While on holidays I tried to do some self portraits of Terra and I.  Man, I suck at this.  I have no idea how many shots it took but it took me a freakishly long time to cull through all the back focused images.  This is tricky stuff!  Once I finally got the hang of it, we did manage to get some keepers.  I definitely wanna try doing this again but this time I’ll know what to do and maybe I can save myself the trouble of taking a brazillion frames to get the one good one.  I think the best images are the ones I handheld of Terra.  But hey, you tell me which you like best.  I promise you won’t hurt my feelings.

You can see the remote trigger in my hand in this first image.  I could clone it out, but would you believe that these were self-portraits otherwise?

Busted! I think this image would be better if I wasn’t staring at the camera.  What a dork.

These next two are my favourites of Terra

These next two images of me are taken by Terra.  I’m trying to teach her how to use a camera.  She did pretty good!

And finally, some landscape images of the places we were:

This image here I played around with tonal contrast.  It’s pretty extreme and I wouldn’t normally edit photos this way, but I thought it was rad how the details of the waves came out.  Move along, nothing more to see here.



And a couple of random “hey-thats-cool-and-worthy-of-a-photo” photos:

If you can guess where this image (below) was taken you win a free portrait session!  Enter by submitting a comment below.

My first ever blog post from my iPhone. We don’t have Internet where we are which has been an inconvenient blessing. Being off the grid for the last 2 weeks (minus an hour here and there) has been such a refreshing change of pace. I can’t begin to explain how exhilarating it has been to be able to disconnect for a short while and just get back to life. Now my batteries have been recharged and I’m ready to come back to reality with a clear head and renewed energy. To everyone who has sent me an email and is waiting on a reply I apologize but I promise I’ll respond to everyone as my top priority when I return in the next 2 days.

One of the things I also did was a self portrait session with my wife which I had never attempted before. Being on the other side of the lens is challenging stuff! Even harder when you’re trying to keep self composed images in focus! I’ll post those later when I get home and have proper Internet access but for now here’s a shot of an image I took of Terra. It’s an image of the back of my camera LCD screen taken using the iPhone app ShakeItPhoto – one of the sweetest photography apps out there in my opinion. It’s probably one of my most favorite images I’ve taken of her. I’ve shared it a few times via twitter (@tlawphoto) and facebook already but I can’t help but blog it as well. She looks damn fine and mysterious in this.

Trying to write a full bog post on the iPhone with fat thumbs is a crazy hard so imma finish this right now. More images to come when I get home!

I love you

Just a quick update that I’ll be in British Columbia from August 17-31.  If you’re interested in a session please contact me and we can make awesomeness happen!

A photo of me at work shooting wedding details taken by my friend Alicia Price. My right eye looks intense!