I could write so much about this wonderful couple, I wish I had the words to describe how great it has been to get to know Danielle and Kris. You might remember their engagement session photos in Laguna Beach, CA a few months ago. Danielle is an art director for a little company called Billabong and is an amazing artist in her own rite. Kris is a Texifornian and is seriously one of the coolest, most laid back guys to hang out with. I knew their wedding was going to be awesome and I was excited about all of the awesome details and of course, the splendid location of Chinquapin on beautiful Lake Tahoe, CA.
Danielle knew that I like to photograph in different mediums and requested to have some Fuji Instax photos, iPhone photos and some Holga photos (a plastic medium format camera that has quite a cult following) on the wedding day. I’m thankful that my good friend Ingrid came out to help out with making some incredible photographs in a different, artistic medium than your traditional wedding photographs. It was a fun experiment of sorts and I’m thrilled with the results. So thrilled, in fact, that I’d do it again if anyone would like something like that for their future wedding.
So here is the complete set from their fabulous spring wedding in Lake Tahoe, CA. Enjoy.

And here is where we mixed it up a little bit with some Instax from Fujifilm.

The legendary Holga at work.

Yes, these are wedding photos from an iPhone.

I love summertime. I’m busy but I get to spend more time with Eden and we get to go on some fun trips. Here are some photographs from the Fuji GF670. Enjoy.

I’m a huge fan of freedom. I believe that freedom leads to creativity. I’m thankful for freedom and I never want to forget the reason why we celebrate this weekend. Make sure and talk about freedom to your family and friends this weekend. Think about those that don’t have it. What can you do to spread freedom? Enjoy.

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, which you totally should, you’ll know that I have a new camera. I wanted a great travel camera that was easy to carry on my person when I was in the mood for street photography or creating fine art photographs in any condition. Two conditions, it had to be a film camera and it had to have stellar image quality. One camera that filled both of those prerequisites is the new Fuji GF670 Rangefinder 6×6/6×7 120 camera. I learned about the GF when Fuji first decided to release it at a tradeshow overseas several months ago and I had the chance to lay hands on one at the WPPI tradeshow in Las Vegas, NV. I was convinced that this was the right camera for me.
The image quality is absolutely amazing. I love being able to photograph in 6×6 or 6×7 with the same camera, simply by switching a lever in between loading rolls (although I’m really trying to express myself in 6×6 right now). Being a true rangefinder, there is no mirror/prism to slap around during the opening/closing of the shutter therefore the camera is virtually silent during actuation. Not only that, but I feel comfortable photographing down to 1/8th of a second, hand held. This camera is simply amazing and the artisan feel of fine art photography is more apparent in this camera than any other I’ve held (other than large format). I think my friend Jonathan Canlas and I are the only people I really know using this camera a this time, but that will probably be changing really soon. Enough about the camera, here is one photograph from Philadelphia, PA straight out of the camera. Details below, enjoy.

Fuji GF670
f3.5 1/160th
Ilford HP5+ 400
Downtown Philadelphia, PA