Well hello there! It seems like it has been such a tremendously long time since I have wrote a blog. A whole lot has been keeping me away from blogging or posting anything for that matter. It is... drumroll please.... I GOT A JOB!! Yes that's right. I have been working like mad at Disneyland. The happiest place on earth. I love working there and it has been a ton of fun. The only downside is I have not had much time for myself. I havent had much time to spend with the snakes or my photography. You may have noticed that the LK Imagery site is not up and running yet like I said, it's  because I have been so busy I haven't had time to work on it. It will be coming in time, I just haven't really been able to get to it.

On a side not the snakes are looking great, I am still waiting for my second clutch that should be on the ground very soon. I cannot wait til I see little eggies hatching!

On a second side note since LK Imagery website is not up and running I will still post photo related blogs here for those of you who may be interested. Well I LOVE Disneyland, and yes, on my days off i occasionally go and enjoy the park with my girlfriend. I decided to take my camera on this trip and I decided that I am going to try and take some photos of things people overlook or dont really notice cuz they don't have the time in their day at Disney to see every detail in the park.

Enjoy!

If you read my blog and you are not from the Southern California area then you have not been experiencing this crazy weather that we have been having. We have been getting back to back storms with a TON of rainfall. Now those of you form other states that get a ton of rain are probably thinking who gives a shit if it rains, that happens here all the time. Well here in Southern California it rarely happens, and what makes it an even crazier storm here is that we had tornado warnings! At first the news was saying it may happen then they went on the air and said it was going to happen. So Jasmin and I sat at home watching the news and hoping nothing would whisk us away to Kansas. While watching the news the sky started to clear up a tad so we decided to head out but on our way out the door we heard that there was a tornado that had touched down about 10 minutes from our house. So I packed up the cameras and we headed out. First we headed down the street to check out how sever the flooding was. The water was really high, completely covering the curb actually.

After we went to check out the street flooding we headed down to Seal Beach Pier to see what was going on down there. It was rumored that the waves were going to be pretty big so we couldn't resist going down.

When we got down to the beach it was clear that were not alone in the idea to check out what was happening, There was a bunch of on lookers standing on the pier. It was closed for a while because the swells were so high but it was opened eventually

The water carved a nice little canyon in the sand, it was pretty neat and rather tall

Now when we went the waves were pretty big but not as big as predicted as you can tell from the pics

There was so much water that a little lake was formed in a parking lot and on some of the beach sand, it was pretty deep

We eventually made our way down to the "ground zero" where the tornado hit and wow was it crazy to see some of the damage. There were a bunch of trees that were completely uprooted by the tornado.

Well this tornado was so strong that it completely picked up a SUV and flipped it on its side, I didn't believe it either but when I got to the scene I talked to some people who were there when it happened and they all had the same story. It was pretty intense

Since California doesn't ever get weather like this there were tons of on lookers and news people watching the events!

This last guy I couldn't help but take a photo of while he was filming us!

Well this is only one of many storms that are coming through Southern California this week. I will try to get out and take some more photos of everything that happens! If you are reading this and live in Souther California please be safe this week while commuting to work or while your just out running errands, if you can stay home, please do.

Until Next Time...

Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching! I love this time of year, nothing beats spending time with family, friends and eating great food! Were going to be spending a majority of this week with Jasmin's family, It has been a while since we have hung out with her Grandma and the rest of her family. Were out in Phelan right now actually, I am blogging from the kitchen table staring out at the pitch black night. I love it out here, we go outside late at night and we can see the stars so well. It is absolutely breathtaking how beautiful the sky is at night when you don't have the city lights ruining it. I am actually going to try and take some long exposure shots of the sky and see what I can come up with, maybe even get some shooting stars. I have see quite a few while out here. After Thanksgiving on Thursday we are going to head back down to home. Were going to stop at Heather's and hit up that black Friday sales with her! It should be a crazy morning, I have never been shopping on black Friday! Once we get all the shopping our of our system we are going to head home to Long Beach to spend the day with my family. We are going to do the day after Thanksgiving feast. I can't wait, it is going to be a good time all week. Then the weekend will be just as fun but I will get into that later on!

This past week I mentioned a mock E-Session I was going to do with Heather and Joel. I was supposed to post some photos from the shoot but I never got around to it because we left for Phelan earlier than we had planned. I don't have all the photos from the shoot with me right now because I transferred them to my external hard drive before we left. I didn't think we were going to have the internet up here so I did not prepare photos for bloggity blog.  I do however have a couple pics that I had already watermarked and are ready for posting! I hope you enjoy! Thanks again Heather and Joel for letting me continuously shoot you!

Those are the only ones I have for now, Let me know what you think in the comments section!

Until Next Time...

I know its not technically the weekend, but what the hell, It's almost Friday, Well at least when I started writing this post it was almost Friday, It may as well be by time I post it up! I have a few things planned for the weekend that should make for interesting blog material come Monday. Friday we are going out to Jammin's Mom's house, We haven't been out there in a while and shes going to be making some amazing Mexican food. Can't beat that right? I am actually going to be taking some candid photos out there for a top secret special thing I suggested to Jammin and she is all for it. More to come on that later though once were all done with it!

Saturday should be a great day. Were going to do another photoshoot with Heather and Joel. I am really excited for this, I am going to take them to that place I mentioned a couple posts ago. We are going to get some cool shots, at least that is the plan. We may shoot some other places locally but that is the main focus of the day.  I hope I get some beautiful photos of the two of them, They make our photoshoots a great time. Heather and Joel have been amazingly supportive of my photography by letting me take photos of them. I really do appreciate it guys! Come back next week for a little recap of our shoot! After the shoot we are going to try to find a local place that will be showing UFC fight. We hope we can find somewhere, so if any of you know where we can catch it let me know in a comment!

Sunday I am not really sure what we are doing, I will find something to take photos of or do. It may end up just being a around the house and relax day. It will give me time to process the photos from the weekend and catch up on all my DVR'ed tv shows! I hope you all have a great weekend and I will try to update if possible. If not... talk to you Monday!!

There is a little bit of nature nestled in the City of Long Beach. This place is going to be a GREAT place to do some photo shoots, and what makes it better is that it is so close to home. This is the El Dorado Nature Center. Jasmin and I have heard much about it but never took the time to go check it out. We decided Saturday would be the day we went to explore the city we live in. We have been out here for about 7 months now and we still are learning our way around and what places are local. I am constantly looking for photo shoot locations too so this was a trip with 2 goals. I managed to snap a few pics while walking around, The feel there is amazing, You would never guess that this place is in a city. It feels like we were hiking up in the mountains. They have a few trails, a couple lakes and enough trees to make you feel like your in the movie the Blair Witch Project!

Enjoy the pics!

Jasmin says she can see a face in this pic... Can you spot it?

Who says the leaves don't change in California?

I attempted to take a picture of the bugs flying and this is what came out, I love the lens flare and that I was actually able to catch the bugs.

We had a great time walking this place, We are going to go back often, not only is it a great place to take photos but it is very relaxing and makes for some good exercise!

Until Next Time...

This weekend was the Herp World Expo in Pasadena California. It was a blast, we got to hang out with a lot of great friends and see some amazing animals! I tried to walk around as much as I could and get photos. Surprisingly there were not many ball pythons out there this weekend but there was plenty more to see! Check out my photos from the show!

This kid was really nervous about holding one of Heather's Ball Pythons but he did it and let me take a picture!

This last photo is of Joel showing everyone who is boss!

All in all it was a great weekend. We did come home with a couple new animals so come back and check them out. I will be posting them once they get situated!

Until Next Time

Hello Internets!!!

My new site is officially up and running! Take a look around and let me know what you think! If you have any suggestions just leave a comment for me! I want to thank Brittney Gougeon of Reptile Creative for helping me get this site off the ground! Since we have a new place to call home I am going to make it as cozy as can be! I will be posting more here and trying to keep everything updated whether it be new photos, or just a blog whatever is on my mind!

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Lewie!