Spay Day LA, Adopt Now!

Last Saturday I volunteered to shoot promotional stills for the Spay Day LA and Adoption event held at the West LA Animal Care Center. The day drew pet lovers and celebrities together to promote the adoption of dogs, cats and even rabbits in need of loving homes.

Click here to see the slide show on the LA Animal Services site.

Click here to view the pictures on the 944 site.

Scream 2008

Saturday night I was invited to help shoot the 2008 Scream Awards at the Greek Theater. I was expecting to just shoot the red carpet but was soon asked to cover the green room... a much better spot. To see more, click here to view the slideshow.

Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez blend in

Liv Tyler classes the joint up

The Scream Girls hit the red carpet

Ozzy and Kelly make their way to the stage

Storm Troopers head back to the Death Star

Pickup Artist

Saturday I shot the opening reception of "Tides of Emotion", the mother daughter exhibition at the James Coleman Gallery in Santa Monica. Katina Zinner's large format abstracts shared the space with dramatic bronze figures by her mom the famed photographer Christa Zinner.

Painter Katina Zinner shows her appreciation to gallery owner Tony Kettering by giving him a lift

Katina with her canvases

Christa and Katina at the reception with one of Christa's sculptures on the right

Escape to Dance Mountain

Dance winners from the Dick Clark Productions hit show, "So You Think You Can Dance" kicked off their 2008 Tour with a celebration at Magic Mountain in Valencia. After dark the park closed except for cast and crew. Once I finished shooting PR pictures everyone was anxious to hit the coasters. Me, I passed. Click here to view all my pictures on the Film Magic site.

Dancer Courtney Galiano parties with her favorite WB Wabbit

Not to be outdone, Courtney is joined by Joshua Allen, Katee Shean and Twitch. All others need no introduction

Beaches

Catherine Cunningham at BDPR, Inc. brought me on board to cover the opening reception of Olivier Pojzman's fine art photography series at
the James Coleman Gallery. Olivier who is known for his celebrity portraits showcased his fine art series featuring dramatic landscapes of Southern California beaches.

Gallery owner, Tony Kettering and photographer Olivier Pojzman in front of the Santa Monica studio.

Olivier in front of one of his landscapes. This high resolution image of Venice Beach had such detail that one local guest actually was able to spot himself in it.

Flanked by art patrons, Catherine Cunningham and BDPR, Inc. owner Alyson Dutch enjoy what turned out to be a successful reception.

Spider

Evening walks this time of year usually mean spider webs in the face. The other morning I spotted one of the quarter sized culprits posing for me on top of a flower.



Photo inspired by Tammy Lee

Mammoth Size Fun

This past weekend we had a whirlwind trip up to Mammoth Mountain and surrounding lakes. The weather was perfect, the air clean, it was all good. Our friends Dave and Cindy were great hosts and better company.

Rainbow Falls

Click below to view the slideshow of all the pictures from the trip. Make sure to start from the beginning.

French Revolution

My friends Mike and Eva threw another fun client party at their pet boutique, Doggie Styles in Beverly Hills. It was a wildly successful French Soirée with lots of snarling, spitting and snorting French Bulldogs. The day attracted the local press and a camera crew from Animal Planet. The store was standing room only with the dog owners wearing perpetual smiles as their Frenchies roughhoused across the floor.

Want to see more? Click here to view the slideshow of all the pictures from the French Soirée. And as always to see all my critter
photography visit VINPET Photographic.

Put me down, I want to play, put me down, I want to play, put me down, I want to play

As a dog itcheth in his heart, so he scratches

Roughnecks

The good life

Party on, Outfest

Monday night I shot the Identity Los Angeles And Blueprint Host "In The Mix" Outfest Party in West Hollywood. This was a smaller event but that just made it more intimate and fun. To see all the pictures I shot from the event on
the Film Magic site, click here.

You look different... Did you you do something new with your Hair?

Actress Michelle Clunie primps

Kristanna Loken from "Terminator 3" and "Pain Killer Jane" fame was a stunner in person

From "Days of our Lives" Kristin Renton

Jeff Lewis From Bravo's "Flipping Out" shows us crazy is the new black!

Gene Therapy

This week I photographed Gene Simmons at his book signing for "Ladies of The Night" at Borders in Westwood. I have to say that Mr. Simmons was very gracious to his fans who paid over $40 for his book and waited in line for hours. He stayed until the line was gone and was very interactive with the crowd. Good rock star! Here's a few shots from the evening. To see everything
I shot for Film Magic, click here.

Mr. PR

A fan gets a private viewing of the famous tongue

A "committed" Kiss fan shows off his ink.

Will the real Gene step forward

He signed my boob!!!

The youngest of the Kiss Army gets amped up

VINCE GONZALES PHOTOGRAPHY

Mission Lilys

Almost a year ago we visited the Mission San Juan Capistrano, taking a few shots of the area including pictures of the Koi pond. I submitted this picture of water lilys that they are now using for promotion of the Flower and Garden show. The photo appears on their home page. See the link below for their site.
http://www.missionsjc.com/index.html

Diesel Vampire

Actress Mishel Prada thinks red

I was invited to shoot stills on the set of Lior Chefetz’ spec commercial, “Diesel Vampire” at USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center. Lior was directing a short tale of young love, fashion and… bloodsucking. Here are a few pics.

Lior at the camera

Gothic Beauty

Cameraman Raul Fernandez gets the shot

Medeni Griffiths prepares the Panavision

Stylist Adria Heath gets Michael Dolen camera ready

Actors Mishel Prada and Michael Dolan share a light moment... in bed

Lampooned

Last night I shot the red carpet arrivals for the premiere of National Lampoons' “One, Two, Many” at the Arclight here in Hollywood. Everything was pretty normal until the Kardashian girls showed up. The photographers simply went ape-s#*t. The shooter next to me got all ocd and yelled KIM, OVER HERE probably 50 times.

KIM, OVER HERE- KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-

At one point Kris Jenner watched him with a perplexed face then looked at me and we shared a shrug

Mother-Daughter moment

Other arrivals:

Playmate, Sandra Taylor

Nancy O’Dell

Music man, Kevin Eubanks

David Faustino

1985 Bond Girl, Tanya Roberts