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I love seeing things I’ve never seen before. That’s what takes me all over the world and back again — and still gets me. What I love most is when I get to see it in my own backyard. Michael and Leila are Americans who live in Switzerland who got married in San Diego in a traditional Muslim (Persian) ceremony. Nice combo, eh?

Leila’s family and many of the guests were from Iran — and I have to say, I have met and spoken with many, many Iranians all over the globe. I have yet to meet an impolite, rude, or unkind Iranian. I’m certain they exist (as there are rude, unpleasant individuals from every nation, I’m sure). But I simply haven’t run into any yet. Because of this, my heart is constantly with the people of Iran, hoping for the best for them.

Anyways, it was a beautiful day and a wonderful ceremony with extremely sweet people. Hope you enjoy the images.

Every one of these images were processed with my favorite actions and presets — the Totally Rad sets. Getcha some ;)

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So I REALLY tried to have the full post of these up today — but I swear, blogging consistently is slightly more challenging with a baby! The full post will definitely be up on Thursday :)

Anyways, here’s a quick teaser till then…

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Our video baby monitor. Cost us 200 bucks. Took Trouble probably 15 seconds to “play” with (destroy). We had to get another one — let’s hope we keep it away from Trouble this time…

But how can you be mad at a face like that???

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Four before and after Wednesday’s in a row! As usual, I’m using my handy dandy totally rad actions and presets.

This week’s image is from the other day out here in Nashville :)

The image below is the final, processed image. Roll your mouse over the image to see the unprocessed image…

5D Mark II + Canon 50mm f/1.2L at 1/500th, ISO400, and f/2.

1. Opened the image in Lightroom

2. Boogie Nights lite (TRA preset)

3. Opened the image in Photoshop

4. Lights Out (TRA action) at 51%

5. Get Faded neutral (TRA action) 36%

6. Resize to 900 pixels wide (command+option+i)

7. Sharpen for Web (TRA action)

8. Grainstorm (TRA action) at 19%

This is how we chill from 93 till…

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I’ve had so much fun shooting portrait sessions out here in Nashville. Blogs make the world smaller and the Sulcer’s are proof of that. My mother-in-law works with Kari (mom in the photos) and told Jimmy (dad in the photos) about me a while back (since he’s a photographer, as well). Well he’s been reading the blog since then, invited us over for dinner a couple weeks ago, and grabbed the last Nashville session I was going to be shooting. Stories like these are one of the main reasons I love blogging :)

Anyways, as you’ll see from the photos, we got to know their daughters REAL well when we had dinner with the whole family a week before the portrait session. So the shoot was basically Ava and Dylan hour — which I instantly found out meant racing, wrestling, them shooting photos with my camera, more racing, more wrestling, and then negotiating terms with me so we could race, wrestle, and shoot with my camera some more. If you’re not a photographer, this might sound hectic. But if you are a photographer, you’ll know that this means awesome photos. The two oldest girls were just hamming it up over and over for me — photographers can’t ask for more :)

Funny story here. I was shooting and said “ahhh… come on car…” waiting for a car to move behind my subject’s head. Well, my subject’s name is “Kari” (pronounced “Car-ee” and not “care-ee”) :P Needless to say, her response was, “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do???” and my immediate thought was “what’s she talking about, she’s doing great!” Then it hit me that saying “ahhh… come on car…” sounds an awful lot like grumbling “ahhh… come on Kari…” We had a good laugh over it :)

On your mark. Get set. Go!

Hands down, my favorite image from the day. Her expression is priceless. If someone offered me a million bucks, I doubt I could duplicate this face :)

Here’s me being attacked by a miniature mob.

And here’s how Jimmy helps me :P

This is the no smile until I say ‘bananas!’ game :)

Second favorite image from the day. It’s just so sweet.

I might start shooting more portraits at home. I’ve been having a lot of fun doing them out here :)

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