http://blog.gavaphoto.com Gåvaphoto Photo Blog Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:42:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok so it's not the New York Times or anything, but a short article I wrote for the American Society of Media Photographer's Northern California Quarterly was just recently published. Check it out: The plan is to continue writing a regular column reviewing new products and services for photographers. In this ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2009/08/17/sharpening-my-pencil/ The client I mentioned in my last post launched their new website, with our portraits everywhere! Yay! Center for the Health Professions is great to work with. My team and I photographed a variety of health professionals - dentists, pharmacists, doctors, nurses and administrators at their offices at the University ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2009/08/03/new-client-website-center-for-the-health-professions/ One of my favorite clients is doing a new marketing campaign, and a few weeks ago asked me to photograph a variety of staff and clients over two days. I love getting to work with real people and helping them feel comfortable! Here are some outtakes that I like: I was ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2009/05/18/new-client-advertising-photos/ Last weekend I flew to Seattle to photograph a wedding of a friend who's been in my life since junior high. What an incredible honor - it really hit me the day before the wedding when I was thinking about sitting in art class with Stephanie in 8th grade, and ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2009/04/06/steph-and-jon-tie-the-knot/ Last week I was sweating away in a field in Marin, dodging cow pies. Community service? Frat boy prank? No...photo shoot. And a really fun one. I'm really excited to be working on an advertising campaign with a client who is absolutely fantastic. I can't post images until the campaign ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/10/07/powdering-the-cows/ Group De La Comida is a non-profit organization that distributes fresh produce and other staples to low-income people, many of them recent immigrants, throughout San Francisco. My boyfriend and I have volunteered for the organization for several years, and our friend and founder of Grupo is an amazing womn who ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/08/25/grupo-de-la-comida/ Whew, it's been a busy month! I posted a while ago about my fantastic new office, and I'm finally getting around to posting images now that we're done finishing it! It was *WAY* more work than I had anticipated, and a big thank you to my boyfriend for helping sand, ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/07/19/my-new-office/ I love that my new office is at ActivSpace in the Mission - I meet so many great people! One of them is Kimberly Yap Tan, an esthetician. Kim founded SkinSALVATION earlier this year, and she is fantastic! I had the genuine pleasure of photographing her for her new website, ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/06/17/kim-skinsalvation-sf/ Last week my friend Tonya asked me to create some business portraits for her, but she didn't want the "Sears Portrait Studio on a plain backdrop" look (although oddly enough, I just met a couple last night who are looking for that exact idea - kind of a 70's throwback ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/06/12/tonya/ Shoshana is an amazing, talented woman I met at Burningman seven years ago (I can't believe it's been seven years. She's as likely to burst into a song or a dance as she is to speak eloquently about the nuances of Greek mythology. http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/06/03/shoshana/