Fresno Wedding Photographer Craig Kohlruss » music

Fierce Creatures

Craig — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:31:30 +0000

I did this conceptual shoot of the Fresno band Fierce Creatures for the Fresno Bee’s entertainment section, “7,” a couple of weeks ago. I was pretty happy with it and got a lot of feedback on it so I thought I’d post it here on my blog. It’s stories like this that keep me wanting to go back and do all the mundane assignments I get each week at the paper. I just love having a new challenge and something that will allow me to really find my creative voice, so to speak. Anyway, I hope Fierce Creatures did well at South by Southwest and I look forward to seeing their careers take off.

Oh yeah, here’s a video I did during that same shoot.

More pictures after the break. Click the link below if you’re on the home page.

Josh & Jackie: January wedding

Craig — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:26:41 +0000

Josh and Jackie’s wedding day started out a little foggy but turned into a beautiful day by the time of their reception at the Banker’s Ballroom in downtown Fresno. Services were held at Central Valley Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Fresno where a huge wedding party began getting ready. The church was eventually packed as it was standing room only to witness the vows for the special couple. Music became the theme as both Josh and Jackie are passionate musicians and a number of songs were performed throughout the day. A Filipino dance was performed in the beautiful light at the Banker’s Ballroom and a mini-concert of lovely songs was conducted by a multitude of talented artists. Josh and Jackie’s wedding was one for the ages.

David Archuleta performs in Clovis

Craig — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:43:18 +0000

American Idol runner-up David Archuleta performs in Clovis, CA

Okay, so this is kind of a cheap attempt to get a little more traffic to my site, but I couldn’t resist. When I tweeted an iPhone photo of the crowd waiting to see David Archuleta at Sierra Vista Mall I got about 10 RT’s in five minutes. So I sent another and then worked up a photo gallery of the American Idol runner-up for the Fresno Bee Photography gallery site. I posted that link on the Bee photo Facebook page and shared it with David Archuleta’s page and Sierra Vista Mall. Of course I also plugged sponsor Y101. So I think I hit all the good search keywords here so I’ll probably get a few hits from fans wanting to see more of the photos. Did I mention I am a wedding photographer in Fresno? And oh yeah, I am also a commercial photographer in Fresno too!

Rachael & Andy

Craig — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:38:15 +0000

Rachael and Andy’s wedding was a literally a tale of two cities – countries actually. Rachael, a California girl, met Andy in his native England while on a mission trip. The two fell in love and now Andy will call California his home. So for the big day, Andy brought over his family and some close friends. It was great seeing such nice folks on their visit. The reception was held at a friend’s house north of town but the topper had to be during the ceremony at First Baptist Church of Clovis where Andy had one of the coolest first kisses ever. More pictures are after the jump and a full sideshow with more images is posted at the bottom.

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Men of Metal

Craig — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:13:42 +0000

James Hetfield of Metallica takes on some evil light as he rocks Fresno with a concert at the Save Mart Center on Saturday. I shot a series of photos for The Bee which is planning a review in Tuesday’s paper. Audience reviews are already in and can be seen on Mike Osegueda’s blog. More photos are on The Bee’s photo blog, Bee There.