Happy Holidays to me! It's been a long time since I've had a decent point-and-shoot camera...I mean a loooong time. I do have a half-broken 3 MP digital elph lying around somewhere but the image quality was always so lousy that I couldn't even bare to have anything printed...and isn't it sad to not have any pictures of the fun things you do in your life? And since I'm not one of those photographers who likes to lug around a big SLR & lenses everywhere I go, I decided it was finally time to get myself a new point-and-shoot. So as a holiday gift to me, I got myself a Canon G-10 from Samy's...who definitely had the best deal around on this baby. Did you know that if you order online from Samy's, everything is about 10% cheaper than in the store. Good to know, right?
So now I have a
Posted In: PERSONAL LIFE, PHOTOGRAPHERS.
Tags: Canon G10 Powershot Camera, Palm Springs, Samy\'s Camera online discount
I know I've been gone for absolutely ages but after my craziest holiday season yet which included photographing 30 families in 30 days (am I crazy or what?), after a nice little vacay, I am back and back with some New Years resolutions.
1. To embrace social media & contribute to my various blogs more often. When I first started blogging back in 2006, I blogged about everything in my life. I blogged so much that I had nothing interesting to say in person because everyone I knew had already read about my life. Not that I want to be uninteresting in person, but it's all been photos & business lately and I'm resolving to blog about regular life as well.
2. I have given up any and all meat that is not from a humane farm. I have not become a vegetarian. I will still eat meat & fish etc. This
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Tags: Identity Kitchen, photographer blogsite, studio diana
Sometimes I like to blog about things other than photography just because living in LA, some experiences are just too ridiculous not to write about. So the other night Gary and I met our friends Lisa & Roey at the Nokia Theater downtown to see our good friend Juan Patino who was on tour with the legendary Hall & Oates.
We had great seats right smack in the middle amongst lots of "super fans". But none of the crazy dancing ladies could even hold a candle to the guys sitting across the aisle from us in full head-to-toe 80's style Hall & Oates garb. And they seemed so serious too. People came from all over the theater to take pictures with them. Of course we had to as well. Leave it to a pro photographer to have only iPhone & Blackberry pictures of her own life but maybe one of these
Posted In: MUSIC, PERSONAL LIFE.
Tags: Hall & Oates, Juan Patino, Nokia Theater
For those of you who don't know me, I got married last October. Of course my wedding was 10 months ago now but I just love weddings so much that I can't help but totally immerse myself in them and for that reason I read lots of wedding blogs. I even write one called The Unbride which is due for a relaunch any day now. But I like to visit other wedding bloggers whom I consider to be my internet friends even though I've never met most of them. So today I popped in to visit Style Me Pretty to see what was going on there. And what did I find?
Me! :) My own wedding video by the very talented guys at Monachetti was featured today. So I sat there and watched it and relived that amazing day once again. So I figured why not share it here. If you
Posted In: PERSONAL LIFE, PHOTOGRAPHERS, PORTRAITS, WEDDINGS.
Tags: Monachetti, Style Me Pretty, The Unbride, wedding video
This afternoon was my niece Zoe's 10th birthday party, her real birthday is this Wednesday. But a bunch of close friends and family members gathered at "Chez Rocker" for a little celebration this afternoon. Usually I like to leave my camera at home when I'm not working but today I felt inclined to bring it along. Perhaps because I just got a brand new Hayward tote bag and I needed to put some stuff in it so that I could show it off. :) Whatever the reason, having it with me inspired me to shoot more personal stuff on a regular basis so I'm going to make an attempt to drag my camera pretty much wherever I go and just see what happens...even if only to have plenty of images to blog.
So here are a few from Miss Zoe's party. After all of the kiddos were like shriveled little raisins
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Tags: zoe\'s birthday
