Spring Break!

Spring break was fantastic and I got a chance to spend

some quality time with the fam.  It was my sister's 

birthday, which I forgot, so that makes me the worst

brother in the world, but thankfully I have the best

sister in the world, and she was quick to show grace, 

and we all had a good time together.  The food is 

always a highlight for me when I go home, and this

time my Dad and I worked on a project to get a car

up and running for my sister.

Here's mom, making a fruit salad...mmm

This meat is cooked!  I realized that turning up the 

saturation to an abnormal amount makes the meat

look like it's about to lick me back, but don't worry,

it was cooked, and dinner was fantastic!

I love that my sister Leanna loves life, all the time.

I think this is the closest I caught her to not having a smile

Homemade Pzookies!

Heidi is the new dog, and she's not as cool as Taylor,

the German Shorthaired Pointer, but she does look

pretty nice with her new haircut.

There are a million and one wedding preparations going

on at home right now, all leading up to April 26th!

Some of the trees in Visalia had the most incredible color

The central valley in California is in full bloom with all

the fruit trees in flower, waking up from winter slumber

The project for the weekend was to make this....

Turn into this:

It even works!

On my late night drive back down from the valley to LA,

I was captivated by the full moon and orchards, so I had 

to pull over and have some fun with the camera.

Three coins in the fountain....

This groundcover is stunning

I was hired to play for the MusiCalifornia orchestra,

which is a huge conference for music pastors in Pasadena.

The church the concert was in had a beautiful window in

the ceiling.  the concert was great, and conductor 

David Hamilton was great as well.

Here's two friends.  Eric plays trombone (left) and Preston

plays Horn.  I would have liked to take pictures while we

were playing, but contractors frown on that kind of thing.

Some random shots from around town

So the following pics are some from the last few weeks 

that I've needed to post, but haven't yet.  Enjoy!

My brother Darren and I had a great hike/shoot in 

Placerita Canyon, very close to where much of the 

first season of 24 was filmed.

Darren setting up for a shot

This is underneath the Huntington Pier

A Bees in my front yart

At the local community college they offer a motorcycle

class, which made for a cool shot

This is a stitch from Signal Hill, in Long Beach

Local vegetables at the stand

This past week has been kind of crazy, but I made it, all due to the

 abundant lovingkindness of a completely good God.  The band and 

orchestra at Valley participated in SCSBOA Festival, and both 

groups received an excellent rating, which I was happy with, 

for now.  We started recording a CD with the High School 

orchestra, and now spring break is here!  I helped out with a 

track meet on Wed., which was the first time I really got to 

use my 6.5 fps. So here are some shots from the week.  

Hope you enjoy, if anybody's checking this out.  

thanks for stopping by!

Santa Clarita At midnight

I was riding my bike through a neighborhood and stumbled upon this firetruck

Jeff is the guy I rent a room from, and he's fantastic, especially with his Ray-Ban's

This is a picture of me, in the window.

This dude was fast.

Chalk Lines on the track

Kowabonga!

How's my form?

Saturday, March 15

Nothing to wake you up in the morning like a little 

horseplay.  These are the two dogs I live with, Augie 

and Grommit.  Augie is the retriever, and Grommit

is the mutt.  No animals were harmed in the making

of these photgraphs.

They really are nice, gentle, loving dogs, but they look fiesty!

I was expiramenting with some backlighting type setups

in these next couple shots.

Whenever we play fetch, Augie, the well trained 

retriever has to convince Grommit to bring the ball 

back. 

A weed. A seed. Feed.

So later that night I drove up to S.C. to go bowling.

Not my best night, as I'll explain in the next shot. I'm 

very impressed with the amount of noise on my 40D at 

3200ISO and with a pretty average lense.  This was

very, very low light.

This is what Preston looks like...as he's beating the

pants off of me...left-handed! yeah, that hurts.

All in all, a few tacos later, it was a great night.  I thank 

God for good friends, even when they lay the smack

down on you in bowling.