Shawn & Whitney

I shot a couple of pictures for my brother who was making Shawn & Whitney Swapp's wedding video.

The next three pictures are more Lensbaby pictures. I just love this lens!

Cami & Steve

I shot a bunch of candid pictures for my cousin, Cami and her new husband Steve last week. It was so much fun to be there, just shooting from the sidelines. I had my favorite lens with me which let me stand very far back and not interfere with what was going on. I love candid pictures more than anything. Even when I take more traditional "posed" pictures I try to make them look candid and natural. By the way, I hate the word posed, but I used it for lack of a better word. I'll have to work on that one and come up with a better word, but until then, I guess it'll have to stay.

I just couldn't get enough of little Suzy.

My Adorable Sisters

My two youngest sisters were in the Northridge High School musical Thoroughly Modern Millie last week. The show was really awesome, thanks in no small part to Mr. Jonathan Gochberg returning to help the drama department which was in dire need of his assistance. But seriously though, don't I have the cutest sisters? They'll make stunning brides...someday.

What a bunch or posers!

Joe & Jen

One of my big brothers, Joe, just got married not too long ago. He's pretty much my best friend ever. I had so much to do that day helping get everything ready that I couldn't be really be his photographer. Fortunately my good friend, Tyler Cahoon took most of his pictures. I don't have any of his copies, but I have a few shots of my own. Check these out. You'll like them.

Here's the fun part. I took an old Canon Rebel film camera with me and it was surprisingly cool. I'll admit, I'm a child of the digital age and I wouldn't have it any other way, but film is very cool. It's growning on me, to say the least. Now I see that when I'm editing in Photoshop, I'm more and more often going for so many of the film looks that I like so much. Anyway, check these pictures out. Oh, and just because I said that they were genuine film pictures, that doesn't mean that I didn't edit them in Photoshop, because I did. It's a very healthy collaboration. Why not have the best of both worlds, right?






PS-I came across a very cool blog of a local (Utah) photographer named Jonathan Canlas who shoots 100% with film. I'd like to meet him. If film is what you're after, he's your man. I don't know that you'll find a better shooter trained in the ancient arts than him.

Jenny's Portraits

I just had to grab a couple of pictures of my little sister, Jenny, before her short hair grew out again. Doesn't it look awesome?! It took months of persuasion to get her to cut it.

NYC - The Rest of 'Em

Okay, I think that I have all of my other pictures from my little getaway last month to the Big Apple and the Hill Cumorah Pageant.

Here's me at the Hill Cumorah Pageant.


What an encouraging thought, courtesy of the National Museum of........, something - science or history, I think. Oh well.



Angie and me on the Staten Island Ferry. In case you're wondering how I was able to get all of these shots and still be in the picture, it was all thanks to a Joby tripod. Check them out. They're very cool!


This has got to be one of the coolest Apple Stores ever. It's the midtown Manhattan store, I think. It was just kitty-corner to Central Park.


Pirates of the Caribbean 2 came out sometime in July.


"Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him Horatio/A fellow of infinite jest" (Hamelt, V, i., l.184). It's just me getting my Shakespeare on with one of the Pirates skulls at the Disney store.


We probably had way too much fun at the Disney Store.



Here's us at the Rockefeller Center.


It's just not fair! Angie's ghetto picture is so much better than mine.



We just couldn't visit Manhattan without stopping by the Manhattan LDS temple. It was amazing, to say the least!


And who can go to New York City without visiting Broadway?


I totally agree! It (Wicked) really was one spectacular spectacle. I hope that phrase isn't trademarked, ;-)


This was the other musical there and here's Angie goofing around with it's poster. It was something about a spelling bee. I'm sure that it was okay and all, but I'm just glad that we got Wicked tickets early.


This is the sign for all of the parks in the city and it may surprise you to know that there are a lot, usually at least one or two within walking distance.


And since we're talking about parks, who wouldn't recognize Flushing Meadows park? For those of you who don't recognize it, just think of Men in Black, where the cockroach alien went to get his alternate means of transportation. The MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) put these cool stain glass art pieces up since the time I moved away from the city and this last visit. I like them.


Speaking of art, how about the graffiti on these walls? I wish I would have had more time to take pictures of some of the cool graffiti, but luckily I was able to snag this picture from the 7 train.


Angie (my sister) and me.



Angie, Dan and me, just texting our lives away.


And to think, before I lived in New York, I thought that highway construction was bad. The truth be told, it's nothing compared to subway construction. The maps were practically useless.


Here's me at Ground Zero. I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, but I never saw ground zero, not even in the news (I was a missionary, after all). It was so crazy to be there 5 years later. I could only imagine what it must have been like.


And speaking of 9-11...


So, how is my poker face?


Some pics of the subway stops. This was a popular stop for the missionaries because the most central chapel in the mission was right there.



I had been walking all day and I was very tired, so I only thought it appropriate when I found someone's tag which read "sleepy."


Here's me again. Still sleepy. Thanks for the picture, Ang. It's a keeper.


This is one of me on one of the smaller bridges in Queens. It's really hard to frame a shot up and be in it too, all by yourself.


I lived in Queens, in Long Island City for a few months. Long Island City isn't far from the Woodside stop.


I passed this library everyday for the last three months of my mission.