As part of my project to find subjects that practice Buddhism, I embarked on a 6 week tour of the northwest part of the US. Naturally, part of my motivation is to visit national parks along the way and my first two stops where Badlands and Yellowstone.
The marketing team of Allianz engaged with us for their wonderful client reception at the venerable Ferry Building. Additionally, we were on the show floor at Riskworld interviewing their employees on video on how they support their clients in a risky world and how nice it was to be back in-person at these live events.
Jack embarked on a southern migration a few weeks ago to escape the Michigan winter and work on his multimedia project, Beyond the Cushion. Having been in lock down for the past several years like everyone else, this is the first time he is able to use this nimble conversion van for an extended period to efficiently travel and stay inconspicuous! It has been a fruitful journey being to interview a number of people for the project and see some of the less visited national parks! Here are a few small samples of the journey thus far.
The second segment of my epic road trip was in the Southwest and even though it was in the winter months, the weather was great during that time of the year. The great thing about the arid southwest is that things don't look that different compared to the summer. Undoubtedly my two favorite cities during this segment was Sedona and Santa Fe for different reasons. Like Bend OR, Sedona is a bit of any outdoor lover's dream with the vast array of things you can do almost year around. Meanwhile, Santa Fe had the hippie eclectic charm and spiritual energy that made me feel right at home. No doubt, I will spend more time in this part of the west in the future.
As a silver lining of the great pandemic of 2020, I took some time (actually a lot of time) to reflect on my body of work and put together some 'highlights' from the past 20 years of professional work. Ironically, the bulk of what I've pull together is a very small percentage of the type of work that I normally do for our corporate clients.
Highlight video montage of 3 month journey working on personal project about buddhism in the west.
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 […]
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 […]
“The journey of fifty thousand miles starts with a good internet connection.”
I wish I could say I was disengaging from the “Matrix” on this pilgrimage in the west but the reality of the digital economy is a rather constant connection to the virtual world. And even though it was only really 3 short months, the experience somehow seem like a decade of experience. Whilst on this journey, I experienced so many peak moments in such a compressed […]
During our transition to being a virtual company, I took the opportunity to reexamine my own situation after being in the Bay Area for over 25 years. I had been considering relocating outside the Bay Area for some time but finding a mutually agreeable place with my ex hadn't been easy. Regardless, I decided to take a leap of faith and agreed to letting her move back to Michigan with my daughter for the next year. Since I wasn't quite ready to move to Michigan yet, I thought it would be a good time to become a 'digital nomad' and work on road.