Tag: ‘photography’



perfect practice makes perfect {pensacola portrait photography}

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

last summer at skip’s summer school i heard roberto valenzuela speak about practice.  he said that the old adage, “practice makes perfect” doesn’t really help much if you’re not doing it right.  a better saying would be “perfect practice makes perfect.”

last night i set up my lights and did a little “perfect practice.”  these two shots are my favorite.  my grouchy cat just happened to be sitting in the right place at the right time and i caught this shot just before he decided flashing lights were not his thing.  my son came in as a stand-in for the cat and thought it would be funny to hide his face – because that’s the cool thing to do when you’re 10 and your mom is trying to take your picture.

portrait of bernie the himalayan cat

 

10-year-old boy goofing around for his portrait

wedding photographer humor

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Dixon’s friend herded them outside for a huge group photograph. “Could the people not related by blood get over on the left end?” he asked. “Just in case, you know. Because I’m not absolutely sure I can fit you all into the picture.”

“How ingenious: a pre-cropped photo,” Zeb murmured, and Rebecca laughed till her cheeks ached.

from Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

juan’s video from the waterfalls workshop

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

my brief moment of stardom (why did no one tell me i had a leaf in my hair???):

Tips for Photographing Waterfalls from Juan Pons on Vimeo.

nick & naomi 12/21/2000

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

an oldie but goodie, this wedding took place almost 10 years ago. this was back in my film days, so the images are small scans of photos. maybe one of these days i’ll get around to sending some negs to scancafe and get them all digitized! nick & naomi now have 5 beautiful children and i should have a post of them up soon.  see more here.

wordless wednesday 12.23.09

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

These pics were taken at my grandpa’s funeral in August. There was just something so poignant to me about my son standing at the newly-covered grave site.