Ellie Continued!

Look! Ellie is all grown up! Ok, not really, but she DID just have her first birthday, well, i guess second birthday...wait, i am not sure. SHE'S ONE. I got the pleasure of shooting little Ellie back in November. Check out the blog post...Look for the baby in the copper bucket...Her parents are Margie and Ryan Sullivan. Two really great friends whose wedding i shot in Arizona back in the day. These pics turned out RAD! It helps that Ellie is one of the cutest babies i have ever seen, and I am not just saying that cause they pay me. I mean, look at her hair! She's gonna be a rockstar! I applied some fun new post processing tricks i learned to make these pics really pop. Some of them look like they were shot back in the 30's.

The pre-shot make up and wardrobe...

This shot was great, until she fell through the chair cushion!!! Margie's cat like reflexes pulled her up just in time. I think it was worth it for this shot.




Riding her elephant. One of my personal favorite past times.



Look at that hair! DANG! How hip and trendy is this. I love it. LIke i said...rockstar.


This is my favorite moment shot.




This chair had some great patterns and texture. I had to use it.

Matt and Shelly at the Fess Parker Winery

This is Matt Taylor, one of my really good friends from Cal Poly. Matt and i have known each other for almost 8 years, and lived in East Asia one summer together doing some ministry work for Campus Crusade. I was SOOOO excited so see him find the girl of his dreams, Shelly Watts. My wife and I have taken some road trips with the two of them, and hung out in SLO a few times, and they are awesome together. We got to take some pictures in Solvang, the tiny Dutch town just north of Santa Barbara. It is a super fun little town. (Stay at the Hadsten Inn if you go, its RAD!!)
The wedding was at Fess Parker, a secluded winery in Los Olivos. The weather was beautiful, the vines were green and everyone was just glowing. What a great wedding, and reunion with all my college buddies! Thanks Matt and Shelly!







I loved this fun wall with the exposed structure. Shelly just POPS out of this photo!!!






We snuck into the barrel room for a quick pic here.






Probably my favorite moment from the wedding, when we snuck away at dinner to the vineyard to snap some sunset shots.

Viansa Winery in Sonoma with Fred and Clare

I love wine country. The air, the scenery, the smell of crushed grapes, and yes the wine. Shooting in wine country is always a pleasure for my wife and I. This time we didn't get to do much tasting, if at all, but we DID have a great time at Fred and Clare's Wedding. I know Fred and Clare from the Christensens, Robin and Kyle whose wedding i shot in Sonoma back in August 06, and also the the Crays, Nathan and Kimberly, also married in Sonoma July 07. It was great to be at a table with them enjoying food and wine, chatting about wedding horror stories! I can't wait to see them again at Tessa and Tims wedding next month!
Fred and Clare were just so chill yet focused on their wedding day. It was great to see Fred, a big, tough and very intellectual guy well up when he saw Clare in her dress. Thanks you two for a great trip up to wine country!



This was a great shot i snuck from a moment outside when Clare gave her dad some cuff-links from Tiffany and Co.












Flower girl + arms all the way in the fountain = AWESOMENESS!






This is my kind of wedding: cake AND cupcakes with desert wine...Fred said these were pretty good cupcakes, and they were delicious...Sprinkles look out!










Kyle, Robin, Me, Jessica, Kim and Nathan. Pretty much the funnest table at the wedding!

Carli and Scott on Nob Hill

I swear this could have been a Kennedy Wedding. This was Carli Folan and Scott Hamilton's wedding I shot last weekend in San Francisco, on the top of Nob Hill. It was perhaps the most elegant, rock-star wedding I have ever shot. And the best part was that the couple and their family and freinds were SOOO down to earth. You might remember their engagement photos a few blog posts back, "The Streets of San Francisco." Carli and Scott were so chill, and so in love. Scott gave one of the sweetest groom speeches I have ever heard. He said he was so used to living his life for himself, and by himself, and the thought of being one with another person and thinking and acting as a couple for the rest of his life warmed his heart. What a stud! Reminds me of how i felt right before I proposed to my wife.
Oh, and this cathedral...forget about it! Built over 150 years ago, and rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake, this French-gothic chapel finished in 1964, is the third largest chapel in the nation. (Yeah, i did some research.) It was a great day, a beautiful wedding, and a super fun night.

A little peek out the window






I love this hallway, this looks like a shot out of W magazine!




Breathtaking. The ceilings were like 150 feet high.






It wouldn't be an A.Niesingphotographer moment without being in the middle of the street.