it’s that beautiful time of year when the earth gets a farm fresh batch of new adults. adults who, while not working, don’t have enough time to ask their brother for a proper photo shoot and spring him with a 10 minute deadline before invitations need to be sent out. ;)
of course, he just so happened tot ask while i had a 5D and 35L on loan. so, how could i say no? we had a great time, we always do and i’m pretty stoked on our 10 min photo shoot results.
we absolutely cannot believe that it’s been an entire year that we’ve been married! it seems like just yesterday that nellie was forced to sleep with ear plugs for the first time. i am officially part of that age old club of guys who married way out of their league. nellie has been so patient with me as we start down this journey together. of course, she scored major “wife” points for buying me the oh-so-coveted “Flight of the Conchords” season 1.
we had an absolutely wonderful stay downtown in the unparalleled city of San Diego. however, to our grave disappointment, the pier 1 clearance store is no more - most of you know how beloved it was by the two of us. so to commemorate our loss, and the advent of another year, i busted out with a super-cute self portrait session. thanks for all your support this year!
for those of you who visit the blog to see what nellie and i are up to, move on to the next post… there is nothing for your hear! of course, if you are a super-nerd, like me, and wonder how the cats play when the wife is away, you are in luck!
if you haven’t heard yet, i got a new camera the other day. because this is a “nerd” post, i’ll tell you that it is a Nikon D200 which has been nocking my socks off! of course, now i have a sweet camera and no lenses ;)
my good friend lorenzo saw my lack of foresight and very generously filled my need. he is an incredible photographer and you can see his stunning work “here”:http://ttl-zo.blogspot.com.
we drove around to find the filthiest spot we could to and start shooting. we had a great time together, and i can’t wait until our next run in!
this was a stretching experience for me, as i don’t often go out looking for inanimate objects to shoot, but i learned a lot. enjoy.
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no last week we got a surprise call from “nate keiser”:http://theimageisfound.com with a very exciting proposition. as a part of their new “shootshops”:http://theimageisfound.com/shootshops for aspiring photographers, they would shoot us and buy us dinner for the small sacrifice of leaving work for a couple hours. it was a very difficult decision i know, but admittedly worth the sacrifice. ;)
we felt so honored to be a part of the first of many successful workshops. congratulations to “eight20 photography”:http://eight20photography” for taking this huge first step.
of course, today i kept the camera at home and left the shooting to the pros… click on the picture to see some more great shots from the shoot.
notextile. 
after much planning and negotiating, the winter family was finally able to come out to see our house. ( for those of you who don’t know the winters, they are aunt, uncle, and cousins from my mother’s side of the family. ) pheonix and ethan were the two strapping young men whom you might recognize from our cake cutting! ;)
in any case, they came to see the house and we shared an unbelievable day of ice cream + cat-catching! in the words of the beautiful and talented cassidy “we didn’t have fun, we had infinity times fun, fun!”
thanks for the great afternoon!
the men - ethan + pheonix ( respectively )
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the lovely lady - cassidy
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the cat search is on!
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