Ice Town's First Annual Charity Hockey Tournament

The Ice Town hockey team won the championship game and will now go on to play the NHL alumni! I'll be shooting that later tonight if I don't freeze my butt before then. Here is a photo of the winning team.

The photo below shows Matt (the director of hockey at ice town and really cool guy) presenting a huge check to the Loma Linda University Children's Hospital. Earlier in the week I got a change to meet up with Tiffany from Loma Linda and I have only good things to say about them too. I was such an honor to be a part of this charity event.






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Traditional Wedding at the San Gabriel Mission

Here is a wedding I shot at the San Gabriel Mission, in San Gabriel California. This is a great place for traditional weddings due to the style of the church. It's a very popular location for wedding portraits as well. You can see more photos of this venue in our San Gabriel Mission Wedding Gallery.

A visit to the PMA 2009 show in vegas

I had a chance to go to this years PMA show in Vegas this week. I saw so many cool new products and services. I was surprised to see so many coffee table book binding systems. The staff of WHCC was also there, and I have a book coming in from them in a few days.

A visit to southern california's railway museum

I enjoyed the scenery and the collection of trains at the Orange Empire Railway Museum. They also have many trains that are being restored and provides opportunities to photograph textures, vintage signage and cool mechanical forms. Below is a photo taken in front of a train engine. I will return later in the year to photograph Thomas The Train Engine when it becomes available at the museum.

A nice wedding day at the Hyatt in Huntington Beach california

Here are my favorite photos from this wedding. It took place at the Hyatt in Huntington Beach, a beautiful place for weddings. In the morning I covered the groom as he and his brother got ready. At the same time Rudy Arpia was covering the bride as she was getting ready. The grooms mother was very nice and treated me to a Chinese pastry, stuffed with sweet meat. Great stuff, but I don't know what its called.
It was a beautiful day even the sky had nice white puffy clouds. The ceremony took place in front of the bridge that leads to the beach. I guess that's good feng shui. The reception had nice lighting by OC Audio Visual Solutions. Matthew, the owner of OCAV, gave me some good advice on marriage while we waited for the guests to enter the reception area.


The bride looked beautiful and her bridesmaids were great. They did the "robot" (dance) during the reception. It was great.

Wedding at St. Edmunds Episcopal Church in San Marino

I photographed Heidi and George on their wedding day a few weeks ago. The wedding took place in San Marino, CA at St. Edmunds Episcopal Church. I had a great time shooting it and the bridal party was fun and offered lots of creative ideas. I wish we would have had more time, since they seemed to want to keep trying a variety of poses. I love shooting at this time of year, the light was incredible and Heidi found an awesome location for the portrait session. Here are just a few of my favorites photos.

Wedding at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles

I went to my first lesbian wedding that took place at the first congregational church in LA. The church has the largest church pipe organ in the world. The sound from the organ is powerful... I wish my home sound system sounded like that! The brides were beautiful and the details on their dresses were exquisite.