Here’s most of August that I’ve been depriving you of.

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From Dustin & Cassie’s wedding. This was at the golf course in the morning before the wedding. We got kicked out of there… The place even called the cops on us!! I tell ya, it’s gonna be hard for any couple to beat the excitement of getting the cops called on us on the wedding day!

In fact, I’d like to ask that you please don’t make your wedding more exciting than that.

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Then, true story, I went to the Great Clips to shoot pictures of the bride getting her hair done and got kicked out of there too!

Then I fell in a river in the amazon forest and a bunch of pirhanas ate my foot and half my chest. I look really interesting now.

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A headshot for a terrific actress and a personal friend of mine, Joylynne.

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Day 210/365

Megan bridal shoot

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Marianne actually thinks showing THIS picture of her will hurt my wedding portfolio…

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My promos before they went out. (iPhone photo)

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The piano is in my basement now! Seems like I’m gradually moving all of my house down in my basement… Why don’t I live in an apartment? (iPhone photo)

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The uhh… The bride had a bigger piece of cake… Wouldn’t you agree?

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Although the groom looks deeply concerned for his new wife, they actually had a lot of fun on that trampoline.

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I LOOOOOOVE this picture!!!! I’m fascinated with celloists and violinists at weddings. I’m seriously considering hanging it up somewhere.

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Swinging (iPhone photo)

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Day 218/365

The neighborhood on my way to the mailbox… I was really lazy with that shot… (iPhone photo)

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Day 219/365

Utah Business Magazine shoot

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Amanda’s bridal shoot

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Amy gets a few extra words from me.

I loved working with Amy. Her optimism and enthusiasm was unstoppable, contageous and inspiring.

All weddings experience hiccups. All of them. If you’re reading this and you’re getting married soon and thinking “Not mine!”, then my answer is, “Yes, yours too.” It’s just how it is. So since hiccups are inevitable, the question becomes about how you respond to those hiccups.

Amy’s wedding was no different. Her wedding day was almost moved to 9/11. Not exactly a bride’s first choice. Then on the wedding day, the best man couldn’t make it.

Amy responded to every hiccup throughout the day, big or small, with grace, patience, endless optimism and a smile on her face.

So yeah, I loved working with Amy. That second shot of her will tell you everything you need to know about her vibrant and endlessly optimistic personality.

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After a long-ish stretch of work, I decided to treat myself to Lewis Black’s excellent comedy in Wendover. The show was hilarious. I always wished I could have seen Carlin in Vegas before he died earlier this year. I didn’t want to repeat the same mistake with Lewis Black. (iPhone photo)

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Day 223/365

Robby & Jessica

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I have a fascination with wires and skies (iPhone photo)

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Day 225/365

I printed this 11×14 of a shot that I’d taken with my iPhone (iPhone photo – yes, that means it’s an iPhone photo of an iPhone photo)

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Day 226/365

I took a very long walk that night (iPhone photo)

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Day 227/365

For giving me the green card after such a long and difficult struggle, I gave back to my immigration attorney by doing a free model-style shoot of his beautiful daughter.

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This is why I’ve always assumed that most of the people who take a picture a day don’t have any actual work to do; I can’t keep up and I haven’t even reached the height of wedding season yet… How do people do this?

I jumped into this picture-a-day commitment after I heard that a prominent, very busy photojournalist did do this himself. Not to mention watching other highly successful commercial photographers do the same, and do it way better than I seem to manage. But I figured, hey, if they can do it, so can I. It’ll be at my level of photography, but I can do this.

I’m still doing it, but I’m struggling to keep up. I’ll keep at it though. I have no intention on quitting.

Anyway, here’s the ones from April 24th, 25th and 26th:

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Dan & Debbie sealing:

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Julio & Justine wedding:

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Mark (model shoot):

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It finally happened… I made a mistake with one of my daily shoots, and although I didn’t forget to take pictures on April 6th, I deleted them from my memory card before yesterday’s shoot (April 7th), thinking I’d already downloaded them…

You’re just going to have to trust that I did take some pictures. I actually took some shots of the head of my acoustic guitar from various angles.

Those pictures are gone forever now.

And that does mean something to me. I have made it a point since I first started taking pictures digitally (summer of 2003) to always back everything up. The great photos, the crap photos; I downloaded them all, and I backed them all up. Always.

So the fact that I have a photo shoot, as small and insignificant as it was, which is gone forever, is just a touch upsetting. But, seeing as it’s not the end of the world either, here’s my (hopefully) funny approach at kinda sorta posting something anyway:

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Ok, onto the normal stuff.

I think the next few days, April 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th deserve their own posts. I don’t want any one shoot to win out over another one. So I’m going to start where I left off, with…

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Courtney is an actual bride, not a model :) Although I think she does dabble in modeling.

She’s getting married in California, but I was unfortunately booked that day. She insisted that I be responsible for shooting her bridals.

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