aaron lam • life through the lens » beach http://www.aaronlam.com/blog aaron lam photography Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:26:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 beacon beach day. http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2010/05/23/beacon-beach-day/ http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2010/05/23/beacon-beach-day/#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 04:28:05 +0000 aaronlam http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/?p=951 Beacon finally got all his shots so Nicki and I took her to the beach in Palos Verdes for her first seaside romp. I think she had a great time! You be the judge.

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]]> http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2010/05/23/beacon-beach-day/feed/ 0 poe and gizmo. http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/11/19/poe-and-gizmo/ http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/11/19/poe-and-gizmo/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:32:13 +0000 aaronlam http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/?p=484 On my latest trip to New Zealand, got to go to Muriwai beach with Chloe, Katrina and two little guys: Poe and Gizmo. What a great exotic location for a doggy shoot.

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]]> http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/11/19/poe-and-gizmo/feed/ 0 freddie’s day at the beach. http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/09/05/freddies-day-at-the-beach/ http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/09/05/freddies-day-at-the-beach/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:39:34 +0000 aaronlam http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/?p=406 I got a chance to go with Abdul, Rehema and Freddie to the beach below Trump Golf Course in PV. It was a beautiful morning but had the HUGEST swarms of bugs flying around. I didn’t notice how bad it was until I got home and looked at the pictures. It literally looked like it was raining and too quite a bit of post to clean up the sky.

Freddie had a great time chomping up things from the ground. He didn’t go in the water but looked really close a couple times.

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]]> http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/09/05/freddies-day-at-the-beach/feed/ 1 boomer at the beach. http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/05/26/boomer/ http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/05/26/boomer/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 18:43:29 +0000 aaronlam http://aaronlam.wordpress.com/?p=227 So I got to shoot Boomer right after we came back from the wedding. It was a beautiful day in Malibu and I met Boomer’s mom Emmanuelle at Zuma Beach. Boomer was great, well-behaved Chesapeake Bay Retriever.

It was a great opportunity to stretch out my new Canon 24mm f/1.4 L II. Review coming soon…

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]]> http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/05/26/boomer/feed/ 0 redondo to solano. http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/01/18/redondo-to-solano/ http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/01/18/redondo-to-solano/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:20:51 +0000 aaronlam http://aaronlam.wordpress.com/?p=193 One of the great things about living in California is the many day road trips you can take up and down the coast. Here is Laura talking about a trip we took.

Yesterday, we took a road trip down to Solano Beach (just north of San Diego). They have a design district called Cedros Avenue. That was our end destination.

Along the way, we went to Madison Square in Laguna Beach, which is a restaurant this guy created just for dogs. It has no indoor seating and he made all the tables spaced out enough so the dogs would have room to sit around the table. It was real nice. I got german apple pancakes… only meant to eat half but I ate it all.

Madison Square & Garden Cafe
320 N Coast Hwy
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
(949) 494-0137
http://www.madisonsquare.com

Then we went to dana point and saw the salt creek beach and we walked the dogs around the grassy knolls where the craziest thing happened. Levi was barking at these corgis and then Charlie started paying attention to them. Charlie’s leash was somehow wrapped around Levi in some weird manner that when Charlie moved forward to see the corgis the leash lifted levi off the ground and levi did a 360 degree flip in the air. It was wild! He was fine and landed on his feet… he was even still barking at them. I’ve never seen anythign like it and i wish we had a video of it.

Then we went to the Mission in San Juan Capistrano and then we ate fish tacos at Cessy in Carlsbad. At this point levi had so much anxiety because Aaron left us to see the Mission and we waited in the car for him – Levi threw up his breakfast and it look like poo coming out of us mouth. Levi is just like me I guess. He has too much nervous anxiety.

Cessy Taco Shop
3016 Carlsbad Blvd
Carlsbad, CA 92008
(760) 434-2648

After cleaning that up and eating our fish tacos we went to this dessert place that was mentioned on Chowhound.com called Elizabethan Desserts and we got smores bars and cookies and mini pies. It was so good. We still have the mini pie for today, strawberry rhubarb. hmmm..

Then we drove to Cedros Ave design district. I got some xmas cards for next year. And then we went back to Carlsbad and watched the sunset on the beach. Aaron walked around the beach and the dogs and I waited in the car. And then another funny thing happened to Levi. He was so nervous about Aaron leaving he watched him the whole time. And when Aaron walked far enough away and the sand dunes were all you saw, levi got real nervous and jumped out the window. I had him leashed so he didn’t run away. He hurt his back leg a little. But that was so amazing. I have never seen a dog do that. And now I know that I can’t leave my windows cracked to wide or he will definitely jump out. Then we stopped at the Carlsbad outlet which had some amazing sales.

We stopped in Laguna Niguel for some pizza at ny upper crust pizza which got a 91% rating. It was good. 

NY Upper Crust Pizza
28051 Greenfield Dr # B
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
(949) 831-4300
http://www.nysuppercrustpizza.com‎

- Laura

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]]> http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2009/01/18/redondo-to-solano/feed/ 3 charlie and cj’s day at the beach video. http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2008/08/10/charlie-and-cjs-day-at-the-beach-video/ http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2008/08/10/charlie-and-cjs-day-at-the-beach-video/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:12:08 +0000 aaronlam http://aaronlam.wordpress.com/?p=71 CJ’s mom Melissa took this super cute video of Charlie in the water.

]]> http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2008/08/10/charlie-and-cjs-day-at-the-beach-video/feed/ 0 charlie and cj’s day at the beach. http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2008/08/09/charlie-and-cjs-day-at-the-beach/ http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2008/08/09/charlie-and-cjs-day-at-the-beach/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:14:57 +0000 aaronlam http://aaronlam.wordpress.com/?p=58 For all of you who knew Charlie when he was younger, you know there were only two words that could describe him: crazy and fast. That kept us from taking him to dog parks, hiking trails and most of all… beaches. Charlie had been to the beach once when he was 2. He ran off playing with all the other dogs and wouldn’t come back. So we held off on going back… even though he loved the water. Now that he is 4, we decided to give him another shot. And this time, we brought back up… Charlie’s BFF CJ and his parents. Believe it or not, Charlie was well-behaved and didn’t get into any trouble. How times have changed!

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]]> http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2008/08/09/charlie-and-cjs-day-at-the-beach/feed/ 0 biking redondo beach to santa monica http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2008/05/26/biking-redondo-beach-to-santa-monica/ http://www.aaronlam.com/blog/2008/05/26/biking-redondo-beach-to-santa-monica/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 02:04:51 +0000 aaronlam http://aaronlam.wordpress.com/?p=24 Whew. So for Memorial Day this year, I decided to bike from Redondo Beach and meet Laura who was staying with Angie in Santa Monica. Sounds like fun, right? It was a goregeous day and it was great! The boardwalk by the beach is mostly flat so it was an easy ride. Mapmyrun.com said it was about 18 miles but there were so many twists and turns… it felt a bit longer. I am sure me being totally out of shape didn’t help. With frequent stops to take pictures, it took me 2.5 hrs. All capped by a great breakfast at Jack and Jills.

Jack and Jills
510 Santa Monica Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 656-1501

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