Local Santa Barbara Wedding Photographer Andrew Van Gundy AKA - “AVG,” AKA - “The Wedding Photog,” asked me to shoot some portraits of him yesterday for his new website, and for his girlfriend.

We took a quick trip up to Westmont to shoot in front of a very cool dilapidated house on the campus, shot a few head shots Zoolander style, and then some quick pictures to capture a bit of his personality!

Saturday our awesome friends David and Danielle took us for a sail on their sail boat in Santa Barbara!

It was such a beautiful day! (I think they were giving me a test run to see if I got sea sick. They we’re trying to convince me and Cheryl that we should go with them on their next sail to the Channel Islands! And trust me, we’ll definitely sign up for that trip!!!)

I was able to capture sooo many beautiful pictures on our trip! I can’t wait to do it again!!!

Here’s just a few of my favorites! I think I’ll be posting up a slideshow just like I do with my wedding photography because there are too many pictures to share here.

Oh, and for anyone who was wondering about these pictures, they were all taken with my Canon 10d which I had converted to infrared by my buddy Brody Dezember. As a wedding photographer I love using this camera when I shoot weddings because it gives such a surreal effect!!

I can’t believe I forgot to post about this!

I had the greatest time this past Saturday holding a mini-workshop of sorts for two fellow California based wedding photographers, Doug Miranda and Alex Robb.

Both of these guys had contacted me seperately saying they wanted to spend a day hanging out talking wedding shop, so I decided it was the perfect chance to do a tiny photography workshop here in beautiful Santa Barbara!!!

It was really cool to see where both of these guys are at and where they’re headed!

Alex Robb was my high school photography teacher in Tehachapi, and he’s wanting to supplement his income with wedding photography so that his wife can stay at home with their very cute daugther!!

Doug is moving up to Tahoe in April to open up shop in one of the most beautiful areas of California!

Both Doug and Alex attended my alamater Brooks Institute of Photography, so it was really fun to get together and share our “war” stories.