A Great Family

One last fair weather shoot with a great family. The Scholes. They made it easy and fun with the energy they had. We wanted to get some family shots, and maybe some school-year-type photos of the boys. We ended up running around and playing in the leaves. I have to say, one of my favorite shoots. Great people.

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Great night in Tahoe

So - Amy and I had a night to ourselves up in Tahoe. Had a nice dinner, etc. We ended up at Zephyr Cove beach after dark. We took a blanket and I had my camera - so I snapped a couple of shots of the stars (see below)

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landscape, placesPete Spence
Lake Tahoe - Crazy Weather

At Lake Tahoe this past week, and we had some crazy weather. It went from 70 to 45 degrees in a matter of minutes accompanied by dime size hail, lightning, super rain, and flash flood warnings. This lasted about 45 minutes. After it cleared, there was about a half hour of light left. These were some of the sights we had after the storm.

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landscape, placesPete Spence
Ring Flash Lighting

Most anybody who has an interest in off camera lighting usually finds the strobist website at some point. With a load of great info, the site has an extensive amount of DIY stuff. Wanting to try something new (for me), I made one of the DIY ring flashes from the site for a different kind of look. While the ring flash has had it's day, and has been a bit overused,

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4th in the park.

We live in a neighborhood where one of our very generous neighbors sets up a fantastic fireworks show. On his own, and out of his pocket. And it's awesome. And I don't mean just the fireworks. The entire neighborhood comes out, and it's a great time to connect with people. My kids love it. My dog even loves it. Thank you to our neighbors for putting this on!

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Connecting with your clients

Photography is fun. There is no doubt. Capturing the image you envision is immensley rewarding. But then there is the work of it, which is still fun, but there exists a danger of the monotonous. I'm still fairly new to the game, so shooting anything I can is still exciting.

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Rosario's Italian

If you haven't eaten at Rosario's Italian restaurant in Medford Oregon, please do. Very good food and great owners. I did a product / menu shoot for them recently. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

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40's Style Shoot

The model is Amy Johnson, and this was her first shoot. I had been wanting to try a 40's themed shoot, and she did awesome.  We both learned a lot, and had great fun putting this together.

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portraitsPete Spence