I shot my first wedding yesterday! It went really well, and I’m very excited about some of the pictures. Here’s a first look at some of the shots. I’ll write more tomorrow about the experience.

Well, there went 07/07/07, or 7/7/7 or…whatever…
How’d you spend the day? Some people felt lucky and bought lotto tickets, went to Vegas and gambled away, or, even more risky, got married.
I sent this photo

to the Flickr “07/07/07 pool” who, at last look, had about 4000 5,700 7,453 7,885 photos taken by people on the “seven” [...]

I love the 4th of July. In our corner of Los Angeles, fireworks are legal so it’s madness and chaos into the wee hours of the night.
If I was a sound effects editor, I would record the sounds of fireworks here as the sounds of war.
BANG! BOOM! CRASH! CRACKLE! SHRIEK!
It’s [...]

I came across a post in bloglines the other day which had the 30dayphoto tag.  It was an odd page with a title about tags that will get your blog crawled by Alexa.  The page itself didn’t say a whole lot, but I thought it was funny that 30dayphoto was a tag that was noteworthy.  [...]

I hope you all are having a Safe and Sane Fourth of July. Bless all those who keep us safe.

The 4th of July is just a few days away so it’s time to think about the best ways to shoot pictures of fireworks.
The trick to shooting fireworks lies in a long exposure and a steady camera. If your camera is set to a short shutter speed or wiggles at all during the shot, [...]