Congrats, friends, on your happy engagement! I know you'll have a wonderful future together!
<3
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Stephen & Melissa - Engaged!!!
Last weekend, I got to spend an afternoon at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens in Claremont with Stephen & Melissa. We had a great session (that totally wasn't awkward), and I'm really looking forward to their wedding next January!
Congrats, friends, on your happy engagement! I know you'll have a wonderful future together!
<3
Congrats, friends, on your happy engagement! I know you'll have a wonderful future together!
<3
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
4th & Main
A little secret: I have a favorite street. Actually, it's a bit more like a block. Located in the Old Bank district between Spring and Main, is a little stretch of 4th Street that looks like someone lifted a street out of New York and plopped it down right smack dab in the middle of Downtown L.A.
It's all full of galleries and Art Deco buildings, little bistros, and hundred-year-old offices and hotels that have been converted into apartments. During Christmas, the city hangs swaths of icy blue lights down the whole street. Every once in a while, traffic will be blocked off because they're shooting an episode of CSI New York or something similar there - which is amusing as it involves things like Gary "Lt. Dan" Sinise and "authentic" NYC police cruisers.
A couple of weeks ago, I met two lovely old friends for dinner at one of my favorite spots anywhere: Pete's Cafe & Bar on 6th & Main (Home of the best grilled cheese I've ever eaten). I showed up a few minutes early and took the time to snap a few shots (and, alas, to discover the demise of Lost Souls - the secret coffee shop that is no more).
Sherry, Me, & Becky :)
It's all full of galleries and Art Deco buildings, little bistros, and hundred-year-old offices and hotels that have been converted into apartments. During Christmas, the city hangs swaths of icy blue lights down the whole street. Every once in a while, traffic will be blocked off because they're shooting an episode of CSI New York or something similar there - which is amusing as it involves things like Gary "Lt. Dan" Sinise and "authentic" NYC police cruisers.
A couple of weeks ago, I met two lovely old friends for dinner at one of my favorite spots anywhere: Pete's Cafe & Bar on 6th & Main (Home of the best grilled cheese I've ever eaten). I showed up a few minutes early and took the time to snap a few shots (and, alas, to discover the demise of Lost Souls - the secret coffee shop that is no more).
Sherry, Me, & Becky :)
Friday, April 8, 2011
In For The Long Hall
One of the kind of cool things about staying in the same area for as long as I have is that you get to watch people grow up.
My dad is pretty well known for commenting on this, reminding people often that he remembers them when they were just sooooo tiny. It's a little bit weird that I'm starting to have those sorts of comments too. (I recently said the exact same thing to my young friend Natalie - now a Senior in high school, who I've known since she was just an infant. Even as the words were coming out of my mouth, I was thinking:"I can't believe I'm saying this!")
My dad is rather notorious amongst the Hall kids for mentioning this fact to them; especially now that the Hall kids are in fact, all growed up, and there's an entirely new batch of (really fun) littles running around with that label.
Last November I go to spend a bit of time with some Hall kids - both the grown up kind, and the kind still measuring their ages by their fingertips.
Here they are, the Halls #s 1 & 2! :)
My dad is pretty well known for commenting on this, reminding people often that he remembers them when they were just sooooo tiny. It's a little bit weird that I'm starting to have those sorts of comments too. (I recently said the exact same thing to my young friend Natalie - now a Senior in high school, who I've known since she was just an infant. Even as the words were coming out of my mouth, I was thinking:"I can't believe I'm saying this!")
My dad is rather notorious amongst the Hall kids for mentioning this fact to them; especially now that the Hall kids are in fact, all growed up, and there's an entirely new batch of (really fun) littles running around with that label.
Last November I go to spend a bit of time with some Hall kids - both the grown up kind, and the kind still measuring their ages by their fingertips.
Here they are, the Halls #s 1 & 2! :)
Monday, March 28, 2011
Creepy Stuff
Ok. So rewind again back to last summer.
I posted a couple of pictures a while back from my cousin's wedding in San Jose. What I didn't mention before is that on the way home, we stopped at this place called Casa de Fruta -- a giant farmers market with a weird little park attached to it.
They had the creepiest carousel there:
Sends shivers up your spine, right?
The crazy part? I encountered the exact same creepy carousel a few weeks later at the fair!!!
Crazy, right?!
And actually, there was just all sorts of creepy going on at the fair this year...
Creepy Fortune Teller Booth:
Creepy Clown Murals:
Creepy Mannequin Dude:
Creepy Mannequin Dude still being Creepy from far away:
Creepy Mermaid:
Creepy Dinosaur:
And Creepy Brightly-Lit-Empty-Fairgrounds:
*Shivers*
I posted a couple of pictures a while back from my cousin's wedding in San Jose. What I didn't mention before is that on the way home, we stopped at this place called Casa de Fruta -- a giant farmers market with a weird little park attached to it.
They had the creepiest carousel there:
Sends shivers up your spine, right?
The crazy part? I encountered the exact same creepy carousel a few weeks later at the fair!!!
Crazy, right?!
And actually, there was just all sorts of creepy going on at the fair this year...
Creepy Fortune Teller Booth:
Creepy Clown Murals:
Creepy Mannequin Dude:
Creepy Mannequin Dude still being Creepy from far away:
Creepy Mermaid:
Creepy Dinosaur:
And Creepy Brightly-Lit-Empty-Fairgrounds:
*Shivers*
Oh Yeah... I Have A Blog!
A couple of weeks ago, someone asked if I had a photography blog.
Woops.
That was a big fat reminder that I do, but fail to post on it. (seriously, I deserve a spot on failblog, I'm that bad).
Even worse, I've been super busy, photographically speaking, and have lots of stuff to actually share.
Speaking of which....
I've been asked to do a lot of family photos these past few months. Scary because frankly, I'm not that good with the posed stuff and feel so much more at home with a candid style of photography. Practice makes perfect though, and I'm starting to feel more comfortable in this realm.
Thank you to everyone who has allowed me to practice on them!
This first batch is from all the way back in October and features my good friends, Richie and Allison and their two adorable little munchkins, Jackson and Ella. One dreary, rainy sort of day our plans to go to Oak Glenn for pictures was thwarted and instead we ended up in a business park of all places.
The results:
They turned out kinda fun, right?
Woops.
That was a big fat reminder that I do, but fail to post on it. (seriously, I deserve a spot on failblog, I'm that bad).
Even worse, I've been super busy, photographically speaking, and have lots of stuff to actually share.
Speaking of which....
I've been asked to do a lot of family photos these past few months. Scary because frankly, I'm not that good with the posed stuff and feel so much more at home with a candid style of photography. Practice makes perfect though, and I'm starting to feel more comfortable in this realm.
Thank you to everyone who has allowed me to practice on them!
This first batch is from all the way back in October and features my good friends, Richie and Allison and their two adorable little munchkins, Jackson and Ella. One dreary, rainy sort of day our plans to go to Oak Glenn for pictures was thwarted and instead we ended up in a business park of all places.
The results:
They turned out kinda fun, right?
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