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Check out this guy-  His name is Orson and he's a working actor in LA and has an incredible wide variety of looks.  He can pull out the executive down to the drugged out street criminal.  Such a pleasure to work with him, be sure to check out his reel on Youtube!  Full headshot portfolio @ LAHeadshots.tv

Camera: Canon 5dM2 / Lens: Canon 135mm f/2

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Adamson House Wedding - Malibu, CA

Getting Ready Venue: The Shangri-La Hotel, Santa Monica
Wedding Venue/Reception: Adamson House Wedding Grounds

Well to say this was a unique wedding would be an understatement. Rob and Jeanine had an absolutely gorgeous wedding from getting-ready straight through the wedding and reception.  You might have already seen a few of their images when news of a special guest appearance at their wedding broke.  Yes, Justin Bieber decided to show up to say hi which I guess is now standard for those beach-side Malibu venues.  Up until that night it's probably been awhile since I heard grown men scream in excitement.  They also had the infamous same date as Los Angeles' CARMAGEDDON 405 shutdown [you might see a themed shirt in there somewhere on a bridesmaid] which ended up not being much of anything.  There was tons of electric energy in the air!

Jeanine and Rob both got ready at the Shangri-La Hotel hotel which is located on the coast in Santa Monica.  Something I think a lot of people overlook is a nice hotel room for getting ready.  As you can see from the photos it can make all the difference.  There's nothing [other than a giant smile on the bride's face] that I love more than walking into when arriving.  Great couches/beds, decor, and beautiful views can create some gorgeous backdrops for your detail shots.

The ceremony was held at one of my favorite venues to shoot at, The Adamson House Wedding Grounds which is overseen by the California State Park system.  If you've seen Deepa and Bart's Adamson House Wedding from last year it's such a great place to get married.  So many people want to get hitched under a huge tree, and the Adamson has a gorgeously placed one where the sun just streams through while you have your ceremony.  The light is just perfect!

Hope you enjoy the photos, Jeanine and Rob's wedding was an absolute pleasure to shoot!  -Ian

PS: Thank you to Michelle and Nick to whom we met Jeanine and Rob!

Photography: Ian Grant Photography
DJ: Dennis Waller Entertainment

You can see more of our Adamson House Wedding Photography work at www.distinctphoto.com

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Our little wombmate Lily is getting pretty huge and Tanya and I are getting more excited by the day!  As of today she's about 30 1/2 weeks developed and has gone from floating around and sneak kicks to constantly pressing against Tanya's belly and giving nice little skin moving jabs.  I usually get in bed around 3am most nights and she sees this as the perfect time to wake up and do some baby womb dancing/boxing practice.  It's pretty amusing.

Our nursery is coming together nicely and we're slowly accumulating all those things you need when you have a newborn baby.  Since I have no clue what that actually is we're taking a 'what do you do with that kid once she comes home' class at the hospital.  I'm predicting it's going to be amusing, but Tanya just told me it's going to be 3 hours so it's most likely going to be brain freeze after about a half-hour.

Around 26 weeks I got Tanya an extra ultrasound appointment [as it's kind of a lot of fun]  and we came away with a whole bunch more photos of our little friend.  Mostly of her sticking her tongue out and flashing gang symbols, but it was a great try.  You can even see her opening her eyes and looking around, pretty cool.  Only a couple months to go and we get to meet her!  So excited!

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Couldn't get enough smashing titanium and molten metal? Then check out these great metal forging stock photos.  After a great shoot with California Drop Forge they sent me out to their sister company Precision Metal Products to shoot more amazing metal forging shots.  This is one of those you have to see it to believe it things, I'm glad my lens hood didn't melt.

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Engagement in Paris, France

So we come to our little epic getaway of the year.  Our Australian/French friends Dione and Gui decided to do what, well most of us wish we could do, and just throw it all on the table and get married in Paris.  Tanya and I absolutely adore Paris [2011 / 2007] so when Dione came to me last year and mentioned 'oh do you happen to know any wedding photographers in Paris?', well it was pretty obvious where it was going.  Anyway, I'll share their unbelievably gorgeous wedding photos later, but in the mean time here is a little engagement in Paris shoot we did around the city.

Since we were staying on the Île Saint-Louis we started by the Seine and made our rounds to some of the great landmarks and took in that great spring sunset glow.  Tanya and I had never been to the city outside the pretty dismal winter, so I think the entire time we were there we were out basking in the sun.  Dione seemed pretty game to bounce around in her heels and really made quite an impressive presence in her deep red saturated dress.  Gui was dressed to the 9's in a great suit and played the role of tour guide around his city.

Hope you enjoy the photos! Thank you to Dione and Gui for giving us memories for a lifetime!

You can see more of our Engagement in Paris work at www.distinctphoto.com

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We love engagement sessions and think they're so important that we include them in every wedding photography package we offer.  They are a great way for us to get to know a couple and how they're best photographed, and it lets them get used to being in front of the camera.

A little while back we took a little trek down to the heart of San Diego to do a Balboa Park engagement session with the beautiful couple you see below!  Molly and Derick are an adorable set who we felt like we just knew forever from the start.  Not only are they super photogenic, but they're two of the warmest and most inviting people we've met.  You can just tell by the way the hold and look at each other they're just crazy about one another.

Balboa Park was a fun special place for them and it turned out to be a great shooting location as well.  Tons of little nooks and great spots right off the main street and gorgeous gardens were in full bloom.  Such a treat to find so many fun spaces in one area!

There are lots of fun things you can do with engagement sessions, from sign in books to postcards to table numbers.  Molly and Derick knew they wanted to make Save the Dates for their guests using their engagement photos.  So naturally they brought some custom street signs to the shoot [awesome!], which will later be incorporated in their wedding decor.  Note the clever use of the last names and the numbers for the date of the wedding.  The photos we go are super cute and it was a blast to hang out and learn more about this great couple.  Molly and Derick, we can't wait for the wedding!

You can see more of our Balboa Park Engagement Session Photos at www.distinctphoto.com

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If you've ever thought there must be a better way than a boring lined sign-in book, then you're going to love our unique wedding sign in books!  Basically we take your favorite photos from your engagement session with us [included in all packages] and turn it into a nice hardcover 10x10 book keepsake.  Every one we've made has been a huge hit at the big day and people love crowding around and writing messages in the ample white space of their favorite page.  After the wedding, you'll be able to pull out your book from time to time and proudly go through all those great photos and loving messages for years to come. :)

Enjoy the photos of the fantastic Jesse and Miranda!

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The Dana on Mission Bay Wedding - San Diego, CA

Wedding Venue/Reception: The Dana on Mission Bay

Jennie and Justin are the happiest couple you'll ever see.  They have their own unique brand of humor that the two of them can look into each others eyes and just cause the other one to crack up.  Their wedding day's photos really show you that, humor was the centerpiece of their destination San Diego wedding.  Throughout the morning the two of them were sending goofy messages back and forth, mostly about how Justin was already on the road down to Mexico [mere miles away!].

Jennie chose the color green as an accent for her shoes, the guy's ties, and the bridesmaid shawls, always a favorite of mine [I mean, look at our logo!].   For some reason it just always stands out and looks amazing in photographs.  With a huge batch of fog in town for the weekend it especially made the colors pop come ceremony time.

It's not easy to miss Jennie's admiration for her father as there were these little moments throughout the day that just brought tears to everyone's eyes.  Actually there really wasn't many dry eyes at any point, you could tell that the people who had made the trek from Baltimore and all over the country really loved these guys a ton.  Thank you for letting us share your amazing day with you Jennie and Justin!

PS: Thank you to Molly and Bill to whom we met Justin years ago at their wedding!

 Enjoy the photos!  -Ian

You can see more of our The Dana on Mission Bay Wedding Photography work at www.distinctphoto.com

Photography: Ian Grant Photography
Planning: Valley and Co.
Officiant: Bill Sperry
Cake: The French Gourmet
Hair/Makeup: Char Sanchez

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What a fun energetic couple with a wicked sense of humor!  Jennie and Justin brought their beaming faces from Baltimore to go get their engagement photos taken in the beautifully scenic Palos Verdes, CA- one of my favorite outdoorsy spots in LA.  If it wasn't impossible to get in and out of, I'd probably move there in a second.  Such peace and quiet despite having the big city right next door.  You might notice from previous shoots, if you want to get me excited pick a great outdoorsy spot.  Nothing I love more than open fields and the ocean, so PV is a little of everything!

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I got a pretty interesting gig recently!  I was hired to take some action shots of a downtown Los Angeles metal forging company called California Drop Forge.  Essentially they work in the same almost old fashioned blacksmithing technique of heating metal and then smashing it into shape- just on a giant scale.  They have massive hammers and heaters and often by hand are wielding these thousand degree chunks of steel and turning it into the things you and I use every day- a very cool learning experience.  So, they needed some promo photos for a magazine cover/article that was being put together for Forge magazine.  My first cover!  Plus nobody caught on fire!  A successful shoot had by all.

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I'm so excited to say that this September I'm going to be headed back to one of my favorite places in the world, Iceland.  If you followed my little roadtrip there [ 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 ] last year you know how much I love it and it's mostly going to be a little...well, breather before the little mini Ian arrives at the end of the year.  This time around my friend Nick is going to be traveling with me and we're getting a nice 4x4 so getting stuck in the middle of nowhere is a bit less likely.  I'll keep everyone posted, should be another epic adventure!

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As you may of caught unfolding on our Facebook, or any given celeb site [TMZ/Perez] Justin Bieber decided to make a guest stop at our Malibu Adamson House wedding this weekend.  It was just as much a shock to us as everyone else, but mostly pretty hilarious.  Special Thanks to Jeanine and Rob McCool for a really fantastic wedding- they were just on Good Morning America- crazy!

Here's how things went down- Early in the night the amazing DJ Dennis Waller and I got a private showing of one of the cousins Youtube video where she [as a super Bieber fan] got a special visit from the one and only teen idol at her house courtesy of the Ellen Show.  A completely isolated event though she clearly had shown this video to every stranger she's come across, and I mean if I were a super fan [2 square inches of wall not covered in posters/photos/albums/action figures] I'd probably be doing the...I mean yea.  So Dennis promised her he'd play a couple tunes later on in the night.

So after the cake cutting I'm hearing him live out the promise and he's playing those Bieber songs and of course the young girls with mic in hand are singing and dancing right along.  Naturally I went up there to capture the whole thing going down...

These girls were really getting into it, as I'd imagine every teenage girl who knew all the dance moves and lyrics verbatim would.  One song went into a second and literally out of nowhere who pops up but Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.

Apparently they were off on the beach next door [the Adamson House overlooks the beach right next to the pier in Malibu] doing whatever celebrities do and when they heard the first song they bounced up and over the wall and surprised everyone 'crashing the wedding' as he called it.

Of course everyone went insane as I'm sure the video's you've seen on TMZ have shown.  10 minutes and he was gone and everyone was asking themselves what the heck just happened...and who pulled the stunt to get him there with such perfect timing.  Turns out it was just a fluke, I guess celebrities just do stuff like that every so often.

There's the official story- now back to the sanity of normal day to day activities. :)

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A couple months ago we took a nice little needed trip over to Paris and got to hang out in the beautiful city of lights.  Since we usually take trips in the winter, it was significantly different than the last time we were there [2007] which had like an hour of sunlight in the entire trip!  It was also incredibly cold...and rainy.

Rather than stay in a hotel this time around we opted to get an apartment for the week and it was one of the best decisions we made.  Not a lot of people even think about going that route, but as long as you're cool with people not coming in your room and making your bed daily it's basically the same thing.  I wanted to stay in/near the Marais like the last trip, but we ended up going with staying on the Île Saint-Louis which is a little island in the middle of the Seine river.  Basically north-central Paris and right across the bridge from the Notre Dame cathedral.

Amazing location, with a crazy old building where levels hadn't been invented yet when they built the stairs and decided to put ragged beams on the ceiling.  We lived on the fifth floor so getting Tanya's preggo body up and down the stairs was a real treat [not to mention my wragged old legs], but it kept us in good shape.  Naturally they didn't have an elevator as it was like a 1600's building, so getting back up after 5-8 mile daily walks made for a painful end.

Here are some photos from our trip, it was a nice little getaway for a destination wedding- photos soon to come for that one!

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Do you have any plans on doing an Iceland destination wedding this coming year?

So I've been thinking about going back to Iceland [pretty much every day for the last few months] and think it would be a blast to shoot a wedding over there.  Anyone have any plans for an Iceland destination wedding any time soon?  Want to take along a really fun landscape loving wedding photographer with you?  Please feel free to send me an email and let me know about your plans! Passports are ready to go. :)

Great Iceland venues include:
- Hotel Budir
- Hotel Ranga
and of course you can have a small intimate ceremony pretty much anywhere.  The sky is the limit!

Check out my roadtrip travelogue of the last time I drove around the country.

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Well if that didn't get your attention enough, rumors are true [!!] and this coming December it looks like we're going to be adding another little member of the Grant family.  Tanya and I decided back in January that we were probably due to have a kid after all we started with a rabbit, then a cat, then a dog, and it was only inevitable that we were going to add a human to the list.  Thankfully we did our best to time this whole pregnancy thing so it would not effect our wedding season as much as possible...phew.  Sure enough, after the first month of trying and me getting excited about the prospect of a little science experiment we got the fantastic Amazon 15 for $5 preggo tests.  Right away, pregnant.

Once my heart stopped racing [understandably] we went about finding a doctor, and we have this great guy in Beverly Hills through Cedars Sinai hospital who just loves the fact that Tanya was born in Israel.  Seriously, I mean he just loves bringing it up in conversation- for instance when we told him we had a little international plane trip coming in May he was like 'where you going?  Israel?'  No doctor.  But thank you, I think.  Love the guy, old and totally crazy.

He also loves giving ultrasounds so we've been able to see our little Bean every few weeks more or less.  Last week after not breathing for a few days in anticipation we had the gender ultrasound and found out we're going to be having a little girl, which Tanya and I thought we were going to be having from the very start.  Random, but we never really started picking out boys names- we just kind of always knew we were going to have a girl...not that we wouldn't have been completely happy with a boy, it's just one of those random things in life where you just kind of know something with your gut intuition.  I guess we had a 50/50 shot anyway. :)

Little Bean has been throwing 3am dance parties and using Tanya's bladder as a trampoline, so if you see Tanya disappear for a few minutes every so often at your wedding that's probably where she's gone.  She just doesn't understand that tormenting mom isn't exactly the nicest thing to do 24/7...we're going to have to have a little talk when she gets out.

Anyway, I just figured I'd share the amazing news with everyone.  To answer the obvious question that's going to come up, yes, we're still shooting weddings and have no plans to miss any ever.  You just might have a very noticeable pregnant lady taking some pics, and if you give her belly a rub you get a little good luck and maybe a swift kick from our angry little womb child.  We're going to have an awesome little babysitter team in the background for 2012 that will keep an eye on our little one while we're off partying at your sweet event.  Maybe in 10 years we might have a little covert camerawoman bouncing around your toes getting those candids you didn't see coming. :)  I just bought her a pretty nice pillow for the crib of course not dropping any hints or anything...thank you Plushtography!  For our past/future clients this year's holiday postcard might just be setting a new bar of excellence.

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