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Sunday, July 13, 2008

{ the dog days of summer }

Thought I would share something cute and a little different this week, and of course I'm partial to photos of my Scottie. ;o)

Annie-belle waiting patiently for a gecko to stroll by out on the lanai.

Another Dog Day of Summer

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Saturday, July 12, 2008

A Downtown Wedding

I had the pleasure of working with Amanda Hagler of Shutterbelle Photography this evening. We photographed Amanda and Jarred's wedding, and had fun photographing the wedding party on the pedestrian bridge over the Cumberland River. This was the most important part of the photography for the bride, and we had to work fast. Not only did we need to get them to their reception, but it was getting dark, and it was about to storm! We finished up and got everyone to the reception right before the downpour hit.

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Saturday, July 5, 2008

The Lewis Family

When: May 2008
Where: Honolulu
My favorite part of this photo session was capturing Cole's expressions. I think everyone would agree he is a cute baby!

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

A little hero...

Yesterday afternoon, I had the honor of meeting Briceton and his family. I met them through the Littlest Heroes Project . Briceton has Cystic Fibrosis and liver disease. He will need a lung, liver, and pancreas transplant at some point in his young life. He just turned two, and is pretty typical of any other two year old boy. The only outward sign of the battles he fights is the port in his chest, which his mother says is a blessing since he has to have IV's so often. About every six months, he ends up in the hospital with pneumonia and a collapsed lung.

Briceton loves what most little boys his age love--fire trucks, airplanes, trains, and cars. He also took a serious liking to the balloons and soap bubbles I brought to the session last night!

Briceton has a big sister, Haliya, who adores him. I am sure she does everything a four year old can do to help take care of her baby brother. Haliya is beautiful and well-mannered, and loves to have her picture taken.

Their parents, Kenton and Sherry, are kind, patient, and were wonderful to work with. They have my utmost respect as raising a 2 year old and a 4 year old is tough enough without one of them having major medical issues. They seem to have an unlimited supply of patience and love for their kids.

To find out more about the battles Briceton and others like him face, please visit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. See what you can do to help these little heroes and their families.

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Monday, June 23, 2008

New Orleans

Wow, it's going to take me a week to recover from a three day vacation...

We returned last night from a long weekend in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. If you have never been, I highly recommend it. While New Orleans is famous for Bourbon Street and consuming dangerous quantities of alcohol, I enjoy it for the history and the food. Creole and Cajun cooking is something everyone should experience. The flavors are so rich and so interesting that it wakes up your whole mouth. Creoles are generally known as a people of mixed French, African, Spanish, and Native American ancestry. Other people define Creoles as those who originally colonized the New Orleans area. But regardless of how you define them, their cuisine is fantastic! Cajuns are the descendants of exiles from the French colony of ACADIA (present-day Nova Scotia and adjacent areas) who left their homeland in 1755 and found refuge in southern Louisiana a decade later. Their cuisine tends to be a bit spicier and less sophisticated than the Creole recipes. But delicious nonetheless.

One of our meals this weekend was at The Pelican Club on Exchange. That had to be one of the best meals I have had in years! We started off with bakes oysters on the half shell, with apple-smoked bacon, roasted red peppers, Parmesan and garlic herb butter. Parrish then had the Blackened Drum with grilled shrimp, and Kelly and I both had the Filet Mignon with lump crab meat and a Bearnaise sauce, served with truffle mashed potatoes and green beans and asparagus. All this was accompanied by a bottle of champagne. It was an amazing meal! If you ever find yourself in New Orleans, please make reservations at the Pelican Club.

A trip to New Orleans would not be complete without coffee and beignets at Cafe du Monde. For those that may not know, Beignets were also brought to Louisiana by the Acadians. These were fried fritters, sometimes filled with fruit. Today, the beignet is a square piece of dough, fried and covered with powdered sugar. They are served in orders of three. And they are GOOD!

While we weren't eating, we visited the Aquarium of the Americas, St. Louis Cathedral (where we saw a wedding party emerge Friday night to celebrate in the streets), Jackson Square, the French Market, a Haunted History tour, numerous shops, and walked. And walked and walked.

Oh, and in case you didn't know, New Orleans is hot. Not just your average "it's June, so it's warm" kind of hot. I am talking life-sucking heat and humidity hot. People down there move slow, and drink a lot. Because it's too dang hot to do much else. I told Kelly that if I even suggest going to New Orleans in the summer again to slap the sense back into me. The heat index on Friday was 108! By 9 AM, it's was well into the 90's. And still in the upper 80's at 10 PM. Next time, I'm going in February!

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Jidiah + Zach

When: May 2008
Where: Hale Koa, Oahu
What: An Oahu Wedding ~~~~~ I would call Jidiah & Zach's wedding an example of a "perfect storm" when it came to photography: a nice location next to a beautiful beach; a lovely + nice bride, groom, and family; and some spectacular lighting from the setting sun. It was hard to choose which images to post on the 'ol blog! Anyhows, I'm looking forward to photographing them on our "Day After TTD" shoot...lots of fun I'm sure!

Happy Summer Solstice.