Yearly Archives: 2006

Excited for 2007!

Wow! 2007 is shaping up to be a lot of fun! So far, we’ve booked weddings in Colorado — Vail, Estes Park, and Beaver Creek, to name a few places — as well as Santa Barbara, the beachside hamlet of Cayucos, Carmel, and the Bahamas! The venues are going to be out of this world!...

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Chateaux at Fox Meadows

One thing that’s super cool about this job is hearing back from clients after you’ve shot their wedding. It’s so rewarding to know they’re totally psyched about their wedding images. When you work at a newspaper, the only people you hear back from are those who are annoyed with you, so it’s refreshing to get...

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How to set up a Blog

So getting this blog set up was fairly easy — here’s what you need if you want to do it and if your site is hosted like mine. (GoDaddy is my domain service, and httpme is my host.) I downloaded WordPress (free blogging software), uncompressed the archive and uploaded it to the /blog/ directory on...

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The 85!

Lately I’ve have a number of people ask me about the lenses I’m using to achieve that weird-yet-cool-can’t-put-your-finger-on-it look in some of my shots. The secret? Canon’s 85mm f/1.2L. The lens itself is like a work of art, and it’s considered by many to be the Holy Grail of bokeh; the background blur it produces...

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How to sync your Google calendar to iCal without delegates

Sorry for getting off topic here — this is a community service post of sorts. I’m posted this in July 2010 but I am purposefully backdating it so it doesn’t clutter the blog — and if you actually FIND this post, it means you were probably intentionally looking for it. Getting on with it. My...

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