Sharon and Daniel were married this past Friday at historic San Carlos Cathedral in Monterey. This is a sneak peek of several photos from their joyous day.
A beautiful sunset at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove makes for a spectacular background.
Sharon is walked down the aisle by her father.
Last month I had the opportunity to assist Berkeley Photographer Stephen Hew as a 2nd photographer during a San Francisco wedding at St. Ignatius Catholic Church and the reception that followed at the Delancey Street Foundation in the Herbert Halper Town Hall. You can view Stephen’s photos of the wedding day HERE. After meeting up with Stephen at the San Francisco Courtyard Marriott where the bride was getting ready, my coverage started with a quick trip to St Ignatius church to photograph to guys. The ceremony took place inside the beautiful and awe inspiring St Ignatius church. After the ceremony is was time for a ride on a motorized cable car to visit a few spots around town, including a stop at AT&T Park home of the San Francisco Giants. After our last stop on the city tour is was time to head to the Delancey Street Foundation’s Herbert Halper Town Hall for the reception.
View from the balcony of wedding ceremony and the elegance of the church.
The guys pose for a photo just outside the Richard A. Gleeson Library – Geschke Center on the University of San Francisco ( USF ) campus where St Ignatius Church resides.
Just one of the amazing views in San Francisco. The twin towers and dome of St Ignatius church, and the Sutro Tower in the background.
The groom is ready for his at bat outside AT&T park in San Francisco
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Last Friday was team picture day for the Oakland Athletics. Normally team picture day consists of arriving two hours before the shoot an then it’s an hour and a half of set up, 30 minutes of waiting, and then 5 minutes of excitement and stress. This year’s photo was a little different than the last 13 times I’ve done the team picture. The team picture was moved from it’s normal Tuesday or Wednesday schedule to Friday. The reason for the switch being that Brad Pitt was in Oakland to film his new movie Moneyball, which chronicles the Oakland Athletics 2002 season and how the team’s GM Billy Beane built that team.
Upon arriving at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum the only thing that appeared out of the normal for a picture day was much of the lighting equipment used during the filming of the movie Moneyball ( to be released next summer ) was being packed up and hauled away. Since all the lighting equipment was outside the stadium it didn’t effect me or the team picture, or so I thought. Things proceeded as normal, that being drive down the ramp to center field, unpack the lighting and the bleachers and set up in the normal spot of shallow center field for the picture. By 3pm all the set up was done, it was now just time to wait for the players, managers, and staff to arrive for the photo.
Being that the team picture is photographed with the team back lit by the sun and flashed with powerful strobes as the main light, I usually check the strobes every so often just to make sure they work. Well at 3:10 something was wrong, the strobes that had fired just 10 minutes before weren’t working. There appeared to be no power getting to the power pack. OK, the first and most logical thing to do is check that the power cord is still plugged in both the outlet and into the power pack. OK, the cord is still plugged in both places. What else could be wrong? Maybe the outlet suddenly stop working. OK, try all the other outlets on this on the circuit. Nope, no luck there, no power. Next step, go to the truck and bring out one of the two backup power packs and plug it into the cord and hook up one of the lights checking to see if the original power pack has gone kaput. Nope, the backup isn’t working either. Next backup step is to pull out an extra power cord and plug the power pack into another outlet some 60 feet away.
Success, the backup power pack is now working correctly. I turn off the backup power back and once again hook up the strobes to the original power pack. It works just fine, like it did 15 minutes ago, before the problem happened. Feeling just a little stressed by the last 5 minutes, I go over to my truck to grab a drink of water. While there I notice a technician now working on the junction box that the power cord was originally plugged into. When he finished working on the box, I asked him if the power had been turned off? He mentioned that movie production ( here’s where Brad Pitt fits into the story ) had used the junction box for electrical tie ins, and they were removing them all today. So of course the power had to be turned off for a while.
Now it all made sense. While on the field before any notice of the problem, my assistant and I watched another technician drive up to the location of the junction box which was out of our view, and then drive away a minute or so latter. It didn’t occur to me that he was turning off the power that both I and the Oakland A’s were counting on. OK, time to relax a little a get ready for the team picture. The team picture went of without a hitch, and you can see the result below. Had the young lad who originally turned off the power, done so during the 5 minutes the shoot lasted, there might not have been a happy ending to the whole day.
So that’s how Brad Pitt sorta, kinda, maybe almost ruined the Oakland Athletics team photo.
Former Pittsburg high school pitching ace J. Paul Flores stands in for the players during a light check.
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In May and June of this year I was fortunate enough to take a 2 week land and sea cruise to Alaska. You can see photos and read about the Alaskan Land Cruise here in my blog post. What follows in this post is the 7 day adventure that my wife and I spent on the Royal Caribbean International Cruise line aboard the Radiance of the Seas. While the title of this post mentions north to Alaska, the entire trip through Alaska was southward. The cruise was no different with the journey starting in Seward, Alaska and ending seven days later in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Along the way there would be stops at the Hubbard glacier, Juneau the state capital of Alaska, Skagway the jewelery store capital of Alaska, Icy Straight Point, and Ketchikan the rainy day capital of the world. I’m not really sure that Ketchikan is the rainy day capital of the world, but I do know that it rains there 360 days a year and has an average yearly rainfall of 152 inches, with 37 inches of snow thrown in for good measure. Enough of the facts, on to the pictures.
You have to get up pretty early to catch the sunrise this far north. This sunrise photo was made at 5am local time.
View of the the main dining room, Cascades, is an luxurious two level restaurant featuring a grand staircase, statuesque columns, and indeed a cascading waterfall as the room’s name would suggest.
At the smaller ports of call such as Icy Strait Point on Hoonah island, visitors take a tender to reach land. This view of the ship was taken from a tender heading to Icy Straight Point.
The view of the ship’s main lobby and glass elevators that run up to the 13th deck.
A sunrise self portrait on the 12th deck of the ship. That’s my shadow cast by the sunrise on the exterior of the ship. On the right side of the photo, you can see my footprints, and only my footprints on the morning dew. Nobody else was on deck at 5:10 am local time. It was their loss. It was a beautiful sunrise on the port side of the ship.
The unofficial state bird of Alaska. That would be a mosquito. Though we didn’t see many, those we did see were about twice the size of the mosquitoes see down here in the lower 48 states.
The jogging track on deck 12 offers amazing scenic views while affording one the opportunity to stay in shape.
A view of the Hubbard glacier. Watching the glacier calving as ice and snow fall from the 400 foot tall sea wall is one of the highlights of the cruise.
The Mendenhall glacier which is just outside of Juneau, Alaska
View of container ship being unloaded in Vancouver British Columbia as we pulled into our final port destination.
Sunset view of the Holland America cruise ship the Zaandam about to pull out of Juneau, Alaska, the State’s capital city.
Don’t forget to view more photos of the trip by viewing the link below.
Continue reading "North to Alaska – Part 2 – The Royal Caribbean Radiance of the Seas Cruise"
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Priya and Santosh selected San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge as the back drop for their engagement photos. From Lands End you not only get a wonderful sunset view of the Golden Gate Bridge, but you can look out into the vastness of the Pacific ocean. Right near by is Sutro Heights Park which offers many interesting and varied back grounds for photos.
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