shutter to think

catching up...

Hi there! Lately I've been only posting pictures so here's some words.
Last Thursday i went to exposure gallery in sf to see friend photographer kevin german show his on-going documentary work in vietnam. kevin is an inspiration. he is a thoughtful photographer who jumped from newspaper photography to being his own now based in Vietnam. You can see his work here:
www.kevingerman.com

I myself have been catching up on wedding pictures, and have yet to begin editing my journalism stories from Mexico...and lately I have been shooting for the sf chronicle. i visited my old stomping ground foreign cinema a couple weeks ago where i worked 10 years ago in its first year, now under different ownership. Here are some images from that shoot of the husband/wife team and kids:

Guanajuato

 

Lianne in Gourmet.com

http://www.gourmet.com/winespiritsbeer/2009/03/real-mojitos

I received a surprising call from photo editor Ryan Schick at Conde Nast's Gourmet for a web photo. As a reader of Gourmet magazine and a fan of their photography, I was quite excited to see one of my images make it to a food publication!

tea time!

I photographed an intro to tea class at the oxbow marketplace in napa for the newspaper a couple of months ago. i would, someday, love to go to china to photograph the tea farmers during harvest. it just seems so beautiful. whole leaf tea is what my mother and grandmother always drank. esp. my grandmother who came from the guangdong region of southern china. and this afternoon i went to my first tea tasting in berkeley, called teance. its amazing that for centuries asian countries, including india, have been drinking incredible teas while the rest drink the crap out of lipton and the like. it is like drinking a 2 buck chuck rather then a 20 bottle of wine. good tea is like good health.