Palo Alto Midtown

"Left, Keiren Hanay, 8, of Palo Alto, and his sister, Kaitlin, 7, box with giant gloves on Saturday in Palo Alto during the 3rd annual Midtown Festival."

Palo Alto recently held its annual Midtown festival. Not to sure I came at the right time but had no time to stick around and see if that was the case. Here is my favorite photo of the assignment.

Volley Ball Match

"St. Francis’ (8) Kristin Winkler dives for the ball during a volleyball match against Notre Dame in Mountain View on Tuesday."


Yeah yeah I know I know... its been a while since the last time I updated but when you get busy things like this get put to the side. There is no order on when I shot these but they are fairly recent.



"St. Francis’ (11) Shaina Olsen goes up for a block against Notre Dame’s (14) Rachel Heagy during Tuesday nights volleyball match in Mountain View."




"Left, St. Francis’ (5) Lindsey Poulos and (7) Jordan Shaw go up for a block against Notre Dame’s (9) Laura Yim during Tuesday nights volleyball match in Mountain View."

A few extra from the wedding

Here are a few images that I did not add from the last edit. I thought they where more interesting than anything else!

A couple from today!

With a busy day like usual there are hundreds of images that done make the cut! Here are a couple from today's football game at Carlmont against Capuchino High School.

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Photos from the past few days

So I have not put up photos for a few days but been busy with other things. I thought this time I would update the page with a few sports photos I shot over the past few days. Not much to say but enjoy the photos!

Turning 6

You only turn 6 once... just like any other age for most of us but when you are that young you feel so special.



Since I dont live in a house but instead in an apartment, my wife and I decided to though our son a party at a bowling alley.



It was a lot of fun... but as you can imagine... Chaos! I would say about 16 kids showed up to bowl and celebrate this special day, and including parents, I say we had a good turn out.



The party was held at AMF bowling in Fremont, just a mile or so up the road. It included Pizza and drinks, shoes, and a bowling pin for the birthday boy.



Wearing a hat as a photographer and a father was difficult at times, especially when there is only one host working the desk at the bowling alley.



Though at the end of the day I was exhausted, it was well worth to see my 1st of soon to be 4 sons have so much fun.

Suzanne and Dave's Wedding

Today was my first time being a second shooter and working with Bella Pictures. Usually when I shoot weddings I am in control of the entire thing and get to do as I want so it was definitely an experience.



I was sent over to the grooms men home to photograph them getting set to go to the church. It was a difficult shoot since there was so much clutter in the background while till making the photo look good so we got a bit creative since they where done getting ready.



When I got to the church the priest did not want us to move around so I was stuck in one spot. I was to stay in the back while the main shooter covered the ceremony up front.



After the ceremony the main photog had to take some portraits of the couple and the wedding party and I was sent to take photos of people having cocktails and details of the venue.



As most receptions there was dancing, kissing, and cake cutting. Though I did not get to meet the couple before had they seem to be good people.



Enjoy the rest of the photos and thank you for looking!

San Jose Armed Robbery ends in East Palo Alto

"San Jose police prepare to enter a house in East Palo Alto on Tuesday. Two suspects robbed a San Jose liquor store earlier that day and fled to East Palo Alto. San Jose police, along with East Palo Alto and other departments, searched for the suspects, who are at large."

Another day another robbery... at least no one was hurt...



I was on my way to my sports assignment when I looked down to my cell phone and noticed that I had a voicemail.



Funny I thought... It didn't event show that I had a missed call. I checked my message and hear that I need to make my way to East Palo Alto to photograph something because there was a lot of police out there. I was puzzled since the message was not very clear on what was really needed. I called my editor and started my way out there. It took a good 30 min from one city over due to heavy traffic and road blocks...

As I was trying to make my way through road blocks I decided to park and try a different approach... the "acting stupid" approach. It seemed to work even though I was booted out a bunch of times for crossing lines and such. I FINALLY, after several attempts to get a few photos had a good enough angle to get what you see here.

If you are interested in reading more about the story follow this link:


http://paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-10-8-epa-car-chase

This article was also featured in the Mercury News.

Samsung World Championship LPGA Tour

Do I have a treat for you guys today!

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I had the chance to go out (on my day off) and shoot the LPGA Tour taking place in Half Moon Bay!



With the help of my sponsors, Borrowlenses.com, I was able to get a 500mm lens out there and go to town!



After shorting out through all the images here are a few of my favorite.



Now I didnt have (as well as other photographers) the luxury to have a cart to drive me around, or have a caddy carry my bag of stuff, or just a regular spectator who had a wallet and a beer in their hand, but i did get to carry about 50lbs (or more) of gear through 18 holes (probably more since I switched around) but I did get to cross the lines and get close.



The match in the beginning felt boring and long but once all the golfers hit the course time seemed to fly.



It was good because it gave me some time to get used to shooting golf. The closest thing I got to shooting golf is for the newspaper high school for a total of 20 min.



I hope for you to enjoy these photos and leave comments on what you think about them as well.




Players included: Helen Alfredsson, Angela Park, Inbee Park, Karrie Webb, Hee-Won Han, Annika Sorenstam, Seon Hwa Lee, Yani Tseng, Jeong Jang, Eun-Hee Ji, Cristie Kerr, Na Yeon Choi, Suzann Pettersen, Ji-Yai Shin, Lorena Ochoa, Juli Inkster, Katherine Hull, Song-Hee Kim, Paula Creamer, Angela Stanford.