Mele Kalikimaka

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry X-Mas and thank you all for visting the blog and making it such a great year! So, I give you my little one wishing you a Hawaiian Merry Christmas.

X-Mas Touchup

My mother in laws best friend had an old beat up photo of herself riding a horse that she wanted to know if it could be fixed. I think she'll be happy with it when she gets an 8x10 of her new photo for X-Mas. I have a few more in the works, that I will share later, for now though let me know what you think.

You know you've spent to much money

at Apple when they start sending you X-Mas cards! I got this great X-Mas card in today from the fine folks at Apple. If you're a photographer and not using Apple, shame on you! If you aren't a photographer and not using Apple, shame on you too!

The new Apple Intel Core-Duo is simply awesome, as you can see in the background of my new 15" Macbook Pro and for all you photographers out there... Adobe Photoshop relased the CS3 yesterday and it is much improved and faster for the new Macs!

Please, if you don't use a Mac and don't know why you should leave a comment and I will post some reasons why you should.

Time to start posting some bridals

This year I think I spent more time at the Arboretum than any other photographer, so now that the weddings are over I will start posting some of the pics from some bridal shoots there. I enjoy shooting at the Arboretum because it has so many great backdrops, but you don't always have the best light out there. The day I met Shelby out there, was probably the most perfect light I have had all year and doing them as late in the year as we did I didn't expect much color, but I was wrong, it was very vibrant with all the fall colors. Shelby was very photogenic with great bright blue eyes, as you can see below. I know they just got home from their cruise where they were married and had a reception last weekend in Anna that my friend Jim Miller shot for them. So anyways, take a look, leave your comments that's what the blog is for. I did find a new favorite spot in front of the rock wall and I think almost had her talked into getting in the fountain, maybe if it had been after the wedding? We would have had to post them on Trash The Dress if she did!As always, click the pic for a bigger view!

TomKat wedding...

Of course any big wedding that comes up or gets mentioned, I immediately start wondering who shot it and what do the pics look like. So, I have to go and do a little digging to find out... Surely by now, everyone has seen this image of TomKat together

The photographer that was lucky enough to shoot this wedding was Robert Evans, I mean what better marketing than having your name attached to every picture in People, Enquirer, etc. as well as every website in the world. Robert is not one of the photographers I keep up with, mainly because I haven't seen a blog from him... but I will save that for another post to come. I have a handful of photographers that I keep up with to see what they're doing, what's new on their blog, etc. So what makes TomKat pick Robert Evans? I wish I knew, but I imagine the fact that he also shot Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston's wedding. So how did Brad & Jennifer find out about him? The Bridal Bar, an LA based special events referral service

So an offer to any celebrities that might stumble across this blog, I'll shoot your wedding for free. I mean think of the marketing...