I'm going to Vegas baby!

For some people like me who don't gamble, that might not sound very exciting, but I'm totally stoked. So why you ask might I be going? For nothing other than the biggest wedding and portrait photographers convention in the world. You can ask Kristy. For the last year there hasn't been a day when I don't think about photography. I love it. I'm infatuated with it. Over the past year I've taken nearly 70,000 photos.

At WPPI, I'm going to be taking classes from some of the biggest names in wedding photography. I'm excited to bring back some of the latest in albums, techniques and ideas for all of my clients.

Any of you wedding photographers out there may find this video funny, it's got some of of the big names in photography in it.

Amanda + Aaron = Engaged

Amanda and Aaron live in California and flew up over the weekend for their engagement session. After weeks (possible months) of rainy, gloomy weather, I woke up yesterday to the sun shining through my window and looked outside to find a perfectly clear sky. It was a perfect day in Seattle for an engagement session. Amanda and Aaron are a cute couple and way fun to work with. I can't wait to see them again at their wedding in August.

Click here to see their slideshow. I switched the songs to one of Aaron's favorites. Let me know what you think.

Amanda spotted this on the ground. It originally said joshua green. I couldn't help myself with the photoshopping.

What a trip

I finally decided to go through my pics from Mexico. It was absolutely awesome. I mean I do love the rain and the all the green of the northwest, but it's nice to go get some sun and forget about working for days. I didn't think it would be a highlight, but not having access to my cell phone or internet was like living an alternate life. Our biggest worries were what to see and eat next.

I loved the port In LA. We were next to the coolest bridge.

The dining on the ship was excellent, some people chose to eat hot dogs and hamburgers by the pool but for the same price we always opted to eat 5 course dinners.

I love fresh fruit, it's amazing what you can get on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.



We were able to see some ruins in Colima, they just discovered them less than 20 years ago and they've only dug up a small percentage of what's there

Kelly, Matt and Kristy

Our ship, it's kinda big

Water taxi taking people from Yelapa (a small beach only accessible by boat) to PuertoVallarta

Check out this construction, this house is sweet.





The best tacos are made on the street, not the restaurants.





I was so excited to find these huge sparklers, it was kinda anti climatic watching them burn, I was hoping for a bigger ball of flame from the unregulated homemade sparkler.

This church was awesome

After a day of excursions we would come back to our rooms to find our towels made into all sorts of creatures

Matt working it for the camera

Maybe you had to be there but I think this one is hilarious

Kristy and Andrea waiting for there turn to go para sailing






Matt loved his meal choice








Christmas dinner

All of my wife's family and Me

Kristy's favorite on ship activity, resting



The girls

It was a shocker going back to Portland weather the day after it snowed

Walter and Charlie

Joel wanted to do something fun for his wife for Christmas, so we went out and got some pictures of his boys so he could make a calender and get prints. We had fun posing the dogs and running around with them.

Now that Christmas is over Joel said I could post these. His wife loved the pictures.