The Den

just shot the den today nothing too special. The Den is a Tea/live show cafe in the back of Urbanxchange in downtown tacoma. The volcano was running a piece on them and wanted some photos of the place and the people who run it.

here are some shots.

she kept bringing up there a family so we shot like awkward family photo style lol







other than that i have been doing some automotive stuff also, just for fun building my portfolio.

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 :)

Q-Dot cover

I have been shooting for papers and other companies for quite some time and finally

though it was time to blog it lol

So this shoot was for the cover of the Weekly Volcano. Sadly during this shoot i was coming down with quite a cold so my "artistic edge" was pretty freaking dull lol I showed up at the steps of UWT about 45 mins early to get a feel for the lighting and where we would go, i had nooo idea what to do.

OH and in case your wondering i was shooting a rapper/hip hop artist Qdot and his art director for the upcoming show "grit fest" (?).

Anyways when they showed up things got better, i put down the camera and starting talking to them and thats really when i noticed that they became much more comfortable with me .

We started at UWT i took some pretty standard shots to get in the feel for things then we moved our way up to the swiss where we played pool talking,laughed and getting some great shots! Q has quite the personality and hes not to good at pool lol Yes he lost hahah.On our way out i noticed a seat with some wood paneling behind it and though it would be a cool texture for a B&W plus the window lighting was pretty sweet.

They said Urban Exhange's Den is pretty cool so we headed down the street and to the den.

There was much for lighting but i liked the colors and the funky old decorations and though it would work.

I really enjoy working with papers!

Heres the final, they used the B&W shot on the inside

Hopefully i will be adding more stuff soon!

p.s (sorry im not much of a writer haha :) )