It sure has rained a lot in a place where it is never supposed to rain.

I guess we need it to hydrate all the people that live here now.

I went to see, “The Kings Speech,” today and was floored. I haven’t been to an adult-type movie in a long time. Usually the movies I see are animated or things blow-up or maybe both. It was nice to settle back and let the dialogue pace the movie experience.

When we left, the rain had already started to shower down lightly. The AMC theater that we visited, has a magnificent rotundu-like entryway. Beautiful light and with the rain, very cool reflections that I had to stop and record.

My wife, very nicely decided to walk through one of the reflections and bam! blog heaven.

Her reflection is in the right vertical and there’s just a hint of movement in her right leg that adds a bit of spice to this image. The marble on the floor served as a very reflective surface for the reflection of the sky and the window to the outside world where it was wet and windy and just uncomfortable enough to tempt me to see another movie.

“Justin Bieber?” Maybe another day.

Today, a dialogue driven Oscar-worthy movie and a photograph that is well composed and created will be just fine.

Be inspired!

Laguna Beach engagement session
In this entry I’d like to talk a bit about personal style. I recently did this engagement session of this fabulous couple, Christin and Jarret, in Laguna Beach.
At the very end of the session, I walked around the backside of this couple. I always try to take one last look opposite of where I’ve been photographing. You never know what you might find. Today, I found a very cool silhouette just waiting to be captured.

Beyond that, one of my favorite television shows on right now is, “Fringe,” it is directed by J.J. Abrams. He is the director on, “Lost, Alias, Mission Impossible and the latest remake of the movie, Star Trek.” His vision is amazing! He adds flares, lights, reflections and movement into almost every frame of the movie and it gives it his signature style. You see a clip and you just know it’s J.J.’s style.

I’ve been trying to incorporate flares into a lot of my work to give it some life. Not to directly steal from J.J.’s work but to honor it and make it my own.
When you see something you admire, take a look at it and try to figure out how to make it your own. Think American Idol and how the judges are always telling the poor contestants to sing a song and make it their own. Don’t just karaoke it, give it some personality from your soul.

Change it and make it yours. Now go out and try that and enjoy!!!