Andrea and James are from Chicago but decided to have their wedding in California. It was a way to bring all their friends and family out to the left coast to enjoy a little Napa wine and celebrate their union at Andrea’s uncles house in a vineyard on Belmont Avenue in Sanger. Marion obliged our...
This is my buddy Joe who is graduating from Fresno State this spring. Joe spent countless hours working at the Fresno State student-run newspaper, The Daily Collegian. I know of at least two long road trips Joe was involved in where he photographed Bulldog sports games. I’m sure there were many long days for this...
OK, so he really isn’t a senior… he’s a freshman. But he’s my son and also a guinea pig for me and my photography. He didn’t have much choice as he helped me here frame up a few photos to practice a few senior portraits. I’m hoping to use these as promotional material to get...
Pha Mouvangsou’s life was a tough one from the get-go. As an infant, his mother (photographed with him and two of his sons here) smuggled him and any other surviving family members to Thailand from Laos where his family was being hunted down by the Viet Cong. HIs father, who was fighting with the Americans...
I recently designed a sample wedding album from the wedding I did for Elana and Daniel at St. James Anglican Cathedral in Fresno last Valentine’s Day. I thought that the album pretty well summed up my style for both wedding photography and album design so I added the pages of that album to my main...
Last weekend I helped out Steve Skibbie from Grand Design Photography on a wedding for Laura and Sean who were married at the Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church in Oakhurst. We kept looking at each other and remarking how beautiful the sky was and what perfect light we had. There was some threat of rain, which...
Last January I had the pleasure of photographing Chris and Emma in an engagement session, only they weren’t engaged. Chris gave the session to Emma as a Christmas gift. I thought it was a great idea and spent a couple of hours with them making lots of nice photos. Well, that engagement session that really...
Jose Carranza will be featured in the American Pharmacy Association’s Pharmacy Today magazine. Carranza and his family run a pharmacy in the small farm town of Hughson, CA near Modesto.
Sunday at The Bee is rarely slow, but this past Sunday had me out hunting for a feature package for the Local page. A sign in front of Fresno’s Woodward Park peaked my interest so I drove over to the relatively new Woodward Park Mountain Bike Skills Progression Course. There I found folks, young and...
Back in January I posted a photo that I shot for Scholastic News of a teenager gone from gangs to green. Juan Hernandez left the street gang lifestyle to instead fight against environmental injustice. Although the article doesn’t run until Earth Day, I did get some pdf proofs of the pages with Juan’s story, and...
I was fortunate enough to photograph Elana and Daniel’s wedding at St. James Anglican Cathedral in Fresno on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2009. It was a very nice service held in the beautiful cathedral with I think over 200 people in attendance. I was able to photograph the happy couple around the scenic grounds at...
Finally got my first chance to photograph the Amgen Tour of California Wednesday. I had applied for credentials for several years but for whatever reason, I was never able to make it out to one of the stages. This time it was coming into our coverage area so we would definitely be all over it....
I photographed a very nice couple last weekend at Woodward park where we had an absolutely beautiful day to work with. Chris had approached me with an idea to give his girlfriend Emma a photography session of them as a Christmas gift. I thought that was a great idea, so although they were just a...
while on a feature hunt I found myself wandering further and further out of town. That’s not unusual at all. Sometimes I just let my whims drive the car and before you know it, I’ve got 100 miles on the car just looking for something that makes a picture. Lucky for me I found this...
I spent a day off from The Bee last Friday on a freelance assignment for Scholastic News, you know that little newspaper we used to look at as kids in school. I drove down to Bakersfield to photograph a teenager who helped organize an awareness campaign about a scrap metal plant polluting the environment when...
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Big clouds over the Big Fresno Fair
Yosemite Valley wedding: Cristina and Ramon
Tenaya Lodge wedding: Elizabeth and Brian
