The Master of colors
My favorite artist, an incredible muralist, a world renown tattoo artist and an all around excellent human being. Meeting him and creating these images has been a fantastic experience.
People I admire - Juan Salgado
My favorite artist, an incredible muralist, a world renown tattoo artist and an all around excellent human being. Meeting him and creating these images has been a fantastic experience.
CMYK
Having the opportunity to create art using one of your heroes as a canvas has been incredible.
A highlight of my trip to Puerto Rico
I admire people who have the passion to fight for the privilege of living through their art as they understand the prize is a life worth living.
More to come...
Senen Does Writing: Sunset with Marien
It's the start of another year and another excuse to spend a day with Marien in curious situations . This year we decided on the sunset. Looking for the dying sun as we tried our best to capture the magic of the moment, we headed for the private beaches of Dorado where our good friends Yiyi and Gaby gave us access to a serene beach which served as the perfect backdrop for the session.
Note: this series is part of a long term project I shoot every year with my friend Marien. If you want to read on the others years, you can check the previous blog entry here
It was the start of another year and another excuse to spend a day with Marien in Puerto Rico, getting in curious situations while capturing images. This year we decided on the sunset. Looking for the dying sun as we tried our best to capture the magic of the moment, we headed for the private beaches of Dorado where our good friends Yiyi and Gaby gave us access to a serene beach which served as the perfect backdrop for the session.
This time I left all the lights and only brought a reflector with me that my lovely fiancee was wielding for me. It seems almost like returning to the first year, going back to the basics and enjoying the simple pleasure of the shoot.
In order to reach the place, we had to jump climb down a wall which gave us plenty of privacy except for the rare lone fisherman that was in the area
This year we had a curious visitor, we noticed a stray dog that was walking all along the coast.
He was a scared guy that didn't let us get closer, however he got stuck in the area and couldn't find the spot to climb out. We stopped shooting and tried our best to help him, but the little buddy wasn't having any of our help.
Seeing as we couldn't really do anything without risking getting bitten, we continued our shooting while he sat near us keeping a nervous and steady watch.
Marien as always is a joy and pleasure to shoot and helping us keep the shoot as fun and light as possible.
Once we finished shooting, we tried our hand at directing our buddy out of the rocks.
This time he finally listened to us and was able to find the path out of the rocks.
The last time I saw him he was enjoying a victory poop as he ran away to other adventures.
Once the shoot ended, we sat in great company hearing and telling funny stories, sad stories and just hating that the moment had to end. Until the next one...
Faces of New York Comic Con 2012 - The Creative Forces Edition
Continuing my coverage on the New York Comic Con. Growing up I was an avid comic reader with a hyperactive imagination and a serious lack of concentration abilities
I wanted some time to focus on the creatives that give us the stories and images
Stanley Lau
Continuing my coverage on the New York Comic Con.
Growing up I was an avid comic reader with a hyperactive imagination and a serious lack of concentration abilities, the fantasy worlds were my escape and the people that made these worlds were my heroes.
I wanted some time to focus on the creative people that give us the stories and images.
Not just the leaders of their market, but also the independent illustrators, writers and publishers, those are inspired to follow what they love. Here in no particular order are those I could shoot at the Convention.
Arthur Suydan 'The Zombie King"
Kasra Ghanbari
Autumn Frederickson
Rafa Alburqueque
Stanley Lau
Chris Claremont
Daxiong Shen Yun
Tyler Walpole
Alex Garner
Bobby Chiu -character designer, creator and all around increidble artist
Rodney Ramos
Steve Defendini
Henry Minata
Zack Zellars
John Hughes
Garth Cameron Graham
Robert James Luedke
Mark Brooks
Mark Frankel
Josh
Newsha Ghasemi
Jaime Tyndall
Greg Horn
Q from Impractical Jokers
Sal from Impractical Jokers
Francesca with Impractical Jokers
William Lopa
Angel
Ron Marz
Brian K Vaughn
Fiona Staples
Dan Didio
Carlos M. Mangual
Danielle
Faces of New York Comic Con 2012 - Sunday edition
A lot of photos after the breakSaturday edition here
Coverage of the New York Comic Con continues with the Sunday edition of awesome cosplayers.
Sylar from http://www.aicosu.com/
Sheila from http://www.aicosu.com/
Monica Lee
Lord Humungus
Dana
Justin
Tiffany
Karl
Chris
Anna
Rebecca Noel - I was very impressed after she explained that her entire costume was made out of duct tape. Extremely cheap and very effective, props to her!
Erin
Alyssm
Alicia
Christina
Christina's mother as the loveliest Aeris ever
Our good friend Angel publisher for RBA Comics
Rachel
The youngest Joker ever, David
Arielle
Samantha
Michela
Caitlin
Christopher
Jennifer
Vicky
Rosie
Caryn
Joe
Devon as the cutest ninja turtle ever
Rachel
Jessamy
Yours truly!
Dina
Monica
Naomi
Taylor
Paul
Santiago
Marissa
Carson
Lou
Kelsey
Ben
Jim from kostumekult.com
Nina also from kostumekult.com
Brittany
Alex
Cris
Michelle
Laura
Scarlet
Erin
Tori
Josh
I'd like to give a truly special thanks to my fiancee Camille, who wrestled with the softbox for two very long days of work. She is a wonderful woman and deserves every second of praise, also to Angel for helping me locate some key people I will be publishing in the next entry.
As before, there are a ton more photos than I can publish in one time, so you can head to the flick gallery to see the rest of the images here
Faces of New York Comic Con 2012 - Saturday edition
A ton of photos await after the breakAnother year and im once again thrust into the wonderful world of wacky cosplayers and incredible artists. Only my second time here and the New York Comic Con is quickly becoming one of my favorite events in the city. These people cast aside their socially accepted shell and welcome their alter egos for three days of pop and geek culture.
Expressing my love of profiles, but more than anything is the eyes that I want to highlight. Some of these people have their own websites, so whenever possible i'm linking to their work.
Ashley
Luis
Mike Fass - The very awesome Zangief from Street Fighter the Later Years
Lila
Lydia
Raymond
Amanda
Kariann
Madeleine
Lacee Toyama
Adam Forejt
Victoria Queeno
Shawn - with a wonderful makeup from Orlando Pagan
Melissa
Roxy Romero
Zephyr
Elizabeth
Jeremy
Christine
Mark
Catherine
James Kenna from http://www.geekenheim.com/
Rita
Aurora
Charles Battersby - This is what I considered the most complete original cosplay I saw. It's a shame so many details got lost in my style of photography, but I was very impressed by how natural everything seemed.
Barbara
Ian
Christine
Russell
Vivian
Jerome
Claire
Justin
Jim Cush
Neil
Jackie
Roy
Lindsey
Sarah
Jarrad
Ann
Anli
Molly
There are a lot more photos in the flickr set located here