legacies

Matt Johnson, Charlotte Bryant, Sydney Vincent, Erica Guzman and me

The five of us share a very special connection: all of our parents went to Westmont together, and were (and still are) good friends. Now, 30 years later, the five of us are at Westmont together and are good friends! It's so awesome knowing that we will probably stay connected and close friends through the years like our parents have. 

an ode to James

Our super rad, awesome, out of sight, very Scottish bus driver James has left us. He drove us this past week from London to Paris. He was such a funny guy, and entertained us for our hours of driving. He had us individually come down to the front of the bus where he interrogated us over the mic for the entire bus to hear. He came with us to sights and participated in basically everything we did. I bought him a pint on his last night with us, and the next morning he let me drive the bus around! 

visitors

guess who's coming to visit me in PV tomorrow...

Wesley and Sarah!

(these were their serious faces, I think)

stanley and biff

Mine and brandon's trucks

Brandon and Biff

Biff and Stan

brando martaggins

They grow up so fast

house of Guzman

It's always sunny in awesome town

"We're in college now, we can make out own lunches! Momma Guz, how do we..."

10000 degrees outside

JORDAN, and Wes

megan

jackson's graduation

It was just so much fun...

morro bay

Some friends and I went to Morro Bay a while back, I miss these days.

just some people...

...that I really miss from Westmont.

Benjamin

Sara and Luke

Greg (and Whitney)

Josiah and Nate

Sara

Wesley

Erica

Michael

Sarah and Erica

the girls

and a heck of a lot more people

silhouette

summer nights

Using film at night in a poorly lit room isn't always the best idea.

blured

This is what happens when you have someone who doesn't know anything about cameras use a manual focus Canon AE-1. Blurry pictures...

Me and Brandon

What it should have looked like.

Megan and Brandon

my famous friend

My good friend Jayme Dee is an amazing up and coming artist.  She is the most talented singer/songwriter I know, and is already making it big.  I had the privilege of seeing her play at the House of Blues in Anaheim a few weeks ago and I was blown away!  It's so weird to think that the girl that used to play worship at my church, at local coffee shops, and at open mic nights at our high school is now a rockstar!! This video is her cover of Adele's Rollin In The Deep, and I like it better than the original! Check out her website, youtube, and facebook. 

pond exploring

My friend Natalie Pond and I went exploring around a cool church on the cliffs in PV while I was home last week.

old school feelings

I tried getting creative in my editing of some of the pictures I took of Theo's bus last week. For the interior shots, I decided to go old school and give it an almost antique feel.  I tried four different styles, just playing around with settings and presets in Adobe Lightroom. I'm happy about how they turned out, let me know what you think.

Theo and the VW Bus

It's been a while since my last update, but I've been shooting primarily film for the past two weeks.  When I get those developed this weekend prepare for many posts.  I shot with my digital camera for the first time in a while today.  My friend Theo has been begging me to do a photo shoot with his VW bus he got for his 16th birthday and it finally worked out today.

The bus is the definition of Theo in car form, it fits him perfectly.  We went down and took pictures in the parking lot right next to Torrance Beach.

It was a beautiful Southern California sunset, and Theo said this is "how he always watches the sunset or watches anything these days... on top of the bus!"

I miss this kid, and I was so pumped to hang out with him today.  Hopefully in the next few weeks Theo is going to make the drive up to Santa Barbara in the bus and we can go to the zoo (his favorite place).

I took some shots with both my film cameras too. I'll post those when I get them developed this weekend.

Westmont's best speaker

Sara Reinis won the speech tournament last weekend!  A few hours before the tournament we went and had a mini photoshoot outside Page Hall.

Sara has got some big hair... These were the only two I took with my film camera, but I still need to edit the ones I took with my 60D.

Jayme Dee

A few weekends ago I drove down to Anaheim to see my amazingly talented friend Jayme Dee Mackinga play at the House of Blues!

(the only camera I had was my iphone)

She is quickly rising to fame, and I am so proud to call her my friend.  She opened for Tyrone Wells and was flawless! People in the audience who had never heard her before could not stop talking about how amazing she was, and I just stood there smiling.  I am so proud of all she has accomplished, she is going to be very famous very soon.  Check out her youtube page HERE, and her facebook HERE.