Grant Oakes

Last night there was a realy good rain storm in the New York area and apparently the Frontier jet we were to fly out on this morning took a lightning strike and was damaged causing a delay for our early morning departure back to Denver.  It’s about 2:00 pm and the mechanics are still working on it and we’re enjoying the scenary of Concourse B at Laguardia.  Everyone who has been stranded by this unfortunate circumstance is taking it in stride.  Hopefully we won’t have to spend the night.

John Hudetz, Kurt Brewer, David Beckstead and myself are in New York attending Photo Plus, a photography convention.  We were at Chevy’s enjoying a great Mexican dinner, complete with 22 oz. Margaritas (yum) when John took this image of me.

Here’s one John took of David Beckstead

Another of me near Times Square.

Keith and Freddie Templeton had me photograph their daughters wedding this evening at the Pinnicle Club that’s run by the Grand Hyatt.  I just love the view of the Denver skyline from the 38th floor at night!  A lot of ISES and MPI member were there too.  Below are just a few images.

Angelina had been a friend of our family for years and has assisted me on numerous occasions when I have done commercial photography sessions.  Her wedding was in Colorado Springs so we just had to go to Garden of the Gods.  It was very overcast but the rains held back untill we were finished shooting.  My grandson, Tyler came along to help and a couple of the images in the slide show are his.  He definitely has a career awaiting him in the photography field.  To see their slide show click here.

Pictage put the staircase image (shown below) up as a test but changed it after only a few hours because Bob Davis had a staircase image on their home page that was similar.  Instead they put up this one of Stephanie, the bride I photographed only a few days ago. 

One of my favorite images I photographed 2 years ago caught the attention of Pictage and they have put it on their home page in rotation with images from some of the biggest names in our industry.  Go there and keep refreshing until it appears.  Hopefully I’ll have more in the future.  For now I’ll savor the moment.

A dear friend and industry professional, Freddie Templeton, was honored at a benefit party at Mile High Station on October 1st.  Freddie was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo chemotherapy soon.  Click here to see their slide show.

Stephanie is an RN and Eric is an architect but from the looks of their wedding you’d have thought they were rock stars!  What a fun couple.  As usual, the Grand Hyatt did a spectacular job.  Monday they head off to Hawaii for a 2 week honeymoon.  See their highlights slide show by clicking here.  Check back on Tuesday to see all of their images on Pictage.

Yesterday I received my brand spankin’ new Canon 50D from Dury’s Camera.  They arrived on Tuesday so I had mine sent UPS 2nd Day Air so I could get familiar with it before my Saturday wedding.  I would post a couple images but they are of my cluttered desk (we have been getting the carpets cleaned so that’s my excuse) and I don’t want to embaress myself.  I can tell you that in the small Raw (7.1 mega pixel) setting an image taken at 3,200 ISO has very little noise, perhaps less than my 20D did at 800 ISO.  Even the 6,400 ISO images were good!  Check back on Sunday morning to see the results of Stephanie and Eric’s wedding.