I hope you’ve already seen Justin & Melanie’s engagement session on my other website, under gallery ONE, but here’s their rehearsal dinner I was invited to.
As always, working with them is a joy. Their wedding day will be coming soon.
Sep 202010
Hanging out with my friends always makes me happy. Here are some shots from my visit to the Utah State Fair, which closed yesterday when we went.
And yes, that banner really does say “Deep Fried Chocolate Covered Bacon on a Stick”. That’s a lot of words…
They should shorten it to “Suicide on a Stick”.
Oct 262009
Nothing new to report, and I’ll be blogging with new images soon, but I just thought of something kinda funny and had to share. Hope you get a good laugh 
I made some tabouli the other day and messed it up. I must have been distracted, because I forgot that the onion, for some reason, can’t be thrown into the food processor. You have to just tough it out and cry through chopping the onion.
What happens when you throw the onion in the food processor is that no matter how hard you try to fix it afterwards, the whole thing ends up being way too bitter.
Lesson learned! Throw the parsley in the food processor, leave the onion out and chop it up instead.
This concludes another exciting episode of…
DON’T PUT THAT IN THERE! <— FUNNEH!!!
More catching up to do. I think I’ll be fully caught up now. Whew! That only took about… what? Seven years? Oh wait, no, I’ve only been doing this for 95 days…
On with the show:
Day 89/365
Natasha and I scouted some locations prior to a model shoot. We found an awesome little abandoned location in downtown Salt Lake. Here’s my favorite shot:
And then the model, Katerina. You may remember her from last month’s Salt Flats shoot:
Day 90/365
I was the designated photographer for our Easter family party:
Day 91/365
This is a really easy-to-make middle-eastern specialty called mana-eesh. I’m not sure that you’d spell it like that in english, but phonetically at least, it’s correct. Anyway, me likey the mana-eesh:
Day 92/365
This is my personal favorite sample wedding album. It’s an 8×8″. I just ordered a 12×12″ silk album about a week ago and I’m looking forward to showing that off to clients when it gets here.
Day 93/365
Sasha is a truly, truly terrific actress. I’m not just saying this; I know this for a fact. I’ve seen her in action at the local Actor’s Lounge which I used to have time to attend pretty regularly. Sasha impressed me so much from just the few scenes I’ve seen her perform, that I knew almost right away that I wanted her to have the biggest supporting role in an upcoming project I had cooking. That is, “upcoming” until my camera was stolen recently…
By the way, you might not believe it from seeing that third picture especially, but it was pouring down that day. Very ugly day to be shooting, but I tried to make it look and feel like summer.
Day 94/365
I really need to clean out my window well. I saw a mouse scurrying around using the tumbleweeds that got trapped in there as a means to get to the bottom of the well and back out.
Now, the normal reaction would be “ewww!!”, while my reaction was “Oooo!!”
In fact, I was on the phone with my realtor when I noticed the mouse, emails kept pouring in from other sources, chat windows kept flashing, my facebook kept popping up with new messages, and all I could think of was “I’m gonna need to switch lenses to get a half-decent shot.”
Day 95/365
Seems like a lazy shot to take, but I’ve been making a big marketing push for rajibarbir.com. Among other things I’ve been doing, I’m now listed on AltPick. In any case, I’ve been staring at that screen a lot lately.
Feb 182009
Day 38/365
Pretty straightforward title, isn’t it?
Mmmmm:
A few side notes.
I remembered that I needed to talk to you about something, my dear audience, when I finished my recent model shoot twelve minutes past midnight. I knew I needed to say something before the shoot, and finishing that late to try and stay true to posting every day reminded me of the problem.
And the problem is, I’m just not going to be able to post every single day sometimes.
The initial point of this project wasn’t to blog every day, but to shoot every day, so at least in that respect, I’m staying faithful to the idea. When the rush of wedding season hits, you’re just going to have to trust that I’m sticking to the plan and that I’ll get back to blogging so I can show you the shots for each of those days.
I don’t expect to ever fall behind by more than a few days on the blog, but if there are some of you out there that are obsessively checking this blog, first of all, please don’t hunt me down and kill me.
It’s not polite.
And second, just hang tight, I’ll eventually get back to blogging.
Tomorrow is a busy day. I have a model shoot in the afternoon and I’m wrapping principal shooting on NURF Wars, my (not so) little short film, at night. So tomorrow might be the first day I fall behind on the blog, but at least I’ll still be shooting.
And last on the list, today I managed to find the time to start composing an instrumental song. Don’t get too excited, it’s electronic music, so I know I’m going to bore the living crap out of much of my audience. But I grew up in Europe (Belgium, to be specific), so I had a strong influence from the electronic music scene.
If I decide it’s not terrible, I just might share.
Stay tuned.
Feb 112009
Day 31/365
Jaylene (yes, shameless plug – again) came home after doing some make-up work tonight, so she had some toast with a slice of bologna.
Here’s our creepy toaster light:
Here’s the sandwich before:
And here it is after:
Behind the Scenes on NURF Wars, Part 3:
We got lucky at the 24 Hour Fitness parking lot. We picked a car that stayed right where it was until 1am, when we decided to call it a night. So to whoever owned that white Chevy in desperate need of some cleaning, thanks! We were almost tempted to write on there, although instead of writing “Wash Me”, we’d have written “Thanks for being so serious about working out this late at night and giving us the chance to finish working on the scene for our short film. We probably couldn’t have done it without you.” Well, it was a really dirty car, there was plenty of space to write!
But too wordy, I know. So we decided against it. 
I’ll get back to writing about the experience soon. For now, I need to focus on actually wrapping up the shoot. No, I’m still not done with it. But almost. Like the last little bite of bologna sandwich.
Jan 282009
…But I rushed the crap out of this shoot…
I’m headed out for a movie and I haven’t had a second to myself until just now (and the movie of course). But seeing as the movie gets out at almost midnight, I knew I needed to post now before I left.
Day 17/365
My mom sends me these big boxes of baklava whenever she gets a chance (thanks mom!) and seeing as my brother doesn’t care for them, I get his box of baklava too (thanks brother!). This baklava is roughly… uh let’s see… carry the two… yeah, roughly twelve bazillion times better than any other baklava I’ve ever tasted.
Not a great shot, but yeah… rushed this one a bit.
