February 13th, 2012 “Mommy’s coming to see me! Mommy’s coming to see me!” Felicia has been chanting this for the last month since her mother decided last month to come to the U.S. for her first visit. In the month leading up to the visit, Felicia had me doing just about everything imaginable, from hanging curtains [...]
January 30th, 2012: I love all things photography and a few weeks ago while trolling through the clearance bin at Bel-Air Camera in Westwood I stumbled across a pinhole lens for my Canon cameras for $1. It is essentially a Canon body cap with a pin sized hole in it, creating a lens similar to [...]
September 14th, 2011: A couple of weeks ago when we were up in Napa to shoot Pete & Cindy’s wedding, we also met up with Danielle, Felicia’s friend from Singapore whom she met during French classes back in 2005 at the Alliance Française in Singapore. Now living in the Bay Area, Danielle is a writer [...]
Sept 12th, 2011: For the past two months, every Sunday morning our Los Angeles Times has been missing from our doorstep. The first few weeks I figured it was a new paper-person (paperboy is no longer P.C. is it?), but then every week I would complain and they would re-deliver the paper. Yesterday morning [...]
September 7th, 2011: About a year ago, I was sitting around narcissistically Google-ing myself when I came across the first photo above of Robert C. Paetz + Mother, dated 1923 being sold for $12 by a man named Paul in Northern California. I quickly did the math and figured it was my 93 year old [...]
August 30th, 2011: Seated at my computer late last week around 11:30pm I turned to my wife and said “Done. At least for the next 37 hours.” (When we have a new wedding to photograph.) “Does that mean we get to go see Tim Burton?!?!” She excitedly asked (referring to the Tim Burton art exhibit [...]
August 17th 2011: Before I met Felicia and she beat me into submission to force an honest man out of me (she tries, but I doubt she’s succeeding…), I was fresh out of college, bartending, and being my raucous, rambunctious self. During those crazy years, I had a bunch of bar regulars, some of whom [...]
August 15th, 2011: Friday afternoon I was feeling rather burnt out: we have been shooting and editing non-stop since June when we went to NYC and DC, and just felt like a couple days away from the computer would help me come back refreshed. It also coincided with the first weekend in a long time [...]
July 22nd, 2011: It was hot. Really hot. So hot that I at one point during the outdoor afternoon photo shoot I tried to talk to Iris and my mouth produced no sounds, only a comical puff of dust and evaporated spit. I had to work for a couple minutes just to produce the saliva to tell [...]
July 19th, 2011: I find the quickest way to anger your wife is to take a razor sharp object and put it in her carry-on luggage. This really seems to do the trick, even for the calmest and most forgiving of wives who deal with the foibles of a man on a daily basis, this [...]
