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Connie and I are headed up the coast for four days. It's her birthday tomorrow and i haven't gotten her a present yet. But don't worry, i'll find something very cool for her along the way. We're both stoked to get our of town for a couple of days of r+r, enjoy each other and see the spectacular views along the coast line. See ya on Monday! {This is a southern exposure made in Sedona, from one of our road trips last year tracing Route 66 with the kids from AZ through New Mexico.}

Last Friday 08.08.08 i had a blast with Wendy and Paul aboard the Mojo in Newport Harbor. They kept it real the whole time. Just being them. By keeping it real, they got some killer photographs. A small wedding of about 50 close friends and family...everyone was there to support them and just have a fun party. After our four hour cruise, we headed down the coast to Crystal Cove and made some groovy images. Holland and her crew onboard the Mojo did a killer job and made us feel so welcomed. Wendy booked me over the phone, without even meeting me, until her wedding day. Wendy and Paul, thank you for your trust. And thank you for keeping it real! A special thanks to Keith Wilson for tagging along and braving the heat and making some beautiful images.

Emerson, Claire and i piled in the car and headed up to Pasadena on a sweltering hot day to visit the Norton Simon Museum. What a spectacular collection: Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin and Picasso. Just remarkable. Claire used a phone thingy for a guided tour. She is standing in front of a portrait of Hébuterne Modigliani. What an incredibly sad story. After learning of the untimely death of her husband (from tuberculosis), inconsolable, she threw her pregnant self out of a 5th floor window of her family home. Gravity...ending her death with her unborn child. Claire was kind of shocked about this. Mrs. M...quite possibly unstable? Ya think? But wow! To love someone so much that you not only end your life but your unborn childs' life too. And oh yeah, she left behind a young son. Freak'n tragic when you think about this boy having to live a life without parents. Nice start mom! Emerson was non-pulsed about the whole Norton Simon thing. He's 13 and non-pulsed my most things, but i think he really did enjoy it. Even though they didn't have any video games, i think it is important for both of them to be exposed to art and the classics when they are young.

Adam and Eve: This is another one that perplexed Claire. I think i'll have to revisit it and discuss it with her. I was to busy taking pictures. I know she's heard of Adam and Eve. However, i'm not sure she grasps the visual depiction and the importance of the medium. What if cameras were around in the 18th century? What would have happened to art? What would have happened to painting? A camera is the medium i choose to tell stories with. It is my brush. A long time ago, i studied art for years in college. At one point i thought i'd be a painter. I'm glad i chose photography. Or rather photography chose me. I've got to give Claire two thumbs up. She was genuienly interested in the art and the historical interpretation of the pieces. When Claire and i met, she was 8 years old. Now 10 i think that some of her innocence is starting to wane.

We photographed a few weddings in the past week and i've been jones'n for a great bottle of Pinot Noir. We finished a yacht wedding on Friday, aboard the Mojo in Newport Harbor that ended with a beach session at Crystal Cove (images to follow soon). And decided we really needed some down time and some killer juice. So we headed out to the Wine Gallery in CDM and picked up a killer bottle of '06 Tantara, Solomon Vineyards. Oozing with raspberry and ripe plum this is a smoke'n Pinot. Definitely the best bottle i've had in a while. And at $52 bucks, it didn't let me down. After that, we headed over to Trader Joe's, picked up some Stilton, ripe Brie and some goat's cheese. Took a much needed cool shower and cracked open the wine. Kicked back with a Netflix movie....Vantage Point and chilled. While watching the movie, i downloaded my files from our shoot onto my Mac Book Pro. The next morning I woke up to catch the sunrise and put my Mark III on silent mode and tried to be Ninja quite while photoraphing Connie sleeping. But she is a Ninja too and woke up in the middle of my paparazzi inspired shooting spree.