It's in the stars

Some photos from our trip to the Griffith Observatory yesterday.

What dreams may come

From 2007_01_19 Ma...

The world welcomes Madyson Stathem. We were there in Sacramento for her birth. Here is a gallery of pictures from the weekend.

Close but...

Enjoying a cigar after a round at Trump National Golf Course. Life is good.

Hike over the city of angels

Looking over the city on beautiful day in Los Angeles.

Tug Boat at Sunset

There was supposedly a comet out last night. I went out to see if I could take some pics of it but as you can see, way too much cloud cover.

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This is one of my favorite photos from the holidays. My grandmother unwrapped a USB hub in our white elephant. She was a good sport considering she had no idea what she was looking at.

And just so we're clear... I've added a few more galleries to the holiday photos. Be sure to scroll down for UPDATES.

Takoa With Child

From Takoa Pregnant

On Christmas Day, I did a little make shift photo shoot with Takoa, Mike and Truman. It was a great opportunity to try out my new lights and some artsy techniques. If I had it to do over again, I would have changed a few things but I think I got some real gems.

See what you think. And feel free to let me know which pictures are your favorites so I can gauge which ones to work on in PhotoShop. Thanks!

Takoa's Pregnant Photo Shoot

(Creamy note: I'm moving this out of the Christmas Photos post so it's easier to link directly to it. Also, I've gotten some strong opinions about this pregnant shoot so I'd really love to hear what everyone thinks.)

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.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

My love for music (in this case the Lemonheads) and my love for photography combine to make this sublime image. I have a few more cool ones from this shoot I'll share later.

I'll be driving up the coast to Sacramento tomorrow for xmas. Then it's off to Houston until New Year's Eve. Chances are, this will be my last post of 2006. But I'll surely have many photos to share next year.

Happy holidays!

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.

What's on your WishRadar?

Have you done all of your x-mas shopping? Silly question, I know. So chances are, the people who love you haven't bought yours either. Why not help them out with a wish list?

I've been using Amazon's wish list for for a couple of years but I recently came across a site that blows Amazon's out of the water.

WishRadar is a very simple web2.0 site that keeps track of the things you want and even alerts you when they drop below a certain price.

The best part? It is a snap to IMPORT your Amazon list to get started.

Here's my WishRadar list. Send me yours!

Hooray Wilco!

Right about now you're probably saying, "Gee Sean, we love the photos, but where can we download live versions of the new, unrealesed Wilco songs?"

Well, I'm glad you asked.

Turns out, Wilco has always been pretty cool about letting people record the shows and pass them around for non-commercial use.

So go get you some new Wilco songs courtesy of Jesse Jarnow's Frank and Earthy Blog.

2 Shoots on Saturday

I had two photo shoots on Saturday. The first one was the Venice-Marina Christmas Run. It was a 10K and 5K run through the Venice Boardwalk for FotoJack.com. I was up bright and early for the 7:30am start time (and if you read the last post you might surmise that that was no easy feat). It was a beautiful day and I submitted about 60% of the nearly 1,000 pictures I took. That included several of Chevas, Lisa and Andrea who all ran the 5K. As soon as they are up on the site, I'll post a link here.



After the run, I had about an hour to download the pics to free up my memory cards, recharge the batteries and eat before I was off to shoot the newly formed CSU Long Beach Salsa Club. It was a challenging shoot because of the large group but in the end I got a lot of really good shots and I hope they are happy with them. I'll post some more of these as well.

It was an exhausting day but I was happy to finish up the night at Fisherman's Village watching the Christmas boat parade in the Marina... alas, no pictures from that.

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.

Let me hear you say "Ooh La La Sassoon"

Ahhh... life in Marina del Rey. I took this picture off the pier shortly before sunset. This was one of about 10 dolphins we saw that day. Click the picture to biggie size it.

Last night Chev and I went to a Beck concert for about 200 people. It was part of Yahoo! Live Sets concert series so it should be up on there soon.

On stage was Beck, a drummer, 4 multi-instrumentalists and 4 puppeteers.

Yeah, it was surreal to say the least. As soon as they post the show, I'll link to it here.

In the meantime, here's some free live Beck tracks.

Why I love Sothern California

68 degrees on Dec. 1st and I'm on the edge of Western Civilization playing golf.

Click here to see a few pics from the course.

And check out this big drive from Todd...

Hustler

Congrats to all of the winners at the 1st annual Master Batters Award Ceremony. Tom here got "Best Hustler" and Chevas got "Most Likely to Get Kicked Out For Swearing."

That's my girl...

See all the winners here.

Stove by Evan Dando

As promised... Live acoustic version of Lemonheads song "Stove." Performed at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, Ca.