Wedding Links

Moving these to the top:

Mike's:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/pictures?a=67b0de21b35049326578&sid=0RcNG7Vy2YuVg

Mom's:
http://picasaweb.google.com/rainerlopez/SeanAndChevWedding

Grandma's:
http://picasaweb.google.com/rainerlopez/GrammaSPics

Uncle Doug's:
http://willy.enoyolf.org/wedding

Takoa:
http://picasaweb.google.com/c12raney/2007_07_26LakeArrowheadTakoa

Andrea:
http://picasaweb.google.com/akleith/ChevSeanSWedding72807

Lisa:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Stottssnapshots/RainerWedding

Steph:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ssalgado12/ChevsWedding02

Wendy:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18792497@N00/sets/72157601215939528

PJ (fixed):
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=vwppn1d.2qeguiyp&x=1&y=-b59oet

I do, I do, I DO

HOLA AMIGO Y FAMILIA!!!

Chev and I are back from our honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It was a sunny week of all-inclusive bliss. Here are our pictures from the trip: http://picasaweb.google.com/c12raney/PuertaVallartaHoneymoon

We're still in a daze from our wedding weekend. We are very grateful to each and everyone of you who made it so special. We will carry all of that love and friendship with us throughout our lives together. We can't thank you enough.

We are also very excited to see everyone's pics from the weekend. We love seeing it from your perspective. So far, we've received links to galleries from a number of people (I'll post at the bottom) but we want more!

I personally prefer Picasa Web Albums for such things because it is SO easy with Picasa and the file sizes can be reasonably large. I also like Flickr for the same reason (I'm a "FlickrPro", check out my regular galleries too).

But obviously, whatever is easiest for you is fine. We just want to see the pics for now. If you took some photos and you need any help getting them online, or if you would rather give them to me on a CD and let me upload them, please email me or leave a comment.

Here's the photos we have so far (I'll keep a running list as they come in):

Takoa:
http://picasaweb.google.com/c12raney/2007_07_26LakeArrowheadTakoa

Andrea:
http://picasaweb.google.com/akleith/ChevSeanSWedding72807

Lisa:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Stottssnapshots/RainerWedding

Steph:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ssalgado12/ChevsWedding02

Wendy:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18792497@N00/sets/72157601215939528

PJ:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=vwppn1d.2qeguiyp&Uy=-b59oet&Ux=1

Green Beer

Click the photo to see more of the green beer debauchery on Venice Boardwalk. I took the photos with a lens that I forget about sometimes... my 50mm f/1.8. It's fast, compact and usually produces a beautiful bokeh.

Let's recap

Did I lose you? It's been a while since I've posted. So let's catch up real quick.

Since last I posted...

We had a great time in Lake Arrowhead in James' super cool cabin (click for pics):

I went to an Ayn Rand exhibit in Hollywood.


I took this picture of JL:














I got the Canon ST-E2 that allows me to take pictures like this:














Went to one of the most amazing shows ever with Chevas and Lisa. We saw Earlimart at the Getty Center with a string quartet. It was almost an out of body experience. It definitely ranks as one of my all time favorite live music experiences. (not my photo)











Oh, and the Master Batters started off the season by beating Off Constantly 9-4. We'll look to extend the streak tonight. Thanks for hanging there... more pics tomorrow.

It's in the stars

Some photos from our trip to the Griffith Observatory yesterday.

Hike over the city of angels

Looking over the city on beautiful day in Los Angeles.

I'll take the pictures

From New Years Eve 07

I took about 500 pictures on New Year's Eve. Here's 150 that are suitable for public consumption... sorta.

UPDATE: Dre has some more New Years photos at the bottom of this gallery.

Christmas Photos

From Xmas 2006

Here's a big gallery of the xmas in Sacramento and Houston combined. Ernest actually took a lot of the ones from faux-christmas morning in Houston.

We had a whirlwind Holiday tour but, as usual, it was all too short. I wish we could have spent more time with everybody.

Sacramento and Houston Xmas Photos

UPDATE: Rick's gotta cool slide show from Xmas. Check it out here.

UPDATE 2: PJ took some nice photos. She has a Kodak gallery setup here.

UPDATE 3: Uncle Doug took some Xmas photos with his very impressive camera rig. I put them in one of my Picasa galleries for easy browsing.

Picasa low res gallery here.

Uncle Doug's Original High Res files here.

Xmas Card

Saturday I had a photo shoot with a professional actor, a stunning young model and her mother.

Here are some photos from the shoot.

They are pretty high res so they are probably suitable for printing.

Venice-Marina Christmas Run photos are up!

All of the photos from the 10k/5k that I shot last Saturday are up over at fotojack.com. There are over 6000 photos from this event! My photos scattered throughout but nearly all of the first 14 1/2 pages are mine.

So if you want to check some out, go to this link and start browsing.

As previously mentioned, our heroes Chevas, Lisa and Andrea ran in the race. You can search their bib numbers for more photos.

I'm pretty pleased with the results over all. I think I took a lot of good photos and I hope the runners find their way to the site and purchase some of them. Fotojack will even put your picture on Wheaties box... pretty cool.

I did learn that for an event of this size, I will need to invest in more memory cards. I have nearly 2.5GB worth of cards at the moment but I could have easily shot double that for this event.

I also learned that my new lens is perfect for just this sort of thing. It's the Canon 28-135mm with image stabilization. The runners were flying by me at a steady rate and the lens had no problem auto focusing. Which left me free to think about composition.

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland party in a hanger at Santa Monica airport. Left the battery to the camera at home but we got a few shots before we left.

UPDATE: Byron has cool photos from the party.