Morgan and Matt were a wonderful couple and words can’t even come close to describing how perfect these two are for one another. They are both good looking, love to travel and both have a great personality! Morgan is 6′ 4″ and Matt is 6′ 7″!! Both play volleyball and Matt plays basketball. In fact, out of the entire wedding party, the shortest person was 6′ tall!

Here are just a small sample from their wedding day!

This being my second year to the CON, I had a better game plan going in and knew what to expect moving forward. Rather than spending time in the exhibit hall bumping elbows with strangers, I chose to stay in Hall H for the majority of the time to stay away from the crowds, and of course to see celebrities!!

Drive Angry 3D panel:

This movie looks a little cheesy but it was shot entirely in 3D, if that appeals to some. It seems like a cheesy story and some of the action sequences were a bit too much. Let’s hope this isn’t bad actor Nicolas Cage we’re seeing, like we did in Ghost Rider.

Amber Heard

William Ficthner

Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard

Nicolas Cage

Skyline movie panel

The panel discussed the film as a low budget film and showed a short clip. After seeing the clip, I concur, it is a low budget film. There are a ton of special effects, but at times it seemed the effects were not in sync with the actors.

Donald Fasion

David Zayas

Brittany Daniel

Eric Balfour

Eric Balfour and Donald Fasion

SUPER movie panel

This movie looks promising and somewhat similar to Kick-Ass type vigilante movie. Rainn Wilson is a funny mothertrucker!! I also liked Nathan Fillion and has a great sense of humor.

Rainn Wilson

Ellen Page

Liv Tyler

Nathan Fillion

Michael Rooker

Nathan Fillion showing some love to Michael Rooker

True Blood Signing session

Kristin Bauer

Deborah Woll

Nelsan Ellis

Joe Manganiello

Rutina Wesley

Sam Trammell

Green Lantern movie panel

Ryan Reynolds

Blake Lively

Peter Sarsgaard, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Mark Strong

Sucker Punch movie panel

This movie looks interesting.. I think I may be a little optimistic about this film since Vanessa Hudgens is in it.. It has a good story line with tons of special effects, so we will see how it plays out closer to release date.

Vanessa Hudgens

Carla Gugino

Jamie Chung

Jena Malone

Girls of Sucker Punch

Megamind movie panel

Will Ferrell

Tina Fey

Brad Pitt and Will Ferrell.. LOL..

Tina Fey copping a feel with Brad Pitt

TRON: Legacy movie panel

This was an awesome panel.. They showed a new trailer and an un-seen eight minute clip of the movie. They also did a special session where the entire crowd made noise based on instructions that were given on the screen. The sound, cheers, boos were to be used in the movie as part of the audience, supposedly… I am excited to see this movie.

Bruce Boxleitner

Jeff Bridges

The cast of TRON: Legacy

SALT movie panel

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber

I will have a follow up post with some of the costumes that were at Comic Con!!

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Jasmine is not only a great photographer, she’s a great individual and a great business person. I attended her workshop here in lovely Southern California in hopes to learn from one of the best. Let me tell you, this girl knows her stuff… I seriously look forward to implementing her tools in the upcoming year.

A BIG thank you to Heavenly Blooms for providing all the flowers for Jasmine’s workshop including this beautiful bouquet! Also thank you to the adorable couple Gabriel & Carlie of Gabriel Ryan Photographers for being such awesome models for us!

I love the presentation of the little gifts that J* provided to all attendees.

She seriously has a cool logo!!

There was definitely ALOT of note taking going on!! J* was dropping knowledge!

Thank you for visiting!!

I also got to meet and hang out with the super nice, Katie from Amanda K Photography.. Wassup Katie!!

The couple was simply beautiful! I loved the story and the video they played during at the start of the ceremony and the stories they told during our photo sessions.. You can truly tell the couple is in love!!

The wedding day started off at the Ritz Carlton, where the bride and bridesmaids were getting ready.. Then off to the South Shores Church for the ceremony and family pictures. Then back to the Ritz for more romantics of the beautiful couple and the Partaaay!!

The cars of the Grand Prix of Long Beach were AMAZING!!! Technological wonders that came together through hours of R&D, hours of assembly and lots of money.. Our closest thing to Formula 1 here in the states.

I don’t know what it is, but there’s something exhilarating about the sound of roaring engines, the thunderous vibration you feel as the cars pass 10 feet in front of you and the smell of ethanol as you walk through the pit area. I knew this would be an awesome day!

Here are some of my favorites taken from that day.

A very nice looking G35 drifting around turn 10 during a drifting demonstration.

A huge “Thank you” goes out to Randy you are awesome!!

Thanks,

Visual Exposure

My day started at 4:30am, I finished charging my camera batteries and downloading images from last nights wedding. I only had 4 hours of sleep and since i’m not much of a morning person, dragging my tired, lazy butt out of bed was a challenge. I packed my gear and was on the road by 5:20am. I wanted to get an early start since I really didn’t know my way around Long Beach due to the different street closures for this race. Plus, I still had to pick up my press credentials at a separate location (Long Beach Hilton). To top things off, I had a mandatory media/press meeting at 7am! This was waay too many things for me to manage this early in the morning, without being armed with breakfast nor coffee.. Luckily everything worked out and i was able to make my mandatory meeting. Even better, they had free Starbucks at the meeting! Must. get. coffee!!!

The big event today was the Pro/Celebrity race. Luckily for me I was able to get into this event. I didn’t realize that there was a separate credential list I needed to be on, in order for me to access these festivities.. Luckily, I met some people, who know some people..

Here are just some of the celebrities I had a chance to talk with..

Tony Hawk

Christian Slater

Steve Millen

Jimmy Vasser

Adrien Brody

I saw this beautiful little moment between Tony Hawk and his kid.. Soo adorable!

Keanu Reeves

Megan Fox

Zachary Levi

Tony Gonzalez (Football player)

This was a fantastic event! I was even able to walk onto the track to take pictures for the Pro/Celebrity race!

The day ended around 6:30pm for me, since I stuck around to shoot the SCCA race later that day!

I loved how colorful Jeenie and Mark were. It totally spiced up the shoot and I am happy they were such a cool couple!

We saw this yellow wall, so we put them up against it.. Who says you can have TOO much color.. NOT ME!!

This was a fun little idea.. We placed Jeenie and Mark in the middle of the street.. This took a couple of attempts due to the traffic, but i like the results!

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Visual Exposure Photography

These are some of the my favorite shots of this couple!

A special thanks to the organizers for making it a wonderful experience!

Thanks,

Visual Exposure

She really lived up to that reputation and she showed why she was of the best wedding photographers around. Her workshop was very helpful and inspiring and she answered any questions that were thrown her way. She is truly a great photographer, super friendly and a wonderful person and I am excited to have met her.

The workshop was awesome!! Jessica covered alot of ground but was very open and helpful to everyone. One of the pluses for me, in this workshop is that she lives 2 minutes away from my place in Ladera Ranch. However, it still doesn’t explain why I was  one of the last ones to arrive at her studio. Go figure.. Another plus to the workshop, is meeting and talking with other wonderful photographers from all over the world. I think, out of the 20 photographers that were present in this workshop, there were only three that were from California! Others traveled from outside of California, some from Canada and even a photographer visiting from Holland.

Here are the vendors that helped make the workshop a success!

Workshop:  Jessica Claire, http://www.jessicaclaire.net
Stylist: Duet Weddings, http://www.duet-weddings.com/
Flowers: Kate Holt of Flowerwild http://flowerwild.com/
Models:  Braedon & Lindsay Flynn, http://www.braedonsblog.com
Cake: Erica O’brien, http://www.ericaobrien.com/

Linen & pillows: La Tavola
http://www.latavolalinen.com/

Rentals: Classic Party Rentals (flatware and cake table)
http://classicpartyrentals.com/

Rentals: Badia Design (Spanish door, iron screen, Moroccan poufs)
http://badiadesign.com/index.jsp

Plates/glassware: Anthropologie
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp

Invitation: CEVD
http://cevd.com

I truly loved the vivid colors, unique settings and decorations! The location was also perfect since it provided soo many different looks and opportunities to shoot.

The couple (Braedon & Lindsay) was awesome to work with.. They looked so natural in front of the camera. The chemistry was amazing and you could truly tell they were in LOVE!!

Braedon has a love for colorful socks, so he was willing to show them off!

This was my first workshop and I loved every minute of it!

Jessica, you are an amazing person! Thank you!!

Cheers!

Michael