The second to last part of my trip.  I’m not much of an animal photographer but I do make exceptions from time to time…

This was a couple of miles north of Venice Beach.  Street hockey is awesome!

These things were so cool even though they just laid there.

These little guys were awesome.  And hungry.

And not shy.

Mom was throwing sand while the pup was trying to get some grub!

This was on the pacific one highway.  We were about halfway to San Francisco right here.  I just had to take a picture of the irony.

Before I left for San Francisco, I stayed with my two friends Raychel and Carmine in L.A. for a couple of days.  Raychel cooked an awesome dinner that night.

Part 3 of my trip from LA to CA.
On the left we have a really sweet pelican in Oceanside, CA and on the right is a surfer getting ready to shred in San Diego, CA.The lone seagull.A pier in Oceanside.The very end of a sunset in Laguna Beach, CA.I like pelicans.

Part 2 of my trip from LA to CA.
Danny and I had been looking for some huge cacti that weren’t on private property and then we came across these gems.We had to keep moving the tripod out of the road because cars kept coming and by the time we had a shot, the sun was pretty much down but I think it still came out okay.On the left is a vertical shot from our cacti photo shoot and on the right is nicely lit cone belonging to the city of San Diego!On the left is my friend Chris whom I stayed with during my visit to San Diego. On the right is a text message that he said he randomly receives pretty often in different forms from different people. Needless to say, Chris was very entertaining in addition to being a great host.

Hi there, so I’m going to post the pictures from my road trip in numerous posts so here is the first one.
Here is Danny taking in a west Texas sunset while we stopped for gas and walked around.
A neat fountain in a Phoenix public park.
On the left is another picture of Danny from west Texas and on the right is Danny climbing up a mountain in Phoenix. We decided that we wanted to climb a mountain more than we wanted to ride mountain bike trails but we couldn’t just leave our bikes so they climbed the mountain with us.And we finally made it to the top of the mountain.Phoenix’s finest.

On November 7th, I left Lafayette, LA at 3 AM (after shooting a wedding that night) and drove to Austin, TX (6 hours away) for Austin’s FunFunFun Fest. After squeezing in a few hours of sleep, I headed to the festival which was about a mile away from where I was staying in downtown Austin. There were so many good bands playing and it was probably the best festival I’ve ever been too, despite the fact that it rained for most of the second day which also kept me from shooting some great shows that day but I digress. Here are some of my favorites from the first day of the festival.
A good bit of the festival watching Melt BananaLooking back at the crowd that was watching The SwordFestivals with miniramps=successPeople hanging out in-between shows and Russian CirclesKyle Shutt from The Sword giving Austin its money’s worthTim Harrington of Les Savy Fav is a spectacular front manI said SPECTACULARMike Stroud of Ratatat melting hearts…Quick picture break before he returned to shreddingSeventeen Years!

I highly recommend attending FunFunFun Fest next year.

I was assisting my close friend, Jason Cohen (see post below) on a photo job last August and on the way back, after we were both relatively exhausted, we saw this carwash with “Git R Dun” painted in blue and yellow (a fine color combination). We both mentioned how we should take a picture of it but he kept driving and I immediately started giving him a hard time, insisting that we had to stop to take a picture of this wall. Well, being Jason, he turned around to take a picture after I called him out on it. This was in August and I’ve been bothering him about sending me these images since then. Today, I got an email with the subject being “The Moment You’ve Been Waiting For…” and sure enough, he sent me two of the images from our stop. I had actually taken another picture of him with his arms crossed and looking to the side that I liked better but beggers can’t be choosers.

Git R Dun!

I shot some close friends of mine recently as a birthday gift.  It was a rather quick shoot but somehow I ended up shooting around 600 pictures in about 45 minutes.  They were the perfect models and the shoot was a lot of fun.  I would pose them and then they would just kind of mess around after I had them where I wanted them and I would just snap away, which is a little different than how I normally shoot.  Anyway, I got tons of great stuff of them and ended up getting a canvas made as a gift of the last picture, which I might add was their choice.

Here are a few pictures I took with some from friends for Halloween… A little late, I know, but it was fun.