My cousin got married earlier this evening. I got some nice pictures of the scenery and the beautiful cake that they had.

Garden Entrance
Garden Chairs
Garden Wall and Flowers
Wedding Cake
Cake Closeup

I worked on three weddings last week.  I thought I would share them with you.
Yes more flower pics!!!
Bouquet 1
Bouquet close up
Bouquet 2
I didn't get any pics of the third one.  Funny how they had the same colors.  I love doing wedding flowers!!  It is a great thing being part of someones big day!

Hey guys,

Mattman111 here with a new name.  I recently received my Nikon D200 and its working great!  The past two weeks have been crazy (two weddings, band pics, day spa shoot)...its been fun!

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New Nikon camera coming out in a couple weeks? Any predictons?

Check out some of my recent work...

also on my site: www.mpdigital.piczo.com

-Matt

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We took Hana to a wedding Saturday of friends of ours, Eric and Michelle, from Roadhouse. I forgot she was there though, luckily one of the girls remembered her. She asked me, "Don, where's your little doll?" which kinda threw me. "It's not a doll it's a daruma. Guys don't have dolls we have action figures and daruma is japanese for action figure!", I lied to her, trying vainly to defend my manhood. Apologies to our Japanese members.  Here's Hana...

Don and Barb took me to the wedding I was invited to by Michelle, one of my friends from Roadhouse.  The church was very pretty and there were a lot of people there but a lot of them were my friends.  I had a  seat of my own to watch from.  Michelle had a very beautiful dress and she cried a lot until it was over and then she was very happy . Don said brides cry during the wedding and grooms cry during the marriage. After the wedding was over we were going to a reception and we had to leave early to setup a slide show Don made for them. There were decorations on all the tables and a big wedding cake that looked like a stack of presents. There was a lot of good food and beer.  Barb and Don knew the cook and they took home a bunch of leftovers.
I didn't drink any beer, I learned my lesson last time, but Don did.  Once when Barb was putting some money in his wallet, he yelled for everyone to look and he took a picture of the first time Barb ever put money INTO his wallet. He thought it was funny until Barb reminded him that in the picture you couldn't tell if the money was going in or out.
I got to dance. I danced with Don and Barb's son Donnie & Michelle and also with Barb and Eric.  I danced so much I got tired and had to go sit with Don.  I had a great time, dancing and meeting everyone's family. Everyone wanted to know about me... I told them "I'm a daruma, that's japanese for girl's doll... and Don brought me"!  Everyone thought that was funny, except Don. Barb told me to do it. hee hee

What a party!   The beautiful  Bride is my niece.  Another niece complained that she is always a bridesmaid.        Bouquet

I would really like comments/suggestions especially on the pic of the bride.  Thought it would look best in b/w, but this is not what I envisioned.  Is it even worth messing with? The original is RAW format, so I have some flexibility.  Both versions have been cropped somewhat and the contrast & saturation were adjusted a little. Thanks!  

(The best action/party pics will be shown later this week as soon as the relatives all leave town.)

Okay, okay....I couldn't help putting in a flower picture...had to get my giggles out of Tom's earlier post.

Now that is out of my system...here are some pics from the wedding....

Nice set
Too late to get out now
Somebody stop me

Well, I didn't get to go to Cascades State Park today, something else came up. So I had a bad cse of cabin fever and was browsing thru some photos I took at Great Smoky Mountain National Park last October.  Heres a pic of an old farmstead  in the Cades Cove area and here's one of Barb posing .  She doesn't have a  bad body for a 1953 but she's gotta lot of miles on her. Man, I hope she never reads this.

Our youngest son got married last month.  They were planning on having a big wedding but after much discussion they decided to have a smaller wedding and use the money they saved to buy furniture. The place the wedding took place was the Farrington House an historic building here that is used as a bed and breakfast now. I has a beautiful ball room that has fireplace and a lot of stained glass . It was kind of an old-fashioned wedding when people got married at home a lot.

Maybe I'll bring back some pics from our trip to the casinos this week.
 

i took pics for my friend angie's weding, i took thisjust before her father gave her away.then i dropped it in ps and look at what fell out

"I did it!" 'Oh, yeah" wedded bliss The Married Couple Stealing Kisses Smooch

I have my photo library from this year rotating randomly as my screensaver and everytime this picture comes up it really catches me. I thought I would share it with you (from a friend's wedding in November)

Sometimes it is, and sometimes it's not. One of my Wedding photos I was playing with in PS..Forever

OK, well my stories have been somewhat dry and serious lately so I will have some fun with this one. It's  a lot of images but may be my only post for a while. These are a continuation of my La Jolla post and show how a day can be spent many ways there.

First off my Rule of Thirds Entry.

Here are some F'n Tourists

Bocce anyone?

Here is my Artsy Sign Shot.

I can understand closed but I have never seen this one on a beach Sign 2?

A lot of people get Married on the beach here or have their photos taken there, this couple did both.
Bride 1
I went for another shot and this walked in and picked up the AutofocusBride2
Couple
Laughing Bride Hopefully she won't laugh this night.
First Kiss

People from all over enjoy La Jolla even this girl from Tibet

So anyway, I laying on the nude beach and kind excited by the girls going buy but then I see this great sailboat go by and get this shot My Pop-up

This guy was only interest in looking at this woman's Crack

Well so the day has to end so time to grab some of the last Waves of the day

Last Ride 1
Last ride 2

And it can't be a day in La JolLa with out a couple sunsets
La Jolla Sunset 1
La Jolla Sunset 2

So ends our day in La Jolla or "The Jewel" as it translates....

This is my first wedding. I did it for my best freind who's son was getting wed on a shoestring. Bride and groom were pleased with the pictures.

PS My first postDESCRIPTION_HERE

hey ppl, sorry for not posting lately, but its a bit hectic down here in Holland, last few days counting down for the wedding! Monday the 31st! in London that is! Here you have a pic of the ring

~|Enjoy|~

Well, they were taken BEFORE the current theme was announced, at my wedding, (by my best man and others) but here's the essence of what MUSIC is to me.

First...My Muse .  Cassandra. She is my Sun, my Moon, and all the stars in the sky, and when she's near, there's music playing.

My
Best Man Bob, is a professional musician, and agreed to have his band,  The Bob Marino Little Big Band , ((another angle)   perform at my wedding... which is not their usual kind of gig.

Tom  is Bob's brother, and also a professional.  He was kind enough to play for our processional and recessional.

But for me, the picture that says it all is  me crooning to my new wife during the reception. (I'd never sung in public before that day).

"It had to be you
It had to be you
I wandered around
and finally found
somebody who
Could make me be true
Could make me feel blue
or even be glad
just to be sad
thinking of you...."

As you can see, music plays a big role in my life.

Off to the L.A. County fair today... I'm sure I'll find more musical imagery there!

Stay tuned!

My cousin Kristen got married on Sunday September 18, 2005. Here are some pictures of the reception.

Groom cutting the cake
Feeding his bride some cake
Smooches
Proud father dancing with his little girl | one more
The groom dancing with his mother | one more
Mother and Daughter

Here are some memorable moments from my favorite weddings of 2004
(I have them all pretty small)

My Best Friend
Alisha and JC
Alisha's Parents
What is JC doing?

My Cousin
Amanda

Mike's Daughter
father daughter dance
Don't Make Me Cry
What the...?

Things are always good at Casa de Jo.  Whether we are cleaning up or relaxing on the porch.  We daydream about beautiful golf courses and joyous occasions.  

Sometimes we just enjoy little gift giving.  

Things are alway popping up at Casa de Jo.

This spring, I got married in Cancun, Mexico.  It was a small ceremony, and a friend took pics of the wedding for us.  Each room had a view of the ocean, and the resort was decorated very nicely, as well.  We went parasailing and I took pictures of the hotel from the sky.  It was great fun, and the sunsets were worth going for, on their own.

took this at my cousin's weddingjaguar