I was honored when PPA called me and wanted to do a feature on me. Thank you Professional Photographer,

Cameron Bishopp, and Lorna Gentry for the opportunity!

Read the article online here.

Check out my Workshop at WPPI in Las Vegas on Saturday February 19th 2011

Check out my Workshop at WPPI in Las Vegas on Saturday February 19th 2011

So here’s the deal. Ryan and Robert will be hosting a completely comprehensive wedding photography workshop on Wednesday, November 17th with slots open at 7PM and 10PM EST and will be tackling ALL of the questions and concerns that we get on a daily basis from brides-to-be. Here are some of the topics that they will cover…

• How to look your best in all your shots!
• How to determine your wedding photography budget.
• Discuss typical packages and show you what you should be getting for your money.
• What photographers are really showing you in their portfolio and whether your photographer has the experience to shoot at the level you want.
• The importance of having a photography time line and how to sync it with your wedding planner’s general time line.
• The importance of seeing your photographer before the wedding.
• How to avoid the headache of wrangling family for pictures.
• Details are what get your wedding published! We’ll show you how to get the most out of your detail shots – and yes, it means planning time to shoot them.

And all of this coming from two guys who have literally worked with the most famous people in the world to photograph the most famous weddings in the world (we’re talking Tom + Katie and Brad + Jennifer, people). This is a REALLY cool opportunity to educate yourself on how wedding photography should work and how to get the most out of your photography dollars. The workshop cost is $29.

Click here to get signed up! And make sure you start jotting down your questions as there will be a live Q & A after the lesson!

PurePhoto is a community for people who love great photography. You can learn, be inspired, connect with others, buy art prints and even sell you own. Check out PurePhoto for more info.

St Regis Monarch Beach- Orange County California

I was honored to be featured on the front page of the Orange County Register today. I continue to love what I do and feel great appreciating each day i get to pick up a camera. Here is a link to the article from the Orange County Registers web page http://www.ocregister.com/articles/evans-262032-wedding-says.html  OR scroll down to read…

Robert Evans poses as he photographs a couple for their engagement portraits on Santa Monica Beach.

ANA P. GUTIERREZ, FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Orange County: Big corporate party.

That’s what the caller said. They were looking for a photographer.

Can you send some of your work?

Sure.

Wedding photographer Robert Evans submitted what he had – wedding pictures.

“I had no idea,” he says, of what awaited: Hollywood mansions. Roman castles. A security guard to protect him.

And a $1-million bounty on his photographs!

For 10 years, he’d spent weekends shooting the first dance, the cake, the garter. Eating chicken with the band. Waiting for the bride and groom to climb into the limo.

Life was about to change. Still, even after he was offered the assignment, the whole thing remained cloaked in mystery.

Then he heard a news report about an upcoming event the same time and place.

“I laughed, I cried, I freaked out,” Evans says. “All these emotions spilled out of me at the same time. I’m sitting there in my office, thinking, no way!”

He’d been hired to shoot Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s wedding.

FLOWERS

Why him?

The long answer is hard work, an artist’s eye and a portfolio of unique photos. But the short answer is: flowers!

That’s how Evans found himself in the home of Jennifer Aniston on July 27, 2000 – two days before the wedding – with Brad Pitt bringing him a Coke.

“Here I have Brad Pitt waiting on me,” Evans says, smiling at the memory. “It was very surreal.”

See, over the years, Evans made a habit of shooting wedding floral arrangements and mailing his best shots to the florist. LA Premiere, of Beverly Hills, was so taken with his photos that they recommended him for weddings. Including the Pitt-Aniston wedding.

“I wasn’t given any rules of what I could or couldn’t shoot,” Evans says of the oceanfront wedding that attracted paparazzi from around the world.

He shot extreme close-ups of Pitt working on his vows. Candids of guests Cameron Diaz, Ed Norton and Salma Hayek. He even tossed one camera body 10 feet to an assistant as the couple walked down the aisle to get a shot he needed.

When the party ended, he asked for a security guard to accompany him past the throng of paparazzi.

“I was told the bounty on those wedding photos was $1 million,” he says. “I didn’t want to get run off the road.”

The next day, he delivered 1,200 photos, with negatives, to the bride and groom with everything else shredded.

“Honestly, after Brad and Jen, I thought I will never do another wedding that big again,” he says.

But Evans was just getting started.

ROMAN CASTLE

Jim Carrey. Christina Aguilera. Trent Reznor. Anastacia. Those are just a few celebrities who’ve hired Evans for personal photos.

“I think he’s possibly the best wedding photographer anywhere – and I’ve met quite a few,” says actor Ian Ziering (Beverly Hills 90210) who hired Evans for his May wedding at the Pelican Hill Resort in Newport Beach.

You wouldn’t know it to meet Evans, a low-key husband and father of three.

“I’d see him in the morning – in sweats, a hat, a normal dad – dropping his daughter off at school,” says Joelle Beckett, who met Evans’ wife Amy, through their first-grade children.

“One day at coffee, I asked Amy, ‘What’s your husband do?’” Beckett recalls.

“He’s a photographer.”

“Oh, I know lots of photographers,” Beckett answered. “Maybe I could hook him up. I know people who are wedding photographers!”

For a year, they’d gabbed as their daughters played on swings and became best friends. But this was the first inkling Beckett heard of Evans’ success.

Let’s put it this way:

Fashion magazine Marie Claire named a certain 2006 wedding the 4th most iconic celebrity wedding of all time. Forbes magazine named it the 4th most expensive celebrity wedding of all time.

There was one photographer inside Rome’s Odescalchi Castle that day, when Tom Cruise married Katie Holmes.

And it was Robert Evans.

THE CALL

Which, again, raises the question: Why? This time, the answer is longer.

Evans says two things set photographers apart: Your eye. And your personality.

Your eye is like your fingerprint, he says, because no two photographers see things the same. That can’t be copied.

And personality? Family friend and stockbroker Steve Cobin, 68, of Encino, sums up Evans’ success this way:

“It’s the aura around him. It’s the vibe he gives off. Robbie is a very sweet, good to the core, honest, and in a way naive. He’s vulnerable, but all that sensitivity is what makes him such a wonderful photographer.”

As an example, listen to what Evans recalls about shooting the 4th most fashionable and expensive celebrity wedding of all time.

After shooting Tom Cruise getting dressed and Katie Holmes in makeup. After shooting them kissing from behind the altar. After Andrea Bocelli sang and fireworks exploded and they cut a five-tiered cake with marzipan roses in the 15th Century courtyard. After Evans shot his now-famous “gold wall photo” that beamed across the planet …

He stepped outside at 4:30 a.m. to call his wife. And who should walk out but Tom Cruise!

Hey, would you talk to my wife?

Sure.

“I expected him to say hi to her,” Evans says. “They ended up talking five minutes.”

Contact the writer: 714-796-6979 or tberg@ocregister.com

If you are looking for great wedding images please feel free to call me, I am happy to answer any question you may have.

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One of the highlights of our family vacation this summer while in Breckenridge Colorado, was encountering these Mountain Goats while hiking at 11,000 feet. We saw at least 20 Mountain Goats along with 5 or so babies. They seemed to be very friendly or a least they let me get close enough to take these images. The family above paid me to take this family portrait, all be it in goat bucks. I only did it for a few bucks as their horns were a bit sharp!

It was so awesome to just be able to watch them let alone be able to capture these images. Sometimes photography is a little bit luck and a little bit skill,  I would say that day LUCK was on my side. I did however head up to this location with my Aunt whom we were visiting, with the intention to photograph them. There was no guarantee that they would be there, but I think this is a classic example of, if you want something bad enough you can effect the outcome. The Desire = The Goal = The Reward

Below is a little information about the goats. How about that, you get to look at cool images and get a little knowledge all at the same time?  Don’t you just love the internet?

Robert Evans

Their habitat ranges from the high mountains in the northwestern United States all the way to Alaska. Mountain goats live in places where there is a lot of snowfall. I am surprised that they can survive on the cliffs and in the dangerous weather. They live in some of the world’s most rugged terrain and usually settle close to the timberline, often as high as 8,000 feet above sea level. They usually don’t have much company, since not many animals can survive in the snowy land up in the clouds.

The mountain goats are excellent climbers. Their hooves have soft pads in the middle for traction. The pads are also slightly hollowed and act like a suction cup when they press down. The edges are hard for cutting into rock or ice. Their hooves are also split into two sections, unlike a horse. The two sections can be spread out wide so the mountain goat won’t slip when traveling downhill. Two claws higher up on the foot work like brakes if the goat begins to slide. The mountain goats can run through anything like hard rock, snow, and ice. They are able to perform amazing feats! If they run out of room on a ledge, they can either back up or stand up on their hind legs, turn around and drop back down to all four hooves. They can also jump from one dangerous ledge to another, covering as much as 10 feet in a single bound. If a mountain goat wants to move to a higher ledge, it can leap straight up and hook its front feet over the top of a rock. Using its back legs, it then pulls itself up over the ridge to the top.

Mountain goats are safe from most predators high in the mountains. Sometimes a golden eagle might get a young baby, but only the cougar and the lynx are surefooted enough to be dangerous in the high altitudes. If attacked they fight very well with their razor-sharp horns. Rock slides and avalanches are much more dangerous to mountain goats than predators.

The mountain goats are about 36-48 inches from shoulders to hooves. Billies can weigh up to 250 pounds or more. Nannies are much lighter and smaller.

Both sexes have black horns, but you can tell the difference between nannies and billies because the billies’ horns are curved and the nannies’ are more straight, with a sharp curve at the tips. They never lose their horns, they just grow a little longer each year.

Their fur is yellowish-white that covers the body. They also have a little tuft of fur under their chins. Mountain goats are well dressed for life in the mountains. They wear a heavy, whit fleecy coat which keeps them snug and warm in cold weather. The shaggy outer layer is made up of guard hairs that may be up to 5-6 inches long that shed both water and snow. Underneath are about 3-4 inches of very fine wool. The undercoat helps to keep their valuable body heat from escaping.

Because their front legs are short compared to the back legs, they walk very stiffly, appearing to strut around.

The Indians of the northwest once used the wooly undercoat of the mountain goat for making beautiful, lightweight, and warm Chilkat blankets.

Mountain goats eat any exposed vegetation in the high mountains. Most of their food consists of grasses, sedges, and rushes. They also love salt and often snack on a special type of clay found high in the mountains. They are herbivorous ruminants, or cud chewing animals. This means that they first gulp down their food while foraging and store it for later when they can relax and eat. They have two parts to their stomachs, one for storing food which is later brought back up to the mouth for chewing, another part for digesting food. Stored food is regurgitated back up to the mouth for chewing and is then swallowed into the part of their stomach used for digesting. Mountain goats are sturdy creatures and can find plenty to eat where cows would starve. You can tell how good their diet is by the size of the rings on their horns. Narrow growth rings mean they didn’t have much food. If you count the rings on their horns, you can tell the number of winters the goat has lived. The average mountain goat lives about ten rings.

Nannies are the bosses in mountain goat society except in mating season. Billies live alone or in small groups during the summer, joining up with the nannies and kids in the fall, when mating season begins. When mating starts the males start fighting over whose nannie is whose. If one of them doesn’t back down, they may fight, using their horns as daggers. Usually the fights are short, but sometimes there are serious injuries.

They don’t travel very far in the winter, usually no more than a range of 5 miles. When spring arrives, it is time for the mountain goat to begin to shed it’s heavy winter coat. Large patches of their fleece are shed and catch on rocks and bushes. While they are shedding, they look very scraggly, with clumps of wool hanging from their bodies. Before too long, a new lightweight summer coat grows in and thickens in through the fall. New guard hairs grow and a new thick undercoat develops in time for the cold winter.

Nannies’ give birth in late spring, finding a cave or grassy ledge on a cliff. They usually have only one baby, but sometimes have twins, and very rarely have triplets.

The babies have two black leathery spots on their head where horns will grow. A few minutes after being born, the kid stands up and begins to feed on its mother’s milk. The kids are usually about 13 inches tall at the shoulder and weigh about 7 pounds. In less than 1 hour the kid is hopping on its own legs.

The young mountain goat follows its mother really closely. Nannies stay very close to their young kids. If any animal tries to get the kid it has to get past the mom first. After a few days, they join the band of other nannies and their young.

The young mountain goats start nibbling on plants when they are one week old but they will keep drinking their mother’s milk for another five weeks or so. By winter they weigh about 22 pounds. They stay with their mother through the winter, but when spring comes the nannies send them off on their own before the new kids are born. Most of the kids stay with the band for at least another year before going out on their own.

Photographer: Robert Evans Studios
2nd Shooter Photographer:  Christopher Wren
Reception Venue: Strawberry Farms
Florist: JL Designs
Wedding Coordinator:  Jennifer Wahlquist
Caterer:  Strawberry Farms

Cake: Pipeline Balboa Bar
Bride’s Dress:  Mon Cheri
Reception Music: Upstart
Invitation Design:  Promise Tangeman Creative
Photobooth:  Troy Grover Photographers

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Monday March 8th 2010

Smug Mug Booth Monday 3-8-10 11:00am-11:30am

Couture Book Booth Monday 3-8-10 11:30 am-12:30 pm

Bay Photo Booth Monday 3-8-10 2:30pm-3:00pm

Tuesday March 9th 2010

Couture Book Booth Tues 3-9-10 11:30 am-12:30 pm

Smug Mug Booth Tuesday 3-9-10 1:30pm-2:00pm

Bay Photo Booth Tuesday 3-9-10 2:30pm-3:00pm

Leather Craftsmen Booth Tuesday 3-9-10 3:00pm-4:00pm

My mission is to be the most trusted name in wedding photography by creating artful images that freeze time and provide memories that last far beyond the fleeting moment.

PRINCIPLES

I believe that photographing a wedding is a privilege and an honor which I cherish each time I am invited to participate.
I am entrusted to capture moments in time that will be shared with family and friends for many generations into the future.
I photograph each wedding as if it was my own.
I shoot to capture emotion in art so people are swept back to the exact feeling and moment the image was taken.

VALUES

Always do what is right.

Project confidence, but remain humble.
Have compassion for others.
Respond to each person’s individual needs.
Be the standard that all others strive to achieve.

FINGERPRINT

As a professional photographer for over twenty years, I have learned that with each passing year I grow as an artist and my body of work continues to improve each day. However, nothing great comes easily, quickly or without hard work and sweat equity. Paying your dues pays off because with experience comes knowledge, and combining what I have learned with my distinctive vision has helped mold me into a leader in my industry. With this success comes a certain responsibility, and I always strive to set an example among my peers by appreciating each day I pick up a camera, committing to continually grow as an artist, and vowing to never be complacent or arrogant. Finally, I have learned that making a mistake or failing is part of the process and that growing from the experience and moving forward makes me better as a person and an artist.

For the second year in a row I was honored to be asked by Us Weekly Magazine and WeddingChannel.com to photograph the Dream Wedding. The newlyweds Van Ngo and Eric Oberly A Washington, D.C.-based couple won a $100,000 day to remember on Sept. 27, 2009. Their wedding took place at the Ronald Regan building in Washington DC. Van made her beautiful Vera Wang gown look stunning.   (See images from the wedding on Us Weekly.com)

I had a great time while I was in DC. I had a little time to be a tourist so I walked down to the White House and had tea with The First Lady. Mr. O    was away running the country and could not join us. We had a nice visit but I needed to get to rehearsal at the Ronald Regan building where the lucky couple’s nuptials would take place the next day. After the walk through we headed off to dinner and drinks with the ladies from Weddingchannel.com and Us Weekly Magazine. We had great conversation but need to get some sleep as it was going to be a long wedding day. Before bed I was excited to take a spin in the massage chair that was in my room. Let me tell you it was worth the price of admission, WOW amazing. This chair rocked, it had so many different things it did I thought I died and gone to heaven. I woke up at 3:30 am wondering where I was and what had happened. What happen was, I feel asleep in the darn thing, that’s how great it felt. Next time you are in DC make sure to stay at the  Loews Madison Hotel not only for the massage chairs but the beds we super comfortable and the food was great too.

The two days prior to the wedding it had been raining in Washington DC but on the day of the wedding the sky had cleared and it was beautiful. We had fours hours and a bus limo to drive us around and utilize some of the historic locations around DC. We shot at the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument then headed to the Ronald Regan Building for more pictures with the couple and their families.

The room where the ceremony and reception were held was just stunning, with a dome ceiling it felt like we were in the Capitol. The decor was amazing, flowers to linens Janet Flowers outdid herself.

The band, The Source from Elan Artists had the floor hopping, even grandma couldn’t resist, the dance floor was packed all night.

I especially want to thank David Wittig and Sarah E. Carter who both flew in to shoot with me. David from Chicago and Sarah from Indianapolis. Love Indy… (I am a bit Hoosier myself, although I was born a raised in Los Angeles, I spent my summers in Indiana with my grandparents who lived on a lake, from age five to age seventeen.)

Also a big shout out to Nicole Wolf who met us for drinks on Friday night when I arrived. I loved hanging out with Nicole she even took us to a DC party where her friends band was playing in the Basement. Loved getting the real (underground) DC experience, thanks Nichole.  Prior to Drinks with Nicole I had a great meal with my cousin Katie who I haven’t seen for two years. She is a graphic designer and recently moved to the Baltimore area, she woman-ed up a came to the party as well even though she had an hour drive home. Atta-Girl!

It was a great bunch of people who came together to make this wedding happen. Thank you everyone it was great working together with you.

These are a few of my favorites that didn’t get published, enjoy……

Van Ngo and Eric Oberly, both 28, were one of thousands of entrants into Us and WeddingChannel.com‘s annual Dream    Wedding contest. They said “I Do” in a lavish  affair worth $100,000 at the stately Ronald Reagan building in Washington,   D.C. on Sept. 27. Check out photos of the big day here, and visit their vendors below:

Venue, Decor, Food & Lodging

Venue and Food: Ronald Regan Building & International Trade Center

Gobo Lighting: PROjection Presentation Technology, Ronald Regan Building/International Trade Center

Flowers: Janet Flowers: Janet Wedding and Event

Wedding Cake: Sylvia Weinstock Cakes

Hotel Rooms: The Madison, A Loews Hotel

Favors: Garretts Popcorn

Table Linens, Plates / Flatware: DC Rentals

Attire

Wedding Gown: Vera Wang

Bridesmaid Gowns, Flower Girl Dress, Bridesmaid Shoes: Lela Rose

Bridal Party Shoes: Unforgettable Moments by Lela Rose for Payless Shoes

Tuxedos: Men’s Warehouse

Wedding Gown Alterations: Maria’s Bridal Designs

Jewelry

Bride & Groom Wedding Bands, Bride Wedding Day Jewelry Rentals: Tacori

Bridal Party Jewelry Rentals: AdornBrides.com

Vendors

Photographer: Robert Evans

Videographer: Michael Eller of Monachetti

Wedding Invitations / Stationary, Wedding Menus, Placecards: Ceci New York

Entertainment: The Source from Elan Artists

Guest Book, Ring Pillow, Trackarita Beverage Napkins: WeddingChannel.com WedShop

Makeup, Hair: The CM Artists Group

Transportation: Reston Limo

Sound: Capitol Media Systems