Spent some time at the dog park this evening (as James and I do pretty much every evening) but I brought my camera and here's some pictures for fun.  I know all the dogs' names but not the people and note that this is at our apartment complex so the view in the second picture is the view 100 feet from out apartment.  Oh I know the kiddo is Maui.  :)

It's almost a year later and I still am mind blown by how much I learned from the first wedding I ever photographed.  Ellie and Aaron really are an amazing couple and allowed me the honor of photographing their wedding in Grand Lake last summer.  Okay now I'm sure everyone is thinking how beautiful Grand Lake is (and it is, don't get me wrong) but even after doing staff photography, this church is still one of the most challenging locations I've ever photographed.  Several things made these photos challenging including but not limited to having 3 types of lighting inside, portraits right around noon, a GIANT (and I mean giant) window behind the alter, and to top it off I wasn't allowed to use flash in the church a per the paster's instructions.  So what does this mean?  It means that I should have been more confident with on camera fill-flash outside, I had to come up with more creative ways to shoot inside, and after HOURS of color correction black and white is still my best friend.  So here are some of the results from the day.

Engagement Session Winner

The Big Day

This last weekend I got the opportunity to team up with my friend and graphic designer Mia Huang (check her work out at www.miahuang.com) to work on some images for her portfolio.  I haven't done a ton of production work like this simply because there's really never been a need but it was fun to play with and of course I love working with lights.  So here are a variety of images from that, some that will end up on her portfolio site as mock ups.

KOKO Identiy

Just a test shot of a nice looking apple.  You can see where the shutter was at 1/250th of a second aka exact sync speed which caused a gradient.

Taiwan Tea

Mia is a woodblock printer at heart and here she's demonstrating how to print a few wood blocks she did for a tea packaging project.

And lastly just a few shots for her to mock up the cup and apron with the KOKO identy

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