The Grey Wolves take on the Reds!
Baseball season is fully underway as Sebby's team takes on the Grace Brethren Reds.
My big boy Kalen helps out the Venice High School Gondoliers at a tournament in Sylmar. I've never really shot volleyball before so this was definitely a learning experience. The good news: you're not out getting scorched by the sunshine - the bad news: the indoor strip lighting is pretty nasty. And there's no room to shoot. We're in a gymnasium so sports photographers must have figured this one out. I'm learning on the fly. And you have to have your wits about you. Taking photographs at a high school volleyball tournament means dodging the ball yourself.
The Simi Valley Running Rebels are back!
The Simi Valley Running Rebels are back! https://svrebels.wordpress.com/ . We're in Westlake and the sports photography weather couldn't be better. My third camera, the 7D kept overheating on video so maybe I should have bought my 5D 3 or 4? Who knows? The kids were great!
It's baseball season at last!
Sebby joins the Grey Wolves at Grace Brethren for some spring baseball.
"Featured as one of the best Oxnard photographers!"
Yes, I need to update my Los Angeles Acting headshots portfolio and acting sites.
Daniel turns 40 and we're at the Lincoln In Santa Monica. I shot their wedding way back in 2012 and they're as cute, and in love as ever!
There's a great link here: https://modernhiker.com/hike/hike-lost-horse-mine-in-joshua-tree-national-park/ . to a description of Lost Horse Mine Trail and I really can't do any better. I did however get some great landscape photos of the Joshua Trees (not one is the same) and the creosote plants and wonderful desert scenery. Divine. The light for landscape photography wasn't amazing-amazing to be honest (we started out at midday) so I converted a lot of the photos (taken in the largest RAW resolution) to Black and White photos and I think I prefer them to the washed out high noon colors.
Sebby goes national for the USATF youth Cross Country Championships in Reno. It was snowy and icy!
We stayed at the Silver Legacy Hotel in Reno, the biggest little city in the world.
Youth Soccer - footie as we say in England!
Last game of the season and time for some sports videography as well as my usual still sports photography.
Cross Country Photography calls again - this time in Vegas!
The regional Cross Country championships in Lake Las Vegas, near Henderson, Nevada calls for two cameras, long lenses and plenty of video. The Simi Valley Running Rebels were running under the Comets banner.
Michelle and Jeff tie the knot - twice!
Michelle and Jeff's wedding(s) at St John Eudes for a small family service and on to the Skirball Cultural Center for another amazing wedding - this second one was the whole enchilada! Wedding Photography and video by yours truly with some help from Debra Morrison and her cousin Ron Eber doing video.
Sometimes with sports photography you just gotta slow down. Someone else usually does the sports videography but I like to practice and definitely feel I can help out the kids by doing some youth, high school and gremlins sports photography. LA Reina High School is the last of our regular season and Sebastian, my son, made it into the post season finals.
We had the church ceremony and then we had another wedding at the Skirball Cultural Center - twice the fun!
The kids and parents hit Big Bear Mountain for the coolest kids race on the planet. "The races emphasize teamwork, problem solving, sportsmanship, environmental awareness and fun. The kids cross the finish line, muddy, sweaty, smiling and full of pride. The intent of the Kids Adventure Games™ is to be challenged yet have fun, be determined, develop good character, sportsmanship, teamwork, build grit and resiliency, be able to think on your feet and finish the day with a smile." And the kids did! Kids Adventure Games. Los Angeles Wedding photographer put down the bride cam and focuses on the kids!
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne, approximately 25 kilometres west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
This is Christine and some pix the kids are sending to her. I figure it's a start and a small way to make one child's life better. She speaks Haitian Creole and lives in an orphanage cared for by Pastor Timothy.
The Simi Valley Running Rebels train in the sand at Zuma Beach, no less.
Booty and me hit San Diego in search of Steve McQueen's legendary Husqvarna, the Elsinore Honda dirt bike and the Sea Shepherd.
Big Sur Wedding and time to see the Elephant Seals!
Ragged Point Inn for Meagan and Jacob's amazing wedding provides a great chance for a weekend break with the kids. And this wedding photographer HAS to check out the amazing elephant seals.
The Laing Piehl Family Summer Vacation 2018 is here!
Big Bear Lake photography, Joshua Tree, Lake Arrowhead - family photography is here!
Monument Valley - at last!
I finally got around to some personal work - here is Monument Valley.
It's always fun to shoot babies - even when they're not my own!
Ahh for the days of film and my beloved Canon A1. I'm doing a major scanning archiving project and you can see I'm going crazy. Did I really have so many "bad" photos in those days?
The film results from the labs look murky and grey. I used to think maybe six out of 36 shots in a roll was usable but looking back I think I was being optimistic.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Representative Tom Marino (R-PA) have introduced HR 3945, a small claims bill entitled Copyright Alternative in Small Claims Act of 2017, or "CASE".
This bill will enable photographers to pursue copyright infringement in a more cost effective and timely manner!
Carlsbad State Beach for a Meet and Greet before Meagan and Jacob attend a friend's wedding!
Google PhotoScan - great little app.
https://www.google.com/photos/scan/ . What a great little app. May put my pricey Epson scanner I just bought to sleep for a while. I imagine Google picked up this technology while scanning all those books but it's a great piece of kit for quickly scanning old photos. Now, how about a slide \ negative version please Google??
The cool folks over at Sleeklens in Denmark sent me a bunch of Lightroom presets to evaluate and I must say I'm impressed by the range and quality of their tools.
To be honest there was probably way too many options in terms of all the various ways to play with a photo (most of my brides want a fairly simple "look") but the brushes are outstanding. Teeth whitener, skin softener - excellent! And very useful. I'll probably delete a ton of the photo presets I don't need and just keep the ones I'll use more often.
Thanksgiving and Fall are here.
I'm thankful for my family and wonderful clients. Some of them feel almost like family now.
When it's summer you update your site and make new sizzle reels!
MY NEW SITE IS UP! I hope you like it. I'll be working on it over the coming weeks so please bear with me as I add content, links etc.