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Beltane Ranch Photoshoot - Brides Northern California

I have a new video I am very excited about and I want to share it with all of you!

I was invited to be a part of a photoshoot for Brides Northern California Magazine by Taylor and Mimi of Thi Cosmetics (home of the famous "lush lashes"!) This awesome photoshoot was designed by Gloria Wong (www.gloriawongdesigns.com) and shot by the fabulous Lisa Lefkowitz (www.lisalefkowitz.com). The supporting cast of outstanding visionaries and leaders of their field included:

www.NancyLiuChinDesigns.com
www.CakeCoquette.com
Ameliana Kamstra amelianakamstra [at] gmail.com
www.GoodOnPaperDesign.com
The wonderful people at Beltane Ranch,
... and others!
Please take a moment to check out their wonderfull work!

The full featured photo spread will be published only in Brides Northern California Magazine, the Fall/Winter 2009 issue hitting newstands September 1st! Keep your eyes peeled for it!

Until then, please enjoy one of my favorite highlight videos to date - The Beltane Ranch Photoshoot!

Beltane Ranch, Sonoma Photoshoot from andrew msv on Vimeo.

Song: "Reasons to Love You" by Meiko

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Preston Castle Through My Camera's Eyes

Here's the complete set of videos from the Preston Castle shoot on May 23rd.

PART ONE...

Preston Castle Through My Camera's Eye (part 1) from andrew msv on Vimeo.

PART TWO...

Preston Castle Through My Camera's Eye (Part 2) from andrew msv on Vimeo.

PART THREE...

Preston Castle Through My Camera's Eyes (Part 3 - Final) from andrew msv on Vimeo.

Please be a stud and leave a comment!

Preston Castle Photoshoot, Ione, CA

Last week, I was invited by a group of photographer friends of mine to join them on a photoshoot in Ione, CA. Yeah. I didn't know where that was either. I Googled it and found it to be just east of Boufou, Egypt; in the middle of Nowheresville.

I shot a couple of photos for fun, but mostly I was there to film the adventures as they unfolded. (That's kind of what I do!) So here's the resulting video... part one...

Check it out!

San Francisco is Like My Second Home

One of the cool things about working for yourself is that you can set your own hours and it's likely you can cut down your commute to almost nothing. I work from my home studio so my commute consists of walking down a flight of stairs.

But lately, I've been spending so much time in San Francisco, it feels like my second home!

Check it out:

Tuesday: Dinner with Evonne Wong of www.awaysoiree.com - direct from Maui! I shot with Evonne last March for my special edition of Vendor Chic. (The teaser trailer for that movie can be found here.) Here are some pics from that dinner - from Evonne's blog.

^ Clockwise from top left: Darrin and Evonne, me, Augie Chang, Nancy Liu Chin, Kevin Chin, Chung Li, and Viola Sutanto!

Here's Augie and me being silly.

Then, on Wednesday, The Knot had a gala event at the SF Design Center Galleria and I was invited to be the official videographer at the event. (The fabulous Michelle of MB Wedding Design was the selected coordinator of the event! Great job, MB!) While there, of course, I was able to meet up with many old friends and meet some new ones! I snapped just a couple of pictures; here are some of them.

^ Liz Guthrie and Evonne Wong.

^ Fu Chung Wong of FCWong Photography and Kathy Goodman of Well Rehearsed

^ Evonne, Jubilee Lau and Jean Marks

Then, on Thursday, I headed back out to San Francisco again to meet up with the aforementioned Kathy Goodman for some pastries and a chat just before heading off to a prospective client meeting in the Mission District.

I need frequent flyer miles for crossing the Bay Bridge!

Scarlett Lillian Vegas Nightshoot

Florida-based celebrity photographer, Scarlett Lillian (you can see her Take-a-Look Tuesday interview HERE) had a Night Shoot Workshop in Las Vegas not too long ago and I was there to capture the action!

Check out Scarlett at http://www.scarlettlillian.com/ and check out her video here!

Leave a comment to let me know what you think!

Hawaiian Vacation - Day Seven

Monday, my seventh day on the islands, was spent on a Vendor Chic shoot with event planner extraordinaire, Evonne Wong. Evonne is a Bay Area transplant but now makes her home in Maui. So I flew from Oahu to Maui in the morning and spent the rest of the day shooting on a private estate near the famous Wailea beaches on the south shore.

^ It seems someone knew I was coming! That's quite a welcome. Aloha to you, too, Hawaii DMV!

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Here's Evonne and me after the shoot. I'm a little sunburnt. I had forgotten my sunblock and you certainly can't rely on the locals to carry any. They're locals!

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This is photographer, Matt Alvarado of www.abelovedwedding.com. He's very used to paparazzi, as you can tell. Jazmin, his lovely assistant (seen below,) is not as shy in front of the camera.

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Here below are our models, Rachel and Mike. We initially only booked Rachel for the shoot, but a few hours into the shoot, I decided we really should have a *guy* model as well. Rachel called up her boyfriend, and within a few more hours, we had ourselves a hot couple to shoot! Thanks guys!

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Here's the crew all wind-blown and tired. Continue below to see the resulting teaser trailer for Vendor Chic IV: Paradise Maui!

Maui Photoshoot: Sneak Peek

Direct from photographer, Matt Alvarado's blog post; some behind-the-scenes photos from the Vendor Chic IV photo/video shoot I did in Maui last month.

(click photo to enlarge!)

Check out Matt's blog and site!

Cade's Vacation Blog

My puppy, Cade (short for "decade" because we got her on my wife's and my ten-year anniversary, and is pronounced like "Katie") is on vacation.

She's staying at Ranch Tinywater! Actually, it's not a ranch - Tinywater are phenomenal photographers, Caroline and Dan who have graciously agreed to watch Cade while I go to Hawaii for business and pleasure.

Last Saturday, Caroline; Dan; their friend, Xan; and I had dinner together and I gave Cade over to their care. Caroline and Dan have five dogs of their own and they're nationally ranked dog agility trainers with a great eye for dog/agility photography as well as wedding/lifestyle photography.

Here's some pictures of us outside the restaurant after dinner.

Here's Carol, me and Dan.

Xan, Carol, and Dan...

And, as if we couldn't think of enough awesome things to say about Dan and Carol, they go show my dog how to BLOG! Yes, blog.

Check out my dog's new blog and leave some comments! http://cadesvacation.blogspot.com

Tinywater are my heroes for the day! (Stay tuned for an upcoming Take-a-Look Tuesday for Tinywater and learn more than you ever thought you would about these fab photographers!)

Pro Bono Project: Volunteers of America Bay Area

A while back, I posted about a project I was invited to work on for the Volunteers of America charity organization. Well, after a bunch of red tape, meetings and coordinating of schedules, we finally went on our first day of shooting last Thursday.

I brought along my new friend, Luke Goodman to be the photographer for the project. Luke has experience shooting productions stills for feature films so I thought that would be perfect for what the VOABA was looking for on this project.

Anyway, here are some shots of us from Thursday's shoot.

Here's a group of teriffic, high-spirited seniors from the East Cliff Village, Santa Cruz (along with Mr. Bailey - red sweater - who is in charge of the Bay Area headquarters for Volunteers of America.)

Here's Luke and me.

 

 

The photo of Luke on the left is out of focus because... well, because I took it and I'm not a photographer. :-(

Stay tuned for more from future shoots!

Dork Energy Cheap Thrills

I consider bloopers and outtakes as cheap laughs. There's nothing witty or clever about it and anyone can become a comedian when it comes to a blooper reel, but you know what? We never claimed to be high-brow.

So here are some outtakes from our recent shoots...

Most of this was not shot by me. This is how they really are; totally unscripted. Tanja and Tia are always at it. Pay especially close attention to the last quips... they take a potshot at... at ME! Oh, if I didn't love yer crazy antics...!