Sneak Peak atJennifer's Bridals

What a great time we had shooting bridals for Jennifer out at Entrada! She is so photogenic and fun; Sam and I just had a lovely few hours with her and her mom, Michelle, and sister-in-law Erica. Gotta give them credit for some of the amazing pictures we got today! Thanks so much you guys for an amazing afternoon of fun! Here are a couple shots to get your mouths watering...

Re-run!

Arty & Andrea, you guys and your adorable family are a model for all of us to follow; righteous, fun, adventurous, loud, loving, and lovely you're a great example of how life should be lived! Love you guys!
Hey hey, after six kids they still got it!

Abstract Study

I used to think that abstract art had no apparent beauty or attractiveness to it - i mean, what was the point? I never would have tried anything akin to it ever in my life had I not been forced into it by a good photography teacher and this is what I came up with. I'm learning!

Who needs pants?

Anyone who knows this kid will see Andrea's feat as not only amazing, but next to impossible. As loveable as he is, Isaac is just plain crazy!

hmm...I guess it only lets you do 4 at a time..... well, here're s'more

St. George Marathon - Great Job Andrea!

Andrea, we're so proud of you for the amazing job you did in the Marathon last weekend! What a great accomplishment! To have given birth to 6 little munchkins and then get yourself into that amazing o' shape to do what most of us wouldn't even dream of - just blows me away! We all stand in awe :)

Ode to Knollwood + No Landscapers

We love where we live. It's such a nice place, and so so so much better than where we used to camp out, but lately, for some reason, there have been no landscapers! It's been somewhere in the neighborhood of three weeks since the lawns were mown! I've been tempted to offer to do it myself, and probably would have if I weren't so busy with work, school, and more work! I'm grateful to be busy, and, landscaped or not, I'm very grateful for a place to call HOME.

You'll have to pardon my obsession with this little lady; it's just that she's so darling. The funny thing is, I've noticed that I tend to be my worst critic. I took these photos close to a year ago and, other than giving them to Shay's parents, I've never even looked at them again because I thought I did a terrible job. But hey, looking at them now, I'd have to say they don't look half bad!

Enjoy.

Shay

I wish every little one could be easy to snap great photos of as this little doll! But then life would be way too easy...

Shay Shay!

Shay, by now, you've got to be about twice this size! Sorry it took so long to get this great glamor shot up here for all the world to see. You're a gem!

Randy & Jenny

Love you guys! I've been flipping through Picasa and just enjoying so many great photos of family and friends, and I just had to post some of them. Thank you all for being such important parts of our lives.

Beautiful Sister

This is my most beautiful little sister (ok, she's my only little sister) and I'm very grateful to have her in my life. She truly is a joy to all around her.

Craigalas

Good old Craigalas, buddy, this one's for you. Thanks for making a great cast.

Zak and Kirt

Thanks so much, Zak and Kirt, for the opportunity to shoot your wedding, and share that special day with you. It was an honor and a pleasure to be there.

It's days like this that I know I'm in the right business because each time we shoot a wedding, Sam and I inevitably get transported back in time to our own blissful day, the happiest of our lives up to that point.

Zak and Kirt had an amazing setup; from the beauty of the location, to the simple elegance of their decorations and other arrangements, those who brought it all together took part in creating a piece of heaven on earth.

Here are a few of the shots, thrown together with Google's amazing Picasa 3 (I put them in collages to spare you having to scroll five miles down the page to see them all)

Check 'em out :)

Fresh

Meet AJ and Cami Rimmasch, our favorite in-laws on the Rimmasch side. We met up at Whitney and Jake's wedding in SLC and then decided to have a photo shoot! Oh so much fun. The light was fantastic, the kids were all smiles (well, mostly :D), and Uncle Mark's backyard made for some great backgrounds, don't you think? Magic.





So Happy. :(
Lil' Alec the Cheese factory man.
So Curious :D
Top o' the weddin' cake

I haven't posted in way too long a time. I apologize. To any of you who may still be following this blog, I applaud your loyalty. To those of you who aren't; what the crap?! No, but seriously, just thought I'd throw a little something up to let you all know that I am still taking pictures, but just get a little overwhelmed because, like so many of you, I take way too many :)

Family Pictures

Here's a few pictures from a set we took on the fly for Sam's brother's family! They're such a beautiful and photogenic family :D

A Good Thought:

DeseretBook.com - The Continuous Atonement: "Perhaps as we reflect on our lives, it is easy to convince ourselves we have sinned too often and gone too far to deserve the Atonement. We criticize ourselves harshly and beat ourselves up mercilessly. Perhaps we feel we have stepped beyond the reach of the Atonement by knowingly repeating a previously forsaken sin. We understand that God and Jesus were willing to forgive the first time, but we wonder how many more times they will be willing to watch us bumble along before they finally roll their eyes and declare, “Enough already!” We struggle so much to forgive ourselves that we wrongly assume God must be having the same struggle."

I thought this was pretty much the best summary of how it feels to make a mistake time and time again and not know whether God was going to continue to put up with me or not. I bet there are others out there who feel the same way, and so I posted this short quote. Read the rest of it by clicking the first link. It's really good.

Mater!

The Easter car show was a blast a while back! A blast from the past! Haha, just thought of that. There were lots of amazing cars there - old and new, and people young and old. It was a great time. I took waaay too many pictures (as usual), which is honestly why I haven't posted any of them up yet, is because posting means choosing my favorite pix, and I just couldn't bring myself to not show the ones that weren't as favorite as the other ones, and so I just didn't post.

Well, I've decided to post one or two of the first ones, and give you all the opportunity to view the rest of them here. Hope you enjoy looking as much as I did taking!

PS - can anyone tell me why these pictures came in so huge and others are only medium sized or smaller?

Baby's first Photoshoot!

Man, this baby thing is gonna be fun. I know, I'm glutten for punishment right?

My beautiful wife

Check her OUT! Isn't she a doll? We're so stinking excited to tell everyone that we're going to have a baby! OK, OK, so you can't see much more than a little bump, but we couldn't wait to do a tummy shoot!

Those of you who know me (Ronnie) personally, will attest to the fact that I'm absolutely horrible at keeping this thing up to date, but now I have hope. I'm going to have a baby to show off! There's nothing that excites me more than having our own little munchkin and documenting his/her (hopefully her!) early life through photography and showing her? off to the whole wide world on this blog.

Anyway, enough about the kid, this is about Sam right? LOL. But anyway, seriously, Sam, this is for you. I love you more than anything and am so grateful for you in my life and for everything you do. My wife is the best EVER!

Windows 7 - is it worth it?

Aside from photography, one of my other major passions is geeking around with computers. I haven't let that out much on this blog - Actually I guess it's fair to say I haven't let much of anything out about myself on this blog - but I plan to change that. I've turned over a new updating leaf, so hopefully you'll get more of a glimpse into me and the guy behind the photos as I continue to post. Ok, on with what I was originally posting about...

I've been running Windows 7 beta for about 5 months now, and it's been pretty cool, haven't gotten too serious with it. Yesterday I downloaded the RC (Release Candidate) version and installed it this morning to see what changes had been made.
On my primary hard drive, I'm running Vista 64. It's been pretty cool, and I've defended it against the anti-switch-from-XP people who just can't seem to realize that Windows XP is a dying breed - not because it isn't a good OS, because it is, but because change is coming, and I've found that it is coming in a big way. The new Windows 7 is turning out to far exceed my expecations, both as a geek, and as a consumer who wants an effective, convenient, uncluttered, yet attractive interface to work in.
I'll tell you now, Microsoft has achieved something with Windows 7 RC. I thought the beta version was cool, but like I said, I didn't get too into it because it felt like more of a toy than anything to get serious with, but from the outset, the RC version started off impressive. With previous installs of windows, I've planned in about half my day post-install to dedicate to locating and installing drivers for all my devices. Windows 7 installed all of them before I was even asked for any user input other than my time zone. And you know, I figured it shouldn't have too much trouble with most of my hardware - it's all pretty run-of-the-mill stuff - all except for my wireless adaptor, which is pretty obscure, and all previous versions of windows, especially Vista, have had lots of issues with it, even when I did install the correct driver. Not 7 though. Not only did it install automatically, but also came up with dear Pauletta's (the lady next door whose internet I like to "borrow") wireless connection and asked me if I wanted to connect. Never before have I been connected before windows started up. Yeah, it was refreshing.
So, if any of you are considering the change, I highly recommend it. Microsoft has it for free for almost a whole year. It will be good until June of next year, but bi-hourly restarts will start on March 1, 2010. Pretty good pay-back for making us endure Vista, eh?

For a full review on the RC and its new features, check out this video.

Brady.

Here's Brady, one of my very best friends at school. Seriously gotta be one of the coolest people I know! Here's to you, Brady!

Metadata: Canon Rebel XTi, Sigma 18-50 mm f/2.8, shot at 50 mm, f/2.8

Test out Lightbox

Well, I found this new, fascinating thing called Lightbox. ....And I've been having some troubles getting it to work. If you click on the image above, it's supposed to come up in a translucent window and display the picture on top of the blog, instead of taking you to a separate page and making you hit 'back' to see the rest of my pictures....ah, well, i guess if it always worked the first time, I'd never learn anything, eh! Please help me, anyone out there who can tell me what I've done wrong!

Click > for a video of the Valentine's Dance 2009 photos

We got to do photos at the 1st Annual St. George Community Valentine's Dance and it was a real blast! The dance was stellar and the refreshments, music, and decorations were fantastic! Check it out next year!

By the way, for anyone interested, the video montage of the pictures we took was made using a free template on www.animoto.com. It's a pretty cool little site. you should check it out.

The Kitchells

Meet Daniel and Megan Kitchell! Daniel and I went to school together for as long as I can remember, and Megan is a friend I met while singing in Inspiration at Dixie State. How funny life is, and what an amazing coincidence that these two people I know from very different places met and got married and I got to take their pictures! These two were a blast to work with, and I'm glad their photos turned out so well! What a beautiful (sorry Daniel :)) couple, and what great times lie ahead for them as they embark on the wonderful journey called marriage!

The Roesch F-A-M-I-L-Y!

The Roesch's are some very dear friends from our old ward in Green Valley. You couldn't ask for better friends and neighbors. We love them! They're so much fun and we had a great time doing their pictures! Thanks guys!

A Couple Mission Pix

These are a couple of interesting images I took with my point and shoot while in Montreal, Canada on my mission.  They capture for me how my mission just blurred by.  It was so fun, but looking back, it's like it's all just so ethereal in my mind.

Sisters

Jessica is at the ripe old age of 18 and ready for high school to end, while Jessica is just beginning those fun, formative years. Jessica was kind enough to agree to let me take a few shots at her for my portfolio and boy am I glad Janessa decided to tag along as well! Some of the best shots were of both of them together. You girls are awesome!

Jess's Senior Session

Beautiful Girl

My Honey

Here's a picture of my sweet hubby Ronnie! I've always wanted to incorporate a fire hydrant in a picture, because they're such a vibrant color of red, and this is what I came up with!

Picture of the Week

Hurray for babies! Another one has made our picture of the week! This beautiful little girl is named Shay and Ronnie took pictures for her family at the red rock a couple of weeks ago! She is such a darling girl with the prettiest blue eyes...just look at 'em!

Spring Break

We shot these pictures at a beach near Carlsbad, CA during Spring Break this year. We figured trashing the dress would be worth some great pictures! Ronnie did such a wonderful job, especially with what we had at the time (he also did a super editing job)!

Picture of the Week

This is our adorable nephew Isaac! Ronnie caught this while we over at their house just playin!

Lacey and Ronnie's Engagements

Here are Lacey and Ronnie's engagement pictures we took a couple of weeks ago! I've known Lacey since I was itty bitty, so it was exciting to be able to take her pictures for her! They're an awesome couple!

First Picture of the Week

Well all (just in case anyone actually visits this blog...), here is the first picture in what I hope will become the first in our photo of the week...we'll see how it goes! This is a shot Ronnie took his first and only time golfing! Hopefully we get more golfing and cool shots like this in the future!