During the blistering winter storms along the east coast, the left coast was filled with sunlight and warmth.  I was watching my twitter feed (@Onephotonerd) when @DaleChumbley chimes in with the idea to go on a photowalk.  Here are some of the shots from our photowalk:

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Hi, I’m Courtney (or ‘Court-eroy’ as dMart calls me!), one of David’s staff members.  Today we photographed the 2009 CWSC Minis.  The rain couldn’t stop us as we buzzed through over 30 teams of “Goal Setters”, “Extremes”, “Footfires”, “Sabers”, “Dynamos”, of course the legendary “Ladybugs”, and so on!  My favorite part was taking the individual shots of the kids because they were so darn cute – from big smiles, silly grins, to soaking wet jerseys they were all so much fun.  I couldn’t help but wonder what my 3 month old little boy will be like at that age.  Have a look at some of the great expressions we got photographing this bunch of adorable little soccer players at Camas High School.

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Hello everyone, I’d like to introduce you to the Ryan, Shyla, and Ezra Hughes.  Oh wait… you guys already know them from, well, actually a lot of my previous shoots.  Shyla asked me a while ago to get pictures for her husband, Ryan who was oversees at the time.  She loved them so much, as well as they way I worked at both Casey and Darlene’s and Spencer and Talitha’s wedding (which they were both a part of) that they wanted me for more photos.  I’ve seen these three characters a lot through my camera and let me tell you, it doesn’t get old.  They were so fun and easy to work with and their photos really reflected that.  Have a look:

My first video.  I’m still learning the software but I’m loving video stuff!

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These.

are.

so.

much.

fun.

Seriously.

I have the priveledge of working near this guy, Daniel Wood.  We both occupy the same building, VERTO, which is a business incubator in downtown Vancouver, Washington.  There are many other really cool people here, Logan Thompson of Blinksource is our newest addition and he has helped me with the new design of davidmartschinske.com Thanks Logan!  Also included in VERTO are Indelisa Montoro who I partner with as a wedding florist.  She has delivered some of the most amazing displays of flowers! not to mention that they smell amazing.  Check out her company, Belle Jour.  If you end up ordering from her, tell her I sent you and she’ll give you $100 off!

Before Amanda and Don showed up I arrived at the Academy 10 minutes early to scout out some new locations.  I had shot at the Academy (owned by the Hidden Brothers of the Hidden Brick Co.) plenty of times before but wanted some new locations.  Luckily, I found that there were plenty to be had.  So many cool spots around there.  I think I could shoot 20 different shoots there and get a wide variety of shots throughout all of them!

As I noticed Amanda and Don getting out of their car I jokingly pulled out my iPhone and said, “okay… here’s the cool idea: I’m going to shoot the whole session with my phone.  It’s NEVER been done before!” After a few seconds of awkwardness I admitted that I was kidding.  After that point, the three of us were off to a great start.  The session was filled with milkshakes, PG-13 poses (not shown), and some great laughs.

Without delay, I present to you my favorites:

We stopped by Burgerville USA and I picked Amanda and Don up some delicious milkshakes!

This is one of Amanda’s favorite shots!

These two were a playful bunch… almost like they were engaged or something

ahh… young and in love.  I love my job!

Go for it Don!

“The Pose”  I am doing THIS pose for every session because I like it a lot.  I plan to do a collage of this pose with many different people eventually. Care to be in it?

Kudos to Don for the idea on this shot.  I love it when couples get ideas.  When we are all three creatively flowing you get great  pictures!

Oh no… where did their heads go?

I originally saw my friend JP Lumonsoc do a shot similar to this one and really wanted to copy do one myself.

Dang… could those eyes be any more beaming?!

Yesterday went by in a blur. Devin and I started out at 6:00pm and ended around 9:30. We stopped part way through for some much needed Subway of course! We traveled to a few different locations and ended at Camas Liberty Theater (one of the coolest shooting venues I’ve ever done!) Take a quick look at some of the photos!

Cool lighting here. Bare Canon 580 EXII on the right wall.

We were going for the ‘superhero’ pose

That was one TALL building!

One of my favorites!

He’s laughing because he has a lamp in his head.

“I move to the other side of the bench and all of a sudden mom calls!”

I call this pose the “Jim Halpert” (from The Office)

Cool movie playing right now at the Camas Liberty Theater. Star Trek Rocks!!!

GOT to love the lines here. Cool perspective.

I think this one is phenomenal. Continuing with the superhero poses.

The streets of Camas make for some cool poses. A few people stopped by and asked us what news channel we were with. Apparently when you walk with three tripods people ask.

5:00pm – I rush to Pro Photo Supply in Portland to return a PocketWizard that I thought was malfunctioning.

6:15pm – I rush to my friend’s (Garridan, of Camiga Studios) house to borrow some lights.

7:00pm – I arrive at the studio 30 minutes before the shoot with NO lights setup or metered yet!  I enter through the first door only to find that the key doesn’t work on the second door.

7:05pm – After 5 minutes of the alarm sounding the Vancouver Police Department shows up.  THAT was a little awkward.

7:10pm – I have to bust through the second door, breaking some molding. I begin setting up 4 lights, a reflector, a background, 4 pocket wizards and some slave triggers!  I was rushing!

7:29pm – I take my first meter reading, make some adjustments to the single 580 exII being used as a background light.  Tyler calls, I had accidentally sent him 10 blocks down… oops.

7:45pm – shooting begins.

As you can see, some photoshop needed to happen!

Here is the one they selected (out of 250+) for their Save The Date selection. They will be printing 225 of these bad boys to send out to guests.

Near the end I love playing a game I coined as the “Say Anything Game.” It includes me basically “saying anything” in a storyline setting and capturing their reaction. I believe for this one was the point at which Courtney farted while at the alter. By the way… the “Say Anything Game” always includes a farting bit.

Oh… Isn’t this always the case for us guys… pockets empty for the ladies.