Sneak peak at Theara and Gale's E-session

Had the awesome opportunity to photograph my latest wedding couple, Theara and Gale yesterday at the Queen Mary in Long Beach. Here's a sneak peak at one of the images, with more to come soon!


Have a terrific day everyone!

Another Tour of Cali for me!

Stage 7 of the Tour of California. Pasadena Rose Bowl finish. Enjoy!

Not sure who this is, but by the looks on his face, he put in one heck of an effort!
(Post finish photo)

This is my favorite shot of the day.
The rider to the immediate right of the flyer is Lance Armstrong.

The man himself. Kinda hard to catch a speeding bullet!

Lance's Astana cycling team controlling the last few laps of the race.

Let's see, nice bike = pretty girls, right?

I'm not sure if you heard all the hubbub about Lance's bike getting stolen, but this is the actual bike everyone was talking about after it had been recovered. It doesn't show in this photo, but as the day went on, throngs of people were talking photos of this bike!

The same bike, with a special inscription made for Lance by the designers.
Kinda IRONIC don't you think?

I've got an engagement shoot this upcoming weekend for some new clients of mine that I am looking so forward to! We're shooting at the Queen Mary - woo hoo!!! More photos to come from that shoot next week. Have a great week everyone, and thanks for stopping by!

More Super Bowl photos

I'll let the photos speak for themselves.

I guess this is how it was during the 40's when 3D glasses were "cool".

Chef Boy-pat-ties.

The all American Super Bowl menu. Jason G. digging in!

Meat. And lots of it.

Our "losers" bracket competitors right before their game. We totally rooted for Tamlyn for this!

Tamlyn getting into it. Pete won unfortunately. You'll see why later.

Our commissioner, Vic with the final brackets of our tourney.

This is Jennie, right before she closed the door on her pantry re-organization project.

Tamlyn wearing the headgear to the losers' prize.

Now if a hot "chick" like this wanted to wrestle you, would you?!!!
The ultimate loser of the losers' bracket had to wear this wrestling singlet, along with the afro. Hence we wanted Pete to lose, and not Tamlyn. Oh well, eye candy is, EYE CANDY!

The Winners' bracket, David and Laura duking it out.

Once again, the Commish with our winners bracket contestants.

Photo op!

CJ, Pete and Jay astounded by the game play they're watching!

And finally, this is Berlin. How cute is this!
That's Lily on the right trying to get B's graham cracker.

Have a great week everyone :)

3D? Seriously?

More to come from Super Sunday in the life of Mike Palma. But here's a sneak peak. Yikes.

3D supposedly really works according to this group.

Weekend shooting! I mean, photography :)

Happy Sunday everyone! Just wanted to share with you all some shots from this weekend. I've been trying some new things with strobes and what not a better group of people to try them out on than the members of Cold Tofu! Check it out!

Alden V. - He NEVER takes a bad photo. NEVER.

Aaron, doing his best "Che" pose. Kinda works doesn't it?

Denise. I like it, do you think she will?

Jully, trying to bone up on her improv right before our show last night. Yeah right!

Robert. Roberto. Covey. Bobby Covey.

This is Lindy. Had a terrific headshot sitting with her today. Look for her soon on the big and small screens!

Gotta love the rain puddles :)

Okay folks! Hope you all had a terrific weekend! Please leave a comment if liked what you saw. Thanks to everyone for letting me shoot them :)

One month to the day!

Okay, I admit it, I've lagged over the past month with my posts, what with the holidays (and over abundance of food!), the horrible cough/cold/flu I caught, and the awesome new era with Obama as our president (woo hoo!). Suffice it to say, I'm back! And if you're reading this, thanks for checking back to see if I'm still around :)

Since my last (non-photo) post, I've been shooting, as usual. Doing a lot of family photos, headshot sessions, a Disneyland trip, day to day stuff and most recently, an impromptu session with a good friend of mine, Denise. Denise was nice enough to take me along to the "Vanity Fair Portraits" exhibit at LACMA last friday, and with all those wonderful photos hanging around, how could one NOT be inspired to shoot! Of course I had my camera with me, so with what light I found, she and I turned a few moments into a shooting session. Take a look:

Probably on the phone with her agent. So L.A.

Our parking garage studio session.

You didn't really think that there was just one Denise did you?

Last but not least, my buddy Aaron T. You may have seen him recently in Jim Carey's "Yes Man".

Alrightee then! What a start. I've got a lot of portrait sessions coming up, and a wedding! Woo hoo! Can't wait :)

Until next time, Happy New Year (23 days late), and happy Obamanation!

Happy Holidays Everyone

Just wanted to drop everyone a line and wish you all a safe and happy holidays from M Palma Photography. Thanks for tuning in all year, and watch out for more great photos next year!

All the best,

Mike