We just got back a few days ago from our honeymoon. Right now Rachel is editing a senior session, and I'm writing this and replying to emails, while Brinkley is being totally unproductive laying between our desks. We took him for a walk earlier to Sweetpeaks, a local ice cream place, which happens to have dog ice cream. We are told it tastes like chicken, but neither of us really wants to find out. Brinkley however loves the stuff. One drawback is that any room he is in for the next few hours better have good ventilation... We went to California to shoot a wedding, and in the week prior traveled around northern California, staying at Bed and Breakfasts, old hotels, and seeing as much of the ocean as we could. We made a fire on the beach, drove one of the best roads I've ever been on on Napa (James Bond cool) and tasted the best coffee I've ever tasted ar Four Barrel Coffee in San Francisco. I shot as much of it as I could on Impossible Project Polaroid film, on my SX-70 folding SLR.
We are doing our best to catch up on work, and getting into the routine of being Married... Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that! We got married :) Which naturally happens before most honeymoons:) Rachel wants me to write something about married bliss... I guess the starring at each other with stupid grins, holding hands until they cramp and PDA qualifies. Its like that first week of dating turned up to eleven... I'd be lying if I said its been easy to start working again. We are still in happy land of nobody exists but us right now, and get irritated at the slightest interruption into our seemingly perfect world:) but alas, emails must be answered, pictures uploaded, and the job that we love only a little less than each other must continue. We are so excited to be starting this journey with all of you, and can't wait to see what the next year brings.
Tintype Photographs taken at Photobooth in San Francisco on 4x5 Camera
In the midst of edit, edit, edit, shoot, edit, drive, edit, edit, Rachel and I took time to cake taste yesterday. It was by far one of my favorite parts of wedding planning. Another one of my favorite parts was our engagement party a few weeks ago. We had a few friends over, and my best friend Jon and his wife Jenni were able to come up from Bozeman. We ate smores, drank, and sat around the bonfire. All these images were taken on Ilford delta 3200 film, and HP5, on my Yashica 124g, and Mamiya 645af.
A year ago today Rachel and I went on our first "date", in honor of that we are watching Cowboys and Aliens, and I'm blogging pictures I took on the 4th this year. Last year it was a fireworks picture that I posted to a facebook group that got Rachel and I talking, so its kinda fitting I got these scans back from the lab today. On a totally different note, I've always found in interesting to look at the 4th pictures I've taken every year since I started taking pictures. Funny how it sorta says alot about me. Last year I was photographing Connect Church in Bozeman's free love event, and they ended it with awesome fireworks. That night was like most, fun, but in many ways empty from anything personal for me. I think the most memorable part of the day was my friend Jon shaving my head. He had begged me to do it, and I relented, it was a mistake, and made me realize the true value of a hat. I had no idea that night as I photographed the explosions of light across the water, that a year later, I'd be engaged to Rachel, that I'd actually have something personal to celebrate about the 4th. Every year Rachel's family puts on a huge fireworks display, and literally hundreds of people come. Rachel and I sat with Tyler and Becky, and watched the lights explode, with Brinkley burrowed down next to us. It was the best 4th I've ever had, by a long shot. Speaking of... the only thing I somehow forgot to take a picture of was Brinkley, and seeing as he is truly the worlds greatest dog that is a tragedy. Oh well... there is always next year:)
On a geeky side note, everything here was taken on my Mamiya 645af, and the Yashica mat124g, on kodak portra 400.
Product placement...
We had good company:) 
Impromptue photoshoot with uncle rons car:) 
Fireworks on film! You have no idea how hard it was not knowing if these came out after I shot them! :)
