Photography & Industry Perspective

Well, just got back from photographing at City Hall for the Mayor’s reception of Aer Lingus which just started service to San Francisco. The studio was shaking quite a bit and I heard something crash upstairs. My earthquake bobblehead was even bouncing a bit… (re-enacted in the photo above). This was the biggest shake I’ve personally felt in my nine years in San Francisco and it lasted pretty long!

We covered the Japan Society of Northern California’s 2007 Award of Honor Gala. I wasn’t quite sure what the crowd would be comprised of but was a bit surprised to see San Francisco 49er Vernon Davis there. He was probably the most well known person as well as the two honorees, Mr. Yuzaburo Mogi and Mr. Philip Kan Gotanda.

We shoot a lot of events and popular speakers are Olympians. For some reason we seem to get more Winter Olympians than Summer, and at Riverbed’s Accelerate ’07 this week in San Francisco, Vince Poscente, an Olympian and author of The Age of Speed: Learning to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now World gave a nice presentation about speed, a relevant topic for the conference. He was pretty dynamic and energetic and seemed to do a great job with [...]

This is in dialogue with the Gyro poster blog entry. I found these faded posters in the window of a seedy butcher shop. The kid is totally creepy!

Had a chance to show a guest from out of town around our city, and while relaxing in the park on Octavia Boulevard just snapped off a shot of some hipsters taking their dog out for a midnight run in the park. We’ve been doing a lot of gigs at night as usual, but most are indoors so it was kind of nice to be out and taking some shots just for fun of our wonderful city.

Orange covered Fashion Week for SFiS and we have the cover for the October issue as well as lots of coverage inside as well. Check out the latest issue on newsstands now or online!

Well it’s been insane of late as things have taken Orange all over the World. Spain last week and now Las Vegas again – this time for the Olympia Weekend. Had a chance to get some air on the smoking deck at the Orleans Arena and there was this great view of the strip with the moon just sitting above it. I didn’t have the right gear to get a better shot, but snapped this one off [...]

Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition opening was tonight at SFMOMA and the museum was packed with folks checking out his latest work. Halou and Zoe Keating were on hand playing downstairs and there was a nice mix of people on hand. The exhibition runs from this Saturday through Sunday, February 24, 2008 and I would highly recommend checking it out when you have allotted time to interact with everything at a nice leisurely pace.

So we got a proclamation from the Mayor’s Office today and it really is Orange Photography Day! This was a shot we took of ourselves in the self-manned photo booth we set up for tonight’s party!