Articles tagged ‘California’



Most people often have a lot of things they say they’ll “get back to” when they have the time.
Well I’ve got tens of thousands of those things.

And right now I’m getting back to a few thousand of them… from May of 08 when I drove down to Caliornia to do a wedding and proceeded to spend a week traveling around California.

I went through several deserts, including mojave, anso borego and death valley.
I went to the san diego vild animal park.
Traveled up the PCH all the way to San Fransisco.
Visited the Salton Sea.
Spent some time in the Sierra’s including Yosemite.
And made lots of other random stops along the journey.

I will proceed to edit them nice and show them off over the course of a few posts.

The first set is from the first couple of days.
Gallery Here

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(above) Some Highlights from wild animal park.

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(Below) I can’t even remember the name of this place… I don’t think I owned a GPS for my camera at that time either.
Big sand dune.

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More of the Wild Animal Park

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Old Friends’ Families

Written on January 28, 2010 Posted in Family Photography


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I can count on one hand how many times I’ve been back to the place I grew up since I went away to college.
I was lucky to have a wedding back down in San Diego so I stayed a couple extra days and went to church on sunday, back in the same building I spent countless hours while in jr. high and High School.

While roaming the halls I saw two old friends and of course they had large families by now.
So I told them lets go outside and take some pictures.

We went in the back so we wouldn’t interupt as many people and the kids could run around at ease a bit more.
We just kind of hung out for a while and watched the kids play like kids are known to do.

Why not right? It was more fun for me to chat while a camera was in my hand and while the kids ran around doing fun things.
Plus it’s nice to do nice things for old friends.
Specially the ones that keep in contact the most on facebook.

Even organized a couple of group things.

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You might think I made the poor kid cry… but I stand innocent.
I suppose sometimes kids just cry. I know that never happens to any of your kids.

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Parents aren’t supposed to have favorites… but photographers can.
This red-head is a model in the making.

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Sacramento Wedding

Written on July 24, 2009 Posted in Wedding Pictures


We came back later in the day… Thus no one around.
I think i’ve seen every schedule possible for a wedding day… but I must admit this was the first time I took group pictures and then left for the luncheon and then came back for the couple pictures.
I liked it… a bit less rush.

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For those that didn’t hear it last time… Sacramento LDS temple is probably one of my favorite temples to shoot at!

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My philosophy on group pictures is: Let them decide, I’ll just make it look good.
I don’t want to put groups into situations they think are gonna be terribly cheesy.
But if they think of it themselves they’re probably good with it.

This way I get new ones each time and if they’re a more traditional group I’m not putting them into some elaborate set up they won’t even appreciate when a straight line is probably all they want.

Sometimes the good ol’ fashion jump is amongst the best… and this is amongst the most entertaining of them… as far as faces go.

To view the entire album go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8840079_qymoP

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Sacramento Wedding

Written on January 14, 2009 Posted in Wedding Pictures


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First of all let me say that I LOVED shooting at the Sacramento LDS Temple

The temple Grounds were wonderful, with lots of places to shoot:
Little river beds, archways, fountains, plenty of places to sit, nice windows and doors, and a great place for group pictures if people are up for it.

Full Gallery – Highlights first
Full Gallery – Chronological

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A Photography Price Study

Written on January 28, 2008 Posted in website


THE SEARCH
I have commenced a long process of searching for all photographers.
I am starting with Utah and focusing on Wedding Photographers

My database so far for Utah is 300+ Photographers, 100 Californian Photographers, 75 Colorado 50NY

A Mega-Database
I am storing lots of information for each photographer, most importantly a link to their site.
Eventually I will share this information on a massive informational website… kinda like a price/product comparison site.

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Taking the Long road back…

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On the way back from taking pictures at a wedding in Los Angeles
I stopped at places like Joshua Tree National Park (Above)

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And along the Coast (Above)
And I spent some time in San Diego (Including Old Town San Diego – Below)

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And a San Diego Padres baseball game. (Below)

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I also took a short 3 hour tour through Mexico (Below)
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And Finally I spent 2 days at Zion National Park doing 3 popular hikes. (Below)

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Of the 3000+ pictures 150 were selected for these galleries

They are divided into two sections.

LA to Mexico
(which includes a substantial amount of pictures from Joshua Tree National Park)

Zion’s National Park

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Genny & Dan (Los Angeles)

Written on August 29, 2007 Posted in Reception Pictures, Wedding Pictures


Genny and Dan’s wedding at the Los Angeles LDS temple and reception in Pasedena

 

Open Gallery

 

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Full galleries require a password : from myself or the wedding couple

 

Couple, Temple, Group, Reception, Luncheon and others

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