Once in a Blue Moon

Its only Once in a Blue Moon that I take self portraits of myself and so decided to share a self portrait from this past summer in India for the last post of this year and the special day of Once in a Blue Moon ( two full moons in the same month and on new years eve!- happens every 19 years). This picture was taken at Halebidu. Its just a random pose I did...but i like it! so enjoy! :)

Self Portrait #1

Merry XMas

Jumping with Joy
Focal length: 24mm
Shutter speed: 1/125
ISO: 160
Aperture: f/8.0

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone. Im heading to Yosemite this holiday so cant wait to take pictures! This picture was taken at a recent Toys giveaway by YMCA of San Diego. I am actually interning for YMCA now as their intern photographer for marketing. My job is to get their events on camera and have photoshoots of the amazing people in San Diego doing great things in YMCA. Its so exciting to be working for such a big company as YMCA. I get a badge and all & my boss is super sweet! Im in love with this job and cant wait for more events/photoshoots to take for them. YAY! Its really sweet when dreams come true...a dream of becoming a photographer! and hopefully a professional one soon! :) so with that happy news... have a Merry Xmas! and Happy Holidays! stay warm and have lots of fun with family and friends! and keep dreaming because nothing is impossible!

The Wish List

Just some things ive been hinting at for this holiday :) Thought i would share it on here. Some are on the expensive side (ahem ahem CS4...lol!) but some are just few bucks making photography fun:

Behind the Scenes

After about few weeks, the behind the scenes video from the Arthur St John photo shoot is up! :) and I'm in it. Well actually i tried to dodge the camera as much as i can but i really liked the way this video turned out so putting up here to keep it as a part of the memory lane. I adore watching behind the scenes videos of numerous photo shoots. Its just awesome to see how much work gets put into the day for the wonderful results. I'm always you tubing Fashion/Magazine Photo shoots like the Bebe photo shoot 2009 safari and any of the Annie Leibovitz videos for Vogue, which are some of my favs. So with those great examples, i was very exited to see this video and decided to share it with you guys. So here it is:

if you cannot view this version check out the youtube version: ArthurStJohnphotography

ps: the lens the photographer used was my 24-105mm