~ My Family Camping Trip ~ A Book of Memories…

Our family has a wonderful family tradition of going on one big camping adventure trip each summer.  This book tells the story of our fourth trip like this.  We chose to go to Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park in California this year.  It was a wonderful trip of camping, sitting by the fire, discovering God’s creation, adventure and several experiences with BEARS!  Please enjoy the book of images I captured along the way, as it tells a wonderful story of Love, Family, and of an amazing Creation.

**  Instead of creating the typical blog post with “normal pictures”, I chose to capture the actual Photo Book I created of this trip.   It’s a wonderful 70 page hardbound book, telling the story of our family camping adventure.  To have this is my hands is very special, turning every page slowly…..remembering the moments as if I was there again…..feeling the paper with my fingers, looking forward to the next page.   The same emotion I have when I see a beautiful print….in a beautiful frame….hanging on a wall, making that home so much more beautiful.  So, the next time you only think about having the digital file, so that it can be used for Facebook…..take a moment…..order a book or print….and create a lasting memory.  **

 

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~ Grace ~ Senior Session….

I had a great time doing Grace’s portraits for her Senior session this year.  We had wonderful light walking through the woods outside of Portland, OR.

Here are a few of the images from the session.

Enjoy…





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~ The Graves ~ An Awesome Family….

I had a wonderful evening last night having fun with this awesome family.  They are such a kind, happy and fun family.   Jason is the Pastor of Daybreak Church here in North County San Diego, so it was a real privilege for me to be able to photograph his beautiful family.   We ended up choosing the Olivenhain Meeting Hall for the session.  It has such great tones and textures, with all of the old buildings…wood…and trees.

Enjoy the images…..(the last one is my favorite)






 


 


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~ The Girls ~ At the Ranch….

I had a wonderful evening photographing the girls for holiday photos.   We live near Leo Carrillo Ranch in San Diego,  so it was a close and beautiful location for me  to take some quick shots of the girls.

Whitney, my wife, and two daughters, Darby & Savannah joined my wife’s wonderful mother in the portraits below.  As a photographer. it is always fun to shoot your own family, but especially so, with how beautiful and fun they all are.

Here are a few of the images….





 

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~ An Evening Sky ~ Time Lapse Video….

Ok, still having fun, as I try to learn how to create these time lapse videos.   I hope in another year I might start getting good at these!

Here is one I shot this evening from our backyard.   I put together a little more than 2,400 images into a 720p 24 frames/second video.  These are all small JPEG photos, so the resolution is not great (don’t want to burn through a ton of hard drive space until I figure this out).

I enjoyed watching all the planes and helicopters slicing through the San Diego night time sky.  I am guessing most to the flights flying north were heading to LA….with the flights going South heading toward downtown….or maybe an exotic flight going to Bali or Indonesia or Palau…

At around the 40 second mark it looks like there was lightning in the mountains behind us.   Loved the moon glow on the ocean as well….

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