A Christmas morning wave with a rainbow at Maui’s North Shore.

This will give me something to write about other than just my photos. However, if you come to this blog looking only for photos, feel free to click the ‘photo’ tag in the right-hand column in order to filter out these non-photo oriented posts.

It’s 1:39AM according to my computer clock, and I have been up since about 6:00am, because Daeja and I had another an all-day shoot on Maui today. We got back at 8:40pm, and I’ve been catching up on both work and TV shows. It’s funny to me that there are so many drama/comedy shows I want to watch this season…perhaps reality TV is finally on its way out? (Although I do allow myself the guilty pleasure of America’s Next Top Model…but only for the photo shoots, I swear!) I have 12 on my Hulu subscription list, plus the Vampire Diaries on CW and How I Met Your Mother on CBS. But, as I was going through my list of shows I plan to be watching over this next year…I realized something. Every single TV show I watch (besides the Daily Show and Colbert Report) are somehow related to vampires.

Buffy/Angel Connections

Bones – Stars David Boreanaz, who played Angel, a vampire.

Castle – Stars Nathan Fillion, who appeared as Caleb in Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Dollhouse – Stars Eliza Dushku, who played Faith the Vampire Slayer.

Family Guy – Seth Green, the voice of Chris, played Oz the werewolf on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Fringe – This one’s stretching…it stars Joshua Jackson, who used to be on Dawson’s Creek, which also starred James Van Der Beek, who appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother, which also stars Alyson Hannigan, who played Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

EDIT: “For Fringe, you could also go with: Stars Joshua Jackson, who was in Cruel Intentions with Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” – Thanks Cameron!

Glee – Features actress Jayma Mays, who appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother, which also stars Alyson Hannigan, who played Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Heroes – Again, actress Jayma Mays -> How I Met Your Mother -> Alyson Hannigan, as she also had a part in Heroes. Also, Dania Ramirez, who played Maya on Heroes, was a potential slayer in season 7 of Buffy.

House – Several former Buffy the Vampire Slayer actors have appeared on House as patients, including Felicia Day (Violet), Adam Busch (Warren), Marc Blucas (Riley), and Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn).

How I Met Your Mother – Specifically, Alyson Hannigan has a starring role, but Tom Lenk (Andrew), Amy Acker (Fred) and Alexis Denisof (Wesley) have had guest spots.

Legend of the Seeker – Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia, is joining the cast for Season 2 of Legend of the Seeker.

Merlin – Stars Anthony Stewart Head, who played Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as King Uther.

Other

True Blood – A show about vampires.

The Vampire Diaries – A show about vampires.

Yes, I probably thought about this too much, and yes, I plan to be watching too much television, but isn’t that what dual monitors are for?

And here’s another Instax photo from today’s shoot. I’ll post more when I can!
(And maybe if I always post at least one photo with my non-photo oriented posts…my blog will still look pretty?)

As you can tell from the photos, we all had a great time! Photographing families with young kids is still one of my favorite things to do.

And here’s me!

For more images, click here.

After the test shoot last week Sunday, I had my old friend Mika Yamaguchi come up to my house for a visit along with Bristol Dunlap, an artist/musician whom I’ve long admired. With Kaeo assisting with the lights, we had an impromptu photoshoot session in my yard while Bristol played for us.

Check out Bristol’s blog for examples of her artwork, photography, and music!

And here’s other photos from the session.

But, Kaeo made off with my camera after these shots to take advantage of its gorgeous HD video capabilities (and I’m still waiting to see video, Kaeo!) So, I decided to experiment with the capabilities of my Canon G9 while photographing Chloe and our male model, Joe:

And finally, Koda got to be a model for a few shots that Daeja took. I’ll post a link to her images from this shoot once they are online!

Gone to Maui until Wednesday!

(Also, don’t worry, I’m not checking any cameras etc. through luggage!)