I Love Animals.

I got 13 hours of sleep last night. That means tonight at 1 AM, I am not tired at all. After Karl and I had an IBC root beer party where we scobbed Teri at word twist and then drank root beer to keep up moral, we then watch 4 episodes of Prison Break and now Karl is too tired to stay awake. So, I was reading some blogs and decided it had been a while since I updated my blog; however, I have no new pictures to update it with! So I scoured my hard drive and looked for something to blog about. Hooray! I have successfully located pictures. My family went to Sea World over Christmas break and I never blogged about it! I am so happy for a belated Sea World Extravaganza. I will now give you a tour of a wonderful place, full of magical mystery, and deadly fish.

It all begins at the very beginning, when my camera was too heavy to hold so Karl was holding it for me...

My mom, Teri, Me, Vincent (punk)

We decided that it would be best to go and visit Sting Ray Pond. This is a place where you can go and feel sting rays. I was very excited because I got to go see and touch a real animal that could very possibly take my life! (RIP Steve Irwin) You can tell by my face JUST how excited I was:


My Dad, My Mom, Me, Teri

After this, we have the Shrieking Eels, made famous by the most quoted movie in history. One of the eels gave me the "eelvil eye". Get it? I reclaimed my camera as we shot this memoric event:


Crazy Eel, hungry and ready to be fed

Lauren was pretty scared that she was going to be eaten by an eel. I comforted her by making her model her scared face for me.

Lauren, scared after an eel made an attempt on her life

Here is my hottie of a husband Karl. He is apparently needing a neck rub and his wife is slacking.

Karl is so happy to be at Seaworld!

Vincent (punk brother) stole a woman's wheelchair and tried to roll away before I caught him on camera. He returned the wheelchair.

Vincent, caught in the act!

Finally, we reach the Rocky Horror Shamu Show. I honestly thought Shamu was either going to eat someone or squash someone. Both would be equally horrible. Here is the evidence:


Shamu, after getting a running head start, begins to surface...


...right into the audience, where he proceeds to bite someone's head off!

Last but not least, we arrived at the Penguins, who were very cute. I can't think of anything really clever to say except that this particular penguin looked like it was trying to decapitate itself.

Cute Penguin

Overall, Seaworld was great. I had a lot of fun 2 months ago. I think that everyone should go. Time for bed. It's late.

Blue Background of Glory

I am entering a photography contest where the winners get to go to Egypt! I have a great partner. Her name is Chaela and she is great (check out her blog). We were scoping out some locations to do photoshoots at and we stumbled upon this awesome factory with cool blue walls, which Chaela so appropriately titled "the blue background of glory." So, being the photographers that we are, we got out of the car and did a photoshoot.

This is Chaela. She's beautiful!


Here is my favorite shot:


If you look closely, I'm hiding in her eye.


Blue Background of Glory - courtesy of:


PS. Got a new lens. THE lens. Will post more pictures soon.

Innovation and Creativity Bootcamp

I am the TA for BYU's school of technology. About once a month, we hold an Innovation and Creativity bootcamp, where kids from every major in the school of technology come and learn how to be more innovative. It's really fun, and I've learned a lot. Here's some pictures I took from last week. If you are interested in finding out more about it, go HERE.





And here are the lovely prizes for the winners, not to mention, a possible $500 prize at the end of the semester:

Fruit Salad!

Andrea, Jon, Teri, and Draper came over to play games and laugh and have a good old married-persons time. Andrea brought her new trifle bowl and I bought a bunch of fruit at Macey's, so we decided to make a delicious fruit trifle. It was so beautiful that I couldn't help myself and I took pictures of it.

Jon and Andrea's Wedding

Jon and Andrea liked their engagement pictures from me so much (go figure!) that they asked me to be the photographer for their wedding. I initially was appalled--considering, that if I ruined their wedding photos we might be enemies for the rest of our lives. I accepted their offer and I had a blast doing their photos. Here are some of my favorites (although there are about 400 more to choose from--I'm trigger happy.)

New New New....

Lens. I now own a canon fixed-50mm lens. That I love. Picture:



Jon and Andrea's wedding pictures to come...Stay Tuned!

California Dreamin

Don't you love California in the wintertime? I stepped off the plane and felt alive again. My trip home was a little piece of heaven.

I was asked to take Jon and Andrea Ware's wedding pictures and I wanted to be at my best for them. So, I practiced about every day, changed lots of settings, and improved a lot over Christmas break! I talked Lauren, my baby sister, into coming to the beach with me for a sunset shoot. She was a little hesitant at first, but I think she is a natural and the pictures could not have been cuter. Here are some of my favorites: