I met Stephanie and Jared at Joella and Drew’s wedding - we hit it off and they hired me to do their wedding at Ixtapa. It worked out great since I had a wedding a week after theirs in Mexico so I just stayed.
The wedding party is mostly skydivers so Jared and his groomsmen skydived to the wedding. One of them almost took me out actually while landing. It probably looked closer through the lens than it really was. Regardless, we had tons of fun, and there was even a fiesta after the wedding at the hotel square, and we stayed up until late with the wedding party.
The next day we did some day-after photos, even rented jet ski’s which was supposed to be the most dangerous part but it worked out well. However while shooting in knee deep water, I got attacked by a sneaky wave - there goes my camera and lens! You can see the photo of it couple posts down.
You can see the rest of the photos here.
a little late to getting ready
arriving at the ceremony:
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The day before Christine’s wedding, we did a session of bridal portraits. Bridal portraits are not very common in Pacific NW but more so in East coast, so I was excited for the opportunity. Christine is also a photographer, so that made it even more fun!
Here are some photos, more can be seen here.
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I will post more about this later (I am currently out of town with a non-English keyboard!), but WPJA just announced their Photographer of the Year results and I was the runner up. The first place went to a fantastic Italian photographer, so I guess this makes me first place in USA? LOL. I lost by a hair too, so I guess I should enter all four competitions, not just three. Who cares actually, I don’t mind being dead last as long as my clients love their photos. Still, it is huge honors considering WPJA is a selective organization and the best photographers in the world are the members. Some of them are Pulitzer award winners actually, so to be named among that select group makes me really proud!
Yay! I won first place again in WPPI Photojournalistic Humor Category! I won it when they first started the category back in 2004 (my first time entering WPPI competitions), and this year I won again. I think this kinda makes me the funniest photographer around? Here is the image:
Due to intense travel schedule, before I left town, I forgot to renew my domain. Yup. So one morning last week, I open my website and there was a search engine in it’s place. I had to sit down for couple minutes and felt like all of my energy was sucked down. Luckily, my hosting provider gives 30 day grace period so I was able to claim it back (and for the maximum length I could), but some of my emails are lost and I was out of touch with the world for 3 long days.
So if you emailed me and have not heard back, that is probably why.