Its a hard life.....

but hey someones got to do it. Yesterday we roamed around a little bit, we went and walked around at the Hyatt. Yeah i know....why visit the Hyatt whike youre on Kauai? Actually the hotel is amazing and has an incredible view. The coolest thing though was this pair of Maccas that they keep in the lobby area named Duke and Rico. Jen and i were taking pictures of the birds when one of the animal keepers came out with a nother bird. It was way cool, we got to talk for a little bit, and best of all he let us hold one of the birds. Freaking Rico is heavy!!! Time to stop eating all that bird seed Rico!! After that we were supposed to go on a sunset sailing cruise but it was cancelled when we got there because of rough seas. Dissapointed as we were there was really nothing that we could do so we decided to go do some turtle watching wich was a lot of fun. Its amazing that these tings dont get killed on the rocks. They swim really close to shore and you can see the shapes in the waves but its amazing to watch them swim around effortlessly against the current. All in all it was a great day, more stuff to come soon.















Keep checking back as i will be updating often and check the Menendez Emporium cus i will be updating that one soon too.

Another day in paradise...

We had our 1st full day here on the beautiful island of Kauai, the weather has been absolutely gorgeous. Little windy so i havent been able to do any macro stuff yet but hopefully it will calm down soon. I have been doing some long exposure stuff which has been a ton of fun. I made a new little friend today, you will see him in the one of the pictures.....hes pretty cool. Got a pretty good set today and we most of them have been shot within less than a mile from where we are staying at. Tomorrow i hope to do some driving around and explore more of the island, oh and we are doing a sunset dinner cruise which shoul dbe pretty fun. Having a blast thus far. Heres some photos. Enjoy!!













Now say hello to my little friend......Aunt laura, i know its not a picture of a chicken like you wanted but i hope you like em just the same.

Aloha.....

Hello and Grettings form the beautiful island of Kauai, Jen and i are here for 2 weeks. Our first week will be spent with my mom and dad and their friends Jack and his wife Sam. The second week we wil be here with Jens parents and her brother and Casie, we are looking forward to just relaxing and dong nothing...........im sure its everything that i ever thought it could be. Of course as always i have all my toys, so after a long flight here and grabbing some yummy food we came back to the hotel and i had to go out and get some shots of the beach. It is BEAUTIFUL here and i cant wait to go out and do more shooting, especially this week since there is a full moon. Stay tuned as i will be updating this as much as possible. Heres some pics from tonight....Enjoy!!

Ive never had to move so fast....

Went out to do some night shooting on Monday night, the moon isnt quite full yet but its still proving some nice illumination. For the past several weeks and even before that i have been dying to go out and shoot but we keep getting this thick marine layer that makes for very dull pictures. Well Monday we had a very nice clear night and i thought i would take advantage of it. Alas it was not meant to be, byt the time i got out to the Harbor that marine layer started to roll in. I park my car and ran down to the beach and was set up and ready to go in about 5 minutes. Ive never moved so fast before, im sure if someone was watching it would have been pretty comical to see. I managed to get 2 shots at the harbor before the moon was completely gone. After that i drove down Coast Highway to see if there were any clear areas of sky. I found one with this cool tree on the side of the road, but as before that thick layer came in during the exposure and it looks dull. I will try to get another shot of it when we get some sweet looking clouds. So there you go, that was my photo adventure for Monday night. Heres some photos.

The continuing adventures of Zo & Mike Baca

So on Saturday night......i think it was Saturday night, Mike and I went to do some night shooting. Hes been wanting to shoot this church thats been under construction for a few day now, and so we went to do some shots at 2 am. The church was cool but i will admit that i was at a loss for creativity as to how to shoot the building. I got one shot that i am not excited about but i dont hate it either. Mike had a lot of fhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifun shooting it and doing some with my million candle power spot light. While he occupied himself doing that i went and explored the surrounding area. Low and behold what do i find?!?!?! A BLACK WIDOW!!!!! Are you sick of seeing these things yet? I tell ya, im a total bug magnet, for a while it was lady bugs that i would find all over the place, then it was grasshoppers or some other form of jumping creature, now its black widows. Anywho, ive been having a lot of fun using my R1-C1 strobe kit and using the colored gels that came with them. I have been trying to make the spiders look as creepy and menacing as possible. I think with these shots i finally got a lot closer to what i was envisioning......but ill let you be the judge of that. Feel free to comment or ask questions. So there you have it, and now heres some photos. Enjoy!

Congrats to Dan & Ashley...

Last Friday i helped my buddy Mike Baca shoot his very 1st wedding, the wedding was for his long time friend Dan Howard. I dont know Dan all that well but i do know his family and his sister Joni back from when i was working at North Coast Church and doing sound for the College Group. The day was fun and certainly a different role for me as i was assisting on this one and not the "official" shooter. Its been very cool hanging out with Mike and talking through shooting techniques and photoshop stuff. Well as i always seem to write a novel ill spare you and keep this short and just say a final congratulation to Dan and Ashley and to all the their families. Im sure there are many happy days ahead. Heres some photos. Enjoy!