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Hey there! My name is Becker and I am a wedding photographer from Orange County, California who specializes in capturing relaxed portraits, amazing details and real moments for the coolest brides and grooms on the planet.
This blog follows both my personal and professional life, and features images from the weddings I shoot, the places I travel and the friends and family members that mean so much to me. It's basically like my own personal photo album combined with an information source for my current and potential clients and a source of inspiration and education for other photographers. This site is a little more informal and I just want to give everyone a sense of who I am, and what I am all about. Thanks for visiting.
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San Clemente Engagement Photos
03.05.2010
The other day I shot a last minute engagement session for a couple that is getting married next weekend. We had several dates scheduled in the past, but they just happened to be on rare Southern California rainy days. We shot these engagement photos at a park in San Clemente near the groom's house and they are getting married next weekend in San Diego.
This post is going out to all of you photographers who aren't [ b ] School members - yet ;-), don't follow @thebschool on Twitter, don't check the [ b ] School blog, and/or aren't a fan of the [ b ] School on Facebook. I've still been getting tons of questions about my plans for WPPI 2010, but I've posted everything you'd ever want to know about my personal plans and other [ b ] School related activities for this year's convention, which officially starts tomorrow. Just head on over to thebschoolblog.com/wppi and see everything you need to know.
Here are some of the selected highlights in order of which they occur:
Even though the convention officially opens tomorrow, most people don't arrive until Sunday, we are having an early bird GTG on Saturday at Dos Caminos at the Palazzo Hotel. All photographers are welcome and it's free to attend, you're just responsible for your own food & beverages. Details and RSVP here.
Sunday night is the 3rd annual WPPI Poker Tourney at 9pm at the MGM poker room. There are a few seats left (it caps out at 100). Details & RSVP info.
Monday afternoon at 3pm, I am doing my annual avatar shoot. It's free and open to all, just RSVP here. My goal is to shoot over 100 headshots in 1 hour.
Tuesday Night I'll be hosting my 10th annual [ b ] party. I can't believe it's been 10 years. There are just a few tickets left. We aren't going to be selling them at the door or in Las Vegas at all, so go to bpartyvegas.com today and get your ticket. Ticket sales end at midnight tomorrow or when they sell out, whichever comes first.
As a special bonus, if you sign up for or upgrade to 1 year of the [ b ] School by tomorrow at midnight, we'll throw in a party ticket. (plus you still get the Tofurious Blogging Videos (an $800 value). What are you waiting for? SIGN UP!
Lastly, I want to encourage everyone who plans on leaving early, to try to chance their plans and stick around to see the closing program on Thursday at 9am. It's called Photographers Ignite and it's going to be awesome. A bunch of use are doing 5 minute presentations, 20 slides, 15 seconds each on auto advance. It should be entertaining to say the least.
Again, head on over to the [ b ] School blog to find out more and see how you can connect better in Vegas. I am looking forward to catching up with old friends and meeting many new ones. Travel safe and I'll see ya soon!
My friends think they are hilarious! On a recent trip to Las Vegas, they "broke into" my house and made a video of me, interviewing myself. I don't know how funny this is, but just to show that I can laugh at myself, I am posting it here for y'all to decide. At any rate, I love the opening credits and hopefully you'll enjoy this 3 minute video which was shot & edited by my man Regis.
I also wanted to post this video to introduce you guys to Tom & Jeff. They aren't photographers but they will be at WPPI as part of my entourage. Tom is in charge of security and Jeff is in charge of snacks. (If you run into Jeff in Vegas, be sure to ask him for some gummi bears... he'll totally have some in his pockets). Neither of them are very good poker players. And while Jeff is spoken for, Tom is single and his turn ons include: heavy metal, tattoos, fine cigars, facial piercings, folk dancing, unicorns, aggressive women and low standards. ;-)
REMEMBER... If you can't laugh at yourself you just aren't trying that hard.
I really love watching the Olympics... even the Winter Olympics. There's just something about national pride and competing against the best of the best that makes it so exciting. I've watched a lot of the coverage of the Vancouver games. Since I work from home, I had them on in the background most every day of the last two weeks and if I was home at night, I was certainly tuned to NBC and good ol' Bob Costas.
It sure looked like Vancouver did a great job as hosts and as someone who has been to Canada-land 3 times in the last year and with many new Canadian friends, I was very excited and happy for the pride they must be feeling with all the gold they won especially in Men's Ice Hockey this afternoon. What a game! The preliminary game was exciting too. The city looked absolutely gorgeous and I want to go back up there asap.
I also think NBC did a nice job with the coverage, although I wish they were able to broadcast more events live as to not ruin the surprise by finding out who one before the event actually aired. Earlier this evening they aired a touching tribute to the Georgian luger who lost his life right before the opening ceremonies and they also recapped the last two weeks in a nice little montage.
One of my favorite moments of these Olympics was Shaun White absolutely destroying the competition in the snowboarding halfpipe. He was just in a different league then the rest of the athletes. I also really enjoyed watching the women's downhill... there were lots of crazy wipeouts. I am glad no one was seriously hurt, but dang that was exciting! The snowboard cross was a cool event to watch, both men's and women's. I am not so into the ice skating or ice dancing
I watched a lot of curling. I love curling. I think I like it so much because I think with just a few weeks of practice, I could probably make the Olympic team. It doesn't look all that hard, and while I am sure it is harder than it looks... when pregnant women and middle aged bald men compete, it gives me hope. How hard could it be?
Anyway, I am looking forward to the London Olympics in 2012 and even though I am not a huge soccer fan, I do watch the World Cup every time it comes around for the same national pride reasons I like the Olympics so much and that's only a few months away.
Lastly, Stephen Colbert, who is one of my favorite television personalities and is pictured in the poster above, also has been broadcasting stuff for his show and I love his 4 minute recap below. Enjoy.
I just thought I'd share this photo of my niece Addison from last weekend. We were watching Caden's T-ball game and she got ahold of her mom's iced tea. She actually asks for Starbucks by name. Scary!
If you've been following my blog since the early days, you may remember my friend Alison, who was diagnosed with breast cancer and asked me to shoot some photos of her to help her remember a very significant period of her life. (You can click the photo above to see the original post from my old blog).
I am happy to report that she has been in remission for 5 years! She'll be tying the knot this summer to a great guy and we shot some engagement photos down in Laguna Beach the other day. They look so cute together and I am looking forward to their wedding. Don't they look so happy?
WPPI starts in less than two weeks and it's always one of my favorite weeks of the year. Of course one of the highlights every year is hosting my annual party and this year will be #10. I am so excited about it! This year we are taking over the Border Grill at Mandalay Bay and providing late night munchies & margaritas (as well as a plethora of Diet Coke for myself and other non drinkers). There's going to be a taco station, paella, chips, salsa & guacamole as well as sangria, beer and margaritas, a photo booth, cool music and lots of fun people. You aren't going to want to miss this.
Right now, tickets are only available to [ b ] School members and if there are any left over next week, I'll open it up to everyone, but at this pace, they won't last long. You can get more info and a link to the ticket page by clicking the flyer below:
A special thank you goes out to my lab, WHCC for helping us out with the bar tab!
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