A little slice of Heaven called CHURCH

Living in Los Angeles is indeed a trip. As the famous gossip columnist Rona Barrett once said; “Pick your enemies carefully or you’ll never make it in Los Angeles.” People tend to live in a dream world here where who you are is identified by the car you drive or the celebrity’s personal cell number in your iPhone. Young hopefuls flock here by the thousands hoping to make their dreams come true and the city supports that mission by placing more importance on material and superficial gains over spiritual enlightenment. LA denizens actually believe if they jog for two hours in the morning they are morally fit. As Craig Kilbourn joked, “People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.” Yep, that’s my hometown, love it or not.

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So I’ve been really busy lately. For one, we’ve been planning the seminar that’s taking place this up-coming weekend, November 7th and 8th. We’re almost sold out, which is exciting and I want to thank all of you who have purchased tickets and are planning on attending! It’s going to be really fun, the models are GREAT and the studio we’re using is just A+ professional, as are the people who run Smashbox. Secondly, I have been spending ALOT of time SHOOTING SHOOTING and SHOOTING some more! Here are some new pictures along with a Lighting Diagram on a test I did with just 1 Big Beautiful Light!

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One Poison Apple

Over the summer, Douglas Little hired me to shoot a campaign to launch one of his new extravagant products. If you can remember Mr. Little from this previous post, he creates curious but gorgeous goods. He’s mainly famous for his decadent candles, and this new product was surely going to top the list of all things sinful and delightful. Douglas’s new candle was a Swarovski crystal layered candle that retails for a cool $420 bucks! Since the name of the candle is Poison Apple, he wanted to play with the Snow White theme. He sent me one comp, that’s it. He wanted one single image to promote the product with, but the image was well thought out and planned. He wanted to use his girlfriend, the illustrious burlesque dream girl Leila as our model since she naturally has a Snow White essence to her. With her jet black hair and snow white skin, she really was the perfect choice for our model.

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When Debra Weiss speaks, Photographers NEED to listen

It’s not very often that I will run out and attend a photography seminar anymore. It’s not that I feel I don’t need them, it’s just that over the years I’ve been to so many that most of them don’t really grab my attention to want to attend. But when I heard Debra Weiss was speaking last April on the business of photography, I sure as hell went. And I took notes on every thing she had to say. I’ve known about Debra for years. She is probably one of the most important figures in the photography business because she is actually out there insisting on fair treatment and payment to us photographers. She is knowledgeable in all areas of our business and is passionate about protecting photographers’ rights. I can easily say that she is part of the backbone of the photography business and it is people like her that keep our industry running fairly and competently.  I asked Debra if I could write about her on my blog because I believe she is someone my readers should know about. She very kindly agreed and sent me her bio. Read on….

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New and Improved!

Since I enjoyed the last seminar I held in July, I decided to do another one! The opportunity to meet such great people from all over the world was an amazing experience for me! And all that talent in one room was humbling!! Come to find out, I have some very talented and accomplished photographers reading my blog and it was such a blast to meet some of them!

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