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2 more...

2009-08-18T19:15:00.000-07:00

... from Vivan's wedding.

The Mother:

The Daughter:

"My best friend's wedding."

2009-08-18T01:17:00.000-07:00

One of my closest friends got married on the 8th. SHE... asked me to be a brides-man... and I was honored to be one. The wedding was held at her, now husband's, parents house in Napa Valley. The wedding was beautiful... the weather was perfect. I ended up taking around 500 or so images of Vivan getting ready. All of the moments up to the point in which we were about to walk down the isle. I just sifted through all of the pictures and came up with a few nice ones. Here's a couple to start us off... I'll post more throughout the week.

(also... please keep an eye on my new tumblr site. www.mmmikeyt.tumblr.com. I've been taking photos thoughout my day with my iphone and posting em up on that site. It's been a fun little side project to keep the juices flowing by taking photos every day on the fly. Please check it out!)

Tumblr...

2009-08-02T16:18:00.000-07:00

Hello hello. Post 101.

I just got an iPhone. I was trying to upload some photos taken from my phone onto this blog, but have found it to be a little troublesome. SOOOOoooo... I started another blog with tumblr. This will just be photos from my daily life. All photos will be taken with my iPhone. But no worries, I still intend to fill this blog with photos taken from my regular camera.

Here's the link:
www.mmmikeyt.tumblr.com

Also, I saw some people were following this blog on google reader. Leave ur email on the comments if you'd like to share posts!

blog post #100

2009-07-21T01:50:00.001-07:00

Been gone from this blog for a while. I'm going to try to revive it now.

Here are a couple recent random photographs:

Lucy...

2009-05-14T22:51:00.000-07:00

My cousin had her baby. We welcomed little Lucy Hulswit into our world at 11:03pm on Monday May 11th, 2009.

Congrats Mike and Marie! We're all very excited...

She.

2009-03-23T12:53:00.000-07:00

Sit.

Stand.

Walk.

Jump!

playground love.

2009-02-06T10:40:00.000-08:00

Took some photos yesterday on assignment for Time Magazine. I'll go into more detail on that later... but here were two random out takes that weren't used that I kind of liked.

Things went well! Photo editors are happy.... that makes me reeeaaaally happy.

old post/photo.

2009-02-03T14:56:00.001-08:00

This is from an old blog post when I restarted this blog... I'm posting it again just to post it. But this image always crosses my mind. I keep thinking that I need to print it out for my wall. Hopefully I'll get around to that sometime soon.

Every picture has a story behind it. Here's my memory from it:
It was shot down in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. I was down there shooting some bodyboarders for an Australian magazine. We just got done with lunch in town and were riding back to the hotel in the back of the hotel owners truck. It was me, and Jake Stone sitting in the back of the truck, we just passed the section of the main road that has a nice view of Zicatela (the main beach). Jake was looking back up the road a bit... I only had my 50mm lens on me, so sitting across the bed of the truck I had to lean halfway out of the side of the truck in order to frame the photo. I think I took about 2 photos? Maybe only this one... but immediately after snapping this image, my hat few off my head. I had to pound on the roof of the car and tell the driver to stop so I could run back up the road to pick up my hat. He stopped, told me to stay in the car and he'd back up, but I just jumped out and snagged it. When I picked up the hat, the car was already right next to me. I jumped back in and we headed back to the hotel. Now I take my hat off when riding in the back of trucks. haha.

ummm.. that story wasn't very exciting... but that's what happened. I just loved this portrait... especially the part where the wind is blowing his hair.

I have a few rolls of film that I have to process. Expect some newer photographs up soon.

My buddy Timmy.

2008-12-27T22:57:00.000-08:00

Here's some photos of my good friend Timmy Long. He's the only guy I surf with that loves it (as well as gets in the water) as much as I do. He's also a photographer... sometimes we get out and explore with our cameras in hand. Here's a few select photographs taken while wandering around places we weren't allowed entrance to.

random hike.

2008-12-16T22:45:00.000-08:00

With my first term of grad school behind me and winter break beginning, I find myself with plenty of time on my hands. One thing that I hadn't done in a while because of school is ride my bike. So today, when I woke up, I decided to go on a little bike ride with my camera(s). I took one of my film cameras out as well as my little point and shoot. My original intent was to just ride around my neighborhood and find things to photograph along the way... I ended up riding up a hefty hill and stumbled upon a hiking trail. So, the bike was locked up to a fence and I was off on a little hike. Where the trail took me was completely unexpected. I had amazing views of Los Angeles all the way down to Orange County, as well as Catalina Island. The recent rain storms definitely helped clean up the air quality which aided the view. Below are some of the pictures that I took with my small digital camera. I'm definitely going back up there... It's nice to stumble upon things like that.

this is a panoramic image... click it to view it at a larger size.

Downtown Los Angeles.

This little mound is my new "favorite place," in Los Angeles.

Dirt to road.

meeeeeeeee.

randoms.

2008-12-13T05:25:00.000-08:00

my shopping crew. they're not a good influence on me... we all pretty much convince each other to buy things we shouldn't, but want.

typical scene from a 5 hour studio class at Art Center.

smitten. maybe i shouldn't type that... but it's ok...

yours truly. (thanks scott...)

oh yeah... for my motion design class, my best friend dave and i shot video stuff on green screen. i'll post up the video once i clean it up a bit. but here's the set up and a portrait i took while filming. i found out that shooting, directing, and editing is verrrrrrrry time consuming and tiring. but it was a great learning experience... looking forward to doing more in the future.

the set up.

dave.

p.s.- i just finished my first term of grad school at art center... and i'm officially on break til the 11th of january. If you want some photography done, get at me!

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2008-12-01T02:46:00.000-08:00

Her, "Why are you doing that?" face.

2008-11-14T02:23:00.000-08:00

4 consecutive exposures on 1 roll of film. 2 facial expressions total. I just thought it was funny.

1.

2.

3.

4.

I think it's time to switch up my cameras. I've been using my Contax G1 consistently for about a year now... I'm thinkin' either the Lomo LCA. Orrrr.. The Nikon FE2. Leaning towards the FE2. I got my mom a fairly clean FE2 for Christmas last year... My FE2 is kinda... broken. Going to see if she wants to trade it for my D100. Nikon FE2 with a 24mm (i need some cheap 35mm & 50mm manual nikkor lenses) lens and a bag of Tmax 400. Life is good.

some school. some vegas. my house.

2008-11-11T02:07:00.000-08:00

MDP sweatshop.

MDP robot.

S&J.

Drive.

What are you lookin at?

Views from home.

2008-11-09T11:57:00.000-08:00

Election Day. 2008.

2008-11-06T16:02:00.000-08:00

Oh what a day it was! I ended up going around to take some photographs at my local polling locations. I visited two different places. The first one, I arrived about 20 minutes before the polls opened. The second place I visited was shortly after noon.

Anyways, here's a few photos that I liked from this election day. Probably the most significant election within my lifetime so far...

Location 1:

Location 2:

Smokers.

2008-11-02T03:10:00.000-08:00

It's raining!

2008-11-01T17:07:00.000-07:00

neighbor.Kelli.or..."Kerry" as we call her round these parts.

1.

2008-11-01T03:43:00.001-07:00

Escuela...

2008-10-29T20:02:00.000-07:00

jae.jay. & chris.

haelim.morning class.

project.

sue.

jae.jay.

ramen noodles. a regular item on the MDP dinner menu.

Not photo related...

2008-10-29T17:08:00.000-07:00

... but I couldn't pass up on posting this. I need to go there within my lifetime...

New kids on the block.

2008-10-27T03:14:00.000-07:00

As you know, I'm in grad school at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA.) The incoming class for the Media Design Program consists of 18 talented people... and then me. Here's a little introduction to some of my new family members.

All photos were taken at a BBQ we had a little while back. A few people weren't able to make it...

MDP kids... in no real order.

/\ This last one is Nicole's dog, Benton. He's almost as awesome as my dog Ledger. Almost.... really close... but Ledger takes the win, always. /\

til' next time,

mikeyt.

Finally. New photos.

2008-10-22T15:43:00.000-07:00

I've been away from the blog for a minute. The Media Design Program at Art Center has been keeping me busy. Crazy busy. Crazy CRAZY BUSY. But it's all fun work so far.

Anyways, for one of my classes yesterday, we went on a field trip to downtown LA. Annnnnnnnnnd we had to take some pictures... so here ya go! Hopefully I'll be back to taking more photos, more often. (Actually, I've been taking the same amount of photos, but I just haven't gotten around to posting them up.)

SIMA Waterman's Classic Golf Tournament (for Water Magazine)

2008-08-22T16:01:00.000-07:00

Shot some more event photos for Water Magazine. This time it was for SIMA's annual Waterman's Classic Golf Tournament at Monarch Beach Golf Links in Dana Point. Basically, it's a fun golf tournament for the surfing industry. Different companies sponsor different holes, as well as 4 person golf teams. Every hole has some sort of alcoholic beverage, and by the end of the tournament, everyone's pretty loose. haha. It started at 10am and ended around 4pm... haha. It was the funnest day at a golf course that I've ever had.

Here's a photo of the Roxy team at Hole 9:

Foam Magazine Party.

2008-08-20T01:01:00.000-07:00

Took some event photos for Water Magazine tonight. They wanted coverage of the Foam Magazine re.launch party out in Laguna Beach. It was a good time for sure. Saw some people that I haven't spoken to in a little while.

Anyways.... Here's a random photo from the night. The Growlers were performing before the party ended.