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25 March 2009 @ 02:22 am
Well it was supposed to be that time of year again - when the Sakura (Cherry blossoms) bloom and everyone heads up to Lake Balboa for wonderful pink vistas and hours of posing and shutter snapping. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way. Anyone who recalls last year's amazing bloom (http://blanklogo.com/gallery2/thumbnails.php?album=41), will remember you couldn't walk five feet without running into another tree in full pink regalia. This year was nothing like that. The trees were sparse, the best of them being, maybe, halfway in bloom. And
waiting didn't seem to help the cause.

On Februrary 28 and again on March 15 I headed up to the park with friends and other photographers in tow. In the end there was little pink to be found and the schizophrenic weather - warm, sunny patches interspersed between harsh, cold winds - was little help.

Still, I came away with some really awesome photos, just not many with cherry blossoms in them. Got a great small Street Fighter set, a few shots of a friend as Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura and a VERY impromptu fashion shoot. ;)

The hills are aliiiiive...
 
 
Current Location: Lake Balboa, Van Nuys
Current Mood: desaturated
 
 
BlankLogo Photography
21 March 2008 @ 12:09 am
Okay, I've been working every waking minute to get these done the last few days. I'm really satisfied with this set. There's a few tweaks I'd make if I could shoot some of these again, but for the most part, I feel like these are a quality jump over my last several sets. :D So I'm pretty stoked. Hope everyone likes them.

The full set of 50 is here: http://www.blanklogo.com/gallery2/thumbnails.php?album=41&page=1

Some faves:







 







BTW, I'm missing information on Ming and Lauren's costumes. If anyone knows what they were cosplaying, please leave me a comment with the infos...
 
 
Current Mood: content
 
 
BlankLogo Photography
19 March 2008 @ 03:12 pm

Well at least busy since the weekend.

Had a family outing to the Wild Animal Park on Sunday and took pictures of lions and gorillas and butterflies...  I'm thinking of going back solo and just hanging out at the exhibits.  I could watch the lions all day.  They have 10 of them in this nice large chunk of land were they can roam about.  Seven of the lions are cubs and they romp around, jump on each other and their two moms and dad.  Since I was with family I couldn't spend ALL day there, but I could literally spend a 4GB card just shooting them for a few hours.  The butterflies are in season at the WAP too.   One landed on my cheek and apparently decided it liked being there.  I had to shoo it off after about 2 minutes.   They made some gorgeous photos.  I'll have them up around the weekend, but first...

Cosplay pix from Saturday's Sakura shoots!  I'm 50% done editing them.  I've finished everything up through my solo shoot with Chloe, looking lovely as usual.  Provided I don't have another 6 hours of work tonight after I get OFF work, I'll have them finished and start posting them.  Of course, that'll probably be 3 or 4 am, so no one else will see them till tomorrow morning. :)

Up next...  I don't think I have any shoots this weekend.  I initially had 2 groups interested in 3/22, then one finally backed out today after I tried to confirm for the 5th or 6th time.  Haven't heard back from the other group.  So Shiya and Camille will (probably) be my next shoot on 3/30!  Oooh, I'm looking forward to this one.  I haven't done a solo shoot with Shiya since the infamous Kingdom Hearts shoot in Sept 07!

So uh...yeah...that's all.  I know you're all terribly excited.  You may resume inspecting the underside of your eyelids now...

 
 
Current Location: the office
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: the hum of the copier machine...ugh
 
 
BlankLogo Photography
16 March 2008 @ 04:38 am
Wow, I just finished going through all the photos I shot today and have to say, I'm EXTREMELY happy with the results. Was I saying something the other day about being in a rut? Well I think I broke out of it.  Thank you, [info]silver_ruby for helping me with that (see below)!

I'll be working hard on the pictures over the next few days. I'll them posted as soon as I can. Fortunately most don't require any work, just need to slap on the logo.

Thanks to everyone who posed for my camera and EXTRA MUCHO ESPECIAL thanks to  [info]slave_to_anime for his many LJ postings, research and for coordinating the whole thing.

As a preview of things to come...here's my favorite shot from today.  Third to last picture I shot!

 
 
Current Mood: ecstatic
 
 
 
 

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