Lindsey + Peter: Manhattan Beach Engagement Session

We headed to Manhattan Beach this summer to go play in the sand and walk up and down the streets with these two local love birds. It was so fun to visit their favorite bar Shellback, and hit up a candy store for some delicious cotton candy! These two are so cute together and we really can't wait to photograph their wedding next May!

Beautiful Wife + red heels + green suit + hawaii + pineapple

= tropical bliss.

I had a few extra rolls of 220 left over from Laura and Mikes wedding and decided to burn them with Leanne at our local beach before heading out to the airport. I love having a model at my side whenever I need her :). Film was developed and scanned by my friends at Richard Photo Lab in LA, with a few minor photoshop color tweaks by me, but straight out of camera for the most part.

So the story behind this one is leanne is like "take a photo of me standing on this rock with the pineapple" ... so I do. Then she says, "wait for a wave to come up and splash around my feet." So I'm waiting and focusing my camera and out of the corner of my eye a 4 ft wave rolls of from behind and lands right on the rock she's standing on. Gold! I missed pure perfection by about 1/100th of a second. But I think its still hilarious. Leanne didn't think it was so funny :P

My favorite.

Stranded on the way to Vegas ...

... we met up with Alyson and Grant late in the day. They were stuck in the desert. Good thing they had each other and our camera's to pass the time.

Full post coming soon.

New York and Boston : Panoramics

We just returned from a week on the east coast with Leanne's family. Its been a trip a few years in the making, fall colors, hustle of the city, and a chance to revisit the spot where we got married have been on our to-do list for some time. Leanne has a bunch of amazing photos to share too, but I thought I'd beat her to it by posting some of my panoramics.

These are just rough out-of-camera images, I usually "work" them a bit more in post, but decide to let the compositions speak for themselves this time. In a digital world where 5000 photos can fit in the camera for under $50, it is constant challenge for me (and other artists too I assume) to keep their vision focused and get exactly what they want out of a trip or photo session. I hope you guys dig some of them, please check out the full gallery on facebook to see more:

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-Paul

Under the arcade - south facing staircase - leading from lower central park, down to the Bethesda Terrace. There was a choir of about 5 children and a cellist playing something wagneresque that filled the arcade with haunting but beautiful sounds

Standing on one of the higher points in central park affords an amazing view of columbus circle, midtown manhattan. Look for Leanne rock-hopping on the left

Words cant express how amazing it was to walk the high line now that its been restructured as a park. It runs almost 3 miles through the westside, cutting through chelsea, hells kitchen, and the meat packing district. For more information and some wonderful photos of the old high line, visit the website and Joel Sternfelds project "walking the high line"

Yellow leaves catching my eye on Newbury st in Bostons Back Bay

Leaves slipping from the shore of a lake in boston commons. Artfully fulfilling the transition to winter