Turkey & NYC

i hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving last week. this year we hosted dinner at our place which turned out to be so much fun. a little stressful with the food but that worked itself out nicely. alec was in charge of the turkey, i did most of the sides, my mom brought a ham and our friends covered the appetizers. the best part is the left overs the next day!!

after we stuffed ourselves into food comas we played the Wii. the bowling teams were made and competition began!!

i'm off to NYC tomorrow morning with my mom for a girls weekend! i planned the trip awhile ago to take my mom there for her birthday. she's never been and i've only been once. she loves all the christmas time decorations so i thought what better place to go than NYC.

alec's delicious bird

Enchanted

for the past few years the studio i work at has been involved in creating the majority of visual effects shots for the disney film enchanted. i was the visual effects editor which means i take all the numberous iterations of work done by animators, lighters and compositors then cut them into our sequences to make sure things cut properly (plus so much more). we were only one studio that contributed work... there's some amazing CG characters, effects and city scapes.

i can't believe that the film will finally hit theaters tomorrow! i missed the company screening this past weekend so i'm looking forward to seeing it this week. with a big thanksgiving weekend premier i'm sure they'll get a good box office response.

if you see the movie let me know what you think!!

Liz + Rob Wedding

liz & rob were married last month at the croatian american cultural center in sacramento. the day was mostly rainy but that didn't stop anyone from having a fabulous time. fortunately they had a back up plan to move the ceremony indoors so no worries there.

i got to spend time with the guys while they got ready. they were fun to shoot and up for anything even going outside. what a bunch of crazy & handsome guys!

liz & rob's family and friends were great and certainly know to have a good time. the mariachi band los gallos arrived during the cocktail hour and serenaded the guests... it was awesome!! i also loved rob's speech... he had it all ready and read from his pages and pages of notes. when he talked about how happy he was to be with liz and the boys i started to get teary. it was so touching.

congratulations you two!

Lovin' BLU

i won a pumpkin photo contest put on by blu domain! blu domain is an awesome team that offers cool website interfaces for photographers. stay tuned because i'll be launching my site in the next week featuring one of their interfaces.

back to the contest...the requirements were to take a photo of your carved pumpkin but to make sure it was taken recently you had to place 5 pieces of candy somewhere in the photo. i got word today that the party disco ball pumpkin won! alec came up with the idea and i snapped the photo.

check it out here.

Halloween

halloween definitely snuck up on us this year. we didn't follow through with any costume ideas so we dressed up as ourselves. the kids who came by trick or treating didn't care. but we did find some time to carve pumpkins!

so let's flashback to the days when we did dress up.

happy halloween!

alec back in the day with his superman costume

in third grade i was smurfette on rollerskates. my mom always went all out with any costume idea we had.



a few years ago i went for the fallen school girl outfit. people really thought i'd fallen down and got all messed up. it was great.



i went goofy with my pumpkin and alec went with the party disco ball pumpkin.

Lights Out in SF

"lights out SF" happened last night. this was a city wide effort to conserve engery where certain landmarks turned off their lights from 8-9pm. different photographers donated their time to get before and after shots of the landmarks which was pretty cool. you can see their pictures of the buildings here. i went to the top of twin peaks to get wide shots of the the bay bridge and the golden gate bridge.

you can see in my photos that the city didn't get very dark. i was hoping to see lights start flicking off creating some dramatic effect. it wasn't as dramatic but it was good to see the city support the efforts by turning off the major landmark decorative lights. it was pretty cool to see city hall lights and coit tower go off too. i didn't realize how much they illuminated at night.

click here for more info about lights out. the next lights out in SF is march 29, 2008!

check out paul furman's website for a cool time lapse video.

bay bridge view

golden gate bridge view

Earlier today

"hey... did you see the new blog post photos?"

"uh, yeah"

"but i just posted it earlier today. do you even read the blog?"

"i live the blog"

"oh, then what did it say?"

"it said 'i love alec'"

and i do.
he cracks me up.