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So this past New Years Eve I had the huge honor of flying out to California to photograph an engagement shoot of these two beautiful people. They also hired me to document an engagement party hosted at the groom's parent's house. I've got blogposts with more beautiful images here (engagement) and here (party) that I think are really worth checking out. It's some of my best work.

The shot above was taken in Balboa Park in San Diego, CA. I highly recommend checking it out if you've ever got a chance.

This is one of the two preschool teachers at the care point in the village of Oditel where I stayed for a week. I think her name is Agoe Angella but I can't tell. She's packing up her papers at the end of the day and I like how she's using the bars to help her stay organized.

I'm beginning to contemplate dishing myself a larger portion of these Africa photos to edit. I've got some deadlines imposed on me so that's always good to "grease the wheels" as they say.

Here's one I happened upon while browsing through last night. I wanted to get a shot of the soccer ball against the dark clouds with nary a tree in the shot (which I ended up getting) but I thought the composition on this one makes it a surprise gem and thought I'd share :). Have a great week folks.

After climbing up Soroti rock, we made our way back down and around the base clockwise (I'm not sure which direction it was) and there were a bunch of goats rock hoppin'. There was a storm brewing so it was a little dark and a lot of my handheld shots were blurry (at 1/40. Who did I think I was?)

Happy Friday. Eat something you don't normally. You know? Like goats do!

Sometimes I laugh at how ridiculous a child is at having their photograph taken. I think I have everything set and then their face looks like it's in a wind tunnel. Children in Uganda are no different.

In the first frame, how unfortunate it is that the baby's hands are blocking its face. In the second, what's up with your eye little girl? Oh well. Together you get enough of an idea to enjoy it.

What makes the eyes so captivating isn't done by any editing on my part. We were in shade up against a hut when these were taken. With me occupying the center of the reflection, that leaves two large catchlights on either side of my silhouette. Look it up in the original file.