Wilson's Fire

Wah! Check out the crazy fire Wilson and his crew put out on Monday morning (obviously whoever took the photo needs to update their time/date settings)!! They got the call at 2am and fought it until the morning crew came to relieve them (7am or so). What's crazier is that house is literally a 10 second drive from the Walnut. Down the street and around the corner. Wilson was telling me how incredibly frustrating to fight a fire when it's freezing because you start to sweat while you work but when you stop you get really cold and feel gross from your damp/wet clothing. The floor was also icing up so it was hard for him to get good footing sometimes.
We went back to the house later that morning and man, it is done. It's so sad to see how fragile our houses actually are and that they can be destroyed in a blink of an eye it seems. The family got out safely which is what's most important.
p.s. doesn't the photo look like the house smiling?!?! haha creepy.
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Glendon & Chris from Impulse

I had a super time at Solar Crash on Sunday at the El Mocambo. What's great is that I bumped into the dynamic photo duo, Chris and Glendon who are assistants for Syl from Impulse Photo. I always joke with them that Syl scooped them up as assistants before I could and now I can only use them when they're gracious enough to lend me some of their time :P The boys helped me set up the Photobooth Portraits and we were rockin' out images from the night! There were great artists there that night and an awesome time of networking and meeting new like-minded people. I was a part of a series that documented people's response to a simple question:

My approach was to capture personality, quirkiness and fleeting moments that show people's characters (as usual with all my portraits) but also to try and convey my own answer to the question of "What must love be?". At its simplest, I see love in people. In their diversity, in their randomness and spontaneity, in their interactions with others. It sounds corny but I really can see the humanity in everyone when you strip everything away. That's why I love doing the portraits on white! It's just me and a person. They can't hide anywhere ;) Everyone has insecurities, fears, ambitions, gifts, beliefs, cares, desires to be loved and to love. Here's what I came up with:

Only thing I ever could need,
Only one good thing worth trying to be and it's love.
Only gonna get what you give away, so give love.

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Smile! It's a short week :)


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