Family Photos!

 I just had to share some of my favorite images from a great family portrait shoot I had recently!
 Like this little cutie!

It was so much fun!
Lots of smiles!
Thanks guys!

Surprise It's a Vacation Now!

(Desert Sunset)
So... Surprise! I went on a trip to the west coast!
 
Yep,  I had some cool plan that fell through and ended up in me having one of the greatest vacations I've ever had! I managed to see everything from the ocean to the desert and it was awesome! So awesome! Do you know how long it's been since I have seen carpet in a bathroom? It's awesome! 
So one of the most amazing places in America is the desert. This was my first time! In all reality, desert... not that interesting. Dusty, yes, but interesting? Not until nightfall!
 I waited out in the plummeting temperatures hoping to see the milky way, but I was too close to the light pollution from a disgusting cow farm or something. I was able to capture lots of amazing star photos by setting my Canon 6D on the roof of the car and using my iphone to trigger the shots and review them from inside the warmth of the car! WAY better than freezing my lens off in the cold night! This one above I managed to catch a satellite or a plane or something. 
 And palm trees!
Back in Ohio it's 27 degrees and snowing.... out here 80 degrees and magic.
(should have cleaned my lens, but I like the extra flares)
 And since the desert wasn't enough awesome for me I also made it to the Pacific ocean!
It was beautiful but cold as the desert!  
Either way I climbed up the highest rock formation there and watched bikini girls take iphone glamour shots with their friends and watched over some sort of macho "bro-fest" happening out of view and earshot of the adult sunbathers. 
You can see off in the distance a thin layer of yellow. That's smog. Mmmmmmmmm ruin-licious. 
Even with the smog it was beautiful. At one point I was picking up a stone out of the water for Vivian and in my glee at finding something cool I was oblivious to the 3 foot wave plowing into most of me and my dress pants/shirt combo. I had to rinse the pants off in the shower to get the salt stains off. :) 
And even though the company and the nature were my favorite part I still got to see some big cities and pay WAY TOO MUCH for food, parking, hotels, alcohol, and souvenirs. It was amazing! I even learned two phrases in French! 
Yay surprise vacation!

And the coolest part of the blog post is that I'm currently posting from 30,000 feet! Yes airplane wifi and my awesome travel compy (ASUS Transformer THANKS ERIC CAMERON) really let me get the job done anywhere! Sorry for the late post!!! 


As a final note, all of these images were shot with the Canon 6D and emailed from my iphone using Canon's app and then posted using the ASUS Transformer pad. All images are unedited (with the exception of the desert floor).

Valentine's Shoot for your little ones? Super Cute Super Easy! + Vivian


Great new shoot coming up from Robots and Rainbows.net !!
We're booking all month until Feb 9th!! Call us now for some amazing portraits to share with your family!!!
 In other news the last time it snowed Vivian and I headed out into the cold!
She managed to allow me click off about 5 images before the call of the snow was just too loud! 
 Good thing we're fast!
Email us today of you would like awesome images of your little Valentine!
unicorns@robotsandrainbows.net

Lasers!

 So a couple of weeks ago a friend of mine mentioned getting a green laser for crimmus!
Well hearing that was all I needed to schedule a play date for all the lasers I'd been collecting and my fog machine!

 It was awesome!

Nothing says cool like light amplification through stimulated emissions of radiation! 
 Laser cavity removal...

 
And then some long exposure drawing!

 It's a wolf.
Awesome time!

Some Random Cool Stuff!


Just a recent couple of images that have slipped through the cracks!
 This is my friend Pete's house!
This is the shadow of a balloon!

And Now for Something Completely Different: Devlynn DeSade

This lovely young lady is Devlynn DeSade.
 Ms DeSade is a local entrepreneur in the art of seduction I had the luck of running into! Crazy times!
So when we met, given the interesting nature of her business, I naturally had lots of questions!
When Ms. DeSade answered them all in a very business focused and courteous manor I was impressed!
I guess that's kinda par for the course given her line of work, but one thing lead to another and I think she invited me to see her home and I offered to photograph her! Viola! Here we are! Blog post 1044.
 One thing I really like about a photo shoot is a challenge. I have to say, during this photo shoot I was pretty challenged. Believe it or not in a bondage den there's a lot of things you don't run into every day. Figuring the right light for them was interesting and the whole shoot was really just crazy cool!!
 Even Ms. DeSade's kitty was nice.
 In fact, I have to say the whole experience was top notch. Ms. DeSade was wonderfully gracious and her place, while slightly frightening, was really beautiful.
You can see more of Devlynn here: 

Big THANK YOU for the opportunity to photograph such interesting people in such a cool place, Ms. DeSade!

Sometimes I find myself waking up in the mornings thinking... "That actually happened!"

Adventure Photos!

 So for the first time in years I go to go out on an adventure!
 Really living up the proverb 'the journey is the destination' when the original objective (a covered bridge) fell through to renovation...
"Photograph whatever is cool" became the name of the game. 
 It was nice to photograph and then process something that wasn't people.
(but I DID have a great time reviewing Sabina's wedding also)