Sneak Peak: The Eeds {chandler family photographer}
Our Labor Day vacation to San Diego/Oceanside wasn’t just myself, the wife and daughter, but also 15 of our friends, including 7 adults and 8 kids. One of those families wanted some new family portraits recently and figured what better place to do it than at the beach while we’re out here! This is one of my favorites of the shoot. Little Rachel front and center with mommy, daddy and new baby Wyatt watching. I really need to do more beach portraiture, but that would require me moving away from Phoenix. Still, never having done any real beach photography put [...]
A little ode to the beach
We’re headed to San Diego tomorrow for a nice four-day weekend with friends in a giant vacation house that sits a couple hundred feet from the beach. It’s going to be awesome and it’s unbelievable to think I actually have to work today when all I want to do is get in the car and start driving. In honor of the sand, surf and relaxation, I figured I would post a few shots from a beach near Den Haag in Holland. We were headed back to Amsterdam to leave the next day for the States, and decided to swing by [...]
Vanishing into Rain
When I’m out chasing storms in the late evening, one of the big goals is to get lightning shots. Sometimes I’m so focused on it, I miss the obvious sunset going on in front of me. This photo was the result of me driving down a road north of Casa Grande as far as I could until it dead ended at this spot. The rain falling in the middle of the picture had a lightning strike not long before this. So I set up, aimed for it and start ripping off 5-10 second exposures. Well, no more lightning came…but when [...]
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