Wedding Mapper

I just found this very useful resource on a friend photographer's website and I HAD to share it!

http://www.weddingmapper.com

This thing creates a map of your wedding area so that guests can find their way to the church, the reception, local dining, entertainment, anything you want to list! What a cool tool! I'm going to suggest this mapper thing to ALL 2007 brides so that your photographers can find your home or your church (or preferably both!)

It's FREE!



Feel free to add your wedding planning tools to the comments so that if you had a great resource in 2006, someone else can enjoy & use it for 2007!

NOTE: If you use this and I'm shooting your wedding, please email me at rarpia @ yahoo .com and let me know.

Thanks to Matt Antonino!

Lorena & Arturo - Slideshow

Thank you guys for giving me the privilege to shoot your wedding.
ENJOY YOUR E-SESSION SLIDESHOW

Lorena & Arturo - eSession

Today I had the great pleasure to get to know Lorena and Arturo a little better during their engagement session photo shoot.
We met in downtown LA at the Disney Concert Hall where we shot for a while... such a beautiful place, I could shoot there all day long and never get bored.

They are huge Dodgers fans as you can see in some of the images. We were the only people in the stadium and it was awesome shooting there... thank you guys so much, I had a blast. Check back tomorrow for your slideshow!

Lorena & Arturo are getting married at the Cathedral in LA, in exactly -> CLICK

Now on to the images:

























THANKS!!!

"The right picture can win or lose a war"

I watched Flags of Our Fathers last night and it was very interesting since it shows how powerful a single photo can be.

MORE INFO ON WIKIPEDIA



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This is the original image
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press

Street Photos

I went out to L.A., Hollywood, and Beverly Hills today to scout some locations for a bridal photo shoot next week. Jason Groupp is coming from NY, TJ Cameron from Portland, and Chris + Lynn from Canada to shoot in the streets of LA... can't wait to see these awesome photographers in action... more on that soon.

Here are some snapshots that caught my eye.





Does anyone care about Windows Vista at this point??? Not me

Megan and Josh - Slideshow

Click on the image to start the slideshow

I shot Megan and Josh's wedding some time ago in Palo Alto, CA with Chris Hymphreys but I never uploaded the slideshow to the blog, so, here it is.
Megan and Josh are a great couple as well as their bridal party and family.

The Boutique is up and running

Check out the first line of products offered CLICK
And check back soon for more products including a great variety of picture frames.