i know the families want pics for a card. and i know this probably won’t be that photo. i just can’t help it. this seems a good place to share it since it won’t be mailed out to the masses.

the christmas card shoots started last weekend. just got the films back this afternoon. not done diggin’ through them all.

special deals for christmas cards this season. check out the details here. not many weekends left before the cards will need to be made.

a couple of weeks ago i took some pictures at a family birthday party. great fun was had by all.

i’m not obsessed or anything. i just think alec soth is cool. check out his pictures.

and then there is is this interview courtesy of 2.8.

so here is a slide show of tina and geoffrey’s wedding. so much fun. and such good sports. they are so natural in front of the camera, they should be on a stage or something. what do you think?

a page just for the show can be found here. much better for linking and all.

more to come soon.

concerning my previous post about a shy client who doesn’t want her picture shown… she is in the independent with my picture of her. the article is about the new cafateria at harding school where she is the principle (and where my son is in kindergarten).

my picture is the black and white one down the page some. if you click on it you can see a larger version. the color pics of the food are the author’s, not mine. in the print version of the article (page 57 of last thursday’s edition) my picture is big and at the top.

sorry, Ms. Kingston, but with you in the paper i get to tell everyone about it.

the article can be read here

aside from it being cool to have my picture in the local paper, it is a good article about the great stuff happening at our neighborhood school.  have a read.

one fun family. i enjoyed taking their pictures. and hollister ranch ain’t too shabby either. i hope it wasn’t too painful for them.

last week i took a few pictures for a woman that needed publicity pictures for work. she was getting more and more requests from newspapers and the like for a picture to go along with stories that were being written about her. with the increased publicity, she thought it might be time to get a “real” picture and stop emailing the scan of her driver’s license (i did not see this scan, nor the original picture, but can’t imagine it was close to ideal).

i met her at her place of employ and we walked around the grounds and talked, and laughed, and took some pictures. while very affraid of the camera (”this is my shots. like most people will avoid going to the doctor in fear of shots, i will do anything to avoid having my picture taken.”) , we managed to get some great pictures.

i’m not sure what her problem is; she is actually very photogenic. i emailed her a link to a handful of pictures and she was too afraid to even look at them. “just tell me which one is best and send me that one. i don’t want to have to choose,” she says.

needless to say, you all don’t get to see the pictures. but i thought it might be fun to tell you about it. and just know that if she wasn’t so shy (and such a prominent figure in santa barbara life) i’d be showing you some of the best pictures ever taken. you are just going to have to take my word for it.