About gene x

Co-founder of Orange Photography. Pinball enthusiast, bike rider, beer lover.

Non-Profit Showcase: Duke Lemur Center

2024-11-29T09:54:07-08:00By |Categories: Giving Back, Personal|Tags: , , , , , |

Ever since I was young, I was fascinated with lemurs and years ago learned about the Duke University Primate Center (as it was then called).  The facility was founded in 1966 on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC. As they state on their website,  "the Duke Lemur Center (DLC) is a world leader in the study, care, and protection of lemurs—Earth’s most threatened group of mammals.  With more than 200 animals across 14 species, the DLC houses the world’s most diverse population of lemurs outside their native Madagascar.

Twitter, @x and Orange Photography – a behind the scenes look

2023-07-31T07:07:15-07:00By |Categories: Business, Company, News, Point of View|Tags: , , |

Well last week was quite a whirlwind and Orange got a lot of attention since one of our co-founders, Gene X Hwang (me) was all over the news cycle when Twitter completed it’s transformation to X and subsequently took over the @x Twitter handle, which I had owned since 2007.   We ourselves have had our account on Twitter since 2009 and as the news spread we found ourselves getting a lot of unexpected attention and […]

What’s been happening in San Francisco Event Photography?

2024-03-02T12:42:13-08:00By |Categories: Event, News, Photography|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Envision at the deYoung with First Exposures and The Women's BuildingWe always enjoy the fact that we get to experience so many different types of events and often get to see and do things we may otherwise have never gotten the chance to experience […]

Orange Photography co-founder’s pandemic photo journal featured

2020-12-16T13:33:53-08:00By |Categories: Personal, Photography, Point of View|Tags: , , |

As the pandemic took hold and closed down business across the world, we at Orange also felt the impacts and in all the cities our teams live and work in, we saw downtowns closing and businesses shuttering.  In September of 2020 The Frisc magazine featured some of our co-founder Gene X Hwang’s photography in a piece for their Street Photo […]

Photo Journal – Life in Quarantine: San Francisco

2020-04-24T09:18:41-07:00By |Categories: News, Personal, Photography, Point of View|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Coronavirus quarantine san francisco March 19, 2020 – Shortly after Governer Newsom’s edict tonight – scenes from the Mission District

As a non-essential business, we at Orange Photography have been doing our best to weather this pandemic and ride things out.  In San Francisco we went into […]

Looking Forward, Giving Back with First Exposures

2024-03-02T12:45:27-08:00By |Categories: Giving Back, Video|Tags: , , |

We've been supporters of the First Exposures program for a number of years and more recently have been doing video work for them as well as some of our team volunteering with them.  Just under a month ago was the Looking Forward, Giving Back benefit at SOMArts center.  It's always a really fun event where both the kids (mentees) and their mentors get to showcase their work in a gallery environment.

Green Business Awards at the California Academy of Sciences

2019-03-14T15:09:13-07:00By |Categories: Business, Event, News, Projects|Tags: , , , , , |

We’re very proud to be part of the San Francisco Green Business Program which itself is part of the larger California Green Business Network.  As in past years we’ve sponsored the Green Business Awards where other businesses that fulfill the requirements are awarded their […]

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