Jaque

Jaque. You will be missed a lot and often. Your big beautiful smile was so contagious. I will miss you twin.

I don't have words right now.


Jaque Villagomez
1989-2008

Portugal!!

Here are a few photos from near the end of my Europe trip. These are near and around Libon. Portugal is so beautiful and has so many neat things to see. In Lisbon we stayed with Cassy's cousin Luis (thanks Luis) and his roommates- who were great fun! This first picture is the view from a castle (hence the canon). There are a lot of castles in Portugal, most of them on top of hills which were originally designed that way for self defense, but now make for beautiful views from the top.




Also, Cassy's other cousin Nunu took us to this beautiful park. It is called the Poets Park and is filled with poems of Portugese poets and really amazing architecture.


Another beautiful castle:

Its amazing what friends let you do....

One of the days that Cassy, Jess and I were relaxing in Figuera de Foz, Portugal, Cassy wasn't feeling very well and was sleeping so Jess agreed to let me do a photo shoot of her. She said she was up for anything and I took her up on it. haha. So I did her hair and make-up, we picked out and out fit and out we went. Jess was great, and being that she use to be a photographer she was really easy to work with and -I think- could bear with me as I changed lenses or told her to skooch over just a bit for some cool lighting effect. It was a lot of fun- thanks for being such a great sport Jess!

It's amazing what friends let you do.

Paris!

Bonjour everybody!
I finally have the opportunity to update my blog and show you some new pictures. Some time internet places wont let you upload anything, or we dont have time, so finally here we go!
So after our trip to Barcelona, Jessica, Cassy and I flew over to Paris. Paris is a very beautiful city. It had a lot of differences than Barcelona. Barcelona was all about the night life and everyone was out and shopping and drinking and hanging out. In Paris, the shops closed around 7:00pm and there werent as many people out late at night. There we however lots of people still out in front of the Eiffle Tower. We went there the first two nights with a group from our hostel. We met a lot of really nice people from the hostel and ended up doing like everything with them. The second night we went to the hostel was especially fun. We took my blanket and a few bottles of wine and sat out on the lawn until pretty late. The next day we went on a walking tour around the city wich was really helpful and insightful. It also helped us get familiar where things were in the city. We also went to the Caticombs, wich are like these series of tunnels that go underground tht contain over 5 million corpses. Skulls and bones line the walls of the tunnels- its very creepy. On the last full day there we also went to the Louve- wich as you probably know contains a lot of amazing art work, including about 6 of Leonardo DeVinci´s painting- one being one of my favorites of his: Modonna of the Rocks. That was really neat to see. We also spent time window shopping (everything was way too expensive to buy but it was still alot of fun to look).




The clouds have been soo beautiful here.

These are the Caticombs I was talking about... really creepy.




This is me rockin´ the Paris shirt that Travis let me borrow- haha. Thanks Love!



Also in Paris, Cassy and I did a photoshoot of eachother. haha it was a lot of fun and we felt so fashionable being in Paris and all. Here are a few pictures from our shoot:






Here is a sneek peak of Figuera de Foz, Portugal. We just arrived here yesterday, and there will deffinately be more pictures to come because everything is so beautiful here.

My first report from spain!

Hola! We all made it to Barcelona. This is my first stop of my trip and I met up with my friends Cassy, Jessica and Cassy´s cousin Luis. I dont have a lot of time to write much, I will try to update this blog more with stories when I get back. But for now, here are a few picture highlights from yesterday.

Family!

This past weekend, my brother (Brian), and sister-in-law (Cristina), and my favorite (and only) niece came to visit family down here in Orange County. They have a three month old daughter, named Kylie Capri, and of course she was the star of the show. She is so expressionate and full of personality. She laughs, coos, pouts, and crys -and is so cute no matter what she does. It was great to see them, and I love being Aunti Jan!


Me and Kylie...

My new blog!!

Hi everyone!
So I've finally started my photography blog. I figured I better start now before I leave for Europe, because then I am going to be overflowing with pictures. I am going to go to Portugal, Spain and France for a month and I am so excited. So anyway, welcome!

Here are a few pictures of my neighbor Spencer I shot this past weekend. Spencer has been my neighbor for over eight years. She was so eager and willing, it was a blast. I had her standing in a sewer, balancing on a fallen down fence and she looked like she was even having fun with it. Also Spencer is an amazing horse back rider and has won all sorts of medals. It was so much fun to do this photo shoot, but I can't wait to take pictures of her with her horse, doing what she really loves.