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Second Time Around

On Friday night, Project by Project held their 2nd Annual Plate by Plate event at Bently Reserve.  I was one of their photographers again and the venue was beautiful.  I went straight from work with all my gear and spent the evening snapping and snacking.

We didn’t win anything in the silent auction this year but the Agustins won a cool shoulder bag.

The restaurants included a bunch of places that were at the event last year and the presentation of their dishes was still top-notch.

I didn’t get to taste as much this year but it sounded like the food wasn’t as good as last year.

Here are the photos.

Dayantha & Krissy: Engagement Session

On Saturday morning, I did a brief Engagement Photo Session for Dayantha and Krissy.  I offered to meet them at the beach but they opted for the Cerritos Towne Center.  Dayantha hates taking photos and didn’t want to do it in the first place but it was urged by his mother that they should have photos taken.

I got some more formal/posed photos, some cute candids, and finally a more natural one of the two of them smiling.

Here’s rest of their photos.

Night Shift

I had Thursday off but had a photography gig from 6-10 for a Project by Project fundraising event.  So I got a little taste of what it’s like to work a night shift. I used to do this all the time at Disneyland but it’s been a while.

I spent most of the day running errands but took some time to have a tasty Chinese breakfast with my pal Matt from work.  We were talking about Chinatown the day before and decided to meet up for porridge and fried dough since he had the day off too.

In the afternoon, I tidied up the house and then headed out to 111 Minna for the PbP event.  The event had a slow start but picked up by 8.

They sold discounted tickets to their annual Plate by Plate event and took some donations for their sponsored organization.

Unfortunately, I didn’t think it was necessary to eat before the event so I was pretty hungry by the end of the night.  I didn’t actually eat “dinner” until afterward at the bar across the street.  What an amateur move.  Luckily, I didn’t have too many of their $5 punch drinks because that microwaved corn dog was not very good and not very satisfying.

Here are the photos from the event.

Ballerina

My co-worker approached me a few months ago about taking photos of her.  She has been a ballet dancer since she was little and has been recently feeling her age.  She’s only a month older than me and wanted to get some photos of her while she was still strong and flexible enough to perform her leaps and poses.

So, on Sunday morning, we met up at Golden Gate Park and I got a bunch of shots of her in two different costumes.  It was so cool to see what she could do.  There was a little girl (~5 years old) and her dad and she was so in love with Renee.  We even caught her doing jumps and poses while her dad took photos of her off to the side.  So cute.

I love how many of my co-workers have other talents on the side.  We had a lot of fun during the photoshoot and Renee LOVED her photos.  Yay!  Here are the rest of the photos.

An Evening of Food and Wine

Last night Project by Project SF held their 1st Annual Plate by Plate Event to raise funds for APA Family Support Services.  I volunteered to be one of their photographers so I got to attend at no cost and tasted food and wine from local restaurants and wineries.  It was quite a production and Susie didn’t seem to rest all night.  I bought Jes a ticket but he ended up having to volunteer for a couple hours too.  He somehow got roped into pouring champagne at the front door for a good hour or two until I said something to one of the organizers.

I also got to meet Chef Dominique Crenn of Luce.  She competed for the title of the Next Iron Chef and Jes and I have had many awesome dinners at her restuarant here in SF.

The food was tasty and the wine was flowin’ all night. I some pretty yummy appetizers and had a really yummy lemon cupcake with raspberry frosting (pictured above).

They also had a silent auction and we won tickets to an SFPC Christmas performance for $20 and I scored a bag for $20. The Lams bid on and won a painting that one of their friends created.

There were a few “celebrities” in attendance too.  I didn’t recognize any of their names so I had to look them up ahead of time so that I knew who to take photograph.  One of the girls was Jamie Chung from the movie “Grown Ups” and “Real World San Diego” (above) and the other was Tammy Jih from Amazing Race.

The DJ was spinning all night and there was also a band playing during the latter half of the event.  It definitely was quite the party and we had a good time.

Here are the rest of the photos I took last night.

Neato…

Back in April, there was a blog posting of Pearl’s Kitchen on SFWeekly and I wasn’t given photo credit on my photo.  They just wrote another article about their fabulous street cart and two of my photos were used and they got it right this time.  I didn’t think it was too big of a deal the first time around but when I actually saw my name under the photos, it was pretty neato.  Sooooo…does this make me a legit photog?!  At least in MY little world it does.  🙂