August 1st, 2009. Ralph B. Clark Regional Park, Buena Park.

Mason's first birthday!

More to go up soon at michaelgphoto.zenfolio.com

March 1st, 2008. Louie and Dru's Wedding, Crystal Cove.

January 19th, 2008. Bong and Rona's (..second) Wedding!! Long Beach, Ca.

December 30th, 2007. 60th anniversary, Paramount Ca.

December 8th, 2007. Laguna Beach, Ca.

Got the chance to shoot a house for sale down in Laguna Beach.  Was sort of my first time shooting real estate, so it was interesting. I made a mistake of not bringing a flash along, and so just worked around natural lighting. Great view from up there!

Canon xt with a 10-22mm lens

November 22nd -24th, 2007. Lake Tahoe Nevada.

(click the pic!)

Thanksgiving!!

Went up to Tahoe to see the family for thanksgiving. Brought a 4x5 view camera, and a 6x6 hasselblad for the trip. Took a few going up 395 hwy and up at Crystal Bay. Hoping on being able to get those developed and printed soon. Up above is a panoramic view of the lake from our house. Wish I can go back up again when it snows. 

November 7th-10th, 2007. Sequoia National Park, Ca.

film shots from the sequoia trip. (more to come once i find time to work in the darkroom again)

Hasselblad with 80mm f/2.8 lens on tmax film.

(digital scan of print)

2" sec f/22 tmax 100

November 7th-10th, 2007. Sequoia National Park, Ca.

Drove up to sequoia for a few days... Quite the adventure!

(click this pic!)

November 3rd, 2007. AYSO soccer, Canyon Country Ca.

Say Hello to my part time job!!

I've been shooting soccer for a sports photography company called Action Shooters for what will be exactly one whole year pretty soon. Its a photo company that goes out and shoots youth sports during tournaments or league play, and sells the photos back to parents. Its a fun job and Ive learned a lot from it. Oddly enough, I dont really have many of my own shots. We shoot mostly film and so that goes to the lab and I never get to see it again. But today I got to shoot digital, and had some extra time, so shot a little on my own card.

So here are a few from today. U12's AYSO tourney, up near Santa Clarita.


shot with a Canon 1D mkII and 600mm f/4 lens. no cropping or editing done.

October 31st, 2007. A pumpkin patch, somewhere in Buena Park, Ca.. (Continued)

A few random or various things that I shot around the house, and later at a pumpkin patch the same day.

I have a lot of bulk film sitting around. At least a couple dozen cans of them. I loaded one up that I think is Kodak Plus-X 125 film. Its workable, but since its pretty old, it has a pretty bad base fog. I'm overexposing in camera, rather than over developing then printing with a contrast filter.

In the end its horrible for skin tones, but for the edgy boundaries that it forces you to work with, its kind of nice. 

Kodak Plus-X 125 film. Canon 1N 50mm f/1.4 lens, all shots were wide open. Developed 4 1/2 minutes in D76 at 72 degrees. Printed with a full frame neg carrier and 4 1/2 contrast filter.