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working on some final cut skills and updated the trailer, the old one was kinda cheesey. this one is a little better.

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Aloha Everyone,
were back again and we had the pleasure of shooting Carey and Kevin Tomimatsu’s wedding, on May 17th, 2008 at Willows Restaurant. The wedding was awesome! We had a chance to meet a lot of new friends and also some old ones. Carey had a cherry blossom/ plum tree theme going on, she had a tattoo on her right shoulder to go with it. check out the images for more of the story. Read more

Aloha Everyone and Happy Mothers Day! to all the mommies out there!

if you didn’t know in the united states on every second sunday in May, we celebrate mother’s day. here is a brief description of mother day from wikipedia, read below.

The United States celebrates Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May. In the United States, Mother’s Day was loosely inspired by the British day and was imported by social activist Julia Ward Howe after the American Civil War. However, it was intended as a call to unite women against war. In 1870, she wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation as a call for peace and disarmament. Howe failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother’s Day for Peace.

Her idea was influenced by Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers’ Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors.

When Jarvis died in 1905, her daughter, named Anna Jarvis, started the crusade to found a memorial day for women. In 1907, she passed out 500 white carnations at her mother’s church, St. Andrew’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia—one for each mother in the congregation. The first Mother’s Day service was celebrated on 10 May 1908, in the same church, where the elder Ann Jarvis had taught Sunday School.

Originally the Andrew’s Methodist Episcopal Church, this building is now the International Mother’s Day Shrine (a National Historic Landmark). From there, the custom caught on—spreading eventually to 46 states. The holiday was declared officially by some states beginning in 1912, beginning with West Virginia. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother’s Day, as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honor of those mothers whose sons had died in war.
Nine years after the first official Mother’s Day, commercialization of the U.S. holiday became so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become. Mother’s Day continues to this day to be one of the most commercially successful U.S. occasions. According to the National Restaurant Association, Mother’s Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States.

For example, according to IBISWorld, a publisher of business research, Americans will spend approximately $2.6 billion on flowers, $1.53 billion on pampering gifts — like spa treatments — and another $68 million on greeting cards [2]. Mother’s Day will generate about 7.8% of the US jewelry industry’s annual revenue in 2008. Americans are expected to spend close to $3.51 billion in 2008 on dining out for Mother’s Day, with brunch and dinner being the most popular dining out options [3].

Ok, just playing around and experimenting with self portraits. As a photographer we take so many photos of everyone but ourself. still finding a way to take cool self portrait stuff. This is me geeking on the computer, nothing special just me in black and white.

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wow! check this out this is the future computers and technology. This would be cool if you could compose and take photos like this with your camera. well i guess we got to keep on dreaming, but soon the dream will be a reality.

Hello again,
if you didn’t know we just signed up as one of the contributing photographers for istockphoto.com. if you need good quality images at an affordable price check this site out and check out our photos here. happy shooting!

Ok, we been checking the webstats and found that a lot of people are linking to the blog for an old post about “error 99″ on a canon 30D camera. anyway, to make a long story short, we got this error 99 thing about a year ago on my canon 30D and we had to shoot a wedding the following week. followed the instructions from the canon website (below) and come to find out, that the camera had to be serviced by canon, so sent it in, and found out it was a faulty shutter. good luck with trouble shooting, but anyway error 99 sucks!!!! hope to never see it again.

if you have a Canon 10D, 20D, 30D, 40D & Rebel xti

this is what was on the Canon USA website. It may help some of you isolate the problem before you post a comment/question.

To isolate the cause of the issue, we suggest that you do the following:

1. Turn off the camera.
2. Remove the lens, battery, and CF card.
3. Allow the camera to sit without power for approximately 20 minutes.
4. Insert a fully charged battery, and turn on the camera.
5. Depress the shutter button as you would to take a picture.

Does the “ERR 99? message appear? If it does, then the camera should be
serviced. If it does not, then please proceed to the next set of steps:

1. Turn off the camera.
2. Insert the CF card.
3. Turn on the camera.
4. Format the CF card in the camera.
5. Depress the shutter button as you would to take a picture.

Does the “ERR 99? message appear? If so, then the CF card is the most
likely source of the issue. Try using a different card.

If the message does not appear, please complete the following steps:

1. Turn off the camera.
2. Clean the lens contacts by gently rubbing them with a pencil eraser
or soft cloth. Be careful that you do not let any debris fall into the
camera body.
3. Reattach your lens.
4. Turn on the camera.
5. Depress the shutter button as you would to take a picture.

If the “ERR 99? message only appears when one particular lens is
attached, then that lens should be examined by a service technician.

If you see the “ERR 99? with a different Canon lens attached, then the
camera should be serviced.

if you want post your experience with error 99 to help all the other frustrated photogs out there searching google for the fix to this error 99 thing.

Aloha

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ok, fooling around with some video again and testing my final cut skills. check out the 15 second trailer. yeah, i been lagging, we still have to finish off the series of podcasts…

happy viewing.

Hey everyone, today is May 1st,
if you didn’t know about May Day, we found some info on the internet about today. Read more

Aloha everyone,
do you own an iPhone? or know what it is? if you don’t click here for more info. Read more