When I was in Texas shooting a bridal at the McKinney Cotton Mill I took along Laura to take some photos of her too.  Man!  Do I feel old.  I’ve know Laura since she was about 3 years old.  Her mom and I have been friends for 15 years or so and her brother and my son are roommates.  No doubt about it, all our kids are growing up!  So here are a few photos from the shoot.  I’d love to photograph more high school seniors and teenagers.  So if you have a teen or are a teen I’d love to hear from you.  And feel free to leave a comment.  I’m sure Laura would be thrilled to get some comments!

Lindsay and Hank were the second engagement session I shot while in San Francisco last week.  They are so fun and have the most amazing dog, Cashew.  I’m really looking forward to their wedding in Cabo later this year.  Thanks guys for showing me around your neighborhood a little and for letting me hang out at your beautiful new place.  See you in Cabo!!!

I not only attended a workshop but also did a bridal shoot.  I saw some photos at the Old Cotton Mill in McKinney and thought it would be such an inspirational place to shoot.  So I found a model and shot for a few hours.  I wish more brides did bridal shoots before the wedding in California.  They are quite popular in the southern states as was apparent by the 3 brides who were there while we were!  I hope to go back there to shoot again because I discovered 2 hours is barely enough time to even scratch the surface of all cool places on the property.  I love shooting for myself because it gives me a chance to take some risks and experiment.  With both the photography and the post processing.  So here are a few pics from the day.  First though I want to send out a great big thanks to Brooke, the lovely model,  for coming with me.  And another great big thanks to Erin Cole for loaning me a few gowns.  Oh and be sure and come back later this week for more from the Cotton Mill.  I had another lovely young lady with me.  Can’t wait to share her photos too!

This week I traveled to San Francisco to shoot a few engagement sessions.  What a fun job I have huh!  I was excited to see Scotia and Juan again.  They found me through Scotia’s good friend Jana whose wedding I shot last year.  Their wedding is going to be at the beautiful Rancho Los Lomas and Kevin Covey is coordinating.  With Scotia’s great style I know the wedding is going to be gorgeous!!! So without further delay, here are some engagement pics from a cold, windy, grey day in San Francisco.  But aren’t they fun!!!

while in San Francisco this week for an engagement extravaganza. Meet Cashew. Come back soon for pics of his mommy and daddy!

that there are going to be a lot of people checking my blog Monday morning for a sneak peak of the lovely Nari on her wedding day.  So even though I’m going to be up and off to Vegas at 5 am, here’s one little pic.  And come back soon, I am traveling and have a busy, busy schedule the next few weeks but I have the following blog posts to catch up on – 3 weddings, 2 engagements, 1 bridal, 1 portrait, and 2 boudoir sessions.  Whew!!!

ps – Don’t worry, there was a groom too. Some spiffy photos of Wyatt coming soon with the real blog post. As well as some amazing details pulled together by Angel Swanson of Events of Love and Splendor. 

because of what it means.  It means that the Foundation Workshop is over and I’ve got to move on.  But hopefully I will carry with me what I learned that week and all the great people who were there.  Here are the great team members who helped me along my journey.  They are all awesome and talented people!  Go check out their work, you will be amazed.

Huy Nguyen - The Foundation Master – often called the seeing freak for his unique perspective. 
Sergio
Becca Spears
Mark Adams
Erwin Darmali
Joe G
Andrew Mejia
Jesseca Hattey

I also want to thank the lovely people at the Allen Senior Center for letting me tag along and bug the heck out of them for a few days.  The members and staff were just wonderful in making me feel welcome.  I hope my slideshow does them justice.

Here’s my final slideshow as presented on the last night. And of course a photo cause without it this post would look naked :0  If you are a photographer and on the fence about this workshop, jump off that fence and run as fast as you can to sign up!!!

yep that’s right, by one of my favorite photographers in the world.  But more on that in a minute. 

Last week I had the privilege to be a part of the FW6 – the Foundation Workshop.  I really can’t put into words what an amazing experience it was.  The premise of Foundation is to improving storytelling/photojournalism skills – the brain child of Huy Nguyen.  Photographers from all over the world are there and we each get assigned a story that we go out and shoot.  For two days we are emersed in the story and presenting our images to our teams and team leaders.  We get an amazing critique on how we are doing and how to improve.  The end product is the slideshow we present but this workshop is about the journey, not the end.  And it’s about the people too.  The photographers present and the subjects.  I have made friends for life at Foundation. 

I haven’t even had time since returning to blog the images but one of my favorite photographers on the planet put some images on her blog, including a few of mine.  Anna Kuperberg was on staff at FW6 and she has been an inspiration to me since I found her website in 2004 when I was just getting my feet wet in photography.  Be sure and go to her blog if you want to take a look at what she posted.  And stay there for a while if you want to see some inspiring photography!

And if you want to see more pics from the workshop be sure and check out the Foundation’s website and blog. 

I will be posting more about this late including links to all my teammates.  I’m missing all of them and craving Thai food!!! Who knew?!?

One more pic from my assignment – the Senior Recreation Center of Allen Texas.  More coming soon…