{"id":2,"date":"2008-03-28T15:01:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T22:01:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-08-11T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T18:10:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"More about Mike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entrytext\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/headshot_me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-271\" style=\"border-image: initial; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"headshot_me\" src=\"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/headshot_me.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"241\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/headshot_me.jpg 200w, http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/headshot_me-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m Mike, a wedding photographer. But truth be told, that title is such a small part of who I am. I&#8217;m a dad of three kiddos. Most of my family lives in Riverside, I&#8217;m the oldest of seven! I&#8217;m a believer in Jesus Christ and his salvation. I love helping my church, Sandals, achieve goals bigger than my own. I&#8217;m a geek and also a gamer. I love to go scuba diving in Laguna, hiking, camping just about anywhere and gardening at my Riverside home. I really enjoy working outside, which is why I love my job as a photographer. Every week I&#8217;m shooting at some new and cool location. I love to travel and see new things. I&#8217;ve even been lucky enough to join couples at their weddings in Hawaii, Jamaica San Francisco, and Chicago! I&#8217;m totally blessed to be able to shoot weddings, but really, it&#8217;s so much more than just taking pictures. I&#8217;ve shot enough weddings to know it&#8217;s not just a ceremony to bring two lives together. It&#8217;s the uniting of souls. Wedding pictures are so much more than just images we post on Facebook or hang on the wall. It&#8217;s about the essence of life and love. It&#8217;s all about these special moments that happen in just a split second. I believe pictures should be a feeling, an expression of a couples love for each other, wrapped in a pretty package of emotion on your wedding day. A single picture can tell your love story. So whats your story? Maybe you&#8217;re not sure and that&#8217;s ok. Let me help you discover that story like I&#8217;ve helped so many others.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Follow me around the web from the links below:<\/h3>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"800\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"Facebook Page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/needpictures\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/about_logos\/facebook_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"Mike's Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/qazwix\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/about_logos\/pinterest_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"Mike's Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/qazwix\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/about_logos\/twitter_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"Mike on Google+\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/b\/105477618242448593295\/105477618242448593295\/posts\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/about_logos\/google+_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"Mike's Flickr \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/qazwix\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/about_logos\/flicker_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"Mike on 500px\" href=\"http:\/\/500px.com\/Qazwix\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/about_logos\/500px_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Mike, a wedding photographer. But truth be told, that title is such a small part of who I am. I&#8217;m a dad of three kiddos. Most of my family lives in Riverside, I&#8217;m the oldest of seven! I&#8217;m a believer in Jesus Christ and his salvation. I love helping my church, Sandals, achieve goals...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"pp_embeds":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14937,"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/14937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}