Several months back I had the pleasure of photographing professional longboarder Kassia Meador for Gravis Footwear.  The images centered around her artwork, which is pretty unreal I might add, and were to be used in a promotional video they were putting together.  Well, the video’s done and on the Gravis Footwear site, but you can check it out here, too.  Kassia also has a great blog that details here travels, events, and exotic surf locations.

Special thanks to Pete Santa Maria for the phenomenal work on the video.

Last week, I had the opportunity to photograph some tabletops designed by San Diego’s finest coordinators and florists.  The images will appear in an upcoming issue of San Diego Style Weddings.  The shoot also involved photographing the lovely Sarah in a few gorgeous wedding gowns.  I feel a cover shot!

Coordinator: Sharay Hood of "What a Wedding. Florist: Marites Perea of "Tessilk"

Coordinator: Courtney Toney of "Joyful Weddings and Events"; Florist: LaVonne Zamora of "Adorations"

Coordinator: Alexandra Roselee of "AR Affairs"; Florist: Thomas Lotus of "Lotus Flowers"

Coordinator and florist: Haydee Delacruz of "Haydee's Creative Flowers"

Coordinator and florist: Haydee Delacruz of "Haydee's Creative Flowers"

Coordinator and florist: Paula Marn of "Flowers Forever"

Coordinator: Cynthia Zatkin of "CZ Events"; Florist: Patrick Higgins of "Artistic Florals"

Coordinator and florist: Heather Balliet of "Amorology"

Coorinator: Jennifer Molloy of "Amore Events"; Florist: Dawnielle Smith of "The Divine Event"

Coordinators: Rebecca Gaffney and Mia Saling of "Red Letter Days"; Florist: LaVonne Zamora of "Adorations"

Dave Oates, Principal at Stalwart Communications, is changing the way people think about public relations. His “pay-on-performance” business model is ruffling plenty of feathers in the PR world, which for years has built itself on large, up-front retainer fees and very little in the way of measurable results. Stalwart has only been in business for about two-and-a-half years, but already has a laundry list of clients and continues to grow at a rapid pace, when many other large PR firms are closing their doors.

Dave has referred a lot of work my way, so when it came time for some new portraits of him and his new employee, Allison, I was pumped. We shot the images on the beach in Cardiff under the hot sun of the last Santa Ana we had. In an effort to limit their exposure to the sun in their suits, we kept the shoot to about 10 minutes.

I have been a full-on laggard when it comes to blogging. I just noticed that it’s been well over a month since my last blog post. And it’s not like I haven’t had anything to blog about–I’ve just lagged. No excuses, I lagged. Did I mention that I lagged? But I digress…

United Through Reading is a great local non-profit with the mission of “uniting families facing physical separation by facilitating the bonding experience of reading aloud together.” I was asked to photograph the board of directors as well as the organization’s CEO, Sally Ann Zoll.

The Board of Directors was photographed in the lobby of a large office building in the UTC area. Lighting was fairly simple, with one main light in an octabox high and centered above the group, and two monolights in softboxes on each side and towards the back.

The CEO was photographed just outside the main entrance of the headquarters in Sorrento Valley. There’s a nice metallic facade that made a cool background.

My good friend and mortgage planner extraordinaire Erik Martin stopped by yesterday for a quick headshot. This one’s been processed a little more than the ones I gave him, but I liked the look.