Just days after their formals, Joe and Heather got married:
Aug 042010
Aug 012010
In the last little while, especially in the last couple of weeks, I’ve fallen behind too far for my taste… And two weeks to fall behind in the middle of summer is an eternity.
So in the COMING two or three weeks, I’ll be working my butt off to catch up on the blog among many, MANY other areas of my varied work. One of my goals will be to finally launch my efforts to move to beautiful New York City 
I’ve mentioned this on my Facebook profile and I want to repeat it here, ’cause I own this here blawg: “I live in Salt Lake City. I live in my house… But I wanna go home.”
It’s a strange thing to still not be able to call Salt Lake City my home… I’ve lived here almost 10 years! But when I really feel like I’m going home, I’m thinking about Belgium or Lebanon. Now, I wanna live in the states, and I think I’ll have no issues calling New York my home.
Ok, here we go: here’s Tim & Carrie’s wedding!
Jun 272010
I consider myself incredibly lucky; I have very few wedding horror stories to speak of. 99.99% of my brides are a joy to work with.
But every now and then I really just click with my couples. Working with them becomes effortless, talking to them when I’m not behind the camera is easy as pie and staying in touch (my Facebook account is where it’s at, baby!) is a breeze.
With Rob & Lyndsy, that’s exactly what happened. And what a wonderful pleasure it was to work with them.
Now, I can’t speak for other photographers, but I’m a STRONG believer in having a relationship with my clients beyond just the professional one. And I don’t do this as a ploy for future work (although that does tend to happen), I do it because I love people…
You read that right! Imagine that! A photographer who loves people!
Anyway, so without further ado, here’s their wedding day, beginning with my favorite image:
May 192010
Trying to be a bit creative with the title variations for weddings
It’s already been a month since this awesome couple was married in beautiful Las Vegas. How time flies!
Like I mentioned before, this wedding was so amazing it made it my first ever truly positive trip to Vegas. And what made it so? Essentially, this awesome couple, that’s what.
The New York New York hotel (I was right next to the roller coaster listening to people scream! hahaha!), the Loews hotel with crickets chirping at night as I overlooked Lake Las Vegas, the awesome guests, the touching ceremony, all the fun everyone had, the partying; everything stemmed from just these two.
John, Amy, if you guys are reading this, I can’t thank you enough for taking such great care of me during my stay, and more than anything, for allowing me to be part of the truly beautiful celebration of your union.
Day 310/365
Anthony & Rose:
Day 311/365
The sun casts interesting shadows on the ground sometimes (iPhone photo)
Day 312/365
My little boy Mason playing in the puddle by the snow. He doesn’t care much for coats… He gets that from me I think… (iPhone photo)
Day 313/365
A growing section of my wall with random memorabilia. I have an autographed comedy show ticket I went to in Vegas to put up there now! (iPhone photo)
Day 314/365
I love my new album (iPhone photo)
Day 315/365
The beginning of many more Christmas presents (iPhone photo)
Day 316/365
My little boy jumping on strangers’ couch after I asked him not to! Thanksgiving party (iPhone photo)
Day 317/365
Justin & Sarah.
Sarah is a friend of mine that I met on the shoot of the original Takito short film (scroll down two posts to see what I’m talking about). A year later, her and Justin finally decided to tie the knot.
Congrats Sarah (you too Justin)!
Day 318/365
Kids’ drag racing (iPhone photo)
Day 319/365
Day 1 in Vegas baby!! The view from the top of the Stratosphere hotel and casino where I was staying (iPhone photo)
Day 320/365
Day 2 in Vegas (iPhone photo)
Day 321/365
My final day in Vegas. Watching some people watching the view (iPhone photo)
Day 322/365
I took a detour to Lake Mead on the way home. I really enjoyed the lonely road. Not only was it a beautiful ride, but the twisting, winding road wasn’t bad either. I’m a race car driver at heart and mountain roads are my little slice of heaven (iPhone photo)
Day 323/365
New postcard promos!!
Day 324/365
I went to see Frank Caliendo in Vegas. Here’s his autograph:
Here’s a video to see him in action:
And here’s a picture I took with him. Poor guy… He looked like he was tired of greeting fans yelling out “DO BUSH!! DO MADDEN!!” His video does his talent far better justice than this picture:
I forgot to write it as such, but that last post was actually Day 268/365. So today, I start with Day 269/365 in what will hopefully be the last segment and exciting conclusion to the Broken Screen Trilogy.
I’m still trying to attach Spielberg as the director for it but we’ll see.
Trilogies are psychologically satisfying. They are the basic building blocks to any good story.
Beginning, middle and end. Exciting introduction, obstacle, resolution.
You could condense a movie trilogy’s story structure into a single movie as long as you keep its three act structure and it wouldn’t lose anything except the extensive details that allow Hollywood to milk as much money out of a franchise as they possibly can. But money aside, the three act structure is as old as time. Ok the Greeks came up with it but whatever. Go read up on Aristotle 
Here’s the story arc to my little adventure:
Act 1, I received my new monitor and started setting it up. Exciting Introduction!
Act 2, I found out it was defective. Obstacle! RAWR!!
Act 3, I received an email from HP saying they’d send a replacement. Resolution!
Ball’s in your court Mr. Spielberg! I envision a $700 million budget with me in the lead role. I’ve instructed my imaginary agent to ask for $699 million of that. Good luck making a movie for a million bucks.
Day 269/365
The big monitor box, sitting there waiting for its replacement to arrive, while its two significantly smaller friends hang around in the background (iPhone photo)
Day 270/365
After a tiring downtown shoot, I went up to Ensign Peak to relax and enjoy the view. I only managed 2 shots with my iPhone before I was caught.
I really love this shot. Anonymous, natural and best of all, peaceful (iPhone photo)
Day 271/365
Ben & Liz
Day 272/365
I actually shot maternity pictures that day, but the subject insisted I didn’t post any pictures online. Oh well. Lightpost in a parking lot (iPhone photo)
Aug 192009
Things haven’t quite slowed down fully yet, but I have some time to spare this morning and thought I’d post before I suddenly got buried under an avalanche of work again.
Also, two things…
First, I think I forgot to take a picture yesterday! It finally happened… I forgot to take a daily shot… Oh well, put it on my tab. I’ll hopefully remember to shoot an extra day after I reach my 365 days.
Second, I messed up my daily count somewhere… Either on the blog or with my files, because the first shoot for today’s blog is tagged with “Day 199″ in Lightroom… So uh, I don’t know. Who cares, I’ll have two days that are tagged with “Day 199″.
Day 199/365
Dan and Debbie got married a little while back. They were awesome! Right from the engagement shoot, I discovered just how much fun and how adventurous and full of life these two were. The shopping cart shot is still comfortably one of my favorite engagement shots of all time.
Anyway, so Debbie came back to me, wanting to trash her dress. I was happy to oblige
Here was the result:
Day 200/365
Nathy could hardly speak english, having just moved from Columbia, so I was lucky to have had her posse act as translators.
Fortunately though, beauty doesn’t need to be translated.
Day 201/365
Josh & Natalie – I love seeing shoes being “left at the door” when someone’s doing something fun (dancing, golfing, whatever). I see it as breaking free from one’s constrictions.
Day 202/365
The shadows of grass. (iPhone photo)
Day 203/365
The iPhone sucks at catching action shots. (iPhone photo)
Day 204/365
The button you push when you wanna get across the street. (iPhone photo)
Day 205/365
I was on the freeway doing 70MPH, but I don’t care, that sky looked cool to me. (iPhone photo)
Day 206/365
We had a Category 4 tumbleweeds issue… (iPhone photo)
My neighbors on the other hand, had a Category 5 situation. (iPhone photo)
Also, BEAUTIFUL smoky skies from a nearby wildfire… I have no clue why I didn’t get my real camera to catch this… (iPhone photo)
Day 207/365
And finally, a shot from a wedding I did recently. This is the father of the groom I think.
Here’s what happened.
He got up to give a speech like many others had and did after him, but he went on for a while. So I got plenty of opportunities to get the shots that everyone would be happy with. Shots of him, shots of the bride and groom, shots of the guests, etc. All the traditional stuff.
But he was still going and my shots were getting repetitive, so I decided to goof around a little.
Now I’m willing to bet that most people, especially the bride and groom, won’t like this shot. I hope I’m completely wrong of course and please let me know how you feel about it in the comments section, because I love this shot.
I’ll say it again.
I LOVE this shot.
The man is completely dwarfed by the enormous expanse around him. He’s practically insignificant in terms of the space he occupies, and yet you can’t really look away from him can you.
I hope you like it too.
Apr 012009
It’s hard to keep up on the blog on a daily basis when a single event gives me just under 2000 pictures to work on.
If I were just looking for that one perfect shot, like a model shoot, it wouldn’t be so hard. But weddings don’t have the same dynamic as model shoots. Not for me anyway.
Day 69/365
Here are the best 17 shots of the wedding. I picked 51 shots to build a new sample album (12×12), but these are the 17 I felt were the strongest while still telling the story of the wedding day.
Day 70/365
My son’s 3rd birthday was the day I shot the wedding, so we celebrated with cake and ice-cream the day after.
I’m posting an awesome female model shoot tomorrow along with a few more of my daily shots, so stay tuned for that!
