Wedding Photo of the Week

The sun was setting and peeking its way onto the dance floor during the first dance. Luckily, they moved into the light right at the end of the dance.

Last Week's Wedding

Cool wedding under a couple of big Oak Trees at Tyee Wine Cellars in Corvallis.

Intel

This is a photo I shot today as a PR job for Intel. They are making a "big" announcement on Monday and this photo will go onto the AP wire to go along with said announcement.....anyway the idea was to show a "fab" worker in his clean suit and a regular consumer in the same photo.....so I had an idea to reflect the consumer into a wafer.....Intel has a really cool museum on one of the campuses and that museum had a cool wall that is basically a bunch of chips.....So I had the fab worker stand in front of the wall and then just shot the reflection of the laptop user in the wafer. This is NOT photoshop, this is real....I used 2 softboxes, 3 grids, 2 reflectors and a shit load of black velour to pull this image off. Let me know what you think.


UPDATE 7/25/05: Now that he announcment has been made, I can add the caption to this photo: Intel invests in growth. Intel technician Carlos Jones from Portland, Ore. reflects the image of University of Oregon student Lydia Webb in a 12-inch wafer containing hundreds of microprocessors. Intel announced this week that it will build a $3 billion wafer fabrication facility in Chandler, Ariz. to manufacture next generation computer chips for desktop and laptop PCs in 2007. The new "fab" will be part of Intel's network of factories located in such places as Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, California, China, Ireland, Israel and Malaysia. (Photo by Craig Mitchelldyer)

Curbing Meth

Yesterday, the Oregon House voted 55-4 to pass a bill that would require a doctors prescription to buy over-the-counter cold medicines such as Claritan-D and Sudafed. These are some images I shot for this story for Getty Images.

Meth is a bad bad thing. Already in Oregon, Cold Pills are stored behind the Pharmacy counter and require an ID check and log book to buy, now it is going to be even more a pain in the neck...but....it's worth it if it helps to curb this problem. Every single day on the news, you hear of Meth addicts stealing or killing or something just to get the drug. Very sad. The bill nows moves to the Senate, where it is expeected to pass and the Gov. will then sign it into law.

Wedding Photo(s) of the Week

I like this shot from last weeks wedding. Sitting on a bench in a park....I think the fact that her legs are sticking out from under her dress and that she has regular tennis shoes on makes this photo. I also like this one:

I think someone is getting a little too close with the sparkler!

Not something you see every day.....

This was a first...the bride dancing with a plunger....why a plunger you ask? Well, the best man gave the bride a "living with your new husband survival kit" as part of his speech, the kit included, handcuffs and rope, preperation H (because he can be a pain in the ass), Altoids, Floss, safety goggles, and last but not least Gas-X and a plunger (because he can eat a lot from the buffet).....very, very funny and made for good photos too.

4-4

Not sure what the heck happened last night, but we sucked. Bad. Worst game of the season by far. So many errors I lost count. I am pretty sure that every single player on the team had 1 or two errors. Horrible. 2 weeks off then 2 more games to go.....we better win out.

Pearly Whites

2 teeth and the cutest little smile you can ask for.

Another day at the (new) office

I think I should become a poker player full time...I'm getting good. Last night I took second in a tournament and won $225. I played really good all night and was chip leader or second in chips pretty much the whole tourney. When it went heads up I was the small stack, but barely. I made one mistake....hit a straight and called an all in when a bigger straight was out there....I figured any straight heads up would be good, but I was wrong and took second because of it.

Jordyn sees the light

The sun comes through the window and makes a nice sliver of light...Jordyn is smart enough to reconize it and stand there while I shoot a photo. What a smart baby. :)

Last Weeks Wedding

Here is the cover from the wedding I shot on Saturday. Good wedding, it was at the groom's parents house, a huge house way in the woods of Oregon City, a log cabin infact....amazing house.

USA Soccer

Yesterday I shot the US Women vs. Ukraine. It was your typical American beat down, USA 7 UKRAINE 0. The game was significant in the fact that Portland native Tiffeny Milbrett scored her 100th career goal in the second half.

Pretty cool. Only 5 other players have done it, including Kristine Lilly, who was the last person to do so....ironically, also in Portland last October, which I also shot:

Milbrett also had on the new Nike Max Sight Sport Tint Contacts in....

these are a new thing from Nike that are suppose to reduce glare and help you see better while participating in sports. Makes her look scary if you ask me.

More from the 4th

Here is one more from the 4th of July....Baylee (and I too) thought it would be fun to hold 5 sparklers all at once. Is it a problem if the 3 year old LOVES fire?

Ring around the sun

Portland Beaver's catcher Michel Hernandez sits in the dugout underneath a rainbow colored ring around the sun during a game on Wednesday. The condition is similar to what happens when a rainbow is formed after a rainstorm, only ice crytals in the cirrus level of the atmosphere, around 25,000 feet, refract sunlight and form a corona around the sun.

I saw this happen on Tuesday at my house and thought it looked cool, so when I was in the dugout during the game Wednesday and looked up, I thought this might make an interesting photo, I wish it would haved lasted long enough for me to shoot someone on deck or standing with a bat in theier hands or something, but it only was there about 5 minutes before the clouds rolled in.

4-3

We are above the .500 mark for the first time this season after a 14-6 win last night. DaMetz was rung up on a called strike 3, it was about the funniest thing I've ever seen....except when Bert was running into home and fell and crashed face first into the fence!

Happy 4th of July!

Happy Birthday America! I shot 3 weddings this weekend and this is a photo from last night's shin dig. I can't wait until tonight to have a huge BBQ with freinds and play with explosives with the neighbors.

Portland Oregon Wedding Photographer