What you will see more of in the future is shots like the one below. I was fortunate enough to find myself in a position to snap a photo of the flight deck of a Cessna Citation X, the world’s fastest civilian jet. I’m not going to go into too much detail about the Citation X since it would bore most of you but the quick and dirty is this: it’s the currently the world’s fastest civilian jet cruising at nearly the speed of sound at Mach .92 and able to fly at altitudes of up to 51,000 ft. If you compare that to your average airliner that’s over 11,000 ft higher than what most airliners can even fly at and faster than the typical Mach .80 maximum cruise speed of most airliners out there.

Anyways that’s enough from me for now. I’ll try and get some shots up from my trip to the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas where JFK was assassinated in 1963 in a week or so when I get the chance but in the meantime enjoy the shot below!

Only two words are needed to describe Katherine and Ron’s engagement session: fun and daring. Not only did Katherine and Ron kill the camera with smiles, they did so with some bravery when a rogue wave gave us all a good scare. But Ron and Katherine both hung tough and in the end we came out with some great shots because of it. Thank you Katherine and Ron for the great time! You guys rock and I can’t wait till June for parts two and three!

Speak to anyone who really knows me and they willl tell you that that I love beaches and I love tropical islands with incredible beaches. So it was only natural that I start off working with seascapes and our scouting for a suitable beach for the upcoming engagement session gave me the great opportunity to do so. I can honestly tell you that I am my own harshest critic and while I’m not terribly disappointed in these photos I can honestly say that I’m not very excited about them either. I can already pick out the areas where I could have made the shots better and I wish we would have had more time in our scouting session to shoot so that I could have taken full advantage of the beautiful sunset that came later that evening. I also wish I would have spent more time in finding a better spot to shoot from to feature a more interesting foreground than what I have below. Either way, it was still good to get out and shoot for once for my own pleasure and I can think of a lot worse things to do in life so I’m content with just being able to get out and practice for a bit. Enjoy!

Date: January 14, 2011
Venue: St. Bonaventure Catholic Church
Ceremony Location: Huntington Beach, California
Reception Location: The Garden Room, Garden Grove, California

I also want to add that Nelsy and Jeff’s Wedding also marks the date of a new collaboration between Sojourn Foto and Orn Thang Photography as we work together to provide some new unique services and products for all of our clients. More info to come on that at a later date as that’s enough from me for now so without further adieu, here are the photos! Enjoy!

Date: January 14, 2011
Venue: St. Bonaventure Catholic Church
Ceremony Location: Huntington Beach, California
Reception Location: The Garden Room, Garden Grove, California

This trip to Destin was also special for another reason. Jessica and Jeremy’s wedding also meant that I would be reuniting with two of my best friends, Ron and Ryan, together all at once for the first time in a few years. It’s amazing to look back and think that I first met Ron back when we were freshman’s in high school and that I eventually met Ryan through Ron at the end of my senior year. We’ve gone through a lot together and have had some crazy fun times together but the one thing I realize most is that as we get older, we have (to include 3 different deployments to two different war zones) and we will always be there for one another even though we’re now separated by thousands of miles between us. Or at least me anyways as Ron has recently relocated to Southern Florida while Ryan is still in Destin, Florida.

But that’s enough sappy stuff from me. Though before you skip on down to the photos, I just want to add that I attended this wedding as a guest and I only shot a limited amount of what I could without getting in the way of the paid photographer (whom I’m going to link to as soon as I receive her contact info) while still being able to enjoy the wedding as a guest. So because of that freedom I decided to play around slightly with the look of some of my photos so don’t be surprised if you see something different from me. Enjoy!