Been a While.....

It's been a while since I've updated. Sorry about that. Things got a little crazy around here all of a sudden. I shot two weddings last weekend (the first one is above), then between shooting a few corporate jobs and assisting Tim Park on an all day long commercial shoot, then having my car break down to the tune of $1500 (and a week and a half in the shop) it's been crazy! So, update for the week: Our softball team sucks now. We got hammered last night. we are now 4-3-1 with 2 games left. The most exciting thing to happen in a while happened Friday at the above wedding.....I was shooting the father/daughter dance and looked at my Alien Bee light in the back of the room and it had caught fire and was smoking! YIKES! I ran over and made sure my assistant was getting it the heck out of there and she did, I continued to shoot the dance, then put up another light and no one, no guests, vendors or most important of all, the bride and groom even noticed....gave me quite a scare though. The next post may be delayed also and now we are going to take a week off to go to the beach for the 4th. See Ya!

Where are they now

I shot this portrait yesterday for the Seattle PI. They are doing a series of "Where are they now" stories. This guy won 21 games for the Seattle Rainiers in 1952, and before that, threw a perfect game for the Salem A ball club. I love baseball, and I wish I could hang out with Vern here all day and talk baseball, he had some great stories and he even taught me how to throw a slider.

AJ's wedding

My best friend Aaron got married in San Jose over the weekend. It was a great wedding. Megan is perfect for him and its great to see him so happy. I did not shoot it, I was a groomsmen, but I did shoot a few photos here and there in our downtime. This was shot during the photos that there hired photographers were shooting. Of course they missed this moment, which I think shows both their personalities so well :). It's always fun to see how other photographers work. These guys made to realize everything NOT to do at a wedding. They were horrible. On camera flash for everything, tripping all over themselves, seemed to have no idea or organization of what the heck was going on, and got in the way of everything. They actually went on stage during the ceremony! They also stood, then sat, then stood in the FRONT ROW! it was horrible. Then they ordered drinks at the reception, and shot horrible on camera flash photos all night long. I wish I would have shot this so they would have some good photos....here are a few I did shoot. I didn't shoot the reception though...I may have had too much to drink :).

Aaron played football at UO, so Todd, another groomsmen, made this sign for Aaron to tap on the way out the door to the altar.

Aaron and Megan walking up the aisle after the ceremony (good job on the photo Jenn!)

I took this photo after the "real" photographers were done:

AJ crying his eyes out when seeing Megan in her dress for the first time.

I look good in a tux I must say (I think my wife even shot better photos than the hired hands)

Google Builds

Spent the day in The Dalles shooting a feature on the town and new Google Data centers that are being built. Google is hush hush about it, but this will be one of their main data centers...in little old The Dalles. I got there at sunrise and shot some nice photos of the buildings from a bluff, the shot some photos around town, then searched for features all day long, then got in a plane and took some aerial shots, which is always fun. Googles buildings are the two huge white buildings in the bottom of the frame, and the city of The Dalles is behind them. Here is a story about it from the NYT.

4-2

We lost by 8. We sucked. That's all I've got to say.

Testimonial

This shot is for a catalog that sells office supplies, time cards, etc. She is giving a testimonial about how great the time tickets are for her company, Fred's RV World in Sandy.

Vegas

Spent the last 3 days in Vegas for my buddy Aaron's bachelor party. I went in on Thursday night, a day before all the rest of the guys got there so I could hang out with my Dad. We pulled an all nighter at the Poker room at the Wynn. We got there like midnight and the next thing I knew, we had played poker all night long and it was 11am. It was fun! Then we got a nice free breakfast buffet, Pops went home to sleep and I went to the Hard Rock to meet up with Tiffany Brown, the Las Vegas Sun's newest photographer, who used to be in Corvallis. We had a great time talking shop, getting some food and then we took a nice little self guided tour around the sweet sweet hard rock pool. Man, that thing is awesome. I mean, there are blackjack tables IN THE POOL. I don't thinnk it gets any better than that. Here is a photo Tiffany shot at the pool. I can' wait to go back to that place. After that I went and checked into our Suite at the Venetian and crashed for a few hours before all my buddy's got there. Then we got some food, gambled a bit more and then Mike and I pulled another all nighter playing poker at the Venetian. Started around 3am and next thing we knew, it was 11:30am. Needless to say, I slept 5 hours since Thursday and I was a little tired when I got home at 3:30 this morning after my flight was delayed going back to Portland. Viva Las Vegas!

4-1

Another solid game. The Mitchelldyer Photography softball team is now 4-1. We have won 4 in a row and it doesn't look like we can be stopped! Our defense is so good its silly. We do not give up any unearned runs. I have not hit for crap the last two games though, going 2-9.....garbage. I'm going to drop myself in the batting order. Next game, Next Wed!

Wedding 6/3/06

This is the cover from the wedding I shot Saturday. It was a fun one. The bride is from the Netherlands, so all of her family and lot of her friends flew out for the big shin dig. Her brother is a musician over there and he played the reception and ROCKED! He was so good, I did not want to leave! The weather held up and I had a great time. It's so fun when shooting a wedding and the bride/groom/guests feel like personal friends! Congrats guys!

My Poor Dog

My dog Lexi was playing at the park yesterday and stepped on something that ripped her middle toe nail right off her hind paw. It was bleeding all over the place, so we had to take her to a 24 hour animal hospital to get it fixed. They had to put her out and remove the toe nail. Ouch. Poor thing. Then, to make matters worse, she also had a bit of a skin infection on her rear end from an allergic reaction to something, so they shaved her butt and cut out the infection. Now she has a cast on her hind foot and a shaved ass. She looks like hell. Limping aorund on three legs, doped up on pain killers with no hair on her butt. I feel so bad for her. It's tough to see her like this. Hopefully she will be better real quick.