Portrait of Dipesh Jain

This is my portrait of director, Dipesh Jain for his upcoming movie "11Weeks". I also shot the poster for the movie and will share as soon as it is finalized. Best of luck to Dipesh.

I am NOT a wedding photographer... ok, I am.

I shot stills on the upcoming feature "Your Wedding 5/31/09". Trippy experience to shoot wedding photos, not for a wedding but a production. It still had the same energy and was a blast to cover.

Mantis!

A baby praying mantis greeted me this morning when I got the morning paper. Here is his headshot.

Klasky Csupo Reunion 09

Great fun seeing everyone at the Cat & Fiddle today. Same time next year?

Character Project

Last night I shot the red carpet arrivals at the "Public Gallery Exhibition of American Character: A Photographic Journey" at the Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills. USA Networks and Vanity Fair sponsored the event hosted by Ludacris. See below for a few of my shots from the evening. Click HERE to see all the pictures I took of the event posted on the FilmMagic site.

Art curator Lenora Claire keeps it low key

Wrestling fan Marisa Tomei

Luda!!!

DJ Sky Nellor gets ready to spin wax at the party

Cinco De Mayo Parade

I photographed Marabina Jaimes as she performed her duties as Grand Marshall at the Cinco De Mayo Parade in Cypress. At the end of the route her band Tjade was featured musical artist. Check out a few pictures from the festivities.

Marabina posing with city property

Young fans get in the spirit

Greeting the spectators

What's a parade without the Wiener-Mobile?

Tjade gets the party started.

Joined on stage by her "Let's Talk" co-hosts Kikey Castillo and Bel Hernandez

Family Shots

Every year I take family shots of our friends to mark a special anniversary. After getting kicked off the roof of the tragically hip Standard Hotel, we ended up shooting at the restored LA Downtown Library. We wrapped a long day of photography with a great French meal. Good day. Here are a few shots:

WNS Poster

The Westside Neighborhood School's final poster was a successful part of their fundraising campaign. Click here to see all of the shots from the 7th grade photo shoot.

Tech Art on Display @ the School of Cinematic Arts open house

This past weekend USC's School of Cinematic Arts hosted an open house for donors and the press showing off their new state of the art media complex. Five prints from my Tech Art series were on display in the main lobby of the Hugh Hefner Wing as part of the event. It was exciting to have my work in front of all the guests that included Geroge Lucas, Steven Speilberg, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise... ok, ok, enough name dropping... but is was a thrill to display my work for the best of the film community. Thanks to Dean Daley for her support. Photos by Roberto Gomez.

Dean Daley and I with "Cinerama Camera No. 3" and "Goldberg Projection Reel" on the wall

Tech Art prints help dress the room

Mitchell Three Strip Camera

Self Portrait No. 3

Inspired by the famous Salvador Dali photograph "Atomicus" I wanted to create a modern urban image with motion. This photograph is the last frame of the shoot before the sun went down and the best one, thanks to my trusty assistant "lightning trigger" Donna.

Smoked Ham

I had this concept of creating a portrait with a moody tone and brightly back-lit smoke. Since I had no models willing to light up a stale dry cigar, I volunteered. The result was more dramatic than I expected, click here to see more.

Cool School

The Westside Neighborhood School brought me on to shoot their 7th grade class for an upcoming charity auction. I tried to break from the traditional school pictures and create something with personality and movement.
Click here to see the slide show of all the images.

Olivier Pojzman Gallery Reception

Last Saturday night I shot Olivier Pojzman's art reception at the Lurie Gallery on the Sunset Strip. Olivier's beautiful and dramatic photo panaoramics drew a big crowd. See the rest of my pictures from the night on Olivier's site: http://www.iriswork.com/events/

Actress Eleni Tzimas joins Olivier at the Lurie Gallery reception

Look What I Can Do....

After reading my good friend Chris Battle's blog entry: Can you draw Chris Battle? If so, you could have an exciting career in commercial art!! I have to admit I felt a bit left out. I mean... I can be creative! I may not be a pencil to paper type "artist" but I can create stuff. So here is my attempt at immortalizing Chris.... graphically! Draw on!


Here is the original inspiration. A photo I took at Chris and Eiko's shower for little Sophie.

Self Portrait