Twitter, @x and Orange Photography – a behind the scenes look

2023-07-31T07:07:15-07:00By |Categories: Business, Company, News, Point of View|Tags: , , |

Well last week was quite a whirlwind and Orange got a lot of attention since one of our co-founders, Gene X Hwang (me) was all over the news cycle when Twitter completed it’s transformation to X and subsequently took over the @x Twitter handle, which I had owned since 2007.   We ourselves have had our account on Twitter since 2009 and as the news spread we found ourselves getting a lot of unexpected attention and […]

The Special Event 2011 wrap-up and learnings

2017-07-25T15:33:51-07:00By |Categories: Event, Point of View|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

So last week was The Special Event in Phoenix, AZ and I was honored to be a speaker at the conference.  The best thing about going to these is that you get to meet new folks, learn and network.  This year’s The Special Event was my first one to attend and it was definitely worth the […]

The Special Event – Gene X Hwang presentation on photography trends: twitter live stream demo

2017-07-25T15:33:57-07:00By |Categories: Point of View|Tags: , , , , , |

Update: You can view our blog post wrap-up of The Special Event 2011 here.

2010 Event Solutions Spotlight Awards!

2017-07-25T15:34:53-07:00By |Categories: Event, News|Tags: , , , , , |


So we were super honored to be a finalist for “Event Supplier of the Year” in the 2010 Spotlight Awards and the actual ceremony was a lot of fun. We snapped off a few shots during the evening and posted them here. It was so nice to see some fellow clients, partners and vendors and of course the brand new Mandarin Oriental in City […]

Maintaining Creativity: Instant Photo Assignments

2017-07-25T15:35:53-07:00By |Categories: Personal, Photography, Point of View, Projects|Tags: , , , , , |

transbay terminal, sfSocial media has a lot of uses and one thing we’ve created is the “Instant Photo Assignment.” The way it works is quite simple: You just post a tweet or to your Facebook status that you are accepting “Instant Photo Assignments” and then people can reply back to you with assignment options. Now, you can take them literally or […]

Portfolio magazine photography & more on entrepreneurship

2017-07-24T20:46:19-07:00By |Categories: Event|Tags: , , |

INFORUM conde nast portfolio event photographyLast night we shot an event at 111 Minna Gallery for Conde Nast’s Portfolio magazine and the Commonwealth Club’s INFORUM. You may have read about it on our twitter stream (http://twitter.com/orangephoto) but it was pretty interesting as most INFORUM events often are.  David Ewing Duncan moderated and Futurist Paul Saffo was amongst the panel. […]

Portfolio magazine photography & more on entrepreneurship

2017-07-24T20:46:19-07:00By |Categories: Event|Tags: , , |

INFORUM conde nast portfolio event photographyLast night we shot an event at 111 Minna Gallery for Conde Nast’s Portfolio magazine and the Commonwealth Club’s INFORUM. You may have read about it on our twitter stream (http://twitter.com/orangephoto) but it was pretty interesting as most INFORUM events often are.  David Ewing Duncan moderated and Futurist Paul Saffo was amongst the panel. […]

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