2 more...

... from Vivan's wedding.

The Mother:


The Daughter:

"My best friend's wedding."

One of my closest friends got married on the 8th. SHE... asked me to be a brides-man... and I was honored to be one. The wedding was held at her, now husband's, parents house in Napa Valley. The wedding was beautiful... the weather was perfect. I ended up taking around 500 or so images of Vivan getting ready. All of the moments up to the point in which we were about to walk down the isle. I just sifted through all of the pictures and came up with a few nice ones. Here's a couple to start us off... I'll post more throughout the week.

(also... please keep an eye on my new tumblr site. www.mmmikeyt.tumblr.com. I've been taking photos thoughout my day with my iphone and posting em up on that site. It's been a fun little side project to keep the juices flowing by taking photos every day on the fly. Please check it out!)

Tumblr...

Hello hello. Post 101.

I just got an iPhone. I was trying to upload some photos taken from my phone onto this blog, but have found it to be a little troublesome. SOOOOoooo... I started another blog with tumblr. This will just be photos from my daily life. All photos will be taken with my iPhone. But no worries, I still intend to fill this blog with photos taken from my regular camera.

Here's the link:
www.mmmikeyt.tumblr.com

Also, I saw some people were following this blog on google reader. Leave ur email on the comments if you'd like to share posts!

blog post #100

Been gone from this blog for a while. I'm going to try to revive it now.

Here are a couple recent random photographs:

Lucy...

My cousin had her baby. We welcomed little Lucy Hulswit into our world at 11:03pm on Monday May 11th, 2009.

Congrats Mike and Marie! We're all very excited...

She.

Sit.


Stand.


Walk.


Jump!

playground love.

Took some photos yesterday on assignment for Time Magazine. I'll go into more detail on that later... but here were two random out takes that weren't used that I kind of liked.







Things went well! Photo editors are happy.... that makes me reeeaaaally happy.

old post/photo.

This is from an old blog post when I restarted this blog... I'm posting it again just to post it. But this image always crosses my mind. I keep thinking that I need to print it out for my wall. Hopefully I'll get around to that sometime soon.

Every picture has a story behind it. Here's my memory from it:
It was shot down in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. I was down there shooting some bodyboarders for an Australian magazine. We just got done with lunch in town and were riding back to the hotel in the back of the hotel owners truck. It was me, and Jake Stone sitting in the back of the truck, we just passed the section of the main road that has a nice view of Zicatela (the main beach). Jake was looking back up the road a bit... I only had my 50mm lens on me, so sitting across the bed of the truck I had to lean halfway out of the side of the truck in order to frame the photo. I think I took about 2 photos? Maybe only this one... but immediately after snapping this image, my hat few off my head. I had to pound on the roof of the car and tell the driver to stop so I could run back up the road to pick up my hat. He stopped, told me to stay in the car and he'd back up, but I just jumped out and snagged it. When I picked up the hat, the car was already right next to me. I jumped back in and we headed back to the hotel. Now I take my hat off when riding in the back of trucks. haha.

ummm.. that story wasn't very exciting... but that's what happened. I just loved this portrait... especially the part where the wind is blowing his hair.



I have a few rolls of film that I have to process. Expect some newer photographs up soon.