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 great train stations though. Union Station is really a cut above the other stations. It has maintained its mystique somehow.

When I met Steve and Rachel, I knew that Union Station would be the perfect location for our Engagement Session. They both collect vintage luggage. Steve’s Wedding present from Rachel is in fact the luggage in the images you see below. I don’t often get an engagement session where props are brought along, but I really enjoyed this. Not only did they bring the luggage, but Rachel’s florist made her a bouquet to match her dress, and Steve brought his classic Mercedes convertible as a prop. He called up a couple days before and said “Hey, what if I bring my classic Mercedes as a prop?” I was floored. I started picturing right then the shot you see above. I knew I had to get an amazing shot with the Benz. These are clients that truly appreciate what I do, and I’m enjoying every minute of it.

All in all we had a great evening. Sarah met us at Kings for some dinner after the shoot and they introduced us to some amazing champagne(sparkling wine?) called Sophia. I would highly recommend it to any champagne aficionado.

So here are my favorite images from the evening. Thanks Steve & Rachel for a wonderful evening!

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. I’d really suggest checking it out for a your wedding venue. The staff is also top notch, very professional, personable, and on top of everything.

Anyway, the timing couldn’t have been better. Doug came out on Friday, we all spent the evening talking, hanging out, drinking mudslides, having my famous grilled chicken with a family recipe sauce, until early in the morning. Doug had some friends he wanted to visit on Saturday, so it was perfect, I shot the wedding, he hung out with friends, and everyone was happy.

I didn’t take any photos with Doug, but I did manage to take some at the wedding.

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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 this?) and the atmosphere was relaxed and perfect for a portrait session. There weren’t too many people at Caltech since class was out, and not much was going on. Sunny was great and assisted me with supporting my lighting equipment.

We had a great time, and we got some great images… I hope you enjoy them.

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 part, I was using an off-camera flash set-up to compliment the gorgeous lighting.

Stay tuned for Jesse’s photos…. We got some great ones of him too, and we’ll be going to the Venice Beach skate park for his Senior Portraits as well.

Enjoy:

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Thanks to Jen O’Sullivan for putting this together, she organized, planned, and got everything in order. The engagement photoshoot was held at the Sunset Restaurant in Malibu, Which just happens to be the same restaurant that I took Sarah for our first date, and first anniversary(not wedding.) It’s a really great restaurant with an incredible view, and very, very delicious food. The plan was to have about 50 photographers, and 50 engaged couples that hadn’t yet chosen a photographer for their wedding yet. That way, everyone had the opportunity to work with 4-5 couples or photographers.

I was truly lucky to have 6 great couples to photograph. The hard part was this: I had only 15-20 minutes with each couple. That barely gives me any time… Most of my engagement sessions last between 2-3 hours, and we get dinner afterward to get to know each-other better. To top it off, as a rule, I know that the first 15 minutes don’t count when taking photos, It takes a little bit for my subjects to get used to the camera. In general, 15 minutes. So, as you can imagine, this put me in kind of a pressure-cooker of a situation. How am I supposed to make my couples look amazing without the warm-up time? And without the time that I usually take before the shoot to build up my rapport, and get to know my clients? To be honest, it felt a little dirty and quick. Get in/ get the shot/ get out. But you know what? it somehow worked! I got some incredible shots of my couples, and I think they’re going to love them.

Thanks Lisa and Trace, Amanda and Chad, Jen and Tim, Allison and Branden, Gabriela and Yariel, and of course Kim and Vincent! I had a ton of fun with you guys, and you all did such a great job with the portraits!

So, with no further ado(did I use that correctly?)… Here some of the photos:

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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 succeed.

Ginger Beef is one of my favorite dishes when going to a Thai restaurant. I love the taste: sweet, with a bit of a kick from a ton of ginger and garlic. It’s a veritable firecracker in your mouth. Not from the spice, but just the plethora of flavor inherent in the recipe.

Now, everyone knows that a good Thai dish has to have a nice cold Thai Iced Tea to go along with it, and how could I resist trying to make that too?

So I do what I always do when I’m looking for a new recipe: I google it! Now I generally look up a few recipes, and I do that for a few reasons. One is because not everyone thinks that a dish should taste the way I think it should. So I usually mix and match recipes to make sure that I get the right taste out of my endeavor. So I found a few recipes for both the Ginger Beef and the Thai Iced Tea, and I chose the ones that I though would turn out the best. Turns out, they were REALLY GOOD! I modified the beef recipe a tiny little bit. It’s a little sweet, and I’d suggest using maybe a 1/3 cup of sugar instead of a 1/2 cup. But to each his own.

Enjoy!

Ginger Beef:

Ingredients

• 1lb sirloin steak (sliced into thin strips)
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sesame oil
• 1/4 cup chopped ginger
• 5 cloves garlic, minced
• 4 green onions, chopped
• 1 carrot, shredded
• 3 tablespoons Soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons cooking wine or apple juice(I used wine)
• 2 tablespoons rice or white vinegar(I used white)
• 1/2 cup sugar or Splenda®(I used sugar)
• 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch
• chili flakes to taste

Directions

1. Saute steak in canola and sesame oil with ginger and garlic. Barely brown both sides of the meat.
2. Add onions and carrot. Cook for 2 minutes.
3. Add sugar, stir constantly and allow to caramelize for a few seconds.
4. Combine Soy sauce, wine, vinegar, cornstarch and chili flakes. Add to stir-fry.
5. Bring mixture to a boil. Serve immediately. (with rice, or noodles. I used rice.)

Thai Iced Tea

Ingredients

• 6 cups water
• 1 cup Thai tea
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons cream
• 6 tablespoons condensed milk

Directions

In a kettle, bring the water to a boil. Place the tea in a teapot or glass container. Pour the water over the tea and let steep until bright orange in color, 3 to 5 minutes. Strain into a clean container, such as a pitcher (or, if in tea bags, remove the bags). Add sugar and stir to dissolve. Let cool to room temperature, then cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Fill 6 tall glasses with crushed ice and add tea to 3/4 full. Add 1 tablespoon cream and 1 tablespoon condensed milk to each glass.

Serve with iced-tea spoon so guests can swirl the mixture themselves. I suggest providing straws with which to serve this drink.

Edit: After making it a few times, I like it better without the condensed milk….

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, Eli is now here, and a party of our big, happy, weird family. And seriously the cutest newborn that I’ve ever seen. Gillian brought him over for his 1 month portraits, and they turned out great. Check them out below:

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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 Orange Chicken for a while now, and so I decided to make it. This recipe takes about 30 minutes of prep, a couple hours to marinate, and then a little bit longer to cook. So it’s a 3 or 4 hour long process. Not a problem, if the food turns out well. But in my case,  and I’m not a bad cook, it turned out just o.k, or mediocre… Which after slaving away and waiting patiently for 3 hours, is NOT o.k.! So I’m not gonna give you the recipe that I got. But if you really want to know, I’ll send you the link… Just PLEASE don’t make it. I even made everything from fresh ingredients, even home-grown oranges…. Sarah bought the chicken at costco though. It just turned out kind of bad, and the sauce clumped together too much.

The problem started here: Whenever I make a new meal, I look up the recipe online. I’ll look at 4 or 5 recipes, and take a little from each that I know will go well together, and work it that way… This time, I was a little pressed for time, and I only looked at one recipe… BIG mistake!

“So what’s this doing on my blog?”  You might ask??? Well, I planned on blogging about this, and when it turned out poorly, I was really bummed. I expressed my disappointment on my Facebook page, and was told by multiple people that they still wanted to see the images…

So here goes! I hope to have a better dish to share next time around… enjoy!

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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 have an incredible impact on the families. A nine year old girl can now have her own room, when she used to share one with her 3 older brothers. A mother can now wash clothes in her own home. They can now have a garage(in Ca.), where their cars won’t be Vandalized It’s not just a hand-out, it’s a hand UP.

Meet Jessica. She is the daughter of Donna Deutchman, CEO of Habitat for Humanity. She’s a High School Senior, and I will be shooting her senior portraits in the coming week. During the annual Builder’s Ball, which was located in the Universal City Marriott, Donna wanted a few photos of Jessica, and Jesse(Jessica’s boyfriend) by the cars. There were a few nice cars there. One was an original ’65 Shelby Cobra, and a Stingray Corvette. But they wanted photos by the RED one. Along with all the other photos I was taking during the event, I was able to capture some great portraits of Jessica and Jesse. I think I outdid what Donna was expecting, And they absolutely loved the images.

Here are my favorites:

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 help out with my parents because my dad was coming home from the hospital with a fractured pelvis. I called up Travis to see if he had any photo-shoots that I could help out with. He had a senior session, and asked if I could assist for him. That was the Perfect opportunity to learn first hand what established senior portrait artists were doing. I learned a ton, and I’m looking forward to implementing what I learned during that time. We held the shoot in Downtown Tucson in a parking garage, and it provided an awesome urban backdrop.

I was able to get some shots in, and had a great time…. Here are some of the shots:

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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 portraits. One in studio that my school required for me to take if I wanted my photo in the yearbook, and my REAL senior portraits. The ones on which my parents spent a lot of money, bought a nice big framed print, and sent to my relatives. I figured that this was standard procedure. As it turns out, it seems that every state in our great country has the tradition of getting REAL senior portraits, EXCEPT for California!

I know this sounds ridiculous, but it’s true! I’ve talked to a few seniors about this, and they had no idea that the studio session, with the boring, 1 pose, shot wasn’t what the rest of the country did. When I talked to them about doing senior portraits they weren’t interested. I though to myself, what’s wrong with them? They don’t want photos that they’ll actually like? Photos that they’ll enjoy taking, and not feel uncomfortable with all the big photography gear and the studio Where they’re just a number, and they have to pay $30 for a portrait that they won’t love? I didn’t get it. But upon further review, I found out that the senior portraits that I was used to weren’t at all part of the market out here in L.A.!

So I have started a very tough endeavor. I need to educate L.A.’s seniors(and Juniors) about the REAL senior portraits. So I started off with Jeth. She’s my friend’s little sister, and has 15 weeks of school left before she graduates. We went to Orcutt Ranch for the Senior Photos, and brought along her friend Flo, who is also graduating shortly. We had a great time, and spent about an hour and a half taking photos. Jeth and Flo were awesome, and the session went flawlessly. Check out the photos below, and leave some love in the comments section.

Enjoy!

I, for some reason, enjoy traveling. I’m not just talking about traveling to some foreign country, or even visiting family. I’m talking about sitting on airplanes, waiting for hours or even sleeping in airports, traveling by train, or even by car or ship. I can’t explain it, but I have always enjoyed it. Sarah and I went on a cruise for our honeymoon. The part I enjoyed most? It wasn’t walking up to the top of Dunn’s River Falls in Jamaica, or the Tequila factory in México. It was our days at sea, going to our destinations.

This weekend was no exception, Sarah and I flew up to Arlington Heights(Chicago Area), Illinois, along with Sarah’s mom, to visit Ryan, Jenny(Sarah’s Sister), and Tanner(Our nephew). We were supposed to go to Chicago a month ago for Tanner’s 2nd birthday, but a ton of stuff got in the way, and we had to postpone our flight to this last weekend. Well, wouldn’t you know it, Chicago decided to get to 20˚F and snow 12 inches the very day that we were supposed to go. I always have a can-do attitude, so I said to the family, “let’s go anyway.” My reasoning was that if our flight was cancelled, we would be stuck in our layover city(Phoenix) and my mom could pick us up and drop us off the next day. Well, we somehow got all the way to Chicago with no problems at all. and were able to spend the whole weekend there with no delays or problems!

Tanner is one of my favorite subjects to photograph. I know, I’m probably a little biased, but I just think he’s the cutest thing ever. He recently started talking A LOT… and he LOVES Elmo and chocolate. He’s always asking for chocolate(shoclate) milk.

So here are the photos from this last weekend. There were so many  great photos that I had to narrow it down to my favorites.

I’ve talked to a lot of photographers, and no matter how great a photographer, or person they are, there always seems to be one problem: getting and maintaining traffic to their website. Now I know that anyone can go the easy way, and buy advertising through google, but what if there was a way that you could do this all yourself, without having to buy ads with a low ROI(return on investment), or pay someone a ton of money to maybe get you traffic. There are a few simple steps that will drastically improve your Search Engine Ranking that I’ll be highlighting over the next few days.

Here’s what I’ll be talking about.

• Part 1: SEO – Why your web traffic sucks(The Bad News)
• Part 2: SEO – 5 simple steps to improve search engine ranking(The Good News)
• Part 3: WordPress
• Part 4: Noah Photo Blogsites
• Part 5: Social Media and Networking.(How twitter and facebook can change your life)

I’m gonna make a few guesses here. 1: You have a website, but can’t seem to get people to stay very long if you can even get them to come at all. 2: You have a flash based website that looks beautiful, has large images, but kind of looks like everyone else’s website. 3: You have a free blog hosted by Blogger or WordPress. 4: You’ve heard of SEO, but think you need to pay someone $99 a month to “get you to the front page”

Well if even one of these guesses fit you, I hope you get a lot out of what I’m about to tell you.

Here are the basics of SEO. Google, Yahoo, Bing, along with a few other search engines take text from your website and run it through a few different highly complex algorithms and basically assess the quality of your site, and the relevance to searches made on their websites. If you are a wedding photographer in Los Angeles for example, you would want your bride to go to a place like yahoo and type in “Wedding Photography in Los Angeles,” and hopefully, if you play your cards right, you’ll show up on the first page. Last time I checked there were thousands of photographers in L.A. so the likelihood of front page results is slim to none, especially if you know nothing about SEO… I want to steer you in the RIGHT direction, but first we need to make sure you aren’t making some of the most common errors. So here is a list of things that you are likely doing wrong for your SEO.

1:You have no readable text on your website: It’s lost inside the flash file, or some random xml file. To further the problem, spiders(the bots that search engines employ to scrape the web for information) don’t read flash, they only read text. So if all you have on your site is flash, you won’t be getting very far.

This is what the spiders read when they go to a beautiful flash site:

This site requires flash.
Please visit HERE to download the flash player.

2: The quality of the actual text in your site is no good: If you want people to find your site by searching “wedding photographer in Los Angeles” you don’t actually have any sentences that say specifically that. You might only have the word Los Angeles written on your website only once. Another problem is that you have plenty of images, but you don’t describe them. With SEO a picture is NOT worth a thousand words. No-one is going to find your website by searching Google Images for “contrasty black and white image with plenty of film grain.”

3: You are using a free blog: Now this seems like it would be great for SEO, but in all actuality, the only people that your “blogger” blog is benefiting are the people hosting your blog for you. This MIGHT increase web traffic, but all this is doing is bringing people to blogspot.com or wordpress.com. Not only that, but you are extremely limited as to what you can do with your account. Yes, you can spend $15 a year to edit the CSS, but what does that really get you? Do you know anything about CSS? (FYI: You can host wordpress on your already existing website for absolutely nothing.)

4: You are using old and antiquated SEO “tricks”, like Keywords, or Link Farms. STOP DOING THAT! Link farms will only hurt you. Search engines have caught onto this a LONG time ago. They’ve also gotten rid of any value for your Keywords, so don’t waste your time adding 500 keywords to your Meta tags… Also don’t repeat the keywords that you want too many times. for example, don’t have a footer that says “Los Angeles Wedding Photographer” 5 times in a row. Spiders can tell that you are trying to trick them, and they will penalize you.

5: You are using INVISIBLE text: Yes, you will see this all over the place, especially with flash websites. You make the font color the same as the background so that you can have a nice clean design, without people seeing that you are over-using your keywords…. This might seem like a good idea, but it will hurt you, and the search engines will penalize you.

6: Your URL is ugly: Does your URL look like http://www.yourname.com/&page=?243&category=?345&post=?24563? Not only does your traffic think it’s ugly, but so do the spiders. If you have a website made with PHP, this will more than likely happen, and it’s not good. WordPress can be an exception though with it’s permalink structures.

7: You have spammed your URL: You sent a link out to all of your friends, and people in your network asking them to post the link on their site. Problem is, you sent the same text to everyone. The spiders don’t like this. They notice the trend that links to your site seem to have the same exact text surrounding the link. They then flag your site as a spam site. Along these lines, you don’t want to have more than 100 links on any given page. you don’t want to look like a link farm. Even if they are no-follow links, they can harm you. have a few high quality links to sites that you would put your name behind, like Camera Dojo, or Pictage. And the last part of this still fits this last point…. You need to make sure that the links on your site actually work. sites with bad links are also penalizes as a not high quality site.

So that’s it for today. Click the link below for what you can actually do to help your website grow traffic…. The GOOD news.

Part 2: SEO – 5 simple steps to improve search engine ranking(The Good News)

I met Ava’s mom Victoria through a friend of mine. That’s how i do most of my work after all, through referrals. But Ava had never been to the beach before, even though they live less than 20 miles away. Victoria wanted to take Ava to the beach and get some great portraits while there. We went in the late summer and I’m just now getting around to posting this. Since the shoot, Victoria purchased a couple Canvas Gallery Wrapped wall portraits.

Here are the photos we got:

I had a mini photo-shoot session with a few other families a couple months ago at the beach. It was a beautiful day, we got some great shots, but Kaden wasn’t having a very good day. From the start he somehow got sand in his mouth and eyes, and was really fussy, and tired. I tried to get the best photos possible, but sometimes those just don’t turn out like they should. Especially when the main subject is bright red and crying.

I of course gave Kaden a second chance to get some great shots. We went to a different beach this time. We went to the beach right across from the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, about 5 miles north of Santa Monica. I love this style of shoot, and I love shooting babies. Since they are so young, I don’t try too hard to get them to look at the camera and smile. I don’t believe portraits need a “say cheese!” face. I much prefer to take photos of the child in his natural state of wonderment, fussiness, or boredom. If I get a laugh, or a big smile, that’s ok too. But my favorite shots are never the ones with the smiles, but I do love those as well.

We found this awesome set of posts sticking out of the ground at the beach. kaden isn’t exactly old enough to stand up on his own, but he’s great at holding onto things and holding himself up. So we got a few shots of those, and also some shots with him standing and sitting on rocks(with the help of his abuelo.)

Here are the photos: Enjoy!

This past weekend I shot a wedding as a second photographer for Juan Turcios, a great Los Angeles based Wedding Photographer. Robert and Laura got married at the beautiful Union Station in Los Angeles. Union Station is perfect for hosting weddings and other events, it’s full of character and incredible architecture.

We started out the day at the Westin Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. The view from the hotel was incredible, we could see the whole city from the 33rd floor, even the Disney Concert Hall. When Laura was in her beautiful wedding dress we went directly to Union Station where they had their gorgeous fall themed wedding.

If you ever have a chance to have a Union Station Wedding, by all means go for it. There’s nothing quite like getting married with a backdrop of a romantic 30′s styled train station. There’s something so “Old Hollywood” about Union Station that I love. It creates such an incredible atmosphere.

Here are some of the photos that I made during the day:

I got an email From Donna a week or so ago asking for family portraits. Jackson is 20 months old, and Asher is 8 months old. Apparently when Jackson was 8 months old they got some family portraits at Temescal Park near the Pacific Palisades, and decided that they need some shots of Asher at 8 months too.

Donna looked at the photos of the Au’s and just had to get their family portraits taken at Trippet Ranch in Topanga State Park as well. I don’t blame her. Like I said, it’s a beautiful park with so many opportunities. If anyone wants their family or engagement portraits done, I would love to photograph you or your family at Trippet Ranch.

And just in case you were wondering, I of course used my Noah Camera Holster, and yes it does great with laying on the ground, running around, and not dropping any camera or lens off of it.

Here are the photos that I took I hope you enjoy them:

Loren and I are both photographers… Wedding photographers in fact! We are both members of Pictage(my order fulfillment company.) He and Rachel are having their coffee themed wedding in December and needed some engagement photos. Our original plan was to meet at the Lucky Strike bowling alley in the Block @ Orange(about a half hour drive south of Los Angeles), but due to their(Luck Strike’s) lack of communication we couldn’t. I can never stress enough that when you want to have a photo-shoot in another business to call and confirm that it’s ok to do so. Well Loren called a few times and they said it would be ok… We got there, and the manager on duty told us we would need a permit and authorization from their attorneys.

We obviously still needed to get our e-session taken care of, so we looked around “The Block” and we saw that there was a Starbucks Coffee shop in the complex. Now I mentioned that Loren and Rachel are having a coffee themed wedding, which I think is pretty dang cool, and we thought it appropriate to get some shots in and around Starbucks.

Now I still haven’t upgraded to the Canon 5d Markii camera, but Loren has, and I wanted to test it out and see how much I loved it. I also haven’t done much with a fisheye lens, and so I tried a few shots out with that as well. So Throughout this shoot I used Loren’s beautiful camera, and of course it worked out great with my Noah Camera Holster which I knew it would(I’ve tested it on multiple cameras.) We had a ton of fun with the engagement session(as always,) and we went to a brewery/restaurant afterwards and had some pretty dang good food.

Ok… So here are some photos of the beautiful couple… Hope you enjoy! and don;t forget to subscribe to my blog!