What an absolute honor it was to work with these two incredible women.  Susana is a good friend of a dear friend of mine.  She is a photographer based in the LA area and does excellent work!  Check her out at CapraPhotography.com.  Azure is a poet and speaker.  She has an incredible ability to express in words the deep things that are impossible for most of us to say.  You can learn more about her at AzureAntoinette.com.  Together, Susana and Azure are an incredible force.  They balance each other and complete each other in wonderful ways.  I truly feel honored to have had the opportunity to work with them and help them celebrate their engagement out in Palm Springs, California!  Many of the photos you see here were set in the beautiful Parker Palm Springs resort, which I highly recommend you visit if you're ever traveling that direction.  It's a magical place.

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The last bit of my 30-day film challenge happened when I was out in California, but I hadn't gotten the film back until yesterday.

Weird things seem to be happening with this film and camera... most things are not coming out as I expect them to at all, which makes for some interesting images.  On a number of the early-morning sunrise photos it looks like there were some shutter issues that blacked out portions of the images.  I'll have to do some research on curtains and film... I don't ever remember that happening in all the years I shot film before, but this is a different camera so who knows?

Anyway, enjoy the surprising weirdness :)

I spent the weekend prior to the Beloved Collective workshop in the Sequoia National Park.  The workshop was being held in in LA, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to experience a moment with the largest living things on the planet.  It was also the weekend of 9/11.  As I was wholly unprepared to revisit all that happened 10 years ago, a day alone in nature - away from everyone and everything else - seemed like the best way for me to get through the day.

I arrived late on Saturday night and found a nice little campground to spend the night in.  I got up early Sunday morning and headed straight into the heart of the park.  There is so much I  could say about the day... I made some notes about what I had experienced that day, which you'll see as the last of the photos.  I spent a lot of time soaking things in... it was so refreshing to have the time to just sit and absorb the world around me.  I had to leave early the next morning, but I did catch the sunrise over the mountains.  

There are a lot of photos here, so consider yourself warned ;)