This is the Daruma that my parents gave to me for the business. I didn’t really know what the meaning/story was behind it so my Dad explained it to me. Here’s the details… “The gift we gave you for celebration of the new phase of your business is a traditional Japanese figurine of the great Buddhist monk called Daruma. He is the founder of Zen Buddhism. He was born in southern India. His Buddhist name is Bodhidharma. [...]
One of the great things about our jobs is the various ways we get to see what goes on in San Francisco, but sometimes just looking at the physical city itself is a pleasure. Here’s a couple shots I took from the last seven days or so…
So we had six shoots on Thursday night… #1 – SFMOMA Member Sessions #2 – Passion and Provocation #3 – Group photo #4 – Leadership SF #5 – NAR Gala #6 – Countrywide
Real models make our jobs so easy. Tonight we shot an event for Nordstrom with designer Dana Buchman and there was a runway show staffed by some models from San Francisco. Some people say models are overpaid, but when you work with good ones, it helps to make everyone look better…
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff started chatting with me about camera gear tonight and I found out he has a 1Ds which seems to be the camera of choice of the well heeled. A top Democratic official I spoke with at a political event also shared that he too had a 1Ds although he didn’t quite know how to use all it’s features.
Spike Lee was in town promoting his latest book, and of course also discussed his films and the world of filmmaking as well. His next film is called “Inside Man” and stars Denzel Washington, Jodi Foster and Clive Owen. Here’s Lee with local Bay Area filmmaker Kevin Epps who we featured in our inaugural SF Faces show.
One of the perks of our jobs is being places we might not otherwise be. That was the case this past Wednesday night when I shot the 2005 San Francisco Symphony’s Gala. Not only was our very own Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the symphony, but famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma was performing as well.
Katrina has affected many people and coming from the South and having been to New Orleans several times, I was very interested in what’s been going on down there. I saw some footage of the Garden District where I stayed last in January of 2005 and this one business was shown mostly submerged.
So this week we shot a lot of parties as we were the official photography sponsors for the Fashion Week after parties. On Saturday night I shot the party at the W Hotel which was hosted by industry415 and sponsored by Goorin Brothers, a hatmaker based here in the Bay Area.