Greetings from Guadalajara!

It's been an amazing last few days. Luisa and I are in Guadalajara for a wedding shoot which was yesterday and it was amazing! Everyone has been so unbelievably generous. Today we're just relaxing a little bit, and then taking the trip out to Puerto Vallarta which we're very excited about. The night we got in (we're staying in downtown, or El Centro) we took a walk around the city. It was so beautiful and fun and full of life. We ate at this little restaurant called La Chata that was incredible. We've had such an amazing time so far.

Yesterday, after breakfast, I told Luisa I wanted to test some light in front of this really cool church cathedral connected to our hotel.

I loved the light and texture so much that I brought Dorys back to this door in her wedding gown right before we left for the church. Can't wait to share the images!

Have a great Wednesday!

Aruba Adventures

I feel like I'm a pretty lucky guy. I get to do what I love (capture images), with the person I love (Luisa of course!), in really cool places that I love (New England, the Caribbean, Mexico, Costa Rica, West Coast etc.). I feel blessed. Life is good. I've been lucky enough to be able to have Luisa join me on most of my photo adventures, and I have to say traveling with her is a blast. Here's a little video we made of our last trip to Aruba to shoot a wedding (which can be seen here). So what if our travel plans weren't supurb: drive to SLC (5 hours), red eye to Georgia, early morning flight to Aruba. Coming back it was a late night flight to my personal favorite airport EVER (kidding) JFK...spend the night in New York, really early morning flight to SLC. Drive the 5 hours back to home sweet home in Boise. But we had an amazing time. Like, an unbelievable time. So we made a little video to showcase the trip. Hope you enjoy!

I think the words to the song say it perfectly. "Home is wherever I'm with you".

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Blue

Happy Monday! I just wanted to keep up with posting more about Costa Rica through my photos. Today I decided to focus on the color blue. I had lots of cool shots with palm tree's and blue skies but I wanted to showcase some of the fun texture that Costa Rica has. There's texture and life and things to take pictures of everywhere. I loved it!

Abyssnyah

Luisa and I stopped at a little surf town called Jaco for some lunch on our way to San Jose near the end of our trip. I walked down to the beach and met this amazing man named Abyssnyah. He was from Venezuela and here in Costa Rica for the surf. I asked him if could take some pictures of him as he prepared to surf. He sat and waxed his board, and braided his dreadlocks. Here are a few from our impromptu shoot.

UPDATE!!

Wow! I'm a failure. I made it through one day of posts in Costa Rica. But there's not exactly wifi spots in the middle of the Corcovado rain forrest. Check out Luisa's post here to read more about our adventures. We had a blast to say the least. And, We're ALIVE! We made it. We had some pretty crazy and fun experiences and I want to post lots of pictures. Rather than trying to post it all in one post, I'm just going to give little snippets here and there of what it was like to be there, and who we met, and what we did. But all through photographs, and in no particular order.

So today are these shots of Palm Tree's in the Corcovado Rain Forrest. It was gorgeous there, just beautiful. But to get into the heart of the forrest one had to hike 17 km to get to the base camp. When it wasn't monsoon'ing on us, I was able to take out my camera and snag a few palm tree shots. Hope you enjoy!

Costa Rica Day 1

In Costa Rica...LOVING it. Right now, I'm laying in bed, I can hear the ocean....oh...just saw a gecko. He keeps peeking out from behind the tv stand. I've been hired by a great company to come down and take pictures of their staff while they vacation here. So they've put me up in a rather nice hotel on a beautiful peninsula in Costa Rica. Luisa is actually joining me tomorrow, and after we're done here, we're taking an extra week to see the country.

So I just wanted to post a few of my travel pictures. Spent the day on planes. Not fun. Except if anyone can make it fun, my wife can. I have a blast with her.

Houston Airport

Flew into Liberia, CR. On the way in, the pilot decided to "dodge" the lighting storms below. I saw the most spectacular natural light show. It was amazing. We also flew over an active volcano...beautiful.

Liberia was just wonderful. So small, and out there. The terminal, baggage claim and customs were all together in a big warehouse type building. I loved it.

Then there's the hotel. I guess I can't really say that I'm "roughing it" but Luisa and I are going to have our fair share of that after we finish up the photo job here. The hotel is beyond beautiful. Went down to the beach...forgot my tripod, but took some long exposures just for fun holding the camera on my lap.

Good day, beautiful place, and incredible people. Can't wait for tomorrow.