The Way We Click

fine art with a heart

Highway 395 08.09.09

Filed under: Art,Personal — thewayweclick @ 11:27 am

About a month or so ago, I drove from San Diego to Tahoe to visit family etc… and decided to make the trek through the desert up the historic 395 instead of fighting horrible LA traffic and looking at cows the entire drive up Hwy 5. There have always been spots along 395 that I’ve wanted to take the time to explore, so this time, alone, and with my camera in tow, I explored some of the most beautiful and decrepit remnants and randomness of the eastern Sierra desert. I think my favorite part was getting caught in a flash thunder and lightning storm at Mono Lake while taking a hike down to the shore. Standing alone in that place, getting soaked, and trying to protect my camera while watching the light on the lake dance around was a great reminder that we all need this sometimes, and being outside beats a day in front of a computer anytime!

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The Murphy Family! 05.08.09

Filed under: Personal,Portraits — thewayweclick @ 6:50 pm

A while back I finally got around to getting together with my beautiful friend Michelle Murphy from Pixie Salon (who happens to be the most amazing hairdresser I’ve ever had) to take some fun pics of her family in Balboa Park. We really couldn’t think of a better setting to take Elias and Owen so they could run around and be their crazy selves, while we had a couple glasses of wine and enjoyed a beautiful day! Michelle and Travis are one of those couples that everyone wishes they could be, and their family is such a pleasure to hang out with. Here’s a few highlights of my favorite moments of them just being themselves.

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A San Francisco Weekend 04.23.09

Filed under: Art,Personal — thewayweclick @ 6:10 pm

A couple weeks ago I was blessed to be in San Francisco enjoying the most amazingly spectacular weather on an Easter weekend I’ve ever seen in the city! It also happened that my good friends, and favorite past wedding clients Paul and Jack (see their fashionable event here) were in the city too and so the three of us met up with my friend Jinwei for a bit of fun roaming the streets of San Francisco. I am so lucky to have such amazing people in my life, AND people that have such good taste in food! Jinwei had us meet for this ridiculously delicious breakfast at a creperie called Ti Couz in the Mission District. Seriously, I highly recommend this place if you want an amazing meal, and real fresh pure mango juice… mmmmm!!!

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Jinwei and I couldn’t resist taking a quick self portrait while waiting for the boys to arrive… I smell a new facebook profile pic! lol

After Breakfast we all headed over to Japan town to enjoy the Cherry Blossom Festival and check out some of the local artists, food vendors and of course people! I think the highlight of wandering around down there was stumbling upon the famed Hotel Tomo which is an anime themed hotel in Japan Town. We HAD to go in and check it out… so we were dorks and messed around in the lobby which came complete with a giant cat, some sort of spongy lounge couch thing that looked like it belonged in a Super Mario video game, and of course in true Japanese style, a vending machine that had just about anything you could imagine in it from t-shirts to lunch!

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We finally wandered back to the street fair and found the strangest artist booth who makes these tiny little pieces of jewelry shaped like sushi! Nothing says love quite like a pair of california roll cufflinks!

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Before we took off we had to make one more stop into the anime store to browse around for some fun. Paul and Jack are designers and work on all kinds of packaging and design for anime and other toys so of course it was no surprise when Jack walked in and said “Hey! I made that!!!”

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He also did the packing design for the Godzilla toys, but we couldn’t quite figure out what the hell this monster was supposed to be because it definitely wasn’t Godzilla!

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Is it wrong that I have no idea what this thing is… and that I still want it? Awww how cute!!! a baby rice milk… ummm sure. 

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The day was so beautiful that we decided to be uber tourists and head over to China town for some retail therapy including a stop off at American Apparel. I don’t think any of us are all that into American Apparel but we stopped in anyway and sort of wandered around confused and decided to have an impromptu fashion show… check out my stellar move with the batwing sparkly hoodie on! I was mimicking the picture of the model wearing that thing, and I still can’t figure out what was supposed to be happening in that photo! lol

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The four of us hamming it up while I let a tourist use my camera!

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Thanks so much Jinwei for being the absolute undisputed BEST tour guide I’ve ever had in the city, and to Paul and Jack for making me laugh so hard I almost peed! :)

 

I WON!!!! (well sort of) 02.07.09

Filed under: Personal,Weddings — thewayweclick @ 12:50 pm

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So after lots of work, lots of stress, and lots of fun editing, I finally won a coveted 10th place on the AGWPJA’s second quarter contest for 2008!!! Being a part of the AGWPJA and the original highly respected WPJA (wedding photojournalists association) I am always in awe of the images that are selected as winners from all over the world. I feel very blessed to now count myself as a part of that group! 10th place might not seem like much to celebrate but with thousands of members from all over the world, to even place in the top 20 of any category is an honor. This image (that had a slight sepia tone on the contest entry)won me 10th place in the “Ceremony” category. Thanks so much to the judges, and to Nick and Nicole for their awesome event!

 

Clickin’ It 01.25.09

Filed under: Personal,Weddings — thewayweclick @ 8:34 pm

Heres just a little treat from one of my recent events. I’ve never felt LOVE all around me like this… even the grandparents were getting in one the action and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time with my camera at my hip… lucky shot hu? <3
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