Dylan's Senior Portraits

Here is yet another nephew of mine. My sister and I have been trying to plan and get together for his senior portraits for quite some time now and have finally succeeded. I have to say that I am very pleased with the results of this session and have to schedule another session so we could shoot some football shots, which I want to shoot at his football stadium, but that is something for the next shoot.

Winter Formals

On Saturday my son and his girlfriend attended their Winter Formal, but before I talk about the pictures you will soon see I much thank these two. Their formals started at 8pm and I had them all dressed up at 3pm so I could take some pictures of them during the day. It really meant a great deal to me to take these pictures and I can't thank you both enough for putting up with me.

My son and this young lady have been together for a little more than a year. They truly make an awesome couple and get along so well, almost too well, which you'll see in the pictures further down.

I'll start with some pretty simple and traditional shots, which won't last for long.

Now the fun begins, these two had a great time taking these shots and spent a lot of time just being themselves, which for me is perfect.

Later in the evening they all got together for some group shots just prior to taking off for the night.

Here you'll find all of the stud muffins

And here you'll see all of the beautiful young ladies

And finally the standard group shot.

Long Beach Middle School Girls Basketball Championships

This last Saturday Long Beach held their Middle School Girls Basketball Championships, which I shot. The first game matched Cubberley Cubs against Newcomb Spartans for the Division I championships with the second game matching Hughes Owls against the Stanford Hawks.

Below you'll find a few action shots from the game.

Here are your Division II champions, the Cubberley Cubs.

And here are your Division I champions, the Hughes Owls.

San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary

It's the first day the year and I thought I'd get out and explore the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine. I've been out there before with my wife to take a look, but we only walked around a very small portion of it, so this time I decided to check out the whole area and see what it had to offer in wildlife.

Of course I brought my camera, as you never know what might show it's face or what opportunities might arise. Here are some shots I took while exploring the area.

I have read in a forum that I frequent (Fred Miranda) that there are some bob cats in the area. Now the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary is a large area and the posters never indicated where these bob cats were located, so I just kept that in the back of my mind while I did my walk about. Sure enough after walking along one of the back trails I spotted this guy walking along the trail in front of me. I took some shots to document my findings just in case he decided to go into the brush as I continued to follow him.

At one point he stopped and turned, looking at me. Now I was still a good distance behind him and these are heavily cropped, but I continued to follow taking pictures.

At one point I lost him and while continuing along the trail I saw this little foot path that led to the flood control and bike trail. I decided to take a look and found him again as he continued on his way. I took this last shot as he crossed the path going into deep brush.