I had a blast shooting them yesterday….they were a ton of fun and we got some AMAZING images of them looking all perfect and everything!

So, here is one little pic of the two……enjoy….

Beautiful Couple....

So, we head up with some great family friends, the Repetti’s (great people…you know….the kind that you can actually hang around, enjoy them and not pull your hair out….thanks Dom and Amy for being cool!).

Here are a few pics from the  adventure…enjoy!

11 Images stitched together for this Big Bear Lake panorama…..

Darby carrying Giana after a long romp in the snow….

This is Luca….sweet little boy who had just finished playing in the snow for the first time.  He came in to drink his hot cocoa….the mug almost swallowed him.

Giana also enjoying her hot cup of cocoa after playing hard in the snow for the first time…..

Dom doing his best impersonation of having a spaceship alien head…..

Dom and Luca having a great time at the local Mexican Restaurant after a long day of playing in the snow….

Tell me this isnt just the cutest little boy in the whole world!

Ahh….father and son playing in the snow….

Savannah having a blast discovering the many things that exist under a layer of snow…..

This is my incredible daughter, Savannah…..you can see her personality on her face in this image…..I just love her freckles…..

On a mission to pound someone with the snowball.....

Snow sledding in So Cal 2 days before Christmas.....priceless.....

Sunrise on Big Bear Lake…..5 separate images with different exposures layed on top of each other….

Snuggling in the Lay Z Boy…..

Amy and Dom lovin on each other at the local restaurant……

Beautiful and Stylish Amy sporting her snow gear……who would ever know she is 8 months pregnant?!…..

Ahh….the cool mommy’s….Whitney and Amy…

Another 5 image HDR of Big Bear lake down from our cabin.....

I could probably pay my mortgage with the sunglasses on these two.....

Ahh....ultrawide shot of the snow bunnies.....great smiles!

I moved here almost 8 years ago and swore the first day here that I would be the most stellar bandwagon fan the San Diego Chargers ever had known….I have been that ever since! (Why do I see Drew Brees and still root for him like he is still a Charger?)

Here are a few of the images I shot with one of my smaller lenses from the stands last Sunday. Was a great day to be there, since they were honoring the top 50 Charger players of all time. Amazing that 11 of the Top 50 players are on the current team.  Oh, and my Chargers crushed the Chiefs….

The girls seemed to enjoy themselves which lent to a few fun images…. Personally I enjoyed spending time with the “Stars” the most…lol

Well, here is some beauty! We made it downtown for a later afternoon ferry over to Coronado Island. I had some fun taking some shots while over there…..enjoy….

(Note the five sequence night time skyline below….it has the massive Dole banana boat moving through the frame…..you can only see the blur as I shot 30 second exposures)

Feel free to visit more of my photos at my gallery site – http://danfields.smugmug.com

If anyone else would enjoy having portraits done, whether you are a professional athlete, model, musician or family,  please let me know. It would be a pleasure to create compelling images that last for generations…

Please look for her in magazines everywhere…

Feel free to see the rest of the images on my gallery site – http://danfields.smugmug.com.

Gum For My Boat took top honors again as the Top Short Movie for the California Film Festival. Congratulations to Russell and Kahaha….skillfully shot…incredible edits and a story that needed to be told….and told again.

Enjoy a few of the images from the evening….(and Jafar from the film)

View the rest of the photos of the evening at  my gallery site, http://danfields.smugmug.com.

A good friend of mine that I respect told me to come back here and lay down some feelings on this post.  So, here goes….

As I stood here looking at the waves crashing down on this overcast morning, I could not help but think about the power and even the loneliness of a single wave.  The waves are always crashing down, but we rarely notice them unless we see someone on them like they actually own it.  There has to be an analogy here……Maybe this is more about life in general…life sometimes seems so huge, so daunting when looking at it from one perspective.

I stood there on the beach with my long lens, thinking “good gracious…that thing would crush me”.  Then you see these skilled athletes, that have figured it out.  They have a different perspective…a skill.  They look at it and think “whoa….I am going to conquer this!”  They arent scared of it….they have a board….they are equipped to face this 100 ton wall of water.  They can even ride it!

Isn’t it awesome that we get to deal with all of life’s challenges…..most being simple enough to conquer, if we are just equipped to deal with them.  So, be good and go find your board….

Ok, that’s it for me.  I’m off to “find my board”, so that I can conquer a few of my own waves…