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This morning I turned in the last three papers of my graduate education. I officially am a master. Sort of.

So tonight we are going to chill at the beach to soak in the reality that I shall never write another paper again. At least one that is going to be graded.

Seriously… I feel so good right now. I’ll throw up some pics tonight when I get back of our adventure to Golden Gardens.

Cheers!

UPDATE… Here’s a few pics from last nights adventure. We had mochas and corndogs and our neighbor Brian was kind enough to accompany us while his wife was out of town.

  • August 5, 2008 - 12:20 pm

    marjan - looks like you guys were down there to do two things: eat corndogs and drink in public! (very clever use of a starbucks cup…)

  • August 5, 2008 - 1:46 pm

    ben (i run this here blog) harms - mochas, marjan. they were mochas.

  • August 5, 2008 - 6:39 pm

    Tyler Riewer - I think I could go for a mocha right now. La bala de plata ftw.

  • August 6, 2008 - 7:30 am

    merlin - you just relit the fire, which is my love for corndogs.

I’ve been wanting to blog this lil trip that Whitney and I took down to SF this last spring for quite some time now. Totally forgot about it till I was organizing some of our personal pics the other evening.

We stinkin’ love to travel, so jumping down for a quick visit to see my brother Josh was a no brainer. Enjoy.

One of the amazing elements to SF was the incredible street art that was everywhere. I had to capture some of it.
Had to throw in a tourist pic. Just for Whitney.:)
This photo needs no caption.

One of my favorite images of Whitney. Simply stunning.

My big-little brother.

If you want to hear a funny story that happened on the world’s most curvy road…. ask sometime.

  • August 3, 2008 - 10:52 pm

    Evan Huwa - great pictures! and whats that funny story?

  • August 4, 2008 - 12:06 am

    merlin - that artwork is amazing! makes me want to starting “writing” as the hoodlums call it.

  • August 4, 2008 - 10:09 am

    WHarms - Thanks for the tourist pic. It warms my heart!

  • August 4, 2008 - 2:13 pm

    joshdaniels - even your vacation pictures look amazing. good form. oh, and coffee? soonish? oh! and saw shantate+bobby’s wedding fotos… brighten ftw!

  • August 6, 2008 - 10:19 am

    Shantae - Great photos…makes me wana go :)

  • August 7, 2008 - 2:47 am

    joshua - Did you know that the top graph piece says Jesus. Its on the wall of the mission down the way in my hood. I miss you guys here in SF. Hey whitney… i got me some more pigeon kickn’ techniques lined up when you are ready.

    P.S. I will give anyone $134.52 to find photos from the incident that happened at the bottom of the curvy road (Lombard St). There was like 70 touristas there. It was life changing…. really… life changing!

  • August 11, 2008 - 11:17 am

    mrs. smith - You capture street art so well! you must make a habit of it

As promised. Today was a blast hangin’ with Travis+Nena. Can’t wait to get the rest up in the coming weeks! Enjoy.

  • August 11, 2008 - 11:16 am

    mrs. smith - this sneak peek has left me wanting so much more…. :) you guys were awesome, I will be sending as many referrels your way as I possibly can…
    thanks bunches! T&N Smith

  • August 14, 2008 - 8:51 am

    mrs. smith - It’s killing me….. I check your site like a million times a day for more pics…. its becoming an obsession… going to seek help right now…

    Mrs. Smith

So we had an early start on today’s wedding. Check back tonight and well throw up a sneak peak!

p.s.- blogging from iPhone while driving=not very safe.

  • August 2, 2008 - 3:18 pm

    Evan Huwa - hey man im super pumped about your whole new blog! looks freakin sweet by the way! just wanted to let you know that you missed spelled wedding, i wouldnt have said anything but i figured since it was a wedding blog youd prolly wanna spell it right. peace. looks great again!

  • August 2, 2008 - 11:26 pm

    admin - thanks Ev! apparently my typing while driving skills need some improvement…

  • August 3, 2008 - 7:51 am

    Evan Huwa - yeah thats a skill that everyone should work on!

  • August 4, 2008 - 12:03 am

    merlin - dude…this site looks nasty! …in a good way! i love the inline comments! very clean! very good! i love it.

Thats right folks… We thought since we had this new spiffy blog, we might as well put it to good use. So for the next thirty days we will be blogging every day! During the lovely month of August you will find everything from more wedding+engagement pics, to our thoughts on the many nuances of wedding photography, to random tidbits of our lives, and even to random useless information that just might make you giggle.

So you might be wondering to yourself… ‘why the 30 days of blog?’ Well… now that you’ve asked:

1. New blog. Need to show it off.
2. When it comes to people’s wedding day, there isn’t anyone else that you will have by your side for as many real, tender, and personal moments as your photographer. So when it comes to choosing who to have capture those moments, it better be someone you ultimately feel comfortable with. Hopefully this will serve as a space and opportunity for you to better know us.
3. We have so many photos to get on the www it’s insane. So we figured we’d be blogging a lot already.:)

So there you have it… We’d be incredibly stoked to have you stop by everyday, check out what is going on and even join in on the fun.

Here’s to a crazy busy month of August! (I hope we can actually pull this thing off!
Much love!
Ben+Whitney

  • August 4, 2008 - 12:04 am

    merlin - i like the idea of thirty days of bloggage. can’t wait to see what comes!