http://blog.gavaphoto.com Gåvaphoto Photo Blog Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:07:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Meet Dr. Nammy Patel, San Francisco's premier (and maybe only) green dentist! She's incredibly kind and fun in person, and wow, isn't she gorgeous? What's more, she's passionate about sustainability, http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/05/19/san-francisco-green-dentist/ Cosmo is a one of those dear friends that has flowed in and out of my life, and is the kind of person you can pick back up with after a year and it feels like no time has passed. http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/05/08/photos-for-my-friend-cosmos-book/ My friend Coleen Elgin Drew contacted me about a book project she's working on with author John Levy. After a long drive up a very windy and beautiful road into Marin, I met up with Coleen and John. John wrote a book called "Inherited Wealth: Opportunities and Dilemmas", and Coleen ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/05/02/john-levy-book-cover-project/ I always love going to EcoTuesday, networking with people who are passionate about sustainability is inspiring. Oren Jaffe and Nikki Martinez, your lovely hosts: Everyone gets a few sentences to introduce themselves and talk about what they're passionate about, but Oren really holds them to about two sentences. Any more and he's ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/04/24/some-favorites-from-earth-day-ecotuesday/ I'm celebrating Earth Day by photographing EcoTuesday at the W Hotel (I'm also riding my bike to work - but hey, doing some event photography for my friends at EcoTuesday will be a blast). EcoTuesday is a networking event for business leaders interested in sustainability. I'll post a few photos ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/04/22/earth-day-2008/ I'm just back from this incredible conference in Chicago, called Strictly Business 2 put on by ASMP, which was all about the business of photography. Since the tag line for the conference was "Put your camera down and focus on your business", I didn't even bring my camera. For an ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/04/14/american-society-of-media-photographers-strictly-business-2/ I traveled to Boston today for an event I'm photographing this weekend, and I had the best flight imaginable. I normally get pretty antsy after the first few hours and can't wait to get off the plane. Invariably I check my watch twenty times only to see that 5 minutes ... http://blog.gavaphoto.com/2008/04/03/on-my-way-to-beantown/