Have you had a chance to check out Formspring yet? It is a great place where you can ask/answer questions publicly and I’ve been having some fun with it lately. If you have questions about wedding photography, photography in general, skiing, surfing, Louis L’amour novels, etc. feel free to ask away. Its more fun if you sign up and have a username, but you can ask anonymously. Check it out and ask away.

I’ve been up to a lot lately and wish I had a clone to handle my blogging for me. It takes a lot to blog a full wedding and I’m going to have a few up soon. September was officially insane and October is promising to rival September. I photographed some beautiful weddings in Grass Valley, Modesto (at Galletto Ristorante), Saratoga (at Hakone Gardens), some awesome engagement sessions in Stockton and one recently in Lake Tahoe (at Heavenly and Edgewood), some family portrait sessions and recently a high school senior session in Lodi. This weekend I’ll be photographing in downtown Sacramento and at a friends’ wedding at Clos LaChance Winery in San Martin.
In the midst of all of that, I’ve been booking some awesome clients for 2010 weddings and I’m moving into a new studio in Linden. It is going to be a sweet space for meeting clients, working, making photographs, teaching and being creative. I’m super stoked and can’t wait to show everyone the progress. Stay tuned for some big announcements from Scott Andrew Weddings and Scott Andrew Studio. So here are a few frames to tide everyone over until the next epic blog post. Enjoy.

From todays’ high school senior portrait session.

Grass Valley Persian/American Wedding

An engagement session at Edgewood Country Club in Lake Tahoe, CA

I had the day off from my new job and I got up early to go fishing. I’ll never forget the call I got from my wife and immediately going into my truck and turning the radio on. The tone of voice in the radio announcer was different than anything I’ve ever heard. The silence that pervaded the background was stifling. I remember the bitter feeling in my mouth that this terrible thing could actually happen in our country. It was so real that day.
Several weeks ago strolling with my wife in the financial district of New York City, it became real again. We were still several blocks away but the huge gap in the buildings represented a gap of great loss in our country. Not just in concrete, steel and glass but in human life and substance. We walked around the outer perimeter and watched as the building of the new structures took place.
I hope that I never forget. I hope that I can instill something in my kids and help them to learn from 9/11. The fact that an evil, spiteful enemy hated us enough to do this thing is very evident. The fact that they’ll try and try to do it again is apparent. But the fact that America is the most exceptional nation ever born in this world is being tested. We will never forget.