Creative tools: the Polaroid Close Up Stand Model 7500

2017-07-24T21:22:57-07:00By |Categories: Personal, Photography, Point of View, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

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As you probably know if you’ve followed our agency or this blog, we love instant photography and have been happy to promote it to our clients as well often shooting vintage Polaroid cameras with Impossible Project film.  Well we lucked out and got a Christmas/Holiday present from the Impossible Project folks of a Polaroid Close-Up Stand this past December […]

Variety Children’s Comedy Benefit

2017-07-24T21:22:58-07:00By |Categories: Giving Back, Point of View, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , , , , , |

151_6095_KB_585Sometimes we get so busy that we forget to blog about fun events that we get to cover.  One of those was the Variety Children’s Comedy Benefit that headlined Zach Galifianakis.  It happened during the always fun SF Sketchfest, and was help at The Punchline’s in support of Variety’s Therapeutic Scholarship Program.  The program proving scholarships to deserving disabled children to receive specialized care and to achieve greatness through their Mobility […]

ISES-NCC Education program: The Psychology of Events by Kevin White

2017-07-24T21:22:58-07:00By |Categories: Business, Photography, Point of View, Reviews, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , , , , |

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Photographing events gives us a pretty broad exposure into the world of how events are run and how people respond to them.  However, on Tuesday March 19th, Kevin White, CSEP, and Chief Strategist at XPL presented on the psychology of events.  This was an interesting topic since it went much deeper into how to make events with maximum impact.

The keys can down to something that all photographers […]

Milton Glaser, IDEO, the d:school and design in everything!

2017-07-24T21:22:58-07:00By |Categories: Business, Point of View, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , |

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One of the trends that we’re happy to see is the integration of design not just into graphics and marketing but as a general philosophy. We’ve shot things at IDEO and with the d:school at Stanford and this whole design world view seems to be gaining more and more momentum.  I recently watched Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight and found his insights to […]

Orange does the Anchor Brewery Tour

2017-07-24T21:22:58-07:00By |Categories: Personal, Photography, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , |

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Most beer lovers recognize Anchor Steam as the quintessential and/or original S.F. beer brand. But not everyone knows they can book a a tour (up to two months advance notice often required)  to see the brewery and learn how their world-class beer is made. Anchor has also been one of my favorite clients over the past few years (we’ve photographed everything from their holiday party/Christmas Ale releases […]

The new Speakeasy Tap Room!

2017-07-24T21:22:58-07:00By |Categories: Giving Back, Photobooth, Reviews, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

6184_KellyMaloneSpeakeasy_RAW_0302fYou may have heard that Speakeasy has a new taproom designed by Kelly Malone and we finally checked it out during a fundraiser for her.  The place is gorgeous and we set up a photobooth for the benefit too and because of the design it was a cinch to make it look amazing since the design and interior is so sweet.  The gangster speakeasy style comes […]

San Francisco Beer Week is almost over :(

2017-07-24T21:22:59-07:00By |Categories: Personal, Point of View, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , , , , |

genex2013_0045fIn case you hadn’t noticed that the city might be a bit more tipsy than usual, that’s because it’s San Francisco Beer Week!

We covered the Opening Night gala on Friday which has grown tremendously over the years and during the week there are a ridiculous number of events going on. There’s probably a lot of “working from home” or calling in sick (which I guess could be […]

San Francisco Beer Week Opening Celebration #sfbeerweek

2017-07-24T21:22:59-07:00By |Categories: Point of View, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , , , |

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If you aren’t already at the DIPA Fest then you might be remembering all the great beers from last night’s opening celebration for San Francisco Beer Week!

Like many, we first had to grab a taste of Pliny the Younger.  Always a hugely popular brew, I felt kind of sorry for the Russian River folks with such a huge line right from the start.  But there were plenty of great […]

Associate happy hour and photo booth fun!

2017-07-24T21:22:59-07:00By |Categories: Business, Photobooth, Point of View|Tags: , , , , , , , |

photo booth Orange HappyHourIt’s Friday!  It’s San Francisco Beer Week!  In honor of that earlier this week we hosted some of our Associate Photographers at the studio for a photo booth and happy hour gathering.  As we’re evolving our program, we brought together some folks to chat about the changes that are happening with the program and some of the new things we’ve implemented as well […]

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