Hello and welcome to the blog of Dennis Viera Photography. We are Dennis and Jaime Viera, a husband and wife photography team based dually in San Diego, California and Dunedin, New Zealand. We shoot weddings, portraits, lifestyle, editorial, and many other random things!

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We are on our big road trip from San Diego, CA to Vancouver, BC!  We're taking a much needed holiday and have driven up the whole west coast - just me, Dennis, and Alex. We will post a whole series on our road trip soon. We walked around downtown today and after getting a Japadog (Japanese style hot dog) and we saw this guy... Pretty classic eh? 

We met Julia and Jordan at their house in Beverly Hills for their engagement session as they really wanted to get some photos of their dogs Miles and Rosy (who absolutely fell in love with and wanted to take home with me). Their house was so stylish, we decided to stay there the whole time. They had the most fantastic antiques, art work, and the coolest little knick-knacks (and they were playing good music). We had a great time and spent heaps of time there as you can see by the photos we got a bit carried away!

Shelley and Adam live in Las Vegas and decided to have a destination wedding on Maui, Hawaii at the beautiful Ritz Carlton. We actually had MTV call us with the possibility of filming their wedding for the True Story: Destination Weddings series... but apparently they didn't have enough drama for that. I definitely agree, the wedding was so lovely and relaxed - Shelley and Adam were just truly enjoying their special day. It was seriously windy, and just about to rain - but the weather held off just until they were dropped off at the reception, then it started to poor! We had a fabulous time, they even had us to shoot some film - we decided to use Ilford SFX and Tri-X.

Betty and Troy flew down from San Fransisco to meet with us and do an engagement session last weekend. We cruised around the streets of Huntington Beach and found a bunch of really cool walls! She said she was "shy" in front of the camera - but we got nothing but smiles and giggles. We are looking forward to their wedding in Napa Valley coming real soon!

Wow, it has been a long time since we have blogged. We have just been to Hawaii for Shelley and Adams wedding - it was absolutely beautiful! We should have some stuff up from that soon. In the meantime, here is a cute photo that I found in the archives.

The first wedding of the season for us back in the US!

Sasha and Alexander met in high school when they were 15 years old and have been together ever since! They currently live in North Carolina but chose to get married in Poughkeepsie, New York. Alex is originally from Poughkeepsie, Sasha is from California, but went to college in Poughkeepsie so the area is special to both of them. The wedding was held at the beautiful Vassar College and the reception was at the Alumni House. What a fantastic place to get married on a balmy July summer's day!

  

We just got back from our annual Trabert family holiday. This year we went to Lake Havasu, Arizona for some boating, skiing, wake-boarding and skurfing. It was my second year skurfing and I finally got up and stayed up for more than 30 seconds! It was great fun. We have heaps and heaps of photos of everyone ripping it during last years trip, so this year we made it our mission to get some really good wipeout photos.

Jim
Protecting his assets.

Kiki
Only wake-boarded once and she had the best wipeout of everyone! She did a full face plant. :) We missed that, unfortunately, but I have included a before and after shot. She face planted so gracefully and still came up with a smile!


Jaime
There are more wipeout photos of me than anyone else. I was just trying more gnarley tricks.
 
The Don
My Dad took one look at his photo and tried to convince me it was a "radical turn" not a wipeout.

Dennis
Where's the board?
 

James
My brother's friend - he has been crashing the Trabert family holiday every year. He is our garbage disposal and eats everything that is put in front of him!


Ryan
My brother never wiped out (jerk) - he pretty much rips - so here is a picture of him ripping.

Alex
Just because he is cute. We will get some photos of him ripping it up next year. :)

Nicole and Matt made a good effort meeting us the day of their engagement session, as they just started to move into their new house the day before! We hung out at the Getty Museum - amongst a huge crowd of people (there was an outdoor concert going on) - they did a brilliant job being themselves despite their audience. We are really looking forward to their wedding in Ventura as the reception will be in a beautiful old barn!

Unfortunately, we are booked for Paul and Jacks wedding this September... but they are in good hands with Genevieve at The Ambient Image. We got the pleasure of shooting their engagement session though... They showed up in swanky suits to their extended 2 hour session and we knew right then and there it was business time...