Failed Christmas cards

I guess the joy of being the famliy photographer is that you get the joy of making the christmas card for the parents. Well that is this time of year, And here are the first failed ones that the clients (parents) did not like. I can't see why they didn't like them.

Yes, Texas Poker, And I didn't go to Texas

When I was down visiting my brother he had a Poker tournament to rais funds for his snowboard club. I had a real fun time, even though I sucked at it, like real bad.

time for the lighting round

So before I get the pictures of the fun time at thanksgiving. I came across the old contact sheet that I had. But in the sake of the games. These images are all from one town. Can you guess what city this is. The clock is ticking.

Those pics you take before the wedding

So I was down in LA last weekend doing many things. Poker tournament, wedding, hanging out with friends, sleeping on couches, watching sunsets by myself, sleeping on floors, and hanging out with awesome Bryan Silver. I did some engagement shoots for my brother and Kristin. We walked into this place by Cal Fullerton, in there was a sign that said "professional photographers must pay $100 to shoot here. "I was like no way dude", seriously I said that, so we still shot there, I was just really carefully. Of course there was like 6 different photographers in there, maybe I shouldn't have added that in. Aaaahhhh the lack of sleep.

Holy Freaking Awesome, Pigeon John

Last night I went to go see one of my favorite Artist, that right Pigeon John. The last time I saw him was at cornerstone in 99. He freaking rocked then, and he tore the roof last night. The coolest thing about seeing one of my favorite artist was, he is also part of a group called Brainwash project's, which I could saftly say one of the best Hip Hop groups that I love. So B-twice was not at conorstone when I went to go see them, but he was there in Fresno. Freaking awesome. Pigeon John if you read this, thankyou so much, and B-twice to, thankyou. You guys freaking played San Diego.

What is wrong with this picture

Ok, so I did this wedding about a month ago and saw the DJ's setup. Here is part of his setup, what is wrong with it, can you tell. I will give you a hint, he also brought Vinyl with him, not just any vinyle, seven inch's. This guy is either really good, or he needs to update real bad.

The big story that you have been waiting for.

So this story happens last Friday night. My good friends Bakka, Chad, and I where in another town watching Travis do his guitar thing. It was awesome. So, after some time, Bakka goes off and start wondering around, trying to get on, get in, or get around things. He calls me, tells me to look up, he is on the roof, look to my left, he is hanging out of a room. Just normal stuff that Bakka does.

So, Travis is done playing and Chad and I are looking at two dollar pieces of pie (not two dollar joke) and I get this call from Bakka in a hurt voice

"Stephen, come and get me, now.", he says. I know that he is in trouble, the first thing that comes to mind is the police have him cornered and he is hiding, it is not the first time it has happened. I start walking to my car really fast, he calls me three times before I turn the corner and my headlights on my car illuminate my friend laying in the alley. I pull up next to him and he pulls himself in the car with a look of horror from the pain.

"I fell and both my ankles hurt, I need to go to the hospital," he screams threw his teeth from the pain. So not knowing where the Hospital is, the awesome Lord directs me to one. Seriouly, the Lord led me to it, I had no idea where the hospital was, and three blocks from where I pick him up, I drive into the emerengcy room.

So that happened at 8:30, we did not leave the hospital until 12:30 at night. That is pretty much the story, Bakka broke both of his ankles, and today he is haveing surgery. So he parents where on a trip, so I stayed at his house the whole weekend, it was a good time, except for the whole emptying his pee bottle for him.

Where the magic happens

So here is my fathers Church. I don't think that it is the best Pano that I can do, But I wanted to post it to see how it looks on my Blog.

In other news, I spent the entire weekend (Friday night to Monday night) sitting at a friends house doing nothing. What brought this about, I will write more in the next blog.

noes going to explode with snot

So I am sitting here at starbuck typing this out, but I should be home getting better. Today the flu hit me with a flu stick, I sleep into until three but still I feel blah. I should be cool by thursday, but man I hate being sick. So I heard that there was this Japanese band playing in the nist town over and here are some shots, nothing to good, I should post more later. "Heros" is on tonight and man I laove that new show.

I don't know

So I am sitting in this coffee shop wondering what to say about this picture that I did last night. A friend is sitting next to me asking me where I buy my crap from, (my butt, ha)(she punched me and feed me gum, yes.) So lets just say when you are up late, these are the things that come to my mind, while watching "American History X".

The mighty David Wilder

So yestruday was a first for me. THe first I ever did senior portraits. It was alright, The model was a cool kid from church and he wanted to do some cool shots. Well I guess I am walking down another road, the road of senior portraits, yuk.

kung fu kick cake

So I was in Pismo on monday doing some engagment photos for a couple that live in Santa Barbara. It was a cool day, and it is always nice just to get out of the valley. Life is good, I did some work for a magazine and was hopeing to do some more, but they just emailed me back and said that they are not going to need me, bummer.

a long time coming

It was a long time coming, Last night I did something that I wanted to do for a long time. I audtioned for an improv comodey group. I don't think I sucked, and I don't think that I nailed it. We will see, They said that they would call me later this week if they wanted to work with me more. It was allot harder than what I thought.