Bay to Breakers 2008
They’re up! Check out the photos from Bay to Breakers 2008. Can you believe all this happened before 10:30am? It was an early start Sunday morning, but we powered through on mimosas and all that zany energy in the air. Some of my favorite were the Tetris folks and Girl with A Pearl Earring with her very own Vermeer. oh yeah and the return of the Elvises.Your favorites?
Birth of the Cool – Oakland Museum
We had a grand time shooting the gala opening for The Birth of Cool exhibit at the Oakland Museum. We set up a greenscreen photo station to recreate the above Julius Shulman image, “Case Study House #21”. The original 1958 image (left) features Pierre Koenig, the architect of the house, standing at the stereo. While poking around the web, I found some images of the same house, that Shulman returned to shoot fifty years later when it [...]
Maverick’s legend Jeff Clark @ Casa Real
Well one of the most fun things about event photography that I really enjoy is the fact that you never know who you might meet. This past weekend I was shooting at Casa Real, where we were shooting an event that Method 42 had produced and I ran into surf legend Jeff Clark. Most people have heard of Mavericks, the surf competition up here in Northern California and may have seen the movie Riding Giants in which [...]
Creativity Explored 25th Anniversary Benefit
Last night Creativity Explored had their 25th Anniversary Benefit at Foreign Cinema. The event had a silver theme to it (25 years, the silver anniversary) and most of the artists, mentors, board members and supporters were on hand on a beautiful and balmy evening. Creativity Explored does some great work and if you are an artist yourself or a supporter of the arts, CE is a great organization to get behind. In their own words, they are [...]
Bay to Breakers 2008 photo booth and bar!
How convenient! Our studio is located right along the Bay to Breakers race course. Yet again, we'll be setting up a bar and photo shoot for all the hams. This image was taken at last [...]
i robot…
Currently the San Jose Museum of Art has an exhibition called Robots. Since we do quite a lot of shooting over at the museum for green screen, on-site printing and various photo booths and candids, we get to see a lot of the work throughout the year. The Robots exhibit is pretty interesting and there are some great pieces. This piece is located outdoors and he was keeping an evil eye on us during our last shoot [...]
Flowers | Weddings – San Francisco Bay Area
Last weekend we shot a wedding down in San Jose and when you do a lot of weddings you see a lot of the same vendors around. At this particular wedding there seemed to be a lot of ‘A-team’ players and it’s always nice to work with top vendors. These floral designs were done by Natalie Bowen of Natalie Bowen Floral Design. She’s based in San Francisco but does work all over the Bay Area.
Melanie Charlton Fascitelli @ Carrots
Tonight Melanie Charlton Fascitelli had a book signing party @ Carrots. Her book is entitled Shop Your Closet: The Ultimate Guide to Organizing your Closet with Style and is available now at Carrots and online.
Tipping Point Benefit @ Bimbo’s w/Rodrigo Y Gabriela
So last night Tipping Point had their 2008 Benefit party at Bimbo’s. They raised a lot of money for the groups they support and all sorts of luminaries were on hand. The work Tipping Point does is really impressive and you can find out more in this video they produced.
Catching Lighting
So flying back from Costa Rica above El Salvador I saw this storm cloud out the airplane window. There was lightning in the cloud but it was hard to catch being night time and having to hand hold the camera as well as try to catch a series of lighting. Most of them were just the clouds glowing but I lucked out on this shot. Canon 50mm 1.4 lens at 2.0, 1/15 sec. and ISO 640