Taken January, 2007 at Maui’s Waianapanapa State Park. This black sand beach sparkles like diamonds in the sun. The unique combination of erosion of volcanic deposits in the water and the formation of the inlet where this beach is found create a rare sight. Maui’s only truly black sand beach. I love visiting this spot, and one tour bus I took deemed it not worth the stop!
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I posted a video I compiled for my Orange County Wedding Photographers promotion. The video covers several weddings I’ve photographed. Slow transitions and effects in the first half and a little pick-up in the tempo in the second. Check out the Orange County Wedding Photographers video now.
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Your choice for Orange County Wedding Photographers. I am a great source for your needs for excellent photography and for the preservation of both your memories and your wedding budget.
Be sure to peruse my blog and my albums. You’ll see why you should consider me for your Orange County photography or Riverside County photography needs.
I enjoy capturing a wide range of topics and subjects from children, weddings, family events, travel and landscape. My photography style is journalistic.
I put the most into my composition and technical application in each photograph. I utmost attention to the composition of each shot. My Orange County photography is an effort toward perfection at every opportunity. I never rely on equipment alone to substitute for application of every skill and technical insight possible. I hope you enjoy my efforts as they’re shared here both from my Orange County photography and all the rest from my photographic experience.
One of my earlier retouches in photoshop. The original photo was pretty much washed out in the background due to exposure required for the subject bride. I cloned in the clouds from another photo with the stamp tool and blurred them. I had not yet begun using bracketing.
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A little too cold for the outdoor pool unless you’re just climbing into it while empty to play in your PJs.
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After our last major rain storm in Orange County, I took a morning walk in Fullerton on the hiking trails by the Brea Dam. The sun was out and spring flowers in February were the norm.
More photography for weddings and family at my photo website.
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It’s all a matter of perspective. Our winters are nearly the equivalent of a New England summer but I guess that’s why our real estate values are so high.
Photographed in Fullerton, CA – no photoshop or retouch.
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I wish my photos from the next day at the Grand Canyon had turned out as well as the ones from Zion National Park, but the haze settled in with the typical summer moisture in the canyon, allowing some nice, but not spectacular photography. This photo was taken mid-morning but the clouds were perfectly arranged.
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iPhoto, by design captures everything into a big encapsulated holding tank of its own. You’re not supposed to go in there, but let iPhoto manage and update all the pictures on its own, while you politely stand on the outside, asking for your own pictures, only via the interface. This is great if you never expect to manage your own photos, archive them or move some of the folders to, say, an external drive. If you want to do any of those things, iPhoto starts getting really wierd. This is even after you’ve told it to import without actually capturing the files, but referencing the folders where they are. You’d better not move those folders, or iPhoto will have a fit when you want to access them again- it will also have a fit when you try to delete and re-import the folder from its new location. Of course, iPhoto has its own memory of the old location, even after you’ve trashed it. It will warn you with each of the 500 photos you’re importing that it can’t find the source. It matters not, whether you tell it where to find it repeatedly.
I like the ease of use of iPhoto, especially how it drags and drops into Blogo, my favorite blog editor and updater for the Mac, but file management is not great. Picasa would be my choice, but for the Mac, Picasa has no, I repeat, NO drag and drop capacity. I wonder, will Google ever take a serious approach to Picasa for Mac?
This could be one of my best recent pictures of the siblings together. Taken at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton CA 2009
Taken in June, 2009 from Bethany’s rehearsal photography. This was the wedding of the summer for our family, of course! Bethany was (and still is) beautiful and gracious throughout the wedding preparation and ever since too. How lucky we are to know her!
