Kawakami means "rad" in Japanese.

I started my week capturing my friends' Brittany and Brian's wedding in Manitou Springs at the beautiful Craftwood Inn.  It was a great time.  Here are a few photos to tide you over until I can get all the photos edited.  Enjoy.  Thank you Brittany and Brian for having me!

 

Petkash Wedding Appetizer...

My friends Ian and Maria, the Colorado zombie slayers, got married yesterday in a beautiful ceremony at the Evergreen Lake House.  This was the first time I'd been to this venue and it is gorgeous.  Here's just a very very brief sampling of what's to come.

If zombies can't stop these two - nothing will.

I've been really looking forward to sharing more of Ian and Maria's zombie killing engagement shoot with you all week; here you have it!  These two love the outdoors and that's where you'll typically find them.  They get married in just under two weeks!  I'm really stoked that they've chosen me to capture their day.

Zombie Apocalypse Engagement shoot? You'd better believe it!

Down time isn't wasted time...

My wife and I just got back from an incredibly relaxing vacation to the Dominican Republic.  It was the first vacation where we weren't on the go the entire time.  Those other vacations to incredible places such as - Barcelona, Italy and France - were amazing; but I did feel this (internal) pressure to capture the perfect images, the best angles, the raddest silhouettes, even if that meant annoying the crap out of my wife.  This trip was entirely different, I held my wife's hand/a book/an adult beverage, more than I held a camera.  When I did take photos it was with my new GoPro Hero3S and I had no way of knowing how the image would turn out.  Not worrying about being creative or capturing anything other than mental images was sooo rewarding.  I needed this time away with my wife to learn to be quiet again.

I'm going to start scheduling time where I'm off the grid, quiet and still.  This will be so good for not only my creativity but also and much more importantly - my marriage.  I love you Andrea!

Paris - $40 later...

Well apparently I'm not the best about remembering to take off the lens cap when shooting with my Holga.  Here are the few photos that came from the roll of Kodak Tri-X 400.  And I'm thinking the 400 was a tad too slow for the Holga's fixed shutter speed.

So bummed these aren't sharp, C'est la vie.

A little gem from Paris...

While Andrea and I were in Paris last summer we went to a flea market.  While there I haggled for some old negatives which looked to be from the 40's and 50's.  I also picked up some crazy awesome photographs and an old camera as well.  Here this past week I sent off a roll of film that I took while in Paris and one of the negatives - to Richard Photo Lab in Hollywood.  The photos from that roll of Kodak Tri-X will be here later in the week.  But while I wait here is an image that was scanned by the folks at Richard.  It is from one of the many negatives that I bought.

Remembering Boston

In May of 2010 I took a spontaneous day trip to Boston.  In a mere 12 hours on the ground I fell in love with the city.  Today my heart breaks for those affected by the cowardly act(s) of terrorism.