Jorgensen Family: Hawaii Family Photographer.

I love the Jorgensen family. They're bright, they're happy, they're sassy (at least the Mrs. . . ), they're my cup of tea. I'm not gonna lie though folks, this was one of the most challenging shoots of my career. It was DARK DARK DARK when we started shooting. The light dropped so fast that my auto focus was even struggling catching my focal point so I was forced into manual focus a few times. . . try that with active kiddos. Sheesh! We had a blast nonetheless and got some awesome memories for this AWESOME family! Enjoy.

















This is the first in a series of mini shoots I did for friends of mine from our local playgroup. Each shoot was appx 20 min (usually a little less).

when you share you get more.

"I broke my binoculars in half and now we each have a telescope!"
Raleigh, you are joy.

My brother painted this awesome dude on a piece of scratch paper when he was a teenager.
We affectionately call him the acorn man.
Stolen from mom.

ya ya. . . martha would have ironed.

Lincoln and I did a fun little project for the new baby the other day.
Sorry I didn't iron these to make them look more fancy for y'all.

I must say, I do love me a white onesie.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

I've reached my capacity for storage!!
Bought new, but it hasn't been activated by blogger yet . . .

alas, all my good blogging intentions . . . FOILED!!!

MJ's biggest fan.

OK. So I totally tweeted this (follow me there) over the last while, but since I'm swamped and not blogging I thought I'd journal it here for your daily dose of Halloween hilarity.

• a few weeks ago, Raleigh threw a penny in a fountain. "Wanna to know what I wished? I wished I could be America's next top dancer."
• a week or so ago: Raleigh: "was Michael Jackson America's top dancer?" Me: "no Raleigh, Michael Jackson was the WORLD'S top dancer!" Raleigh: "OK. I'm going to be him for Halloween!"
• last night we're looking over all the versions of MJ to try to decide on a costume and we come to the Michael of the ABC days. Raleigh: "Wait! Michael Jackson used to be BLACK?!!!!!!!"
• today Richie was volunteering in Raleigh's classroom. They were drawing pictures for the masks they're making. Raleigh was making a mask of MJ, which he colored black. The little girl next to him: "Michael Jackson wasn't black!" Raleigh (matter of factly) "Oh, but he used to be."

The end.

Happy Halloween.

Japan.

Japanese tourists LOVE my children. When we hit up Waikiki (which is a rare occasion) we are ALWAYS stopped REPEATEDLY by Japanese tourists, young and old, male and female, for photo ops with my little blond boys.

Picture 1: peace sign (of course) + coin slot.


Picture 2: white people are always perplexed by the entire shenanigan + apparently some people think it's normal to pick up stranger's children :)

Click to enlarge so you don't miss white man's aforementioned confusion.

All joking aside, this is my favorite part of excursions to the strip. True story.

Published: Exquisite Weddings

Exquisite Weddings ran a full 4 pages of images from Jessica and Hunter's San Diego wedding in their Fall 2009 Issue. SO FUN! Thank you Exquisite Weddings and especially Jessica and Hunter for having such a publishable event! :)

Hoffmann Family: Hawaii Portrait Photographer.

The Hoffmanns were the most wonderful clients of all time. Just FYI it was raining, HARD, throughout at least half of this shoot. If you click to enlarge, you can see the rain in some of the images (especially the first dyad) . . . They were SUCH great sports! Enjoy!

Scissor Saturday.

1. Sitting at the computer.
2. Minding my own business.
3. Out of the corner of my eye I see Richie walk to the cabinet and pull out the scissors.
   
4. Not really paying particular attention.
5. Hear something along the lines of, "Come on Cardon, Daddy's going to cut your hair."
   
6. Still, not paying particular attention.
7. Suddenly recognize absurdity of what I've just heard.
8. Tweet said absurdity.
   
9. Cardon walks into the kitchen 5 minutes later.
10. What I see grabs my UNDIVIDED attention . . .

Annnnd. . . this is what you get when your Daddy cuts your hair:

Still handsome as ever. :)
But Rich, don't quit your day job.

Edgerton Family: Hawaii Family Photographer.

Loved spending the afternoon with this wonderful family! Could not get enough of little S and her adorable fear of chickens and peacocks. :) She's going to make such a fantastic big sister! Enjoy!