Joanne + Nikko | Connection

Joanne and Nikko are simply one of those couples that make this job so easy. Despite the early (and rare) California rain, the sun started peeking out a little less than an hour before our photo shoot. Unfortunately the rain also created a little mud, which was a task that all three of us had to conquer. For a couple shots the two even had to get a little down and dirty but nevertheless they remained ecstatic about the entire process. At the end of the day I even found some mold that somehow crept into my camera bag!

Power of the G10

This Christmas my lovely girlfriend Katrina was blessed with a Canon G10.

This thing is a BEAST.

-14.7 Megapixels
-Better 3 inch screen than my 40D
-Great battery life (lasted for the little photo shoot only after a quick five minute charge)
-Superb image quality at low ISO
-Insane depth of field
-Takes my 580EX on it's hotshoe
-Excellent body build

Although we were contemplating between this and the Panasonic LX-3 we went with the Canon due to the sturdier body. It also had an overall better feel to it when taking pictures. Not too long ago Luminous Landscapes did an article comparing the $40,000 39 megapixel Hasselblad H2 and the $450 15 megapixel Canon G10 at lower ISOs. What they found was unbelievable. The images compared side by side on a computer monitor were basically identical without in depth zooming. They even printed the pictures 13x19'' and still had a hard time discerning between the two.

And after these pictures I took with the camera, Katrina and I couldn't argue for a better compact camera. Plus that brick just oozes sexy.







Sneak peek at my CD packaging for you clients out there :)






Straight out of camera (Amazing)

Gaza March

China

China was an unforgettable experience both for my camera (Despite being dropped literally the second I walked out of Beijing airport) and me. In terms of photography I was extremely limited throughout the entire trip including Hong Kong but especially in China. I had only brought one body (Canon 5D) and one lens (Canon 35mm 1.4) and after the drop could only use apertures from 2.8 and smaller. Circumstances like these for a photographer who loves to shoot 1.4 and is restricted to only one focal length (albeit my favorite) kind of just sort of a little bit sucks. But the good news is that my camera still worked and the pictures still came out great. Not everyday does one get to experience two of the Great Wonders of the World in one trip. This was a ten day hands on history lesson about my people and let me say it was completely mind blowing. Technology, hard work, and culture from thousands of years ago still astonish people to this date and the legacy still lives on... proven by the architecture and brilliance of the 2008 Olympics. Although it is sad to say that Beijing was the most polluted and coldest places in all of China that we visited. The air quality rivaled California during that of the fires and every body of water visible was frozen solid. This is what caused the smog in nearly all of the outdoor pictures. Nevertheless the experience was invaluable and I would not mind visiting Xi'an and Shanghai again. Definitely would recommend you guys to visit.