Best of Tacoma

The past week i have been constantly shooting for the "best of Tacoma" issue for the weekly volcano. I got the call from Matt at the volcano on monday asking me if i want to do it, of course i said hell ya! crappy part was it was due that thursday.

anyways the Best of Tacoma issue for the volcano is a HUGE deal, they even have a party after to celebrate. ALSO this year its going to be in 3D!(thus the glasses) i had no idea they could do that with news paper printing... shows how much i know lol


So here are some of the photos. I can not say what categories they are in or what they won cause honestly i do not know, so just look around the photos lol. Also these places and people where voted on by you the public!

i was gonna put my experience at each place but in all honesty everyone was awesome and i had a GREAT time on this assignment and will def be stopping by these places again.


Buzzards


The Den


Weiner Tattoo


Tricky's


Primo Grill


Metal Art Center


MSM Deli


Bobs Java Jive Bathroom :)


Bandito Betty


Mad Hat Tea


evergreen one and todd sykes


Smooth and Juicey


Amocat Cafe


Parkland Putters


New Frontier


all in all it was awesome! NOW GO GRAB A COPY JULY 28Th ish :)

Wedding post 2

just finished going through pics from a wedding i shot last weekend. I will say it was one of the HARDEST weddings i have EVER shot, also one of the first weddings i have done alone. The wedding was during a hot day for the Tacoma/Auburn area a sweltering 85!!! lol It took place at there house in auburn kind of in there back yard and in there big red barn.




2 things that made this tuff were:

1. CRAZY super bright sun.
2. Location (yes the location was pretty but i think i have gotten spoiled with gardens and estates)




everyone was really nice to me and everyone else in helping out. I always have a good
time at weddings because its awesome meeting new people and people are "usually" in the best of moods!




for the rest of the pics go here
http://patricksnapp.com/index2.php?v=v1#/proofing/
pass: wedding

Wedding

Shot a wedding last weekend for Luna Bella, at the lake wold gardens in Lake Wood Washington. Really beautiful grounds so that made things a little easier. It has been a few months since i shot a wedding before this one so i went in a little nervous.



I showed up at he hotel to meet up with kyle for the "getting ready" pics (nervous as always), but apparently the traffic was SO bad that he could not make it and i had to lone wolf it!







After that we drove to Lake Wold gardens in lake wood. The shoot went very well, i was a second shooter during the wedding getting all the candid shots.








so all in all it went great! one 9 hour wedding down LOTS more to go!

ALSO the rest of the pics must be viewed in my "private" gallery

http://patricksnapp.com/index2.php?v=v1#/proofing/
with the password "wedding2"

Vholder Kayak Shoot

A week or two ago i assisted Ian Coble on a kayak shoot for Vholdr ( a pov camera company).



We drove south of Seattle to Cougar Washington, a tiny town that really only has a police station and a gas station. From Cougar we drove another 2 hours (what felt like 5 ) up Lewis river. Once we reached the falls we met up with out kayakers Lizzy English and Adam Craig.

Since there was so much water they were not able to ride all of the falls we wanted to, but we were able to hit Middle Falls and Taitnapum Falls.




We got great weather and even better shots! the only one down side would be the nikon d300s frying on us becasue we used video mode to much. We were planning on making a sweet behind the scenes video but that didnt work out due to the card being corrupted. :(


some shots we used rigging that consisted of a boom, remote trigger and me holding ians shirt so he does not fall to his quick wet death lol






and if you want to see a video that was taken DURING the shoot on the vholder camera take a peek at this!




more to come.