September 17, 2008
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For a San Diego resident, I am embarrassingly talented at getting lost. In my defense I technically live in east county and don’t get out to the beach nearly as often as I’d like, still, I thought I was being more than preventative when I left for La Jolla Saturday morning to shoot Ben and Danielle’s engagement photos. We were out late the night before so we crashed at Jeff and Gab’s new bungalow (they say “cottage”, but it seems more bungalow-ish to me), Jeff gave me directions to La Jolla’s wind and sea beach from the south and I got hopelessly and completely lost. I’m sure Danielle and Ben entertained thoughts that I was never coming, that they’d driven down from LA for nothing, but I finally did arrive loaded down with camera equipment and huffing like a rhino.
The sun stayed mostly shy behind a layer of clouds despite our best attempts to coax it out, and of course it merrily popped out the moment we got in our car to leave, but what would the world be like without murphy’s law? However it didn’t matter, the cloudy day gave a kind of romantic, cozy vibe that we don’t often get around here, and we had a blast (at least I did). Ben didn’t look like he was too fond of having his picture taken, but he took it like a man and you could tell the two of them were totally in love. Danielle is a complete riot and I had to be careful to remember I was actually on the job (supposedly working…ha). I nearly peed my pants when a tender, romantic picture was rudely interrupted by one of those rogue waves that comes out of nowhere. I was laughing so hard at the sight of Ben and Danielle leaping in surprise at suddenly finding themselves sopping wet, that I totally forgot to record much of the moment for posterity. Ahem.
I’m up in the mountains right now, far far away from my beast of a computer, but here are a few samples from the morning. Afterward we went out for lunch and I’m still having dreams about the lovely eggplant sandwich I had. My 9 year old self would be disgusted.
Comments (3)
aw cute couple
Times when you wish that all of life was videotaped (the wave story, that is)
oh, they are fabulous shots, ezzie! danielle showed me the others that were ready, too, and i think they are AMAZING. we were sorry that you and jim didn’t make it saturday night, but it’s probably for the best as we were no where near as ready to have a party as we had planned. when you do make it over one of these days, we shall hopefully be well settled in… and hey, next time you are in the mountains, let me know!!! i’d love to visit you in twin peaks, it’s so freaking beautiful up there.