Gene X Hwang

On Saturday we shot Animation Mentor‘s first graduation. The company does some really cool stuff and the setting was perfect with this great view of the sunset behind the Golden Gate Bridge.

Today we shot the Topping-Out of The Contemporary Jewish Museum here in San Francisco. As Wikipedia defines it, topping out is: is a ceremony done when the last beam is placed at the top of a building. The interior of the building shown here is the main wall that was preserved from the Jessie Street Power Substation and has been integrated into architect Daniel Libeskind’s design. It was interesting to see how the structure looked from the [...]

So I was reading the January 2007 issue of National Geographic, and there’s an article about baby names and since we do a bit of infant and baby portraiture, I thought it was interesting compared to the babies we’ve met and photographed. Top Ten Baby Names: 2005 Boys | Girls 1) Jacob | Emily 2) Michael | Emma 3) Joshua | Madison 4) Matthew | Abigail 5) Ethan | Olivia 6) Andrew | Isabella 7) Daniel | [...]

So we’re all spread out for the holidays and I’m now in the town I grew up in – Auburn, AL. Last night I went out to a place that used to be a restaurant but was one of the few bars open on Christmas night. The place was packed since it was one of the few options and I decided to bring the camera along. I totally forgot about the ‘zap’ man – who were the [...]

So an astute reader pointed out that I was in a photo in Swells, Catherine Bigelow’s society column, so while eating a salad at Pluto’s today I saw it in person – kinda funny – although you can’t see my silvery pants.

Had a chance to shoot someone in one of our Orange Exposure tank tops at the studio on Saturday. This is Jen who came down from Sacramento to shoot and modeled the tank for us: