Kris & Brian engagement shoot

We did this engagement shoot for Kris and Brian a few weeks back. The wedding was Saturday and they had a few of their favorites on display. I have to admit, I enjoyed seeing my work being admired, and loved all the compliments from family and guests. It made me feel that I’m on the right path with this photography business. The wedding pics are still being worked on, but I’ll post some of my favorites this week. Anyway, for the engagement pics we just trotted around downtown Culver City for a couple hours and snapped away. We had a lot of fun, and Culver City was a great backdrop for these shots since Kris and Brian really love the town and have spent so much time there while dating. Anyway, congratulations to Kris and Brian, and thanks for letting me be your photographer!

technical difficulties and tahoe pictures

I’ve had a few minor hosting issues lately – so if you’ve tried to send an email to greg@gregneilphoto.com over the last few weeks, it has probably not worked! I’ve got it working again now, but you’ll notice the blog web address is now with wordpress. I’ll try to get it sorted out soon. For now, you can follow the link on the gregneilphoto.com page, or bookmark this wordpress address.

A couple weeks ago I went to Lake Tahoe with my dad, brother, brother-in-law, and his kids. It was a bit of a guy’s adventure before my dad leaves for Albania for 3 years this week. We had a blast. Here’s a few photos from the trip.

One of the highlights for the kids was fishing. I’m not into fishing myself, but my brother brought his gear and taught the nephews a thing or two. They didn’t catch anything, but really loved it anyway.

We decided to take a hot air balloon ride over the lake – got up at 4AM and drove to the dock where we took off in this giant boat that launches the balloon from the middle of the lake. It’s the only spot in the word you can launch in a hot air balloon from a boat. The boat then motors around following the balloon and catching it when it comes down. They sent up these yellow balloons to test the wind before getting the big balloon ready. Apparently there’s 5 micro-climates up there to deal with. And apparently the weather was not cooperating – too windy. So the trip was scratched. Big bummer. Imagine the pictures I’d have come back with from up there! Anyway, it was still a fun little ride out on the lake.

 

beautiful carmel wedding

I was fortunate to spend a day assisting Karen Rusten again for a gorgeous wedding in Carmel, California. After the ceremony, we headed over to the reception at The Hotel Del Monte in Monterey.

Here’s a few of my favorites:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a cat named wednesday, and blue sky

One of my favorite cats, named Wednesday, lives in San Francisco. Here’s a few cat portraits from our visit last week.

 

 

Totally unrelated to Wednesday, but I’m going to throw them in the same post, are these landscape photos I took in the hills above Palo Alto from the Arastradero Preserve. I don’t do much landscape photography, but I wanted to walk around outside and that’s where I ended up. I’ve always loved the way the rolling hills above 280 look, yellow grass with spots of green trees and shrubs.