I briefly tagged along with Chris Schmitt for the engagement session
of this playful couple. Lots of chemistry in this shoot!
Ahh, so that's where you went! Great vacation spot and beautiful pictures, Pheebs!
Great pics! Makes me feel like I was there...
(05.17.11)How beautiful!!! Now that looks like a vacation. :) Love the pic of the waterfall...and of course, all of the food pics. :)
(05.19.11)
Roger and Pattie are two just incredibly sweet and kind people
and I knew when I first met them that I'd love working with them.
Roger spontaneously tucked a flower in her hair. How cute is that?
Roger and Pattie, thanks for braving the cold wind (and yes,
even chillier water!), and being so lovely in front of the camera. I look forward to shooting your wedding!
These guys look like naturals in front of the camera. I especially love the pic of the two of them looking at each other in the field. So sweet! And the last two photos...LOVE!!
(05.19.11)
Nathan and Katharine love the outdoors. And with the lovely California weather, it's
not surprising that these two have practically hiked all over southern
California and beyond. So it was fitting
that their engagement session was out on the trail.
They're actually looking at a map of the Grand Tetons, where
Nathan proposed to Katharine (and managed to sneakily film it himself).
And a little light painting to end the day...
In 2007, in my pre-SLR days, a few friends, Tony, and I joined a few travelers from the U.K. in the back of a rattling van that wound its way slowly through a tiny mountain pass in Norway. We were on our way to Nigardsbreen, a tiny arm of Jostedalsbreen, the largest glacier in Europe. The road was sometimes so narrow that two cars couldn't pass through it, so oncoming traffic had to hug the side and wait for the other car to pass.
When we arrived it was a little surreal. A boat docked at one end of the glacier-fed lake ferried us across, and Nigardsbreen, that seemingly tiny finger of the Jostedal Glacier, loomed over us, larger than life.
Being
southern California bred, I wore practically all my clothes for this one,
because despite the tiny glint of sunlight, it was cold. Our host wore "knickers" (which looked sort of
like capri pants to me), and seemed impervious to the temperature. The two photos of us below were taken by my
friend Shu Ping. We fancied that we
looked sort of like an REI ad (or maybe the Village people).
We
drank the fresh water from one of the streams and on our hike back we got a
little lost and encountered some errant sheep (pictured above) that followed us partway back. After climbing a few hills (crossing private
property, no doubt) and meeting a few puzzled locals, we made it down just in
time to meet our host, buy blueberries from a local farm, and return home.