Celebrities and Their Pets Fashion Show - The Pre-show!

Sunday, September 12. 2010
8th Annual Hawaii Women's Expo
Blaisdell Center

I met Nancy Bernal at the Tag the World biathlon last month and she had asked me if I was interested in shooting the celebrity fashion show at this year's Women's Expo. I jumped at the chance and dragged Jalna and Erick with me :).

Most of these dog's aren't actually their pets, but they were rescued from a home a few weeks ago by the Oahu SPCA and they are looking to be adopted. I absolutely fell in love with them, I wish I could take them home with me! They were pitbull mixes, and they were soooooooooo cute!

Here are the dogs gettin all dolled up and ready to go!

This cutie was born with only two legs...

Garden of Fortune

Sunday, September 5, 2010
Chinatown

Jalna's new friend, Mano had asked her if she could get some pictures for his friend's store Garden of Fortune. They specialize in fresh smoothies and they needed some pictures to hang in their store to advertise the different flavors they offer. Jalna let me tag along so I could practice with my oh-so-frustrating 100mm macro...go check out Jalna's blog to see how to really use this lens!

While she was setting up I started taking some pictures of some stuff around the store....

Almost ready...

This is the Ken's (the owner) kids sharing a smoothie. So cute yah?

We were having a little difficulty positioning the bananas so they'd look just right, this was the best I could do...
This was Jalna's idea for an appealing look! hahahahaa!!

This is their machine to extract sugar cane juice. It's pretty neat!

It squeezes everything out and then all your left with is the husk!

Viola! Sugar cane juice! It was actually quite tasty!

Jalna & Mano

Quentin, Dylan, and Nikola

Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Mom's house, Kailua

Quentin - 11 mos (almost!)
Dylan - 4 yrs
Nikola - 5 1/2 weeks

Ok so my sister has been giving me scoldings because I've been slacking on Quentin's monthly pictures. Since I got off early today I headed off to Kailua this afternoon to try and get some good shots before he turns 1! He wasn't digging this "lifting him up in the air thing" too much and gramma's arms were getting sore.

Dylan stayed in the house and acted shy whenever I pointed the camera at him

Joanne stopped by with baby Nikola and Quentin had a blast with his new friend

Can Nikola play with me?

First let me look in your mouth.

He had this weird fascination about sticking his finger in Nikola's mouth! Maybe he'll be a dentist someday...

Grampa came out to join the fun

Mommy finally came home from work and we tried again. Nope. Still no smile...we still got a little more time before he turns one...I got time to try again!!