Engagement sessions are one of my favorite things to shoot! I LOVE shooting couples together having fun! And to top it off, I get the just hang out and get to know the couple, not just point a camera at them.

Just the other day I was able to meet Megan and Christo! What an awesome couple! I had a blast with them! They are both graduating from medical school and getting ready to start their residency. Wow… I picked their brains for at least an hour over lunch and I learned a TON! I thought residency was just something where you applied where you wanted to go, just like a job. Boy was I wrong… I’m really excited for them because it sounds like there are some pretty cool options for them with their residency!

I can’t wait for Megan and Christo’s wedding. They are getting married at the Outdoor Art Club in Mill Valley, fairly near my old stomping grounds in Santa Rosa!

Christina and Steve’s wedding was sooo fun! Small weddings are cool because I usually get to spend a much higher percentage of the day alone with the couple just shooting pictures of the two of them!

We started out with a quick ceremony in the Mural Room at the Santa Barbara Courthouse. That room is a photo-shoot in-and-of itself! So fun and beautiful!

After the ceremony, Christina and Steve, along with my cousin (who spent the day as my second shooter) and myself, cruised over to Butterfly Beach for some sweet pictures on the sand!

Steve is a big game hunter/guide by profession. He and Christina met on safari he was guiding in Africa (Steve is South African) The two of them later spent a good deal of time in Africa together studying and documenting wasps which pollunate the Fig trees. I believe they might be releasing a book on the subject in the future! Christina actually went to my Ala Matar (Brooks Institute of Photography)

I’m such a computer geek that sometimes I realize that maybe I should be embarrassed… And I think this is one of those times.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has become a little side hobby that I’m trying to educate myself on (ok… I enjoy a TON of side hobbies… but this just happens to be one I spend too much time on for how little I know.)

Part of staying up on this for myself, I am constantly hitting Google and searching for Tim Halberg or Tim Halberg Photography.

The idea is, your own website with your namesake should pop up first… well, sadly, my former blog, which was hijacked several months ago by someone who is posting other people’s pictures up, now comes up first when you search for my name. Weird, you’d think a search for Tim Halberg would get timhalberg.com to show up as the first result… scary. I just wish I could contact the guy and find a way to get that url back.

Saturday was another rainy day in Santa Barbara, meaning, another day of being couped up indoors. So Cheryl and I decided it was the perfect day for two photographers to take a photographic adventure to Ojai.

It was a great break from editing and working away in the office.

Enjoy:





You can see more pictures on Cheryl’s Blog.

I spend quite a bit of time at home working away on photos, emails, etc., and when this past Saturday rolled around I was a little bummed that it was raining in Santa Barbara since I was itching to be outside! (I had a photo session scheduled with Jordan but her mom and I decided to postpone it for brighter weather, seeing as it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to take an 8 month old out in the pouring rain! ;) )

Tim and I love shooting in stormy weather though, and we decided not to pass the day away cooped up inside watching movies and sipping a warm drink (which I absolutely love doing from time to time!). Instead, we hopped into our Toyota Tacoma and started driving towards Ojai, for a photo adventure! Along the way we drove by Lake Casitas, detoured on a few roads that looked interesting and pulled off to the side to exercise the creative sides of our brains! We had such a blast!

Tim’s eye for fine art always challenges me to do the same, and rainy days make for a great source of inspiration for just that!

All along our drive there were tons of small rock slides! At times it made me nervous, but we made it through safely :). Here is one rock that made it all the way to the middle of the road, I couldn’t resist getting up close to it for an interesting perspective.

Tim steeling the shot I took just seconds ago ;)! Actually it’s supper fun to see how he photographs the same subject, we tend to approach them in an entirely different way, perhaps that helps us be such a good team! Hopefully he’ll post his shot from this on his blog :).

Umm… not much to say here ;)… just my husband’s funny way of getting sick shots :)

And the aftermath of him rolling around on the wet pavement! :). My husband’s so awesome! I love him to death! :)