a few months ago i was contacted by a guy who was planning on proposing to his girlfriend. they were from san jose and would be in santa barbara for the weekend. the girlfriend was expecting the weekend holiday, but not the proposal. nor was she expecting to have someone hiding in the bushes taking pictures of her get a new ring.

after the ring was offered and accepted, i introduced myself to both Carmen and JC and we spent an hour or two taking some engagement photos. Carmen was a real sport about the whole thing. especially considering that she has just gotten engaged and then had to spend the next couple of hours with a photographer she has never met instead of calling family and friends or kissing her new fiance. as it turns out, my presence didn’t stop them from doing plenty of the later.

laura (the “Elle”) and chris (the “See”) asked me to take some pictures at their wedding some months ago. i was very flattered to be asked by them. they are both very talented artists with great style to boot. at first i said i would have to think about, but quickly decided that was just silly and agreed to do it soon after.

the wedding didn’t disappoint - it was fantastic! here are a couple of pictures from the day. there is also a slide show i made with tons more pics at the bottom. or check it out here.

did some pictures for the new pelago web site. i had stopped by their great office a few months earlier with a rented Mamiya 7 rangefinder and shot them up with some tri-x film. i showed them the pictures and they liked them so much they asked me back to take some for their web site that they were in the process of re-designing. check out their site here. see any of my stuff?

i’ve never met him or anything, but alec soth is a killer photog. check out his stuff. he does that all with a huge 8×10 camera. he also has a cool blog that gets lots of traffic from lots of names.