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Erin and Anthony’s Wedding- Oct 11 at Ko Olina

10.23.08

I smell like the ash at the bottom of a firepit at camp. Last night at my other job, otherwise known as “the not-as-fun” job, I had to go to the scene of a fire at the preschool at Central Union Church on Punahou Street. It was overnight so no one was present at the time of the fire. Apparently it took about forty firemen and two oceans of water to put it out because there was a nice lake in the rooms when I got there. I wear crappy shoes to work and they are pretty absorbent so they sucked in all the ashy water and I was squishing around while I took photographs. We’re supposed to be issued galoshes for this reason but they never issued ’em to me. My shoes dried out but they still smell like the remnants of a campfire. Not a horrible smell so I guess it will just fade away. When I got there, there was tons of firemen roaming around rolling up their hoses and cleaning up. Someone joked “Hey, Keao, look at all these young strapping men here for you to look at.” I replied “No way!!! I’m married. I can’t look…….too slowly. Just a few quick looks and that’s it.” None of them can compare to Scottie!!!

Here are photos from my third wedding this past weekend working with Moana from A Treasured Moment Weddings. This one was at Ko Olina…I had absolutely no clue that if you walk to the right when facing the lagoon, you would find these beaches that people use for weddings. Apparently, everyone else on Oahu knows because during this wedding, there was another wedding going on, two brides/grooms and their photog shadows were clambering on the rocks behind us as well as two more couples having their photographs taken for what I assume are their engagement sessions. Crazy. No wonder because it was absolutely beautiful…it epitomizes what you may dream up of as an island paradise. The sun was going down towards the end and created this eerie blue cast in the photos which I actually really dug. And Moana sets up such beautiful environments for the ceremony and moments.

the maid of honor

I should crop the following in more…but I do love these bouquet shots

Oh, she started to tear up during her vows…so touching. It reminded me of Scott bawling his eyes out during our wedding….aaaahhh

The following is probably my favorite shot…like ever.

For more photos, you can view the entire album at http://www.keaosphotography.instaproofs.com/ and clicking on Erin and Anthony.

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Shannon and Robert’s Wedding-October 20th 2008 at Ko Olina

10.21.08

Trying to catch up…when you pray for rain…better be happy when it pours. Here I’ve been struggling to find work and practice for my photography and photoshop processing skills. And, the month of October has offered multiple weddings with A Treasured Moment Hawaiian Weddings. As soon as I finished with one wedding, it’s already time for the next one.

I had an assistant for this wedding, I corraled Joy Pishcura into accompanying me and second shooting. It was awesome because we could get different perspectives at the same time. i hope that one day we can go into business together, I’ve heard a lot of wedding photography businesses are married couples, but Scott is pretty happy in his pastoral job. I think Joy and I could come up with a business name like “Joyful Light Photography” or “Joy and Light Photography.” (My name means light in case you were wondering). This couple was Shannon and Robert from Alaska. Hey, I’ve been to Alaska. I joked with them that I’m from Hawaii and went to Alaska for my honeymoon and they did the exact opposite. Shannon gave me these beautiful moments when she laughed and I caught her giving this look right at the camera. Looking at the pictures, it made you feel so included in their intimate ceremony. There was also this adorable little boy Carter with striking blue eyes (rare here in these islands) and I saw my assistant a little distracted as she must have taken like fifteen frames just with him.

This ceremony had a dove release and a butterfly release. I’ve never seen the butterfly release before and I loved it. They seemed to want to take their time dancing around before landing on leaves nearby.

I don’t know what she whispered to the bridesmaids but I’m still curious

A hawaiian lei ceremony.

What? Is it picnic time already? I think there might be something else in there.

They also released two butterflies that flittered around and landed nearby. So beautiful.

there’s that over the shoulder glances that made me feel like she was sharing a secret with me.

The friends and family of Shannon and Robert, married October 20th 2008 at Ko Olina.

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