Here’s one of the more elaborate Victorians in Ferndale, all done up in Christmas lights. I was hoping to get more pictures of the town’s Christmas lights, but the weather report is showing rain every day for the next ten …
Christmas morning I went out with Don and John from Company 1 to deliver a few bicycles to kids around Ferndale. It is a refreshing change to show up at someone’s home in a fire truck and have everyone happy. …
I started the day responding to a chimney fire in a garage even before I had breakfast. An hour later I was back at home, but was only halfway through my bowl of cereal when an alarm came in for …
Every year there are so many great tractors in the parade, but you can always count on the Bansen and Leonardi families to enter outstanding floats. I showed the Bansen train earlier, and I felt you should get a look …
One evening as I was driving into town, I noticed Arnie Peterson decorating a pile of junk on his lawn with Christmas lights. Being Ferndale, it didn’t raise my eyebrows too much. A few nights later Lori and I went …
Even though we’ve only lived in Ferndale for four years, we have many treasured traditions, especially at Christmas time. One of them is the lighting of Steve and Nancy’s tree on the evening of the winter solstice. What makes this …
I had a portrait session this morning in Russ Park with Jim and Ruth Stretch. Jim is kind enough to donate much of his time to helping improve Russ Park for the community, which is why we took his portrait …
Under clear skies and with absolutely no wind, Ferndale put on it’s best lighted tractor parade in years. This gave me the chance to get lots of great photos. This choo choo train is from the Bansen ranch, which is …
We spend far more time at work than we do at home (unfortunately) so when Lori suggested we get a tree this year, I thought we should put it in our studio so we could enjoy it more. It also …
If I didn’t tell you where and when this picture was taken, you’d have visions of walking along some warm tropical beach in the summer. Since in reality it was shot in December on a beach in Loleta, and it …
It’s very important to leave some nice cookies and milk out for Santa if you want to get some really nice presents for Christmas. It was very nice of Humboldt Creamery to package their milk in the appropriate Christmas colors.
We thought maybe we could attract more business to our studio if we offered complimentary gift wrapping. Since my gift wrapping skills are notoriously bad, and Lori is busy making Christmas presents, I had no choice but to hire someone. …
Here’s the beginnings of Lori’s herb garden. In planning it, we came to the realization that this small section of our yard was about the same size as the entire backyard of our home in San Jose. It will feature …
It’s been many years since you could catch a train in Ferndale, but today you could. There was only one catch, you had to be a little squirt. They all seemed to enjoy the free ride that took them up …
Maybe I should have consulted with Tony Ornellas before we moved from San Jose on how to string a lot of Christmas lights. It took me several nights of working on just this small display to keep everything from either …
Christmas season in Ferndale. Is there anywhere that does Christmas better than Ferndale? I doubt it. Wish you all could be here all month long to enjoy the festivities.
Unlike previous years, everything went pretty smoothly for the lighting of the Ferndale Christmas Tree today. The weather predictions were all doom and gloom, but the day started out with temps much nicer than they had been. We even had …
Chelsea doing her best bad ass cowgirl impersonation. Chelsea stands a whole 5′-1″ tall, and is a very sweet gal, so it does take a firearm and an unusual shooting angle to make that concept work. This shot wasn’t for …
I was working on a photoshoot for a hunting supplies catalog cover this afternoon at the South Spit in Loleta. Chelsea was modeling some of their products and then since it was a nice day (compared to how cold it …
Here’s the big hole. Looks like a lap pool is going in, which wouldn’t be such a bad idea except that our weather isn’t conducive to outdoor swimming very often. This will be our reflecting pond, which is going to …
I was out working in the yard, getting ready to start on our reflecting pond when Lori opened the kitchen window and yelled out, “I need you Matt”. Unfortunately, it was a call of panic, and not a romantic statement. …
During our trip down to the Bay Area for the VPA 30th anniversary party, we stayed at the home of Miranda and Dianna. I met Miranda several years ago when she worked for the Rengstorff House and I did their …
Last night I tried to squeek in a shoot before it got too dark (and cold!). My plan was to go to my favorite spot in Lotela but when we got there we found that with hunting in season, the …
I’ve been working on getting used to the new camera so I’ve been scheduling photoshoots with models. Yeah, I might learn as much about the camera taking photos of flowers, but this seemed like more fun. So far I like …
This is later in the trip we took Sunday, and the reason why I probably won’t be going back up there until spring. There is already snow up there, and since most of the roads are dirt, they are turning …
I put this little office scene together to photograph Kate in some 40s underwear from our collection and a 40s suit from her collection. The typewriter was being sold in last year’s city wide garage sale by my accountant. It …
I’m usually not a fan of little dogs, which I usually call little yippy dogs. After all if a dog is going to make noises like it’s going to rip me apart, then it darn well better be capable of …
