It’s that time of year again. The Lakeside Rodeo is about to get underway in my hometown of Lakeside. Along with the pageant for the Miss Rodeo Lakeside 2010. I’ve had the pleasure of photographing more than a few of the wonderful people on the rodeo circuit, and it’s such a treat. This year, Donna have been honored with the getting to take the portraits of ALL the Miss Rodeo Lakeside 2010 contestants.

I confess that when I was a kid, I thought the entire Lakeside Western Days that come with the rodeo where all happening for my birthday. Can you say egocentric? Don’t worry, I’ve gotten better. And besides, my parents feed that idea to me. Since it all happens around my birthday, I think my parents used the parade, carnival and the rodeo as my birthday party activities. It was a long time ago, and long before the jumpie parties of today, so you can’t blame them.

Good luck to each of the contestants. Any of them would be a wonderful representative of Lakeside.

To see this even larger, go to http://video214.com/play/dtx1FfDZsDsGUYg70SCltQ/s/dark?res=hq

Miss Rodeo Lakeside 2010 from Geri Goodale on Vimeo.

Some days are just blessed, and that’s how the wedding day of Mike & Kathleen seemed. Perfect day, a couple deeply in love, all wrapped up in the warmth and tenderness of family and friends. Their wedding was beautiful and took place a Point Loma Nazarene University, and their wedding reception, held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, was one of the best. Not because it was the biggest, because it wasn’t, it was simply and sincerely a lot of fun. Capturing priceless moments between people is what gets us excited about what we do. Moments between the bride and groom are beyond exquisite, but there’s more than that at a wedding. Like the moment below of Kathleen and her father. When a father sees his baby girl on her wedding day and has to hold back the tears… that’s that kind of moment that bring a tear to our eyes too.

Here’s to Kathleen & Mike and a Marriage Blessed!