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congrats to Mindy + Dave!  I had the great pleasure of shooting their wedding at the lovely falkner winery and it was a pretty rockin’ party.  don’t let the over abundance of Phds in the room fool you - these folks with majors in fields you will never understand (and if you did they would have to kill you) can ROCK the house.

lovely day, lovely venue, lovely couple.. and to think it was all brought to us by a game of beer pong.

the stepladder cracked me up.  but seriously, some of these things are just so hard to get into.

hooray for first sights!!

and hooray for vineyards!

i love this shot not only because are they are obviously all less than enthused to catch the garter, but because one guy can’t be bothered to even put down the beer.   an instant fave for me. points to you, my beer drinking friend.

this shot below is one of my ALL TIME favorites.

thanks to everyone for such a great night, including the fab folks at the Winery, and DJ Mike for keeping the great tunes flowing.

Venue and Catering: Falkner Winery

DJ: Mike Farmer

Posted in Weddings

hello everyone, and hello blog!!   phew!  it’s been quite a couple of weeks.  finished off the year with some amazing weddings and a trip to mexico!  there’s so much on  my plate at the moment i’m not sure where to even start.  the universe did deliver a new square-one to me this week however, and that is my travel plans for december have been canceled.  i was supposed to leave for burma tomorrow, but the turmoil at the bangkok airport managed to snarl up my plans.  but, as with everything there is usually a bright side, and that is i will have more time to get things done at a slightly less breakneck pace.  and as i can’t get tickets home for christmas now, i have even more time.  that’s um, good, right?

my poor computer has simultaneously been uploading weddings, burning discs and exporting edited images for three days solid and the little CPU activity monitor is flashing at me telling it can’t take much more. my two DVD burners have quit in protest and i went to staples and brought in some scabs yesterday so that production may continue.

so, while my processor crunches away i’m starting to think about my new year resolutions- which really, it looks a whole like lot a to-do list.  but i am excited about having time to finally work on some of this stuff!  not sure my resolutions count as resolutions, but they’re things i really want to do!

have i missed anything?  anyone want to join me???

Posted in Personal

In just a few short hours I’ll be on a plane bound for Catriona + Daniel’s wedding in Playa del Carmen!  I can’t tell how excited i am about this, but it probably doesn’t take a ton of imagination to guess.

check out these digs!!

and as if things couldn’t get any better, my fantabulous friend and fellow photog Mary Kate is joining in the celebration!  we’re going to have several fun days of shooting combined with some sight seeing.  and if i have anything to say about it a scooter ride around cozumel..

“but wait, you’re taking a vacation NOW?”.  yes and no.  it’s a working vacation. while there WILL be fruity drinks involved, MK and I are both in the same, “omygodihavesomuchworktodoinsolittletime boat” and will be working away- it’ll just be from a balcony with a slightly better view.  and  as you may, um, have noticed, i haven’t been blogging and do apologize for that.  but the good news is i’ve been cranking out the wedding editing like nobody’s business.   while i love love blogging, it can take me a good day to get a blog post out.  i’ve taken that time and dedicated it to editing- which i’ve been doing like a maniac.  i plan on getting EVERYONE’S wedding out by December 9th.. yes, even you who got married in November!  hopefully this will be a fair trade off.  I WILL get to the blog posts eventually but i’m racing to get your photos done for you to share by Christmas.  I might try to sneak in a few teasers in between margaritas… um, i mean wedding editing.

I was also going to use this opportunity to share my next adventure with everyone.  I booked my tickets to Burma this week and am planning on flying out December 10th.  however with the world in an uproar and a possible coup in bangkok brewing, the plans may be in jeopardy. i will keep you all posted.  regardless, i’m going to do my best to stick to the Dec 9th deadline.

I will have internet access in Mexico, just not sure how fast and if I’l be able to upload any events from there.  but please email me if you have any questions.  I may be able to Skype ya back even.

Happy Holidays everyone!!!!

Posted in Travel, Uncategorized, Weddings

hey all!  yes, i’m still here! i’m  just buried under a good 20,000 images at this point.  i’ve been shooting shooting shooting and haven’t had time to do much else other than buy more hard drives.

i am headed back to the good old mid of west tomorrow for  a week for my mom’s bday and to get a bum tooth worked on (yay, vacation?) and will have limited internet access- my mom still hasn’t quite figurd out what a WEP key is yet, so when i do get online you will either get a garbled message from my iphone with it’s ever-so-helpful auto spell correction (go ahead, try and type “texting”), or a quick but well-written email from the corner of our unfinished basement where my computer will be proped up on a mountain of boxed star wars figures, linkin logs and other assorted toys from my childhood (as good as place as any to put a router, right?).  i will be available by phone as usual unless i am so traumatized by the dental procedures that i find a way to knock myself out for a week and prentend it never happened.

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