i got the opportunity donate my photographic eye a domestic violence shelter in oakland the other day. i thought it was going to be really tough to stomache the situation because it’s actually ‘real life’ versus the all the fun shit i shoot all the time. as it turns out it was ‘fun’ because they use wanted me to take some pictures of the kids so that they can use the photography to get more funding. which is precisely the point of our ‘social photograph program’, we want to give orangizations that can’t usually offer kids like […]

i’ve been extra decadent in the past several days. anything there’s free drinks and food, i am in the frontline laying it down for the business. i invited a friend along last night to yet another fundraiser for the world wildlife fund and he caught a glimpse of the indugling lifestyles that we can live. certainly, it gets very tiresome after you shoot the same people over and over again at the same types of functions but if you’re in the mood, it’s a great way to pass the night. anyway, they had the cowboy junkies, noelle […]

last week, i did my first advertising gig – with make up artist, stylist (two seperate people actually) and real models. let’s just say i am definitely not ready for that level of control and visionary. although it goes against my very photojournalistic style, i wanted to give it a shot. the client wasn’t too demanding and we were doing it for a ‘deal’. which in hindsight, i would say you get what you paid for. there’s a lot of work that goes into making these types of commerical images and it requires a level of mastery […]

it’s been 3 weeks since the actual exhibit but it felt like it happen a year ago. we’re glad to be back to being boring event/wedding photographers but there is still a lot of excitement in the office. anyway, i finally put the entire exhibit online but here are some of my favorites from the show.

take the sum of the parts and you have something greater than e = mc 2. see more parts from my last fashion show ever. maybe until next week.