La Saint Valentin at The Waterfall Building

I was at another event for The Sociables this Valentines.  I was shooting at The Waterfall Building, a skylit structure that's pretty popular around here for a variety of reasons.  It was a sexy art gallery venue and presented in part by LuvnGrace and Hennessy Cognac.

Read the review at The Sociables and see the full set of photos at Flickr!

Continue reading for technical nerd stuff below.

Runway at "ELEGANCE" by EVA CHEN

It was another event by Vernard Goud from LUVNGRACE Entertainment, and I was invited to shoot at the event.  Vernard's events always have all sorts of things going on, and involves a fusion of a variety of elements of culture and art.  Featuring Eva Chen's "Elegance" collection, commercial photographer Erich Saide, Golden Brush Art: Bill Higginson + Richard Ma and Diane Reyes + Carole Lagimodiere, Make Up Artist Alysia Hamilton, and a bunch of other people and things going on.

I haven't done any fashion shows in a long time since I was busy on assignments shooting film.  I even missed Vancouver Fashion Week this year, so I was looking forward to coming out to this.

Eva Chen's been showing for her awesome style at various events, so if you follow fashion you probably seen some of these already.

Included are a few photos from the event.

See the full set at FLICKR here!

Nerd Stuff Below

Nightclub Photography

Between a two day long lingerie shoot and filming the last day of Vancouver's Top Gay Model, I've been quite busy with work.  And wasting time with some street photography, most money I made from that these days was finding a $5 bill on the ground.  But I'll finally do an update about some more nightclub gear and techniques.


Go here to see the photos from the VFW after party from Aubar, Republic and Fortune.

After Party and Conclusion

See more photos from AuBAR, Fortune, and Republic here!

What I was doing there:

I was commissioned by Stephen Sawchuk from House of Leo Productions to film(video) the fashion shows.  You can contact House of Leo here!  They are the official video production company for Vancouver Fashion Week.

You can find some of the videos I took at VFW 2010 for Blackout Productions last year here (again with Stephen Sawchuk, the modelesque Producer of House of Leo Productions).

Photos from the opening party are in this flickr page.

Miscellaneous photos not runway are found here. (i.e. group photos, press room stuff, interviews, Elysia Rotaru, etc)

Notes on Photos from the Fashion Shows:

Look in my flickr collection for photos from the shows I wasn't filming.

Something Awkward?  You'll notice most of my photos are closeups of the face.  It's for the makeup artists.  All the official photographers down the center can get a million body shots of each, showing off the dress.

*I try not to talk to the models.  The makeup artists will beat me up because I always make them laugh and ruin their makeup.  I'm going to guess it's my haircut or accent or something.

Notes on the After Party Photos:

After party photos are here.

Nightclub photos.  It's what I do.  Well, when I'm not off filming in the jungles somewhere.  Your chance of getting good photos increases when you come to the after party and hang out.  Well, with me anyways.

Vancouver Fashion Week 2011 April Night 6

 Fashion by Helen Lee

Vancouver Fashion Week came to an end last night.  The last set of shows was more international designers, including: Helen Lee, Foor by Lei Zhang, La Vie by Jenny Ji, Pauline Van Dongen.

As usual, I only have photos for designers who didn't want video.  I just happened to get photos of Pauline's style because she lined them up down the runway at the end. You can find the set for Helen Lee and Pauline Van Dongen on my FLICKR.

Fashion by Pauline Van Dongen

Vancouver Fashion Week 2011 April Night 2

It was Vancouver Fashion Week's (VFW) first runway show of 2011.  Up for the first night was Patricia Fieldwalker, Rosalita McGee, Valerio Moda and Lace Embrace Atelier showing off their designs for the Fall/Winter 2011 Collections.

Some highlights included the men's fashion in Valerio Moda Collection (for me anyways...), and a burlesque-esque show put on by Lace Embrace.

Any of the shows I wasn't commissioned to do videos for, I took photos (since I was already there, why not).  You can find the photoset for Rosalita McGee at my Flickr.

Vancouver Fashion Week 2011 April Opening Gala

I was invited down to the Vancouver Fashion Week 2011 Opening Gala yesterday as a videographer for House of Leo Productions.  They are endorsed directly by VFW and contracted me in to take footage for the entire week.

I'll be in the media section at the end of the runway taking footage for the whole week.  See if you can spot me.

*See the full set of photos at my FLICKR!

Vancouver Fashion Week

I had a great time working with BlackOut Productions at the Vancouver Fashion Week.  They commissioned me as a videographer to catch the runway shows on the weekend, so I didn't get to take any photos.  Work comes first.  Work work work.  I did take some photos of the practice runway walks though.  I'll put those up soon!