I finally have had a chance to go through some of the photos of the parade and I have enough to show you all and give ya a bit of a blog about it. We had a great time camping out and meeting people around us. The parade itself was not as big as it normally is due to the economy but it was still great!

 

Here is the street on New Year's Eve Day

The street in the middle of the night

And finally the military jet flyover

The parade was a blast, I don't remember what floats are what so I didn't write anything about them. I know... I suck!

Stay Tuned, the next blog will be about the Pomona Reptile Show!

Until Next Time...

The new year has been pretty good for us here at Kesslers Kreatures-LK Imagery. As many of you know Jasmin(My Girlfriend) and I have been unemployed for a while trying our hardest to find work. It has been a really tough time the past year trying to manage and build personal business and pay bills. That is all about to change for one of us at least, Jasmin has a job now. She is doing something that she wants to do when she graduates school. She works at a nursing home, caring for and watching over the elderly. She just started on Wednesday and is loving it so far. She is actually going to school to become a nurse, this just puts her one step closer! She really couldn't be happier about it, and I am pretty happy about it too. I have to admit, the first day of her working a 12 hour day drove me a bit crazy. I didn't have much to do but sit home and wait. Oh well though, It gives me a chance to tend to the animals more and work on photography stuff.

 Speaking of photography stuff, I registered for school and start this coming Monday. My first class will be an introduction to Black and White photography. I was a little weary about this at first because I am not a big fan of black and white photos. I know that just because I don't like them doesn't mean a client won't like them and want some shots in black and white. I learned this the hard way this past weekend when I did a shoot and the client wanted some black and whites. I was not particularly happy with the shots that I had taken in black and white but i turned them over to the client anyways. I hope this class will better help me appreciate the art of black and white photography and give me some better techniques to apply it to my own photography. We will see how it goes, maybe the blog will have a black and white picture mixed in from time to time.

This weekend is also a pretty big deal, it is the Reptile Super Show in Pasadena. We are going to be there as always! Some friends of ours are driving in from out of town to hang out and go to the show, They don't get to head out this way much so were pretty excited to see them. As always I will have my camera in tow and hopefully get some good photos for the blog. I know I say I'll post after the show and what not but I never do so this time I am not even going to say I will. It just gets too hard while trying to hang out and mingle! We shall be back on Monday or Tuesday with a full recap of the show!

P.S... I have promised the Rose Parade photos but haven't had a free moment to sort through them. They are coming... I promise! :)

 

Until Next Time...

Well, Happy New Year!!! I am a bit late but things have been movin and shakin around here. We went to the Rose Parade which I will be blogging about, Probably on Wednesday. Then the day after I did a Engagement shoot! (That is what this blog will be about). I have registered for school; I start next Monday and We are preparing for the Reptile Show coming up this weekend in Pomona. See We really are busy around here!

Anyways... On to the Engagement Shoot!

I had the chance to shoot my buddy Joel's father Sal and his fiance Elizabeth. They wanted to include their kids in this shoot as well and I was happy to oblige. We had a great time shooting!

Here is Sal and Elizabeth, They wanted to keep this shoot fun and not as traditional as others

Here are Sal's Kids, They LOVE the camera and had a blast taking photos!

Here are Elizabeth's kids, They were not as excited to take some photos but they managed to have some fun!

This photo was Sal's idea and what a great one it was! I am really happy with the way it came out!

This last photo was a blast to take, I have seen a bunch of them but have never had any luck getting a good one. This one changed all that, I LOVE this photo!

I had a blast on this shoot and I cannot wait until their wedding, I will be shooting there as well! Until Next Time...

I have not turned on my computer much since the Monday before Christmas, Shocking I know! I have not had the time. We have been so busy with holiday festivities! We are gearing up this week to head to Pasadena for the Rose Parade. Were going out there on Friday and spending the night out there to watch the parade in the morning. I used to do it when I was a kid all the time and decided it was time to do it again! We are crazy excited to go out and hang out. It should be a blast, it always was when I was a kid!

 I will have my camera all night and day, there should be a MAJOR blog post after the rose parade at some point, most likely after a day of recuperating from staying up all night and freezing our asses off. I will be tweeting the whole night though if your interested in our going ons while there.

 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Thanks for reading for almost a year now, I will keep on posting if you keep on reading!

 

Stay Tuned...