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Happy Friday everyone...
The month of June, for the rest of my life, will always be a pretty cool month for me...well with December following a really really close second. Its because of mainly two things, maaaybee three...Our Anniversary, Father's day and my birthday (a distant third).
Anyway, Saturday I got an early gift. Driving home, the sky was amazing, light was perfect and we happened to stumble upon this amazing spot so what do we do?! We race home, grab our equipment and shoot =) So random but that made it all the better.
So with that said, fast forward to Sunday. While at service I got a chance to pray and I started looking back, thinking about my beautiful two girls in my life, and how He's allowed Lauren and I to share a love for photography together and I couldn't help but thank God for His goodness and cry tears of joy. It was an awesome time of reflection. I mean seriously...if you told me 5 years ago if I'd marry my best friend, start a photography business that we both love, have a beautiful baby girl and be able to use my wife as a model?! I would've probably thought you were crazy. Well, lo and hold, that's exactly where I am today.
I love you Lauren (or Owen) and thank you for making June one of the best months of the entire year.
My wife, life partner, best friend, 2nd shooter and model...
The month of June, for the rest of my life, will always be a pretty cool month for me...well with December following a really really close second. Its because of mainly two things, maaaybee three...Our Anniversary, Father's day and my birthday (a distant third).
Anyway, Saturday I got an early gift. Driving home, the sky was amazing, light was perfect and we happened to stumble upon this amazing spot so what do we do?! We race home, grab our equipment and shoot =) So random but that made it all the better.
So with that said, fast forward to Sunday. While at service I got a chance to pray and I started looking back, thinking about my beautiful two girls in my life, and how He's allowed Lauren and I to share a love for photography together and I couldn't help but thank God for His goodness and cry tears of joy. It was an awesome time of reflection. I mean seriously...if you told me 5 years ago if I'd marry my best friend, start a photography business that we both love, have a beautiful baby girl and be able to use my wife as a model?! I would've probably thought you were crazy. Well, lo and hold, that's exactly where I am today.
I love you Lauren (or Owen) and thank you for making June one of the best months of the entire year.
My wife, life partner, best friend, 2nd shooter and model...
Have a great weekend!
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Our first meeting went something like this...
Erin+Justin: "wedding...Costco...crazy friends with signs."
John+Lauren: "are you serious?!...sweeetttt!!!"
We knew we were going to have ourselves a doozy with these two and their engagement session definitely lived up to the hype.
One of the things we did differently with some of their that we don't normally do in our post process was use textures. But, with the architecture and just the overall feel of the day, we thought it would be a great fit. Big thanks to Fer Juaristi for the textures! If you love'm give him a little shout on his blog. He does amazing work and we were fortunate to have found him. Thanks Fer!
Back to the engagement session...here are some of our favorites (the first of which i'm sure you recognize in our Sneak Peak Post of their pics...
This is probably one of my favorite shots of the day ...
Erin+Justin: "wedding...Costco...crazy friends with signs."
John+Lauren: "are you serious?!...sweeetttt!!!"
We knew we were going to have ourselves a doozy with these two and their engagement session definitely lived up to the hype.
One of the things we did differently with some of their that we don't normally do in our post process was use textures. But, with the architecture and just the overall feel of the day, we thought it would be a great fit. Big thanks to Fer Juaristi for the textures! If you love'm give him a little shout on his blog. He does amazing work and we were fortunate to have found him. Thanks Fer!
Back to the engagement session...here are some of our favorites (the first of which i'm sure you recognize in our Sneak Peak Post of their pics...
This is probably one of my favorite shots of the day ...
To check out their slideshow click on the link below...
We had such a blast you two!...thanks for risking your lives and letting our imaginations run wild ;) We'll see you and your crazy Costco friends soon! =)
We had such a blast you two!...thanks for risking your lives and letting our imaginations run wild ;) We'll see you and your crazy Costco friends soon! =)
Erin & Justin:
Speechless! But we have to say something at least right?!? We are in love with the pictures, every single one of them. The texturizing came out fantastic and your both so talented. We made a great choice selecting you both as our wedding photographers! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
-Sincerely, E&J
Jackie P.:
Adorable couple, creative pics, awesome textures!
(06.24.09)
fer juaristi:
Wow, great session guys! thanks for the love! Keep doing your amazing work!
(06.24.09)
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Sometimes..........ok a lot of times, Lauren and I will drive by a location and think "we really need to shoot there". About two weeks ago, on the way to the home of our good friends Joel+Armenia+their new baby Luke, that exact thing happened and well about 15 mins later, I'm dragging them out of their home and we're shooting =)
It's strange in that photography to me is kind of like a drug. I really really need to pick up my camera and create something awesome and once I do (even if the "awesome" part never happens) there's a sort of relief that lifts. That's kind of what happened here =) Big thanks to Joel+Armenia for letting me drag them out of the house, walk through some bush on the side of the road and let me quench my thirst to create with my camera even if it was only for a few minutes =)
Oh and I have to thank my lovely wife who agreed to take care of the kids while we were away! Ask Lauren about her experience...its actually pretty funny =)
This last shot I decided to actually try to change up the post process a little bit ;)...as you can tell =)
It's strange in that photography to me is kind of like a drug. I really really need to pick up my camera and create something awesome and once I do (even if the "awesome" part never happens) there's a sort of relief that lifts. That's kind of what happened here =) Big thanks to Joel+Armenia for letting me drag them out of the house, walk through some bush on the side of the road and let me quench my thirst to create with my camera even if it was only for a few minutes =)
Oh and I have to thank my lovely wife who agreed to take care of the kids while we were away! Ask Lauren about her experience...its actually pretty funny =)
This last shot I decided to actually try to change up the post process a little bit ;)...as you can tell =)
cara:
Awh, i love these pictures of the bermejos i heard it was a speedy shoot & had you guys running back to ate o & the kids, ahaha (:
sso kuya japes, senior pictures? (; & debut pictures? :D
haha
Oh & love the new layout (:
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Welcome to our new blog everyone!
We finally got our old posts back up from our old sight but because the old sight was formatted differently, it looks a little funny. It's all good though! We're just happy to have our old posts back online. MUCH KUDOS TO IDTR for getting it all squared away!
In the meantime, spead the word...JOHN LAUREN has a new blog site and we're ready to blow this party out the water with more eyegasmic images!
So raise your glasses everyone and lets toast to the our new and sickified blogsite! =)
CHEERS!
John & Lauren
We finally got our old posts back up from our old sight but because the old sight was formatted differently, it looks a little funny. It's all good though! We're just happy to have our old posts back online. MUCH KUDOS TO IDTR for getting it all squared away!
In the meantime, spead the word...JOHN LAUREN has a new blog site and we're ready to blow this party out the water with more eyegasmic images!
So raise your glasses everyone and lets toast to the our new and sickified blogsite! =)
CHEERS!
John & Lauren
Anonymous:
So glad you guys have your own "www" now. Congrats on all the success. Looking forward to seeing all the great stuff that will be posted on here - past and future weddings.
(06.08.09)
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While we're still trying to figure out how to import all our entries from our old blogsite, here are a few more images we loved from their wedding that we didn't highlight in the previous post.
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Love the new photos! Almost looks like lauren is up against a back drop. You're up pretty late?!?! Still loving our photos!!! =)
(06.26.09)Erin
loooooove this one!!!! when's my turn?! hee hee! you guys do great work! keep it up!
(06.26.09)LOVE the new layout!!!!
(06.26.09)LOVE the pictures!!!!
awesome pics jp... hot model too! - ant
(06.26.09)Love these photos! Great job!
(06.26.09)John it was a pleasure to meet you, I love your work. Amazing !! The Edison building lofts community, will love to have you guys as neighbors.
(12.17.09)Blessings!