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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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utterly engaged turns 1
07.30.2010
Utterly Engaged, an online wedding magazine, celebrated it's first anniversary yesterday by hosting the "ultimate hoedown bbq throwdown" at Irvine Park in Orange. It was a gorgeous day and a nice location for doing some networking with other wedding vendors. The food was amazing. 3 different types of barbecue and all kinds of sweet treats. I snagged a few shots with my point & shoot camera.
Sweet and Saucy provided this cake as well as a plethora of other tasty treats (like Whoopie Pies!).
This past weekend I shot a wonderful wedding with my friend Joe Photo. It was my first Indian wedding and I was thrilled Joe asked me to tag along. It was a gorgeous day at a beautiful location, Rancho Sol Del Pacifico. Bloom Box provided the amazing florals.
This wedding was so interesting & rich with details. Here are some of my favorite images from the day. Please vote for your favorites and leave a comment too!
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I had no idea that the expression "tying the knot" came from the Hindu wedding traditions.
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The had a map of the world, and all of their guests stuck a pin in where they were from. People came to this wedding from all over:
That's right, I am going to be freshening up my blog a bit in the next couple of weeks. The main difference that you'll notice will be the lack of Flash. I want my blog to be iPad friendly, so I'm getting rid of all of the Flash elements on this site. Eventually I'll be redoing the gallery part of my wedding portfolio sans Flash, but I am going to wait until after The [ b ] School 2.0 launches this fall (I can only handle so many projects at once). I'll be taking advantage of the latest HTML5 elements to give my viewers a better browsing experience.
I also wanted to just mix it up a bit. I wanted to make it easier for clients to contact me and easier for all of my viewers to get to know me better. Once it launches, I'll share more about what we did and why we did it. In the mean time, be sure to follow me on Twitter so you'll know the second the new blog is launched.
As per usual, the fabulous Brock Martin from Infinet Design is doing the programming. He's amazing!
Quoting the priest from the ceremony this past Saturday:
"Some may say this couple met by accident..."
In fact, the bride actually rear ended the groom on a busy Southern California freeway. No one was hurt, info was exchanged, and there was some sort of spark. The rest, as they say, is history.
I have no idea how he pulled that off, but I'll be honest with y'all... I've seen a couple cute girls driving here in SoCal that made me think about crashing into them just so I could get their digits. Don't worry... I never did that... although I did follow a few of them home- KIDDING! I KID, I KID!
The wedding took place at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church in Rowland Heights and the reception was at the Pacific Palms Resort. Here are some of my favorite relaxed portraits, amazing details and real moments. Please vote for your faves:
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Hello ladies...
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Just one more of the girls since they were all so gorgeous!:
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I wish I could tell you what happened to make the groom laugh so hard, but this is a family friendly blog post:
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Smoking may not be good for you, but it sure does look cool! Here's a different take on groomsmen portraits:
This last Friday I kicked off a back to back wedding weekend down in Dana Point, California. I was so thankful to be along the coast during this crazy Southern California heatwave as the temperatures along the coast were really quite pleasant. The wedding and reception too place at Cannons Restaurant.
I try to show up at each and every wedding I shoot as if I were an old friend with a fancy camera. This weekend it was really easy since I've known the bride for about ten years. You may remember her from past blog posts, she's a breast cancer survivor that I photographed several years ago. It was so great to be a part of her day. She looked stunning and I am so happy for the both of them.
Here are a few of my favorite relaxed portraits, amazing details and real moments. Would you be so kind as to vote for your faves?:
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I love the casual portraits.
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I also like the shots of the groom when he's not even aware of the camera.
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You can just read this old Marine's face, "Take care of my girl!".
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Be sure to check out the blogs of Megan Ann & Jeff Yeon for more images.
Happy Sunday friends! I'm recovering from back to back weddings today and going through a plethora of images I shot this weekend. I'll be blogging both weddings this week so please stay tuned!
Note to photographers, the images in this GIF were shot at 12,800 ISO on the Canon 1D Mark IV. Impressive eh?
Congrats to Spain!. What a boring final game. Could you imagine if the Superbowl went to overtime and a team won on a safety and the final score was 2-0. Yawn.
Soccer is almost as bad as watching the WNBA. Almost.
Ok, now that the World Cup is over, I don't have to watch another soccer match for 4 more years. I really enjoyed watching the World Cup... I watched just about every match (or at least part of them). There's something about the world stage that can make even the most boring sports bearable to watch. Every time the World Cup comes around, people theorize that soccer will finally catch on in the US. Nope. It's still boring. Super boring. We don't watch the World Cup because it's exciting, we watch because the world is watching. If they had the World Cup of badminton, and ESPN made a big deal of it, I'd probably watch. By the way, I think ESPN did a fabulous job of covering the World Cup. It also appears as if South Africa did a wonderful job as hosts. Their stadiums look incredible.
In case the folks at FIFA wanted my opinion, here are some ways to make soccer less boring:
#1- Get rid of the offsides penalty. There'd be more scoring and it would be less boring. If a team is offsides, they have a better chance to score, but if they don't score, the other team has the advantage on the counter attack. And if the defense knows offsides won't be called, they may keep more people back on defense.
#2- No blood, no foul. Sure, there are some flagrant fouls in soccer, and they should be called in effort to protect the players. But when I player flops due to a little contact, there should not be a foul called. Play on pussy! Quit your whining. You don't see baseball players rolling on the ground with their hands covering their faces when they get nailed by a 98 MPH fastball (which I guarantee hurts way worse). Oh no, he stepped on your foot and you fell on the soft, well manicured grass. Rub some dirt on it and take it like a man.
#3- Players who flop and whine and put on an Academy Award acting job should have to go to the "cry baby box" for 5 minutes and make their team play a man down. If you really are hurt "sooo bad" that it warranted lying on the ground crying... you should take a couple of minutes to collect yourself. The box will have a big comfy chair and a box of tissues to dry your eyes. The "mother figure", a middle aged woman will also be in the cry baby box to comfort you and help wipe your tears away. If you get a boo boo, she'll kiss it and make it all better.
#4- No ties. When a team can advance by playing for a tie, that is weak sauce. We want the best teams to be in the round of 16. Two wins and your are in. At least 2 teams in a 4 team group will get at least two wins. Go to the shorter overtime periods if it's tied after 2 halves, then go to a shootout. Tying is boring to watch. That USA v. England match was exciting to watch, but then in ended in a 1-1 tie which makes it so neither of the teams fans can rub it in the face of the others. And let's face it... that's what sports is all about... trash talking your friends before, during and after the game.
#5. Better refs. I'll admit, I don't know all about soccer, but it sure seemed like the officiating was very inconsistent. There were lots of blown calls and there didn't seem to be a standard for which tackles are fouls and which are not. Seems like the refs have too much power and it depended on their mood. Offsides should be a reviewable call. Many times it was called when it shouldn't have been and wasn't called when it should have been called. Inconsistent.
#6. Instead of two halves, why not break it up into 4 quarters like most of the other real sports?
#7. The timing. What's this extra time BS? That seems quite arbitrary. Why not just stop the clock, whenever the action stops due to an injury, penalty or goal scoring celebration. Speaking of the celebrations... soccer players should take a cue from Terrell Owens and do something creative when they score. Running to the corner and diving on the grass is what they do all game long... perhaps they should mix it up when they finally score?
#8. Not once did I hear the crowd do the ole, ole ole chant. I feel cheated. Instead while watching each match I had to make sure my house wasn't infested with bees. WTF with the vuvuzelas? I imagine if I was there watching in person, I may end up getting in a fight, and someone may end up with a vuvuzela shoved where there sun doesn't shine. At least put a couple of keys on the thing so you can play a damn tune!
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