Thank you for checking in on our blog! My name is Ian and I'm a photographer in greater the Los Angeles area. That's my wife Tanya over there too- she's great with clients and has a fantastic design sense. I specialize in Wedding Photography and Headshots but you'll often catch me out shooting landscapes and visiting National Parks in my spare time. In my wedding photography I like to combine both, so I guess I'm a landscape-wedding photographer. I love long roadtrips and have been all over the US from Rhode Island to California. I enjoy planning far away trips and going over to Europe to drive around aimlessly for an extended amount of time. Tanya and I run Ian Grant Photography out of our beach spot in the Los Angeles subburb of Playa del Rey, CA. Enjoy your stay, and feel free to introduce yourself!
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Since Tanya and I moved a few weeks ago, it’s pulled out a lot of old photos from storage which is pretty fun. One of my favorite old photos [well not really old, circa 2005] is this great image of Swans about to attack a family over in Galway, Ireland. It’s always great to see how much you’ve improved over time, but this one in my eyes is a classic.
On day two Nick and I woke up to a comfortably flooded tent, and a constant downpour so it really looked like the weekend was going to be a bust. While I love shooting in fog, the rain really makes a days worth of photographing a little tricky. With that said, we decided to head south on the Pacific Coast Highway [HWY 1] to see the Point Arena lighthouse. On the way we saw a really gorgeous Navarro River Redwoods SP complete with sharkfin sea rocks and killer waves [that almost took us out].
As some of you may have followed, my friend Nick and I were able to escape for the weekend and go camping up in Mendocino County of California. On day one we drove overnight up to Fort Bragg from LA and stayed the night at Mackerricher State Park along the beach. During the day we explored Mackerricher and saw some baby seals and later on we headed down to Jug Handle State Reserve which I’d highly recommend. Just the peninsula area overlooking the water was worth it alone.
While it was coastal cloudy in the morning, the later in the day it got, the more rain started coming in which seriously hampered a lot of picture taking. By the end of the night it was downpouring and everything covering us got soaked. Thankfully after some serious time spent we were able to get a fire going which made everything better. The highlight without a doubt was seeing 6 Banana Slugs which are the largest slugs in the world!
I’ll be posting day two’s photos in the next couple days, hope you enjoy!
It was a very cold and rainy camping adventure on the Mendocino coastline [this is me as I'm about to get pulled out to sea by a freak wave].
This weekend my friend Nick and I are heading off on one of our absurdly long roadtrips again! This time we are traveling from Los Angeles to a little coastal town called Fort Bragg in Mendocino County [about 3/4 up the California coastline]. We’re going to be camping at Mackericher State Park right next to the Pacific with potential wolves waiting for our tired bodies. From there we’re taking Highway 1 down to Salt Point State Park and camping there as well. Bookmark this page as I’ll be uploading camera phone photos from the road, I’ll have to keep a running tally of how many miles we do. Till then you can look at a picture of Riley and see how much he already misses me.
For a small sampling of previous ‘death-trips’ as we call them please see:
• 2007: The Channel Island Deathtrip
• 2007: The Petrified Desert Deathtrip [camera-phone updates]
• 2008: The Oregone Deathtrip [also camera-phone updates]
We’re probably going to be on the road and posting from roughly 2am’ish Friday – 3pm Sunday.
So, if I didn’t mention it already- Tanya and I packed up our pets, garden, and photo supplies and moved quite literally two doors down [approx. 20 feet north]. What this means is a] an OFFICE! b] a new home for Riley the dog [uh, the office] and c] more space than we know what to do with! We’ve been living in a pretty small space for the last few years and when a new place opened up, we decided to make the change. We’re both kind of pack rats and this was revealed in the move, so now we’re able to spread out a bit and really get rid of that overall claustrophobic feeling. With that, it’s also gives us tons of space for beautiful landscapes on the wall! We fit one wall with some great images from my last Ireland trip and the other from Harris Beach State Park, and yet another with some vintage Salton Sea photos in white frames. What was left was the biggest wall right behind our couches. What better way to fill it then a giant 60×40 canvas of a blue Big Sur photograph! I’m pretty psyched as I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of my photos this big, but I’ll have to report back on how it looks. I’m a little scared/nervous though, this is going to be so cool!
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