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. 

October 5th, 2009

You know its been a long time since you last posted when it takes you three times to come up with the proper password to log in. With that said, it has been a long times since I last posted something. Over a month I believe. Long time, thats like an eternity if kyle did that. 

For right now, I am back in Modesto after graduating from Brooks Institute this past June. At first, I wasn't shooting at all because I was preparing myself for my classes that I was teaching as well as doing some hardcore marketing to get my name out there.

Well, some of my marketing has paid off and I recently did a photo shoot for a winery out of Madera, CA called Mariposa Wine Company. They are a small winery trying to hang with the big boys like Gallo and Beringer. Apparently, my timing was on point with them because when I sent them a cold email they got back to me really fast and begun discussing what they wanted to do. 

The shoot was really fun and easy going just how I like things to go.

Just a little FYI, I am also working on redoing my web site. I hope that I'll have it launched soon, thats all for now.

Ryan

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.

July 12th, 2009

I love going through the archives and finding gems like this. Hopefully I will get out of my slump and edit some more stuff from the junkyard soon and show the 3 of you that follow my blog some really good stuff. Thats all I got for now.

July 9, 2009

Heres one from the junkyard. More will come soon.

oh, i almost forgot this little guy.

July 1, 2009

Wow, it's crazy how time flies. Last sunday I graduated from Brooks Institute on Sunday. The very next day, I started my teaching career. I was fortunate enough to land a gig teaching photography classes at my Junior College through their recreation program. I was teaching photography to 10-14 year olds. At first I was really nervous but once I started talking the nerves where gone. I'm not going to lie though, the very first day, I wasn't as prepared as I should have been but I learned. I never thought of how much preparation goes into teaching until that day. Enough of me talking, here are a few photos that some of the kids took. I was impressed considering how old they are. 

NOTE: The only editing to these images was some slight curves adjustment in photoshop other than that it is the kids shot entirely.



Taken by Nick - Age 10 


Taken by Andree - Age 14


Taken by Ashley - age 13



Taken by Carolyn - Age 11

Class photo.