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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.

Sophia

August 10, 2010 – 9:40 pm

All I can think of when I see this shot is that she is a little porcelain doll that we set up on the door step!

Getting ready to learn how to pop up…

My favorite shot of the day!  This is going to have to be blown up BIG!  And don’t worry, the board was being held from behind.  I just had to clone out the hand holding onto the rail, so she wasn’t in any danger!

Sophia’s cousins were at the beach house too so we grabbed a few shots of all of them together, and this beautiful shot of one of her cousins above.  Seriously angelic!

Thanks for letting me hang out with you all!

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Lauren and Nathan’s Wedding Slideshow

August 6, 2010 – 2:44 pm
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Lauren and Nathan’s Altadena Wedding

August 4, 2010 – 1:42 pm

I had the privilege of photographing a wedding a couple of weekends ago for the daughter of a friend of mine.  Lauren and Nathan are living in Alaska, so before their big day I had only met Lauren briefly at a Christmas dinner at the fire station and this was the first time meeting Nathan.  Normally, that might be difficult.  But fortunately, the two of them and their families are such incredible people, it made my day really easy.  Not to mention there seems to be a rampant streak of good looking running through both of these families!  The wedding was held in Altadena at the Town and Country Club.  So here are my favorites from the day.  First a couple of getting ready shots.

While that dog looks cute and pretty harmless, it’s pretty ferocious and very protective of her mama!

G0rgeous before….…and gorgeous after.

Nathan is an Air Force Intelligence Officer.  He possesses the cool demeanor that you would hope for in a man who has our National security in his hands!See what I mean by good looking running in the family.  Lauren and her sisters…

I could have kept shooting photos of Lauren for another hour or two, but there was a wedding to get to.

Waiting to walk her down the aisle….

The minister officiating the wedding also just happened to be the father of the groom.  Here the two of them are going over the details one last time before the start of the wedding.Father of the bride “pop locking” out on the dance floor.   The sign of a good party!

Always one of my favorite shots…Dad saying goodbye to his little girl.  As the father of a daughter myself, this always gets me!

Thank you so much Lauren and Nathan for letting me be a part of your day!  Stay tuned for a slideshow!

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Park It

July 19, 2010 – 3:48 pm

One of my favorite things to do is go to the park about an hour or so before sunset.  First, it gives you a built in time frame for exactly how much time you’re going to spend at the park since the sun setting pretty much shuts the place down for you.  It’s obviously cooler and the crowd is a bit thinner.  But it’s just a great way to finish off your day with the your family and good friends.  And of course, once in a while, I bring my camera.

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Happy 55th Anniversary Disneyland!

July 17, 2010 – 5:26 pm

Today I was at Disneyland shooting an event for my buddy Noah.  Today is Disneyland’s 55th Anniversary, so he painted 55 original Vinylmation characters to commemorate the occasion.  They looked absolutely amazing.  I did wander the for a bit and grabbed some shots of the park as it is today.  When you look at photos from opening day, July 17, 1955,  you get a true appreciation for what an incredible visionary Walt Disney really was.  I’m convinced that he saw the park not for what he had created at that time but what it was going to look like 55 years later. 

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