My best friend Erik and I have long dreamed of playing in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas! Hopefully if both of us are successful in our careers, someday in the future we can afford to plop down $10,000 cash in order to play in the world’s biggest poker tournament!!!

This year’s tournament is limited to 12,000 players!!! And no doubt they’ve filled that along with alternates!!! That’s about $120,000,000 (yes 120 million) in play!!!! WOW!!!!

I’ve heard stories about guys who knew guys who have played in the WSOP. Well, this year, I’m a guy who knows a guy playing! One of my photographer buddies Becker is playing this year! He won a seat at the tournament by playing in and winning a satellite tournament earlier this year!

He’s made it through the first day (there’s 4 first days!!! with a total of 12 days of play for one single game/tournament!!) He returns tomorrow I believe to play in “day 2″ of the tournament. At this point, it’s cheaper for me to live vicariously through his entry!! Can’t wait to see how he does!

If you hadn’t heard, today was a VERY popular wedding date!! I think I had more than 20 leads for today, but we could only shoot one, and I’m sooo glad we got to shoot Nancy and Eric’s wedding!!!

Eric and Nancy had their beautiful ceremony at the Ventura Mission/San Buenaventura Mission and had a rocking reception at the Ventura Marriott!!

When couples are beautiful it always makes taking pictures sooo easy, and seeing these two are super hot and totally into the pictures, we were able to get some really good stuff!!

To check out their slideshow click here!!!

To order prints when they are ready, click here!!!

I love my job as a wedding photographer!, and I love it even more when I get to go out and second shoot for a friend. This means they get all the responsibility, and I just get to play around!!!

Doug is a buddy of mine from Brooks. He is an awesome wedding photographer who lives in Tahoe (good runner up for most beautiful place in California, second only to Yosemite and Santa Barbara)

You can check out the slideshow through Doug’s blog by clicking here!!!

wow… I did a TON of work at the beginning of the year to try and set myself up better in the Google rankings, and it’s finally starting to look like the countless LATE LATE nights have paid off…

TimHalberg.com is finally showing up on the first page of Google for searches, such as Santa Barbara Destination Wedding Photographer

I think we have quite a few other key-words we’re showing up for, and that’s super exciting! Finally people can find our website by searching for us online super easy!!

Now if only I showed up at the top of the list for searches like Hawaii Wedding Photographer, Italy Wedding Photographer and California Wedding Photographer.

Now if I can only devote this much time in other areas of my life with as much success!!!

I’ve gotta give massive props to our new web designer Ryan!!! We are soooo excited to have partnered up with an amazing web designer who’s helping to reshape our look and style.

Along with an updated site design, we also created a new logo:

There’s a ton of updates to come and I can’t wait to share it all with you guys!

Cheryl’s site is next, along with a new splash page to help unify our two sites and a ton more!!

I plan to update timhalberg.com with all new pictures and galleries here in the next month, so definitely keep your eyes peeled for a newsletter/blog post when we do!

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