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A Weekend to Remember...

For the 4th of July weekend we packed up and headed over to Big Bear Lake, CA. What an experience...

Our cabin and Louie welcomed us. I'm still looking for Louie's Big Bear Cafe...(inside joke)

Just steps from our cabin was the General Store, selling everything in general...

A few steps more and you have Boulder Bay Park...so peaceful....

The One doing her best Bruce Weber impersonation...

Lake, love it. Slopes, nope.

Beach, yes!

The One, yes.

Mother & Daughter

Shooting this mother daughter tandem was an absolute pleasure. When your on, your on...this exposure was the fourth in the session. Afterwards they treated my girlfriend and I to Thai at Pin Kaow. It doesn't get any better than this. Thanks Angie & Lety.

A Vegas Headshot...

Just before the holiday I had the pleasure and honor of shooting fellow Chicagoan Miranda R. Miranda is a high-end realtor here in Vegas, so if you're looking for some property drop her an email @

MirandaRealtor@infinitepRE.com.

Thanks to Jesse Saunders of www.BrokenRecdords.us for the hook-up and thanks to Miranda for being a perfect subject!

Getting out of the studio...

I shot these portraits in the backyard. The background is a non-reflective black cloth (think velvet) that I hung over the backyard swing which subbed as my backdrop stand. I positioned the backdrop to block the setting sun which cast a beautiful shadow in which I placed my subjects. There was no reflector or other light used other than the light from above. Using the Canon 5D set at RAW, an iso of 100 for fine grain, f-stop of 4 for shallow depth of field and a shutter speed at a 60th of a second with the IS on. I processed the images through Aperture and used the NIK's Silver EFX Pro plug-in for black and white conversion set at neutral. I added a slight sepia tone, spotted and added a little softness with Imagenomic's Portraiture plug-in and there you have it. Thanks....