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Welcome to the Gregg Shaw Photography Blog!

You have found my BLOG where you can see my recent images from weddings, portrait sessions and my art as well. While you're here you can learn a little more about me and my family. If you're interested in having some beautiful portraits of your loved ones or someone with a creative eye to photograph your wedding or next event, please drop me a line and we'll work together to find a package that will suit your perfectly!.

When my children were born, my passion for photography was reignited as I began to capture their every move, and I mean every move. My kids have been a huge inspiration for me in the development of my photography business. There are few things more rewarding than having a mother call me and say that my photos of her kids brought tears to her eyes.

Which is what my photography is all about. I want every picture to evoke an emotion. It's not important to me that every picture is perfectly posed but that I am able to bring out those characteristics that makes my subject who he or she is. When I photograph a wedding, I like everyone to have fun taking photos and not dread the guy with the camera coming back around! To preserve the memories of your day in a manner that will allow you to relive every moment over and over. To blend in and record people being themselves. To use humor to bring out a smile rather than yelling, "say cheese!". Of course, that might be funny. Simply put, my goal is to photograph the real person that walks around in your skin all day. The person that smiles because they're happy, not because they're told to. I love to photograph kids being kids. If you're looking for a guy to haul 100 pounds of lighting equipment down on the beach so you can torture your little darling for an hour, trying to get her to sit just right next to the pretty water, keep looking!

I live in Orange County, California with my wife and two beautiful kids. I also work as a firefighter paramedic, ride my mountain bike, play guitar, laugh a lot, make other people laugh and spend as much time with my family and friends as I can.

If you want to talk about photos, please email me at gshawphoto@mac.com or visit my portfolio site and use the contact form.

Katin Pro Am – Huntington Pier

The Wolf Moon

According to Yahoo News, tonight’s full moon is the biggest and brightest of the year!  The Native American’s referred to it as a Wolf Moon, presumably because of the amount of howling courtesy of their local wolves.  I took Astronomy about 15 years ago at Rancho Santiago College and I really wish I could remember more from that class because the heaven’s are quite fascinating.  But for now, I’ll just have to take pictures of the moon.

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Photo of the day – 01.27.10

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Sunset from Cowan Heights

Balboa After Dark

One of the things that my family loves to do is to go grab a quick Starbucks and then walk the dog around Balboa Island.  We’ve been doing it since our kids were in strollers.  Actually, Shell and I have been walking around the Island since we were dating.  It’s just one of those things that we always do and for some reason it never seems to get old.  So occasionally I bring my camera along and grab a few photos here and there, which is what I did the other night.  I brought my little tripod and I set it up at a few different points and took some night shots of the homes and water.

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A Whole Lotta Rain…

I can only sit inside the house for so long before I start going totally nuts.  So fortunately I have a pretty good rain jacket.  I’ve lived here in Orange County for most of my life and I can remember maybe one other time that it’s rained this much, and I think it was around ‘96 when we had a pretty crazy El Nino year.  But I like it…it’s something different.  I wouldn’t like it if my house was sliding off a hill or a 6 foot wall of mud was oozing it’s way into my living room.IMG_9723a copyArain1

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IMG_9934Despite the fact that she is a Lab mix, and she likes to swim, my dog hates the rain.

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You gotta keep your eyes peeled for the really amazing moments in between storms!

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