Monthly Archives: September 2010

We had so much fun shooting with Bill and Crystal at Belmont Park, in Pacific Beach. This lovely couple is from Arizona and they made a special trip out to come enjoy sunny San Diego and to run around with us for an engagement shoot. Bill and Crystal met about five years ago through some mutual friends. After meeting, Bill decided to make himself a regular at her restaurant to get to know her a little better. Flash forward to three years later and he uncharacteristically proposed to her one night on the couch while watching TV. He basically said “are we going to do this, or what? Chrystal being who she was made him ask again and they finally decided to go for it. Without even discussing it before hand they both decided on 10/10/10 as their wedding date. Great minds really do think alike.

We started our afternoon with Bill and Crystal by moseying along the beach side alley ways of Mission beach, where we found the biggest Tiki head I’ve ever seen and of course had to take some pictures with him. Later in the afternoon, once the crowds had died down a little we hit up the famous Belmont Park. I have to say that we were all looking forward to a harrowing ride on the bumpy old roller coaster. We discovered upon our arrival that it was broken! In all my years of frequenting Belmont Park I have never once seen the roller coaster not running. It was quite a disappointment. But we lifted all our spirits with bumper cars and arcade games.

Thank you Bill and Crystal for such a fun Photo day! You two are so much fun and we can’t wait to get more great pictures on your special day!

We met Ashley and Bryant only a few days before their departure from San Diego.  They have enjoyed their last couple years in sunny San Diego but were excited to move to Salt Lake City where they would be closer to their families.  They wanted a nice reminder of this beautiful city they had grown so fond of, and what better way to remember the good times than with pictures of their favorite places.  Ashley and Bryant were frequent guests of the Coronado Ferry landing, getting a drink at Peonies and watching the boats come in and out of the harbor, or sitting lazily on the grass enjoying the warm weather.  We thought it would be quite fitting to capture them doing the things they enjoyed most at this beautiful spot.  Ashley and Bryant we had such a great time hanging out with you in your last days in San Diego, and we hope that you are falling in love with your new city as much as you did with San Diego!

Here are some moodier photographs we have been working on from our drip to Death Valley this last spring. We had two very different photographic visions while we were out in Death Valley One was colorful as seen in our previous post, and the other vision was much darker.  There is an eery and desolate beauty in many areas of Death Valley.  Mines, gas stations, and homes have been built and then left to rot, rust and fade back into the desert.  Those are just the beginning to the strange things  we saw along our trip.  At the Race Track heavy rocks leave long trails in the dry lake bed.  The general feeling we got while wandering the miles of dry cracked lake bed in pursuit of rock trails was very ominous.  There were random bursts of incredibly strong winds, biting through our clothes and attempting to knock us over.  Then nothing, no wind, no sounds from desert animals, not even a fly.  Seeing the rocks with their zig zagging trails also gave us a magical yet off kilter feeling.  There are theories as to how the rocks appear on the dry lake bed and slide around making their trails, but no one really knows what happens out there.  We don’t alwayas get a lot of time to work on

Where did it come from? and where is it going?

This marks the crossroads to the racetrack. Campers right their names on their teapots and leave them here for others to see. We wanted to leave one with all our names on it but none of us actually brought a teapot with us. Next time.

Dune sunrise.

The  beauty of the dunes never ceases to amaze us.   This time of year we discovered a new friend out in the dunes with us, Bees.  The Creosote bushes were covered in these cute little yellow flowers and the Bees were courting them for all the nectar they could get.  The Bees however got a little confused while we were wandering their dunes and kept following us around.  A couple of them even landed on Brett.  Their low buzzing made for a nice symphony accompanying our sunrise.

We found these on the old dirt road out or Darwin.