A Jazz Band

Presenting the Laurent Fourgo Ensemble. :)

As seen at Una Bella Sera 2010 with Amazae Special Events and Nicole Ha Designs. 

...And They Danced All Night

Isn't this couple super adorable and stylish?! I love it. :)

This is Jonathan and Joanne, and they're actually photographers themselves, running Encarnacion Photography. You can find their work on their blog here. 

I love this one. She looks so perfect! :D

Possibly my favorite shot. :D

As seen at Una Bella Sera 2010 with Amazae Special Events and Nicole Ha Designs. 

Concert: Wallpaper/Limousines at Slim's

This post is for my Daily Cal buddies from the Wallpaper/Limousines concert at Slim's weeks and weeks ago. They complained about never seeing more than one or two of the photos from a concert they cover. I tried to include all the awesome ones here, just like I promised I would. Sorry this post is so late in coming, boys. :/

The venue: Slim's

An opening band. Butterfly Bones.

What a ham. I saw him after the show and he said hello every single time I wandered by. It was great. And you should have seen him dancing. Also great. (:

Bah ha ha. 

Headliner number one, The Limousines.

Love love love this shot. Something about the lighting just makes me happy. (:

Headliner number two: Wallpaper. A Berkeley graduate. Go figure. He was really awesome. Kind of ridiculous and very awesome. 

It was great. He had the crowd wear 3D glasses. People couldn't stand wearing them the whole time though since it was, well, kinda trippy. Ha ha.

Running back on stage for an encore. I really like this shot. (:

This may be my favorite shot. Love the energy and eclecticism of the dancer. (:

You know it's a good concert when... :P

Leave some love in the comments so I know somebody at least looked at the photos. :P

Accompanying article expertly written by fellow journalist Derek Sagehorn, Contributing Writer to The Daily Californian.  

For one of my images from this event online at The Daily Cal's website, please see the slideshow here. You can find the full news article online here. 

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Inspiration: Amazing Photographs from Haiti

This is what happens when you take an amazing photographer and put them somewhere just bursting to tell a story: Amazing amazing photographs from Haiti's front lines.  Justin Lyon's photos from this trip astound me, as does his story. The images are equal parts storytelling and art. Even if you just flip through the images he captured you'll be experiencing something that touches your soul.

All out of words, check out the slideshow here.

He has a lot of images of people that just completely drew me in. So personal. So intimate. So difficult to draw your eyes away.

Something about this photo just touches me. And plus I'm always a sucker for black and white images.

I very highly recommend this photographer and this blog post. Go Go Go. Words do not suffice.

San Francisco Pillow Fight (and cute shoes...)

Nick and I spent Sunday in the city and, without planning to, ran into the huge pillow fight in the Embarcadero Plaza. There were easily thousands of people there, and once the clock struck 6pm they didn't stop fighting for more than an hour. What persistence! 

After the pillow fight started somebody let free a heart shaped balloon. It floated up above all of the pillow fighters and up up up above the bay. You can just make it out here. (:

As the intensity of the "fight" picked up, pillows started to break. The feathers spewed over the "fighters" and into the air; it almost looked like it was snowing!

This girl had on the cutest shoes and I couldn't resist pointing my lens at her toes. How weird is it that I snapped this spy pic? ... 

Anyways, Happy Valentine's Day and Happy February. <3  

This is a Test. And a Cute Dog.

Trying to see if the new e-mail subscription gadget (it's on the right--scroll down a little bit) works. I've signed myself up and so the question is, will I receive an e-mail update about this new post...? I'll let you know. Although, perhaps you should just sign up and find out for yourself...  

And since I can't post without a photo (of course!):

Spanky, how did you ever get so adorable?! 

Kenny: Model, Photographer, Friend. (:

I have to say that despite all the beautiful things I see around me, one of my favorite things to shoot is still portraits of people. Poor Kenny. On our roadtrip I wanted so bad to shoot photos of people in the beautiful places we found that more often than not I forced him to, "Stand there!" for me and pose. He only puts up with it for a moment, but I always manage to snag a few shots before he loses patience with me. (:

But the upside of it all is that, lucky Kenny, I always get a few cool ones of him shooting. Exibition A of cool photographer in the field: [ :D ]