Eric & Jaime’s Blog

• Always give more than you take
• Always strive to be understanding
• Always keep it simple
• Always be ready for the worst but hopeing for the best.
• Always do on to others as you would have them done to you.
• take things slow and one at a time
• enjoy life and have fun. 
• don’t live to be safe and get out alive, because we all die
• try and see the good in all things
• be happy and overflowing with joy; others will follow
• a hot shower/bath will do wonders for your body and mind.
• be real, honest, truthfull but kindly and minding the feeling of others. 
• dare to “think outside the box”
• be prepared to lose it all

Can any one else help me add to this list? Please add your ideas in the comments.

I had some extra income from the weddings I have been doing and a bunch more wedding scheduled for the next few months, so I figured now is a better time than ever to get that Canon 5D I have been wanting to get for a while.

So I looked up on craigslist and found one for a good price that a local photographer was selling (as he was upgrading to the 5D MkII). I was in great condition and only 2 years old, most importantly I was $500 less than the retail price.

I shot my first wedding with it the day after I bought it, risky I know but I couldn’t help my self. In the end tho I am so glad I did, the 5d with its full frame sensor excels in low light situations.

I took this photo of Jaime hand held with only the closet light on, even with at 1600 ISO it still looks pretty good.

One thing at that wedding I hadn’t planed on was, that its RAW image files are over twice the size of my Canon rebel so I nearly ran out of cards. Other than that it has been really easy to get use to and I am really loving not having to have to deal with the conversion factor on all my L series lenses.

Garden Grove is so beautiful this time year. The winter grass is so green and the many grapefruit trees found throughout the complex are ripe for the the picking! So of corse that is just what we’ve been doing,, picking grapefruit. Eric made us a fruit picker from a broom stick and hanger,, and it works wonders! There is a plethora of trees to choose from, and too many grapefruit to know what to do with! So fare we have just juiced them. Here are some pictures of the madness,, enjoy!