Kiros

Tonight I went to the Showbread show in Dinuba, and I must say that I had a really cool time. But what was one cool thing about it was Ryan. He plays guitar in the band Kiros that was opening and on tour with Showbread. I was just stnading outside drinking my Redbull and he came out and started talking to me. I know that he was just walking around talking to the kids, but I was very thankfull to have someone to talk to.



The top is not Ryan, the bottom is.



He turned out to be a cool guy, so I decided to take pictures of the band, and at the end of there set, which was really cool, the band turned out to be pretty cool guys to. It was allot of fun shoting them, they had awesome stage presence, it just suck that no one was there.

Air condition

One night I was talking with the police chief at a dinner party, and he knew that I was a photographer. He started telling all these pictures around Hanford that I should take. One was of this old man that would cut hair at this barber shop. I drove past that place for almost a year wanting to take pictures of that man, until one day he was on the front page saying that he pasted away.



I never made it to get pictures of that man and I kick myself ever time I drive past it. But this store front was on of the other places that police Chief told me about, I drove past it allot waiting for the sign to be lite up, and it finally did.




What the police Chief was telling me about this place was the sign. So what if it has "Air Condition" on the front. But back in the 60's when it was open, that was a big deal.

Camp video

I stayed up all weekend and here it is, the camp victory 2008 video, I hope you enjoy.



For some reason I don't know why it does not play, but I am working on it.

more from camp

Camp this year was awesome, and have been having a hard time trying to get back at normal life. I am makeing a camp video again and a friend told me last night that I should try to incorperate what happend at camp in the video.




How do I incorperate these things that happend at camp. Fun, awesome, God, amazing, laughter, how do you make a video of that. We will see.

the coolest camper, Samantha

I have returned from beyond and back. It was amazing time and I had allot of fun and did allot of hard work.

Now you might be asking why this girl, Samantha, was the coolest camper and the first post about camp is her. The answer is simply, she believed me about Mike the fly elephant.

A little back story. The second week at camp I was the camp director and was giving a room with my own bathroom and shower I was loving it. Then Tuesday morning I woke up and went to the meeting to find out Samantha had a flu and need to be seperated from the others, so I had to give up my room. I was the camp director, I was very very mad that I was being treated like this.



Well the next day after sleeping in a tent and losing my bathroom, I was still upset. The boss told me I should go see Samantha and just let her know that I was thinking of my campers. So I did, and to shorten the story, after spending a little time, and making up a story that the other campers where riding Mike the flying elephant for rec time, I started to enjoy hanging out with her.




After spending most of the day with her, it came to surface, God was really working on my heart, I felt so bad that I had disliked her because she took my room. It made me think of the reason why I was there, to show and share Christ's love for these kids. Samantha had to leave three days early because of the flu. The best part of the two weeks there was Samantha making me give her a piggy back ride to the car so she could leave. I will admit, a tear almost fell watching her go.

camp

On Sunday I will be leaving for two weeks of camp. Now this is not camp that is by the lake fishing and watersking. But I will be working with youth and helping out. The first week, I am going to be a couseler and then the second week, I am going to be camp director, so I have allot to do and am behind on allot of things. Well I will see you in two weeks. I would leave some funny witty comment for all of you, but I am to far behind to even do that to. bummer

two tickets to awesome town

My week in Santa Cruz was freaking awesome. The house that we stayed at was amazing, and also used the hot tube many times. It was just really cool to be with my family for that long of a time. I am so happy that I was able to go.





Of course the week ended with the midnight showing of the awesome amazing new Batman movie.

me in Dodgeball, Im out.

Like a slug, it took a long time coming, but I finally am able to go to Santa Cruz for a week. Yes, get out of the ungodly heat. But the best part is that I will be with my family. I love hanging out with them. So I don't know if I will have internet there, or I will see you all in a week. Batman on Friday, oh ya.

the might Nick

I was out with one of the kids from my youth group, he was modeling for me for my workshop, these are some of my shots as you can see. I wish I could be watching the new Hellboy movie.

The mighty Eric

Last week I gave my first workshop, so i needed a modle for the example shots, and Eric said that he would help out. Here are some of them, but I put my special touch to them, photoshop. Of course these are not the ones I used for the workshop.








These last two are Eric and his awesome girlfriend Stephanie (sorry about the spelling). She meet up with us later and this is another one from a different night, I just wanted to add it in. Eric and Stephanie come to the youth group I help out at, Junkyard, and are both a very big blessing to have there.

Happy 4th

Happy 4th to all you awesome people out there looking at this. For the first time in 18 years of living in a small town, I finally went inside the football filed and watched the fireworks. Now ask any photographer that if you shoot fireworks, you have shot them all. I mean there is not much you can do to be creative. So I sat there and after two shots of just holding on the tripod, I said screw it and tried to start painting with light. I think I cam up with some real cool ones. The hardest part about shooting fireworks is stopping yourself from watching them. Just awesome, like that scene in "The Sandlot"








All of them where played with, meaning adjusting the levels and saturation, this is the only one that I tried to make something wierd with.