Charger BLACKOUT!

Happy Thanksgiving from FLOW FOTOGRAPHY aka just me. Hahaa. I hope everyone gave thanks for things we take things for granted, like awesome photography provided by FLOW re:MIX!!! jk jk. On the real, I'm thankful for a lot of things and I thank God every night for my own personal health, my job, food, roof, family, and friends. My blog is basically 90% of my friends then 10% my own photography. Whatever, I don't call myself a photographer. I'd like to think of it as a celebration of my people. Hahaa. I like to share my own private photos on this blog. Not on fuckin' facebook, but the true people who know my blog.

Anyways....this past Sunday was cool as hell. There were like 3 different tailgating groups meeting up. It was basically all esco. It brought back a lot of good memories from middle school to high school. I don't have to describe it, it was bad cool!!! Here are the pictures. This is strictly tailgating. Probably cause I couldn't afford the game so we just drank in the parking lot. LETS GO BOLTS!!!!!

All pictures were shot with the Canon 20D with the 20mm prime. It's growing on me. I can't remember the last time I shot with the 50mm. I think for events like this, the wide is a great choice. When I want to be artistic and focus tight, I'll bust out the 50mm. No complaints. I love all my lens in different ways. It's like picking your favorite child. You just can't. You love them all the same but for different reasons.

To download individual pictures, feel free to download off my picasa  I just ask you not to put them on facebook. I HATE facebook. AHHH!!! Follow me on Instagram though @flowremix. Like always....Thanks for looking.

Esco Charger Tailgate from Ryan Florido on Vimeo.

Carlsbad Sunset

I just finished a beach run. I need to get in shape. I can't be smoked when I have future competitors. I saw the sunset reflecting off the shallow shore. I had to run faster to grab my camera. I was sweating when I was taking these photos. It was nearly pitch black. A lot of the shutter of them were longer than a minute. Tripod, shutter remote, lowest ISO, f8-11, cool looking shots. It was a reward for me after the run.

 This was taken at the end of the run with my cell phone.

Feeling and looking tired after the run. I could barely smile.



You can see Oceanside Pier from there.

One of the inspirations for this photo and run. Funny/cute.

Time to catch up.

This past week has been fun and full of pleasant surprises. I'm training at my new job and I love it. Saving on gas, getting benefits (about time!). I attended a friend's engagement party, which those photos should come up pretty soon too. One of the other highlights were catching up with some old friends. I haven't talked to these kids in a while. They don't care for online communities, kinda like me. I do care, but not facebook care. I hung out with my buddies, saw their new house. During his tour of the house, he showed me some cool things. One of them was his dad's miniature boat. I don't know the scale, but the details of it is amazing. He was telling me how it took his dad a year to finish, its accurate, how it didn't come with anything besides some wood, cloth, and string. He had to assemble the entire thing. Its significant to him, because his father passed away and it was one of the few things he kept. At the end of the tour, he showed me his gun collection. Pretty intense. He had guns ranging from funny .38 acp handguns to beastly .308 Winchester rifles. One thing he kept special in his safe was a particular round. Him and his dad had a common interest in guns. One of his favorite rounds is a .308, pretty hefty bullet. His mom took some of his dad's ashes and pressed them into a .308 round. Of course he couldn't shoot it, but the importance and symbolism in it is amazing. RIP.

Had to show off the Double Black. Never bought a bottle for myself, but I really like it.

Seasons are changing for sure.

I get a lot of compliments for my photography and I appreciate them. When I look at my library of photos, I have a hard time filtering out my real artistic/serious photos from drunk photos. I really don't want to organize my past photos so I'm just gonna let Instagram handle it all. I started hash tagging flowremixcollection to help organize future photos. Hopefully it'll grow over time and easier to view.

Here is the start of #flowremixcollection with some falling leaves and autumn air. Shot with my 20D with 100mm 2.8 macro lens. Aperture priority, shot wide open, edited in Lightroom 4.

If anyone wants to do a photo shoot, lemme know. I'm wanting to be more active in my photography too. I know people love getting their photos taken. Here is a prime example how things are growing in terms of photography. Thanks Vsauce!

On Location: Garageworks.co

Check out some pictures I shot along with Jarhod of GarageWorks.co cars. We just hit some spots throughout San Marcos. It's always fun shooting some cars while testing out my wide lens. After shooting it for a bit, I'm still a fan on my 50mm. The 20mm is a cool lens, but wide shots aren't for me. I like my shots tight I guess. Hopefully it'll grow on me still. There were other cars, but most of my focus was on Garageworks.co. Curtis' STi and JJ's civics were also on the scene. After seeing the civic, I think my ned mod are gonna be side markers. Keepin' it JDM. Ryan's WRX is fresh. I've always been a fan of the bug eyed WRXs. Also we met this cool husky pup, 12 months old named Batman. I wonder why he was named that. Hahaa. By the end of the night, I felt disoriented because of the time change. It felt like it was 10pm, reality it was only 6pm. I don't know man. There

On Location: Wedding of the Year

Hash tag this, hash tag that, hash tag, hash tag, hash tag. The only hash tag that mattered was #weddingweekendactivated. If you have Instagram, please check it out. It was a weekend to remember for sure! People come all over the globe from the likes of Australia for this, high profile celebrity coming through. Everyone coming together for this special occasion of my very GREAT friends Aldrich Galimba and Jessica Nix. This moment has been long anticipated event for years.

These are not the official photographs of the wedding. Go visit Talia Studio for those. She has amazing photos. I just happened to bring my camera along for the ride, just like every other time. The only difference about this time, I have a new lens. A lot of my shots have been really tight, close due to my 50mm and 100mm lens, now I have a Canon 20mm f/2.8 lens. Pretty fun lens to have in the bag. Instead of editing my pictures through Lightroom 3, I upgraded to Lightroom 4. So much better than 3. So I played around with some photos, I know they're not perfect but it's the memory behind the photo that I enjoy.

Back to the weekend. It all started with the wedding rehearsal at St. Michael's church. I had work that day, but was lucky enough to leave early to meet up. Easy walk through. Took an hour, and yeah I snapped some pictures. Not too many.

Karl Strauss Brewery in Mira Mesa was the rehearsal dinner with had a bunch of family friends just enjoying ourselves. Then that's where I found out we had a celebrity within our presence. Country singer Zac Brown Band was among us. It's crazy, cause it wasn't the first time I've met the guy. I know him as Jason, the big guy who snores REALLY loud. Cool dude. I guess he's Jess' cousin. Out of all people, Aldrich had to tell me it was Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band. NO SHIT!!!! Jess doesn't like telling he's a celebrity. She wants him to enjoy his vacation which I'm sure everyone would respect. It was great talking cameras among Jive and Zac Brown Band aka Jason. After hitting up beers after beers, it was time to round up the troops. The future bride and groom split their ways for the night to soon meet up the next day.

The groomsmen and groom stayed at a fresh spot off El Cajon Blvd called La Frette. It was like a condo that was haunted. It seemed old school with a couple flat screens. We just continued the guy's party there. People were starting to pass out. If you want to see pictures and videos of what happened, ask J Pang. Funny stuff. Time to get ready for the big day now!

The actual wedding day is here!! Saturday, October 27th, 2012. #weddingweekendactivated
It's a wedding. Beautiful. If you weren't there, you missed out. Me and Princess, I don't even know if that's her real name. We were secondary sponsors and had the honor to put the cord on the couple during the ceremony. I don't know what it signifies but its pretty important to the Filipino weddings. Weddings...they say "I do" family sheds tears and we're off the the reception.

The reception is where majority of the photos came from. Drunk-ness on my part. I took pictures, people stole my camera and took pictures. It was all fun. Open bar, great music, photo booth by TaliaStudio.com. We rocked the dance floor til midnight where things started to hit reality and no one couldn't party all night. Hahaa. Luckily I crashed at the Shearaton hotel with some other buddies. It's awesome to see so many familiar faces over the weekend. I know its hard to schedule everyone to see each other because of school, work, significant others, or because they live freaking in Texas or Oregon. But I'm glad to see my Oregon friends like Steph and Pete, Francis from Texas, and other the old school Escondido hommies. There are too many stories to tell on this entry. Let's just say we'll be talking about this for a while and it will be an anchor to many laughs and conversations.

I NEED TO PRINT these picture. If there is a certain picture I need to print, leave a comment. Cause honestly, I can't print all 250 photos. I'd like to take the top 50 to frame or add to a photo album. Maybe I should make a Costco hardbound photo book. I certainly have enough photos. I can't wait to see Talia's photos too!!! Leave some love for her at her site. Tell Amelia I said hi....shes too adorable not to hug.

This video is the montage that kinda messed up. I don't want to talk about it....here it is.
 
Al and Jess' Wedding Montage from Ryan Florido on Vimeo.



#weddingweekendactivated from Ryan Florido on Vimeo.