Tranquil Tea Lounge

Had a meeting with Orange Coast Magazine a couple months ago, and on stifling summer drive back to LA with a broken air conditioner (barefoot, uphill, both ways, in the snow) I received my first assignment with them via email. The issue is out on shelves now and has some great info on OC nightlife if you’re out in that direction.

Stay tuned for more work from Orange Coast!

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The brother sister team that own and operate Tranquil Tea Lounge in Fullerton have an awe inspiring selection of specialty teas to choose from. It’s a welcome change of pace from the impersonal caffeine machine that is Starbucks and has delicious salads and sandwiches to boot.

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Some Archived Photos

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Cloudy Sunset

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The Beast Emerges

The Beast Emerges

The Beast Emerges

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Editorial Photographers Education Grant

Oh yeah, this was pretty spectacular!

I’m one of 7 winners this year for the Editorial Photographers Education Grant!

Check out the winners gallery, there’s some great work in there!

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Nothing like going back to basics.

First off, sorry I haven’t updated in a while.

I’ve been working on putting together a new portfolio and getting all my promotional materials off to their various printers.

Found this on Wired.com.

Photographer Clay Enos (All those great Watchmen images) hangs out in San Francisco with a sheet of white paper and a 50mm.  No lights, no crazy telephoto zooms, no models, just him and the unassuming public.

It’s great to see things like this that make you just want to go out and photograph the world.  Maybe I’ll give it a go one of these weeks.

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Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Scientists

I always knew about Eisenstaedt’s “The Kiss” and his iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe, but I had never seen his photos of these famous scientists until just now.  They’re amazing.

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Anatomy Lesson

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Picked up this anatomical cutaway from 20th Century Props this week.

He looks so tranquil.

Switching to WordPress!

Everything is so much easier now.  I lost my ability to log in when I switched hosting companies.

New posts coming soon.

Bear with me as I attempt to customize and repopulate this thing with all the old posts.

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Night Shooting

Went out shooting with Brendan Klein the other night for a class that we both have together.
We were looking for pieces of the road that could be seen as parts of human anatomy for a fake ad campaign selling a motorcycle.

But then I took this shot, which I really just like for the line color and composition.
Kind of reminds me of early analytical cubism, but without any of the symbolism.

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Carlos Serrao

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I was just looking through Esquire’s supplement “The Big Black Book”  which detailis all the things an urbane individual would need to know for upscale, meet your hedge fund manager at his home in the Hamptons, type dinner parties.  But there’s a photo spread at the back of magazine by Carlos Serrao that looks amazing.

Ignore the bottom left image:  This was shot by Barnaby Rope, also in the same issue.

Here’s a video:

His website is definitely a lesson in simplicity and functional flash.
www.CarlosSerrao.com
Things I think are awesome: The full screen, zoom, and background color change features, and just how seamless everything runs, including the loading of all the thumbnails at nice viewable sizes.

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