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laurie & dwight: holiday wedding

Tim — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:01:13 +0000

my communication with the bride over emails was fairly intriguing. the usual inquiries were made, details exchanged… and after some time, she hinted that we know each other. i had to rack my brain to recall all of the laura’s and laurie’s i have known over the course of my lifetime. when i was a young teenager, my parents took myself and two of my brothers on a mexican cruise with them. laurie and two of her girlfriends were our “table mates” for all of our meals during the week. there were not a lot of kids my age on the boat and i ended up befriending the three women. we all fell out of touch, though they remain very close. so this was that laurie. and here she is now, getting married, and allowing me the honor of being her photographer.

their wedding was held at the beautiful Island Hotel in newport beach.

some of laurie’s family members were in her room with her as she got ready for the ceremony. i love this photo of her and her mom.

who doesn’t love those little impromptu surprises a bride or groom has for their soon-to-be spouse on their big day?

if you know me, you know how crazy i am about the ring detail shots.

as usual, no real ceremony or formal family shots on my blog. but i do like this one moment during their vows.

laurie and dwight had such a fun idea for their dining table. with it being a smaller wedding, they were able to pull this off: a photo of them holding a card with the name of that each attendee. here are their seat photos:

the food looked amazing. everyone loves food details, right? (you can excuse yourself for something to eat soon… only a couple more pictures…)

their cake was also unique. the traditional toppers looked like nothing too out of the ordinary from the front… bride and groom… looking dapper. but when you came around to see them from the back…

while everyone was dining, i snuck away for a few TTV details shots of the location. i am going to make sure to bring that old camera in my bag to all my weddings.

one final shot of the happy couple. we took a few minutes between ceremony and reception for some photos. the christmas tree in the lobby lent some great light in the background to us.

thanks again for the opportunity to not only witness, but participate in your glorious first step on your new life, laurie. i wish the both of you the very best in your lives together! :)

margo: from friend to model

Tim — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:20:48 +0000

margo has been a good friend of mine for a handful of years now (years come in handfuls… dollars come in fistfuls). i think from the time i started taking photography more seriously, i had it in my mind to do a shoot with her. she has a certain… je ne sais pas about her (which in french means: “a cool, different look that will take you by surprise”… really… i looked it up. go google it. i will wait…).

we finally coordinated and decided to just get out there and shoot. margo was nervous because she had never done anything like this before. but, as i am sure you’ll see… it came fairly natural. the camera loved her.

like i said before … it is good to know i got to her before some modeling agency signs her. ;)

thanks again for the fun day, margo! i truly had a great time pulling your inner model out of you. haha.

Gavin & Holly: G&H Pure Cane Sugar (day two)

Tim — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:48:07 +0000

do you have a good memory? remember my first blog post here? no, not that one… the one after that. okay, my second. but who’s counting? anyway, it was this cool couple at balboa… let me refresh your memory:

yeah, that’s them. remember now? okay, good. you may not remember all of the details, but for recap: we went to the beach on the one day there was no sunset. so we made plans for a second day of shooting. the sun was up when i met them, we went over some wedding details, and then set out on walkabout. yes… just like crocodile dundee would have…. sans “big knife”.

we started out along the docks of the bay. oh man… can i try and get more licensing issues to spring up and quote otis redding?

we started making our way toward the beach. just like last time, they were up for anything when i asked them to stop here or there.

by the time we got down to the beach, the sun was behind the upper slice of this cloud sandwich above the horizon. it did not look good, and we maybe only got 5 or so minutes of actual sun-time.

commence canoodling…

once the sun hid behind the bottom section of that (very not delicious) cloud sandwich (that none of us ordered, by the way!), i moved them onto a lifeguard tower for some photo experimentation of sorts.

after some close-ups, i gave them one of two “talkabouts” (yes, we had talkabouts for our walkabout… that’s how i do things…) and headed off with my zoom lens to the pier.

another fun day of shooting with these two. i have gotten a rain check on the sun (is that ironic?) and will use it in the future. i cannot wait to shoot their wedding in october and am not only thrilled more than before to be their photographer, but i am honored and completely looking forward to their big day.

thanks again, you two, for being adventurous and having fun with your engagement shots. in my opinion, it paid off! :)

Gavin & Holly: G&H Pure Cane Sugar (day one)

Tim — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:30:13 +0000

through word-of-mouth (thanks joel & michelle), i got hired by this couple to shoot their wedding in october. we got together for an e-shoot (engagement session, since people always ask me what that means) in and around balboa island in the end of may. the sun didn’t make much of a showing that day, so we meandered around the streets for most of the shoot.

these two were so much fun to hang out and shoot with, that when we realized we wouldn’t get any of the “sunset” photos we wanted, it was a non-issue in my mind to get together another day with them for a second go-round. but, first things first. here are some of my (and their) faves from the first day of shooting.

on the ferry ride from the island back to the newport side:

there are so many fun houses around that area to shoot in front of…

lovin’ the red doors we were finding too…

we made our way down to the pier at the very last minute to catch the last bit of daylight.

it is so fun when people are willing to try new things, even if the end result may not prove to be what it was in my mind. these two were all about it, and their leaps of faith proved to be fruitful.

a fun shoot, new friends and a blog post that i got to use the word fruit in. what more could a guy ask for? : )