A buddy of mine asked me to come out to his gym to take some photos of him training a fighter for the Battle of the Bagdes. After watching them spar I realized that I would never want to get into that ring because it looks like one hell of a beating. Taken with a 50mm f/1.8

I worked with Pete this past weekend in Berkeley, CA and got a couple nice shots out of him. It was my first time shooting a male model so I had to adjust the way I normally take photos.

I got the opportunity to shoot with Stef again and it was a lot of fun trying out different poses and looking for exteriors. I got a lot of use of my new MB-D80 vertical grip and I'm very glad I got it.




More photos from this session at Flickr.

I was looking at my blog recently and I noticed that I've posted a bunch of Black and Whites lately. I wanted to post something with a bit more color this time around. I took this photo a couple months ago during my long weekend stay in Lake Tahoe and the colors came out so well that its one of my favorites. Enjoy!

This photo shoot was one of the most difficult ones by far and it wasn't that the children were being fussy but it was the weather. It was well into the 90s in the afternoon and I had came straight from work to do this session wearing jeans and a dress shirt. Sweating and taking pictures of children was not the best mix in the world but I made it work.

It's taken me awhile to get these photos processed but better late than never. I shot these two sisters at J Park in Hayward, CA. The photos that struck me the most from this set were those that expressed family to me.

I shot my first e-session a couple weeks ago with this wonderful couple who I've known for quite some time. We shot in Sausilto, CA and while I was worried that there would be too many people around, there were some nice quiet spots to capture moments like these.



More photos to come soon!

I've always been asked if there was any certain area I was going to focus in for photography and up until now I've been trying out as much as I can. I do have to say that I enjoy portraits and working with people during a photo shoot. This is one of my first set of portraits I've done and I was very happy with the results. It was also easy because it was fun to work with Stefanie. These are some of my favorites from the shoot:







View the rest of the album on Flickr.