Tim Wheaton Photography | Southern California Natural Light Photographer

day zero??! wait wait… day zero?!?! yes. you read that right. you know how the lord of the rings trilogy rolled out, and they did the three movies and just now they are going to go back and start at the beginning? don’t get me wrong, as a fan, i can’t complain. i’m thrilled for...

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how many times have you heard the cliche’s about life? about the craziness of it and the roads we walk down and so on? i mean, even disneyland has a ride that pretty much tries to pistol-whip it into your subconscious about how small the world is. i’ve had these experiences. i’ve seen how it...

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val and tim are two of the people that i have met that i expect to remain friends with in the years to come. sometimes when you’re with someone on their wedding day, you naturally become friends (or better friends) with the couple. i am almost apt to say, if i didn’t, i wouldn’t be...

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while i was out at harbour island this year for gina and adam’s wedding (remember this??) i was able to get some additional shooting in. i actually split up two days to do some photographs of beth, one of gina’s bridesmaids, for her website. beth is a yoga instructor, based out of the los angeles...

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i have stared at the blinking cursor here for far too long. not quite knowing how to describe this experience, this couple. since i used to be a writer, but y’all are here for photos and not words. so i’ll keep this brief. andrea is a dear friend that i know through my wife. they’ve...

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i know i’ve said it before, but the meaning isn’t fading: it is a true honor when friends hire and trust me with photographing their wedding. any wedding, when it comes down to it, is an honor to be hired for. these people are trusting you with some of the most important photographs of their...

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this post is so overdue. just goes to show how busy i have been… things that are not my “business shoots”, that are not for paying clients, fall by the wayside like this. i can’t even think to look at when i last even touched any family photos. anyway, when i was at the WPPI...

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so, remember jessica stoker (one of my best friends ever) from my day 3 of DMB Caravan post? a refresher: she drove out from maryland to go to the final day of the shows and ended up even being my amazing assistant for a side shoot that day. well, we planned from day one to...

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the final day of the festival. everybody that was in it for the long haul waking up to another pretty much perfect weather day in atlantic city. and here is another thing that makes the dave matthews band special: the connection. in this case, that is not just something that occurs on the stage. there...

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the second day in atlantic city for the caravan fest. i was relieved that all of the weather apps on my iPad and my iPhone had been wrong thus far: none of those big gray clouds with yellow lightning bolts and little white spots coming down from them had come around. shooting something like this...

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