No two photographers take the same shot, just as no two persons remember events the same. When you combine stories and images you have a broader perspective of what occurred. This past Thursday I had the honor to participate in Savant Garde Fashion Show. I've posted my photographs to two galleries: Behind the Scenes and On the Runway . NOTE: There are separate password-protected galleries for Little Red Sparrow and Kayo so that models can save copies of their images. Other photographers have published their images and Del Geronimo's included highlights at FASHION RE-PLANT Magazine: Savant Garde Featured in SF Weekly: Hayley McMillen covered the event for SF Weekly.com; check out Last Night: Savant Garde Fashion Show at 111 Minna . Merci Vraiment: Features two of his own images sent to all participants with his Thank You. Please Dress Up at FV2 , Brillant Creative Nostalgia , Kayo at FV2 , Crowd at FV2 and Betty Croaker at FV2 : Showcase some of Del Geronimo's images. I...

Once again I had the opportunity to shoot fashion - a few hours ago at ">Fashion Victim 2: An Avant Garde Fashion Show at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. In some aspects, shooting models is very much like shooting musicians. At the beginning of the event it's "hurry up and wait." During the waiting phase, you scout the space and test your angles and settings and observe and get to know the people. (Unlike shooting musicians where I tend to be the only photographer, with fashion you're surrounded and become part of someone else's shot. You also get to interact and learn as everyone compares styles/potential angles/techniques.) Once the event starts, it's almost over before it began - time almost stands still as you're lost in the moment. You're observing through your camera lens a portion of the event while simultaneously scanning for the next shot and thinking ahead to changes in zoom settings. And then, it's over - the designers a...

An email from the front desk proclaimed its arrival - the latest package from B&H Photo Video to me. Right after lunch I went and picked up and signed out my package. I can hardly believe it - it's here - my own Canon EOS 5D . It feels like Christmas (even though in this instance I know exactly what's in the box). A quick check of the box reveals that none of the contents are damaged. From the box alone, the camera doesn't appear much different from my Canon EOS 30D . I can hardly wait to get the package home and examine its contents (for now it sits patiently and quietly as it waits for me to finish).

I have different portfolios - print galleries: "Architecture in Landscape" on the walls of my office, "Ingredients for Life - Organic Food" in my dining room, "California Seascapes" in my bedroom, "Doorways to Personality" in my living room and online galleries: Best of Eternal Spring 2008 , Best of Livewire Dance Band 2007 , and various detail galleries . I even have two books - one of my best film images and the other of my best digital images through 2006. At the time the portfolios were assembled I loved each selected image - they spoke to me. Some of the images - years after selection - still speak to me and remain among my favorites: "Abandoned Miner's Shack" (Park City, Utah 1996); "Sibling Rivalry" (Austin, Texas 2000); "Chef Ped's Larb" (Austin, Texas 2001, published in Nation's Restaurant News); "Breaking from Bouncing" (Felton, CA 1995); "Vineyard with a View" (Paso Robles...

In a previous post, Patience is a Virtue , I talked about postponing my purchase of a Canon EOS 5D for a month. Since that post, I've obtained another "L" series lens which I've used at two events: an appearance by Livewire Dance Band at Club 88 in February (the other lens I used was the Canon EF 85mm f1.2L II USM Autofocus Lens) and at Gateway to India - a Fundraiser for the California Shakespeare Theater where it was the only lens I used. The lens I'm favoring is the Canon Zoom Wide Angle-Telephoto EF 24-70mm f2.8L USM Autofocus Lens. Well now the Canon EOS 5D is on its way to my door along with another "L" series lens - the Canon EF 24-105mm f4.0L IS USM lens (replaces my Canon EF 28-135mm f3.5-5.6 IS USM lens). This lens isn't meant for my Canon EOS 30D as I primarily shoot existing light and it's not a fast lens - it's meant to deliver even sharper daylight images for gardens and beachscapes. Over the next couple of weeks, I'll po...

Last month I had the opportunity to shoot fashion for the first time at Eternal Spring. Well not really, my first fashion shoot was of different clothes posed in still life for a Spanish lesson in high school and follow on shoots have been of posed still life clothing for insurance records (I'm always looking for an excuse to add creativity to the otherwise mundane). But, it was my first opportunity to shoot fashion in action and in a variety of styles - still life, portrait, and candid. In today's online The New York Times, I stumbled upon an article (more like a photo blog) from Bill Cunningham, "April Can Wait" . He's a photographer with The New York Times who covered fashion week in Paris from an alternate perspective - the Paris streets outside the shows. His photos combine various styles - portraits and candids - and include street scenes as well as clothing details. Many of my favorite images that I've accumulated for inspiration are fashion images. In ...

Every photographer is asked at some point to define their style. Unfortunately there's no easy answer. There's not even a stock textbook answer. Chris Haslego talks about photo styles in "Photographic Styles - Creating Great Specialty Photos" article on ChiFF.com. He highlights some equipment and technique differences among the styles: Landscape Photography: variety of wide-angle zoom lenses and telephoto lens with a focal length less than 300mm; patience; investigative skills for scouting and finding the location for that perfect shot Photo Journalism: flexibility; "understanding of the pattern in which people live their lives" Sports Events Photography: 60mm to 1000mm telephoto lenses (300mm to 600mm for soccer events), autofocus, and ISO sensitivity of 400 and above; panning; knowledge of the sport you're photographing; editorial skills to capture "player expressions, the thrills, the disappointments, the concentration that players display...

It's easy to forget that Vacaville, California wasn't always on the map for outlet malls. Years ago there wasn't much on that stretch of I-80. The exception was the Nut Tree, named so for the expansive almond orchards. Nowadays you really have to look for the orchards, but they're still there - smaller, but still there. If you take the Pitt School Road exit, you'll see a well-tended almond orchard. This year, when I drove by the flowering orchard I had my camera with me and was able to capture the almond blossoms . I used a sepia tint for two of images to create a feel of "stepping back in time."