Santini Wedding

A few weeks back now, Lauri and I made it out to "Little Germany" - also known as Frankenmuth, MI. I know what you're thinking, "But John, it's not nearly cold enough for ice carving season yet!!??". And you would be correct. No, this time we made the trip for the 816 wedding of the year for Kelly (Birchmeier) and Todd Santini.

Now I must admit, it was a little strange for me to be in Frankenmuth while you could walk down the street with ease wearing shorts and a t-shirt. But we still had a great time. There's never a dull moment whenever you get that many IHPer's together. Here are a few of the images I got while we were there. Congrats and God Bless again to Todd and Kelly.


Disclaimer: these images are no where near in order. More to come.

2007 AKA Dinner Dance

One of the cool things about working for an architecture firm with such a rich history, is being able to visit some of the local projects that our firm has been involved with over the years. Saturday was our annual Dinner Dance, held at the Edsel Ford House in Grosse Pointe. Albert Kahn was the architect who did this house for the Ford's, and the office was also involved with the Activities Center on the site back in the 90's. I brought my camera along with me hoping to be able to document a little bit of this piece of local history, but pictures in the house were not allowed and we weren't outside to see the gardens much at all. I highly recommend this tour if you're ever in the area.

Here's one of the roses in Mrs. Ford's many gardens.

Ken avoiding the paparazzi Turned Ken loose with my camera for a minute.

He's really very shy.

This post is from back in late August, when my Dad and I participated in the local PUG's photo-shootout. It was alot of fun, and exciting to shoot with a bunch of new people and exciting to learn new things from Joel and the rest of the group. I look forward to making it to the next meeting. So here are a couple of the images I got from that night, which was a lesson in lighting. First we tried to use reflected light (which wasn't terribly successful due to the cloudy Michigan skies), a video light setup was used (lots of fun, and a great lesson), and finally an off camera flash set up (need to play with this more, so much fun). I had a hard time using only available light, as I don't have a terribly steady hand (need to work on that) so alot of my images were a little on the blurry side, so I had to do alot of touching up. But let me know which one you like the best.

Thanks. -John

Uncle Chet's Birthday

So as you can tell from the previous post, I'm playing catch up with my BLOG posts, sorry about that. Guess I need to buy a faster computer so I can post-process quicker!

These images are from Lauri's Great-Uncle's 89th birthday party (or as Uncle Chet would say, he's now piano keys +1 years old - that's 88+1) about two weeks ago now.

It ended up being a mini - Zabor family reunion as both Conrad's Brother and Sister-in-Law, and his Sister were in town.

Not to leave anyone out, Lindsey and Ryan, and CZ, Amanda, Ryan, and Ted were also there to celebrate Uncle Chet's Birthday!

Tony's Bachelor Party

So this slideshow is a couple of weeks in the making, there were some technical difficulties in getting this slideshow posted, and although I didn't quite figure out how to upload the actual slideshow here, clicking on the picture will take you to the slideshow on the shieldsdigitalimages.com website. Congrats to Tony again, hope you had a good time, and we can't wait until the wedding.

p.s. most all of these images were taken by my Dad, Jim Sr.

Lisa's Wedding Part 2

Here are a few more of my pics from Lisa and Rick's wedding. Congratulations again Lisa and Rick!
Keep checking my Dad's BLOG for some of his images. And hopefully they will showcase some Ninja moves I was showing off that evening! (Thanks to Mike Colon for showing me that one!) I'm still just a young ninja grasshopper, must keep studying the ways of the ninja to perfect these moves... (disclaimer: these secret skills are not for the weak or faint of heart). Ha ha ha.

Mom and Jess.
Hey Lisa, you paid someone to do that remember!
Lauri on the dance floor havin' some fun. This is the "Miami Vice" wedding we crashed on our way out. Note the white feather palm tree table centerpieces. The color for the wedding was Hot Pink... Nice...
Raymond knows his way around a dance floor. Look at those "Hustle" skills!
Dad and Uncle Ray.


Jen was warming up at the table before she headed out to the dance floor.