A friend of mine and an excellent Filipino wedding photographer John Mateos Ong was in town from Manila and invited me to assist him for a series of engagement shots in downtown San Francisco. The exuberant couple was Tina and Joel, who would have their wedding at St. James Church in Alabang. Jong was...
I just spent an awesome Sunday afternoon, checking out the Richard Avedon exhibit at the Cantor Arts Center in Stanford. Avedon’s reputation as a photographer precedes him. His work is groundbreaking and innovative. What Robert Kappa is to photojournalism, Helmut Newton to fashion photography, that’s what Richard Avedon is to editorial portrait photography. At...
I knew that Gigi Valiant had that special x-factor when I met her at Calico Basin in Las Vegas that sunny Sunday. I loved the fact that this model had her own sense of style, and was able to successfully capture the fun-spirit of 50s pin-up girl Bettie Page. As we shot away for her...
