times: Habitat for Humanity. This is such a great company. They help people, that wouldn't qualify for it otherwise, get into a new home. The family helps build the house, and puts a ton of sweat-equity into it. And they are given a special interest rate. The Habitat homes ...

Jessica – High School Senior Portraits in Tucson

It's an exciting time to be starting out on a new venture. As I wrote before, the High School Senior Portrait market is pretty much completely un-tapped out here in Los Angeles. And since our high school seniors deserve to have a great portrait, and a great experience with the photos and photographer, I've decided to do some research, and find out the best ways to reach out, and help shape Los Angeles' Senior Portrait market into what it can be. Travis Williams is a Tucson based senior portrait artist, and a friend of mine. I drove out to Tucson to ...

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Jeth – Senior Portraits – Chatsworth 2010

You know how they say that no-one is actually FROM Los Angeles? I'm one of the few that can actually say that I was born and raised in L.A. I grew up in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley. When I was 10 my family moved to Tucson Arizona. I lived there until I was 20, when I moved back to L.A. I now live about 2  miles from the house where I grew up. I went to High-school in Tucson. I graduated, got a class ring, and ad my Senior Portraits taken. I in fact had two senior ...