Engagement sessions

Engagement sessions can be so much fun, I love them.  It is always
a nice and stress free time to just let the couple hang out together
and capture the love and their unique personalities.  I shot David
and Jennifer's engagement photo's down at the beach this last weekend
and we had a great time.  They were so fun to shoot and even ran
into the water (in santa cruz, where it never get's warm).  I had
to get some shots of them so chased them into the water, in the end we
were all wet but it was fun to play around in the water for awhile :)




Here are a few images:























-- Mark

Award Winning Wedding Photography

1st place environmental category

1st place environmental category
We are happy to announce one of our prints placed first at this months
PPSCV print competition for environmental category.  This was from
Renaldo and Lupe's engagement session a few weeks ago and my favoriate
image from the session.  For anyone interested in the technical
details of the shot it was with a Canon 20D and a 15mm lens.  The
image was exposed for the sky to let the subjects go a little dark
almost to a silohette, althought I didn't want them to do completely
dark so you could still see some of the detail.  The sky was
burned in a little bit after in photoshop but that was the only post
production.




The image is titled "They were almost alone"





-- Mark
Bay Area Wedding Photography

Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is one of my favorite places in California.  I
lived up there for a snow season about 12 years ago and loved it. 
The air is so clear and I love to snowboard, it is such a peaceful
thing for me to just ride down the mountain with the wind on your face
and all of god's beauty around you.




I haven't been snowboarding in about 5 years because things have been
too busy with work, since lisa and I both are self employed it
sometimes can be very hard to take time off work and take a
vacation.  Also Lisa doesn't  really like skiing that much and
doesn't like the cold so we haven't been up in awhile.  Valentines
day was Drew's 17th birthday and he has never been to the snow or been
out of state so I thought it would be cool to take him up to Tahoe for
his birthday and teach him how to snowboard. so we went up with my
brother in law Roman and friend Boris a few weeks ago.



We rode at hevenly and even though it was before all of the storms we
have been having lately and not much snow it was awesome.  Since I
haven't been in awhile I didn't know how I would do and didn't really
bring the camera out a lot but got a few shots of the mountain. 
After the first run everything came back and felt so natural, I guess
it is just like riding a bike.  We rode all day until about 3:30
and it was a really great time.  Hopefully I can make it back one
more time this year, but my schedule is pretty full already so I might
have to wait until next year.  One of my goals this year though is
to make a little time for myself and family to take a few vacations and
enjoy what we have in this beautiful country.




Here are a few quick images:














Free Laptops

Free Laptops

Time to catch up

Time to catch up
I have been ignoring my blog for awhile, it has just been a busy year
so far and weddings started about 3 weeks ago so we are now in the flow
of shooting weddings and creating albums.  Today I am going to do
some catch up and update the blog with some images and some personal
things I have been up to.  Besides showing everyone our
photography and what the company is up to I will also be sharing what I
do when I am not taking photo's.




I thought I would start with a recent photo I took of my wife lisa for her website:

San Jose Real Estate







We have been married for almost 5 years (May 13th) and have 2
cats.  The dog in the photo is her mom's dog we gave her for
Christmas this last year.  We also take care of Lisa's cousins son
(Andrew who is 17 and a softmore at Pioneer High), and my sister
michelle lives with us as well so we have a  pretty full
house. 




More to come later

--Mark

Congrats Jason and Valerie

Congrats Jason and Valerie
Jason and valerie were married on Saturday in San Jose.  They had
a beautiful ceremony at the five wounds church on E Santa Clara
street.  It is a awesome chruch with so much detail and the
ceremony was great.  After that we went over to the Embassy Suites
to take some photo's and got some good shots of the bridal party. 

They ended the night at the DoubleTree hotel downtown and it was a fun
party.   Everyone had a great time at the reception and we
have some good images we will share with everyone in the next few days.



-- Mark

Bay Area Wedding Photography

More images from clayton and janelles wedding

More image from Clayton and Janelles wedding
Here is a collage with some more images from Clayton and Janelle's wedding.



Enjoy...

Clayton and the Guys

Clayton and the Guys
We got some really great shots at Clayton and Janelles wedding last
weekend.

  Here are a few of the guys that came out great.  We
got a lot of shots of the guys at one of their old hang out spots by
the river and then some more shots later on at the church.  Here
are some of my favoriate one's.  I will post some of the shots of
the girls up tomorrow.




















-- Mark

Award winning wedding photography

Congratulations Clayton and Janelle

Congratulations Clayton and Janelle who were married yesterday in Ripon, Ca.


We spent the entire day with them hanging out at the bridal salon, the
mall, al old hang out spot with the guys just to name a few places.
Everything turned out really wonderful, we will be posting some images
later on in the week.

-- Mark



Bay area wedding photography

Free Laptops

If anyone is looking for a iBook (12" model) I found a place online you can get one for free.  This
is from the same company that offers free iPODS and it is legit, I
recieved my free iPOD just a few weeks ago. You do have to complete an
offer (like one month of blockbuster online, or trying out video
professor) A lot of the offers were services that I might have tried
out anyway and they aren't expensive. (blockbuster online is $9.99 a
month). Then you have to get some friends to sign up under your ID to
get your free product. The company is paid a referral fee from the
company like blockbuster when you sign up and they use that referral
money to buy the free products. So if you know friends that want to
sign up this is a great way to get free (or close to it) products like
a Laptop.




I first heard of them in an article in wired magazine but still had doubts.

I was pretty skeptical at first but when DHL showed up with my free
iPod that got rid of any doubt in my mind.  It does take time to
get some friends to sign up and then once that happens they sometimes
take a few weeks to process your order, but once it is processed they
ship it FREE by DHL!



Get your free laptop here