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I've been browsing through a lot of old events trying to catch up on my postings and have run across quite a few photos of myself. A little self indulgent, but here they are.

(L-R) Me, Reed Saxon (AP), Grant Brown, Matt Brown
and Bryan Crowe

Test driving a RED

Setting up remote for the Steeple Chase

Testing focus on the post remote

A test shot from the "shot clock cam" at Cal State Fullerton

In the background at the D1 Baseball Regionals hosted at
Goodwin Field (photo: Bryan Crowe)

Walking the track at the 2013 Mt. SAC Relays

Covering the Pole Vault at the 2013 Mt. SAC Relays

On the infield at the 2011 Mt. SAC Relays (photo: Bryan Crowe)

Chimping in the bullpen at the D1 Baseball Super-Regionals at UCLA (photo: Bryan Crowe)

A scanned film shot while setting up glass cams at Cal State Fullerton (photo: Bryan Crowe)

 Testing the glass cam with Matt Brown at the Anaheim Arena

At the D1 Big West Basketball Tournament with Matt Brown

On the field at the LA Blues soccer game

At Titan Stadium, October 30, 2011 (photo: Bryan Crowe)

Pre-season Basketball at Titan Gym (photo: Bryan Crowe)

Lost and Found

 In July while with the cat sitter, Tigger (pictured above) escaped into the Washington wilderness for five days. Only his love for McDonald's cheeseburgers lured him into a live trap where he was captured and brought home. His siblings (pictured below) are glad he's home.

Zoey

Rosie

Malcom

Halloween in July?

No, just a few of snaps of the girls getting creative with makeup.

4x5 images

The first shot is a 4x5 portrait of Jessica from one of my class projects earlier this year. It was shot on Tri-X 320 with two studio strobes on seamless grey paper.  The other two shots were captured on TMax 100 sheet film with a Toyo field camera and Nikkor 150mm f/5.6 lens. The landscape is of the Point Vicente Lighthouse in Palos Verdes at sunset. All film was developed in Xtol and scanned with an Epson V750 scanner.

The New Miller Hacienda

The Miller's finally broke ground on their much anticipated new home. I was present for the foundation pour and shot both video and some stills. The first several photos are the architectural renderings (via iPhone).

Update Friday, 10/14/11, framing started this week. Very, very tall!

iSAD...

Memorial Day 2011

Sorry, it's been a while since I've updated the blog. This Memorial Day weekend I planned a trip to the Eastern Sierras to visit Yosemite. Unfortunately, the snow pack is so insane that they possibly will not open until July! The following video shows some of the images that were captured around the surrounding areas.

Jessica performs Dylan

In mid-September, I recorded and filmed my 6th music performance. This particular show was held outdoors which posed a whole new set of challenges. For this particular show, I used a MOTU firewire interface and recorded and mixed the show live from a MacBook Pro using Apple Logic. I was very pleased with the performance of the preamps in the MOTU.

This was the largest show to date with 22 performers of all ages. Jessica arranged and performed a song that was written by Bob Dylan 26 years before she was born!

Jessica's 11th Birthday

Hi all,

Sorry I have not updated in a while. The main reason is that I was locked out of my own account. It is not possible to contact Blogger support. You can only post to a public forum and hope someone answers your question. Luckily, I found an old email that offered me an option to change my password and the link still worked.

Anyway, I'm going to post some updates in chronological order. Back in September, Jessica turned 11! Here's a quick video of her happy birthday song.

Baseball with St. Jude

I went out a couple of weeks ago to cover a minor league baseball game between the Orange County Flyers and the Tucson Toros. When I arrived, to my surprise the field was chalked with pink lines and the Flyers' players were wearing pink jerseys! As it turns out, St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton was hosting a Breast Cancer Awareness day. The player's uniforms were later auctioned off with the proceeds going to the St. Jude Kathryn T. McCarty Breast Cancer Center. Below is a page from the St. Jude Medical Center newsletter where some of my photos were used. It was a very elaborate and well executed promotion and I'm glad I could be a part of it.

4th of July - 2010

Had a small get together with family and friends. Had some good food, drinks and laughs, then it was time to break out the "Block Party" (a large box of fireworks).

Our neighbor Jeff putting himself in harms way...

Holding a firecracker while it blows up (kids don't try this at home)...

Western Super-Regionals

The western Super-Regional was hosted by UCLA. CSUF won the first game and was one out away from a trip to Omaha for the College World Series. That is until UCLA hit a late two run home run to take game 2. UCLA ended up winning game 3 convincingly.

Western Regionals

I covered the Big West Regional Baseball tournament in early June. Cal State Fullerton lost their first game, then won four straight from the losers bracket to win the Regional. Here's a few shots from the Regional.

Almost died twice here. A hard line drive hit the wall right in front of Bryan and I. The rule is to hug the wall because the ball spins off like a pool table. Bryan moved out and almost took one on the rib (note the ball between his body and monopod). The secondary danger for me was to have a 6'7" man fall on and crush me.
(photo: Matt Brown)

The Red One

Had a busy June, so I'm just trying to catch up with some stories and images. Had my first encounter with a Red One camera. All I can say is wow! The raw 4k+ footage was actually too big to work with. It had to be converted to Pro Res in order to be usable. I'll get another chance to play with it later this month with a matte box, follow focus and better monitor. The following shot shows me and the Red with an 85mm Zeiss prime. Killer DOF!
(photo: Mario Congreve)