I work in the Financial District area of Manhattan, New York; namely, at the corner of Water St and John St. There are at least 20-30 food trucks, on top of multiple restaurants, within the 700-yard radius. At lunchtime everyday, my coworkers and I walk around the blocks trying different places to eat. A few months ago, we discovered GRK Fresh Greek, and it’d proven to be a good spot to visit at least once a month or. The food is...

I’ve been on a quest to find the best weather app for quite some time now, and I think I’ve finally found it. I have an iPhone, and the native weather app has been put in my “junk” folder for almost a year now, because it looks so ancient and is so impractical. What I wanted was an app that is clean, elegant, and informative. “How informative” you ask? Well, I want to know how windy it’s going to...

Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a...

People often wrestle with leaving their current job to pursue something more meaningful to them. Maybe they’re not happy with their current job. Maybe they don’t want to work for a boss anymore and want to be self-employed. Maybe they just want to do something true to their passion and themselves. So think of your current job as one train. Think of what you really want to do-or what you want to do next-as another train. Right...

It’s been almost six months in the making, and I finally was able to release yet another time-lapse video of mine. This video marks my very first time-lapse project since I packed up my belongings in 2 suitcases, left California, and moved to New York on September 25th of 2012. One of the reasons why I moved to the city was to be able to take photos whenever and wherever I want. And so I have. This video should be a good reminder of...

This will be quick post, but I was wondering if any of you guys out there have any problems with the Paul C. Buff AlienBees B800 light quality when attached to a beauty dish. I recently had a beauty shoot at location in the Upper East of Manhattan, and I used a classic clam-shell lighting setup with an AB800 on top and a reflector on the bottom . While I placed the beauty dish right above the talent’s head using an Impact C-stand,...

I’ve only moved to New York for a little bit over a month, and we were hit by one of the strongest hurricanes in the history of NYC. Fortunately, I was in a safer area when it hit the fan. That said, our building was creaking, the wind was howling, and the lights were flickering for a good couple hours. At one point, we were so nervous about the situation that we filled up the bathtub with water in case we’d need it later for...

This is some of the most inspirational quotes I’ve ever heard, spoken by Ira Glass. As a photographer, I know how it feels to go through a phase in which I feel like my work has a lot of potential, but it’s not quite where I want it to be. It’s even more horrible when I look at my past work; they look like crap. It’s always good to be reminded that I’m not alone; everybody goes through this phase, and...

Here’s another excellent interview that was shot on Chase Jarvis LIVE. In this episode, Chase invited Ryan Holiday, who’s the author of a book called “Trust Me, I’m Lying“. Ryan Holiday is a [social] media genius and manipulator (some might even call him “hoax artist”). He dropped out of college when he was 19 years old, started working for American Apparel when he was 20, and now he’s...

Ever since I upgraded my Adobe Lightroom 4, I ran into all sort of problems. You can go back and read my rants HERE and HERE. About a month after Adobe released their Lightroom 4.0, they finally came out with an iteration of 4.1 that did resolve some of the major bugs in 4.0. They fixed the adjustment curve issues, so your LR3 templates would somewhat work with that of LR4 (note: they still don’t look the same as the writing time of...