Orange County Event Photography, Corporate Branding Photos, Portraits and Weddings

Sometimes as artists, we need to invest our time and energy into projects that promote creative expansion. Sometimes that involves doing things on our own or going out on a limb or taking exhausting climbs to heights we never thought possible before. Often as we service our clients and adhere to the guidelines of our contracted projects, we aren’t able to conceptualize further development. To say we get stuck can be an overstatement or understatement depending on the project/gig, but the point is that it’s important to keep the juices flowing. It’s important to nurture further development beyond our current work load.

Lately I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time working on personal projects. I only want to grow, I only want to expand and I only want to improve. I want to for myself, but also for you. And so taking my mind outside of the box and collaborating with other professionals and working to create new and exciting imagery can only transform me to bigger and better things, right? So stay tuned for some personal work here on the blog. Some fantastic images are coming your way soon.

PINME

shot in collaboration with ISHOT Photography, at Earll’s Garage in Anaheim, with MUA- Charity Gant, Model- Breana McDow

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There’s something amazing about earthquakes. And I’m not talking about the (cuh-razy) fact that Mother just decides to shift a bit and the whole earth rumbles and relocates to a different position. Because that is amazing in and of itself.

The amazing something to me about earthquakes is how you have to ride with them. When the ground starts to move and shake beneath your feet, there’s nothing you can really do but ride it out and hope for the best. Obviously when the really big one comes for us, it will shake my perspective to a completely different level. But of all the earthquakes I’ve experienced in my 20 some years living in Southern California, I know the importance of the ride.

And I can’t help but convert this into my life as a lesson. There is so much you cannot control. There is so much that keeps moving and shifting beneath your feet that you cannot stop. And you can choose to either freeze, scared and worried about what after shocks might shake you again, or you can ride with it, cautious through the change but confident, and ready to stand up on solid ground once more. It’s like falling off a horse or a bike and never wanting to get on again, but you’ve got to get back on. You’ve got to continue to ride. Because when you ride it out, stick with it with a calm assertive behavior, that’s when you grow.

And by ‘it’ I mean, anything that shakes you.

So shake on, World. I’m going to ride with you and grow bigger and stronger from it all.

PINME
image shot in Rome, Italy, October 2011

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