Wedding Site: Oxnard Heritage Square

I come to Heritage Square often.

Blog entries and pictures on weddings at Heritage Square listed below:

• Heritage Square - a wedding where 6 of my past wedding clients attended.  (September 1, 2007).
• Disney Theme wedding at Heritage Square wedding (May 12, 2007)

Wedding site: Oxnard

Wedding site at Long Beach:
Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden - CSU - Long Beach

I went to Long Beach three times.  All three time, the wedding venue was Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden in Cal State University Long Beach.

Blog Entries and pictures on Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, CSU Long Beach

• Japanese Garden, Long Beach - At Night (October 13, 2007)
• Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, Long Beach (September 16, 2007)
• Wedding at Long Beach, Japanese Garden (June 6th, 2006)

Wedding Site: Santa Barbara Courthouse

I came to Santa Barbara Courthouse a few times.  You can see some of the pictures in my past blog entries.

• Santa Barbara Courthouse, Mural Room, Clock Tower (Feb 21, 2008)
• Santa Barbara Courthouse Lawn, rainy day (September 21, 2007)
• Santa Barbara Courthouse Lawn (August 11, 2007)
• Small (thumbnail) pictures from Santa Barbara Courthouse (June 2, 2007)

This is a little part of my life that was not been told before. From this, I hope you will get to know me better.

Wedding Site at Oxnard, Heritage Square

Whenever I arrive at the wedding site, I take pictures of my coffee cup. 

How it all started

1. I am a coffee drinker  Also, I religiously drink coffee whenever I do anything that's related to photography. 
   • For example: If a customer schedule a meeting, I will come to the meeting with a cup of coffee in my hand.
2. I always brew fresh coffee right before I leave home for a wedding.  I drink coffee as I drive to the wedding site.
3. When I arrive at the wedding site:
   • I get out of the car with the last sip of the coffee in my hand.
   • I place my coffee cup on top of my car to stretch.
   • Then I get my cameras out.  Take the lens caps off. etc..
   • I snap a few test pictures to make sure my camera is in working order
   • When I take test pictures, the closest object I see is my coffee cup.  So I take pictures of the coffee cup.
4. The cup is about 18 years old (maybe older). I bought this cup through mail-order.  There was no Internet back then.  I bought it along with a Canon & a Nikon cup.  The other cups were broken a long time ago.
5. I am a Canon user.  I never liked Minolta.  I don't remember why I decided to buy a Minolta cup.  Anyway, this is my favorite cup.

Before I knew it, this practice became one of my wedding photography rituals.

Each photograph of my coffee cup marks the moment I was getting ready for a full day of work ahead.  These are my personal moments.  I usually have a little butterfly in my stomach because I am about to work with hundreds of strangers.

Then I say to myself "Let's do this"