Mom’s Portrait Assignment

Well, today my mom needed a model for a portrait assignment that she is doing in her photo 103 class at Cypress College. She wanted me to model but I am never that interesting in front of the camera so I volunteered Krista for the job. I think I really owe her for the help this time. At the end of the shoot my mom finally got me to sit in front of the camera for a while. I finally stopped the shoot once I smelled something funny. The old Norman power pack she was using was starting to over heat from the continuous shooting. Well just another thing for me to check out on Monday.

Cover Shot Photo Shoot

Last night Grace had Krista, Vergil, and I setup a shoot to go on the cover of our Photography Department brochure. We set everything up and Grace started shooting but was soon called back to work with the students in the lab. After Grace left, Krista was still modeling so I took over shooting, so we could have as many shots to choose from. Once Grace got back, I grabbed my camera and started shooting for myself and wound up with some nice shots.

Cleaning

Last night was Grace's first night back to work since returning from WPPI in Las Vegas. When she got in, she noticed that Ron had spilled coffee on his desk. Grace volunteered, very excitedly, to clean Ron’s desk and reorganize everything.

Once she got it clean and whipped down she took a moment to rest.

Working Hard

Grace was helping Shellee with trying to pick three shots from the same photo shoot where the setup stayed the same but the lighting would change between the shoots. Something must have gone wrong since the lighting would change, like it was suppose to, but the angle of the camera would also change.

Christmas

I went down to San Diego and spent Christmas break with Shawna, Bret, Josephine and the family. It was great seeing everyone down there again. It has been over a year since I had gone down that way to see everybody. Josie is growing up quick. When Shawna took me with her to pick up Josie I wasn’t sure she would remember me. To my surprise, once she saw me her eyes lit up and she ran around excited. On the 24th Shawna’s birthday we went out to a great meat market/restaurant to celebrate. Her usual birthday meal of lobster was missed this year since there is going to be a new addition to the family in March. So instead this year she had a good sized steak wrapped in bacon. Later that day Bret brought out Shawna’s birthday cake.

Thanks to Bret, Shawna was able to have her lobster on her birthday after all.
The rest of the images are an assortment from the 24th and the 25th.

Family Photo

Taking a family photo is almost impossible since my brother hate anyone taking his picture. I have no idea how my mom talked my brother into it, but he did not disappoint with his inability to try to have fun in the picture. He would not smile and made it fairly clear that he did not want to be there. After a while he loosened up some, but was still a pain.

I would like to thank Krista for helping to take the pictures.

Faculty Dance Concert

This was the last of the events that I shot for the Theater Department this year. The lighting in this show is what I was really looking forward to seeing. I was in the Lighting Design Class this semester and as a finial project most of the students designed the lighting for the dance pieces. The lighting and the dances all looked great.