onigaminanashi's family threw a big neighborhood party for her grandma's 70th birthday this past weekend in Fresno and I got roped into taking pictures.  Kailey thought a photo booth thing would be fun for the guests, so I had to dust off all my photography equipment that's been sitting in storage over the summer.  This was the first chance I really got to use ( Read more... )

Lorisa and Sonny were married back in March at Fresno City Hall, but this trip home was the first time I was able to go out and take a few of photos of them.  Sonny is set to deploy to Afghanistan with the U.S. Navy this Friday and won't be returning until June of next year, so it was especially important to me that Lorisa have some photos with her ( Read more... )

But I suppose I sort of have to be.  Considering the fact that Chris had four dogs when we first started dating, I can foresee dogs in my future.  With my luck, they'll probably be wienerdogs.

Anyway, Chris's family is vacationing in Europe and rather than put their two dogs up in a kennel, he and I offered to watch the dogs at our apartment in ( Read more... )

I told Leslie the other day that I loved her:


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 My sister loves to buy funky toys and things for my grandparents, especially for Goong-Goong. He really gets a kick out of them. Our aunt Patricia usually takes them to the circus every year and buys him some sort of light-up toy. AJ bought Goong a remote control operated walking and talking Stitch (Lilo & Stitch) from Disneyland. That was a ( Read more... )

My first photo shoot of the year.  Megan wanted some photos of her and her boyfriend, Dustin.  This is just one of the candids I took while playing around with the setup.


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My sister surprised our mom by coming home for Christmas.  My dad told our mom that AJ wouldn't be able to make it back to Fresno  because of her busy work schedule in the military.  As such, the two of them would fly stand-by to try and surprise AJ in Texas instead.  Mom wasn't too thrilled about flying stand-by, because my dad kept joking that ( Read more... )