Rj and Kaitlyn PT 1

I had the privilege of photographing my friends Rj and Kaitlyn last week. I took a lot of photos of them and had a lot of fun doing it. I'll post more images soon.

Just Hanging Around

One of my favorite images of this set.

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christmas came early ...

June 10, 2010

I am currently working on updating my web site to include wedding images as well as my personal black and white project that I am working on as well.

inspiration

I found this photo on my hard drive and has gotten me motivated.

Meet the Dimas Family

I've been fortunate enough to know Brittney (purple outfit) since I was 5 years old. We grew up together. Went to school together from kindergarden all the way through high school. I'm very blessed to have friends like her that I have known for the majority of my life. Her mom, Sheila approached me about doing a family photo shoot and this is some of my favorites from the shoot.

The cute little boys name is John and there will be more photos coming of him soon.

Role Reversal

Today I had my buddy Spencer come over and take some portraits of me for my new web site that I will be launching soon. Heres some of my favorite images from the shoot. 

(photos taken by Spencer Rice, edited by Me.)

My TV Debut.

What does a banjo player, hypnotherapists, a christian singer and I have in common? We were all on the Morris Show last night. The Morris Show? It's a public access show that spotlights up and coming people around my community. Now this wasn't an Harpo productions or Dr Phil or anything, the show aired on a public access channel. Morris and I are going to do a few photo shoots some time between yesterday and my next appearance. Here are a few photos from the show. Hopefully I will have a video to post by the end of the week.

Morris and I

Morris and I and part of the banjo player

November 3, 2009

Here are some more image that I really liked that I took of Monika and Heath.

Oct 24th, 2009

What a week. I made the voyage from Modesto to Santa Barbara to hang out with some friends that i miss and love so much. I was couch surfin' on my Zach's couch. Had a pretty productive few days: calibrated my computer screen, scanned old family photos and saw a bunch of friends and eventually drove down to LA to hang out with Justin. Saw his and Ada's new apartment which was totally decked out with the latest and greatest Ikea furniture. After we ate dinner, Justin, ada and I went out to dinner at a Japanese restaurant that I can't remember the name of. It was really good though.

After dinner we headed to the main event of the night. Kyle's art gallery show. I've been friends with kyle since I started back at Brooks Institute in 2006. His photography style is off the hook. He sees things from such a completely different perspective that the things that he creates are truly amazing. I'm blessed to not only call him a fellow photographer but a really good friend.

At the show there were something like 25 photographers in the show. There were all different types of styles and subjects that everyone photographed. This guy did a panoramic of the Effel Tower. Thats some crazy matte board cutting skills to go around the image.

This was my favorite piece that kyle had in the show. 

It crazy how within a year things have changed so much. I remember when all of us where in school together it was hard to not find at least two of us hanging out and now we are all spread out. Erin and Darin living in Florida. Rachel and Lily living in Michigan. I'm in Modesto. Zachs in Santa Barbara. Julianne is in San Diego. Kyle, Derek and Justin are in Pasadena. 

ok so maybe that was a little more info than you needed but my point is that we all come from different places to support each other. I am truly blessed. 

mr kyle wong.


Zach


Julianne, Kyle and Justin


Family

Monika and Heath

Anything worth doing is based off of love. If its marriage, a career, friendships, etc. I have been really blessed to have had a core of friends that I have known for the majority of my life as well as others who I have met along the journey that we call life.

A few days ago I got the great pleasure to photograph a life long friend's adorable baby boy, Heath. To put how long I have known Monika, lets just say that we say we have known each other since the first grade. Now I'm a college graduate, she went off to the air force and found the love of her life and now has Heath. Isn't if funny how life works some times ?

So a few days ago I met Monika for lunch and then came over to my place for a little photo shoot of Heath. I wish I could have gotten a chance sooner to do this because Heath is now 6 months old so he was trying to crawl all over the place. To make life a little easier, I placed my bed near my window in my room and just let Heath be Heath. We gave him a few things to play with to be entertained by. The kid is going to be a baseball player some day. He was all over the baseball and was just as happy as could be.  Here is a few of my favorite images taken on that day. 

It's been a while ...

Since I last made a blog post. Lately I've been doing some wine tasting. Its a new experience for me and I am actually starting to like it. I was doing some thinking one day and needed to come up with a strategy for what I wanted to do with my photography as far as marketing goes and I came up with marketing towards wineries. Upon doing my research, I found that there are a ton of wineries within an hr and a half drive each way of my home town. Last week I made my first wine tasting experience at a winery called Borra Vineyards. They are a very small winery compared to some of the big dogs like Gallo, Beringer and McWilliams. But nonetheless make some really good wine. I learned that within the Lodi area, the wineries mainly make Red Wines like merlot, Barbara and cabernet sauvignon due to the climate. Anyways, here are some photos I took both at the winery and after I bought some wine to photograph because I was bored


Tons of barrels of wine maturing before they get bottled. Most of the wine in these barrels are from 2007.


mmm grapes


This is Markus, he is the assistant Winemaker and he gave me a tour of the facility.


This is Bruce, He told me all about Borra Vineyards wine in the tasting room.
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This was one of my favorite types of wines that Borra Vineyards produces, Barbera


Some other wine I bought from Bev-Mo. Beringer Moscato


and a Calloway Cabernet Sauvignon


Thats all I got for now though.

July 22, 2009

Yesterday I took some photos of my little cousins, these are my favorites.