Carlton and Paola contacted me for their wedding on the ULTIMATE date! Lead Day!!!! How freaking fun is that! I actually wanted to get married on Leap Day, but then I found out I’d have to wait over a year longer to get married, and so I said scratch that. So, it worked out perfect and I was still free to photograph this super fun wedding!

And, the coolest thing, Carlton and Paola gave me something like 3 hours alone with them after the wedding ceremony to do photos of the two of them all around Santa Barbara!! They also made my day because they were super stoked on having us shoot black and white film for them! (we’re shooting more and more film at our weddings and it’s just sooo beautiful!)

Check out their slideshow here to see a ton more really fun pictures!

Ilford Delta 3200 - gotta LOVE that grain!

Who said a picture had to be in focus to be beautiful? LOVE it!

I’ve managed to photograph three weddings (two here in Santa Barbara) without blogging a single one!

So, enough of that, I’m going to play catchup here over the next couple of days.

Nate and Kristen are friends of ours and it was such an honor and so fun at the same time to be a part of their wedding day. Watching them grow in their relationship is something that we don’t get to do with most of our couples. These two are seriously THE sweetest/kindest/loving couple ever! Their wedding was on February 9 with their wedding ceremony at our church: Reality Carpinteria with the wedding reception in Santa Barbara at the Cabrillo Arts Pavillion.

Check out Nate and Kristen’s slideshow by clicking here.

I just missed my self imposed deadline of getting a newsletter done in February… so, I should have a ton of new stuff to share in that which hasn’t been on my blog. But, since the newsletter probably won’t be sent until next week, I figured it might be good to share a bit of what I’ve been up to and why we’ve been so busy.

We’ve been shooting weddings, and I haven’t had a chance to share those pictures… but those will be in the newsletter.

I just photographed the MOST AMAZING and beautiful event setup done by Armando from Alegria by Design! He is truly gifted and talented! Anyone should be so lucky as to have him design their wedding or event! I will share pictures from this hopefully in the next week.

I’ve been speaking a bit lately, once to the Wedding Photography class at my alamater Brooks Institute of Photography for Tim Meyer. He invited me to share with his class and we had a fun little session in which I got to spout out a lot of my view and opinions on wedding photography. Hopefully I helped inspire.

The following week I was at Brooks judging portfolios for Tri’s 203 portfolio class. It was really fun to review the work that all of the students are creating! There is some amazing stuff in there!! I was VERY impressed by quite a few of the portfolios I had the chance to review. And the really cool thing was that it inspired me to push myself even further!

Then, I spoke to the local Pictage User’s Group (PUG) on workflow specifically Lightroom and Photo Mechanic. This was a really fun opportunity. I’ve been told by people on different occassions I should pursue speaking in the industry, and I’ve pretty much avoided it up til now, but when I was asked to present my workflow and share what’s working for me, I was pretty excited. I think there were about 16 in the group listening to me, and I was very thankful that was it! hehe.

Here are a few pictures that Anna Costa took of me while I was presenting at their sweet new condo to the PUG group! I grabbed them from her awesome blog where she shares WAY TOO much person info! hehe, so fun!