The tradition continues. Aunty Karen’s rents out Jon’s place for her party.
After I shot Jasmyn’s foto I handed her my camera…
Nakamatsu Christmas Eve Party 2015
Yuen 2015 Christmas Photoshoot
I scheduled a Christmas photoshoot with the Yuen’s. I choose a bridge behind the local shopping center. As usual nothing went as planned & we just went with the flow.
Composite
Oyar 2015 Christmas Shoot
Today I had an appointment to shoot Matt, Cait & Ethan.
Thanksgiving 2015
As tradition dictates we celebrated Thanksgiving at Aunty Amy’s house. With 4 boys & 1 more on the way the holidays will become more chaotic than ever.
FSO Jon
I watched Jon play last Friday in Fremont. I would struggle to explain the experience to anyone. It’s one thing to listen to a CD, but to be there live and witness his speed & accuracy you can’t fully comprehend it. I would give my left arm to have a tenth of this talent… oh wait if I didn’t have a left arm I couldn’t play ukulele.
Nico’s 2nd Birthday
Veteran’s Day 2015
It always irritated me having to work on Veteran’s Day, so this year I took the day off. I started off at Golden Gate Cemetery.
I only shot a few at the Presido Cemetery.
Couch it
I’ve wanted to recreate this photograph from the 60s for a long time. Well since we were all together for Aunty Elaine’s memorial now was the time. Of course no chance my brothers would be there so we had John, Marc & Chimby stand in.
Yuen Halloween Shoot
This year Noah & Nico went with a Star Wars theme. I was happy to shoot this… well actually it was quite a bit of work. Because it is difficult to predict these kids movement I choose to shoot them individually and composite them into a scene. Of course right in the middle of the shoot Nico decides to remove his head piece. I had no confidence I could produce anything usable while we were shooting.
3 composites for Koa, just 2 for Noah and 3 for Nico. Total time including driving 4.5 hrs. In the end I just choose a simple black background, instead of photographing a forest background like I planned. Yes I got lazy.
Palace of Fine Arts
This evening I visited the Palace of Fine Arts. I saw several photoshoots while I was there and was quite shocked to see most of the photographers were not using strobes.
