Marla May Villanueva

Marla is one of my closest friends back in high school...that's like another lifetime ago. It was a pleasant surprise when my best buddy Jeff Abrasaldo managed to convince Marla to model for his one on one mentorship in "strobing". It was not the easiest of tasks since Marla is always busy and was "shy" to model.

Thanks Marla for being such an amazing model.

Ann- Sept 2010

I've been working with Ann for quite awhile now and I always look forward to each session with her. She is always ready to work and her energy all through out the shoot is inspiring. Ann is such an amazing model and such fun conversations about anything under the sun.

This is my last session with Ann before my long trip to the Philippines and I aimed that it will be our coolest session. Thanks for bringing your scarf Ann... it was such a useful prop in our session.

Thanks Ann and I am looking forward to our 2011 sessions.

Lindsey Hayes, Sept 2010

This is my last session with the beautiful Lindsey Hayes just before my trip to the Philippines in Oct 2010. I love working with Lindsey because of her skills as a model and she is so much fun to hang out with.

We planned for a session for quite sometime but we can't seem to fit it on our schedules and finally we did. The concept of this session is about "strobing" at night, this is also a throw back to my favorite types of camera... the prosumers. I started the shoot with my pro-dslr the Olympus E1 but later on shifted to my ancient Olympus C5050. Why in the world you may ask??? Simple I can achieve high speed flash synching with my prosumers. Why would I sacrifice Lindsey's portfolio images by using a prosumer? I did not compromise anything, I stayed with the base ISO of 64 and I can confidently print all these images up to 16x20" without any issues, let alone a standard 8x10" portfolio image.

Thanks Lindsey for such an amazing session.

Jean in Manitoba Towns

My good friend and my fine art photographs curator Jean Webster's concept of going through little towns and create a few different look on an afternoon roadtrip. I love roadtrips and I eagerly said yes when she introduced this concept with me. The one thing that is definitely a challenge regarding locations I haven't even heard of is to prepare for the lighting scenarios I will face. Its much easier doing my on location sessions within Winnipeg because I know a lot of places that I can use for certain concepts at specific time of day.

This was even more of a challenge because it was raining when we left the city. She was all cool with it if we don't get any photos at all but thank mother nature that it cleared up when we reached our first location.

Here's some of our photos from various little towns in Manitoba, Canada.

Thanks Jean for such an amazing afternoon.