Oh the places you'll see

HUGE changes are happening with cismithphotography.  I've been getting ready to embark on a journey across the seas, into Asia and South-East Asia for an undetermined amount of time.  An uprooting and change of focus in life is leading to a change of focus in my work.

Out with the old to make room for the new.

I'm only a day or two away from having a xmas sale special to help lighten the load and fund my traveling experiences.

I also just set up a newsletter to send out photos, videos and stories while I'm traveling abroad.  It takes five seconds to sign up and you'll be able to see much more than you do on the blog:


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CAH Azusa Opening

Ahhh, is it that time a year again when the weather gets colder, stout beer takes the place of session beers and I finally get my act together long enough to do a blog posting.

One of the projects I've been working on is a video for Congregation Ale House's Azusa Chapter. Being able to photograph it, and wanting a reason to tackle my new version of Final Cut X, I hired Aaron Kahn and his talented eye to help fill my video bank with the finest ingredients to cook up a fun and quick documentary of the Grand Opening.

The learning curve was much slower than I thought with this new version of Final Cut since it's drastically different than the previous versions, but once you get the hang of it, it is much faster and easier to use. Here's what came out of the effort (takes you to Vimeo)...

CAH Azusa Grand Opening Video

Beachwood BBQ food shoot

There are a lot of people out there who are almost excited as some of the Long Beach CityBeat staff about the new Beachwood BBQ location opening up on the promenade. Most of the time, we are very considerate of our co-workers and requests but when the opportunity to do the resturant review at Beachwood, we all clamored across the table to grab it, shoulder shoving and face pushing anyone who was in the way.

Amazing taste with southern BBQ flare, it offers amazing and hard to find dishes that none in Long Beach seem to rival. The newest aspect about their Long Beach location that is different from their Seal Beach location is the brewery in the back. In progress, they will have 12 of their own beers on tap from a award winning brew master Julian.

More to come!

Refresh start

Bliss525 is a new upscale restaurant/bar that I've had the privilege of shooting their food and advertisement. Here are some of my favorites:

How bad am I at this??

I can't quite pin the source of my difficulty in keeping up my Blog and Facebook. Maybe it comes from the knowledge that it's so important in marketing yourself, yet still having it lower then everything else on your priority list.

After spending so much of my time as a photo-retoucher to Affliction Clothing, I quit to gain better time for my own work.

... this is, of course, after that long earned two week escape down to San Diego for the wedding of two of my best friends and plenty of surfing.

Here is a very small sample of some of the jobs and travels that have taken place:

Site Updates

If you haven't already noticed, I've been updating my Musedimagery site and along with that comes my MusedLife blog! Keep an eye out for the new features, galleries and portfolios that are going up.

Cheers!

2 min quick stop

Running late and traffic sounds of worsening congestion, yet we make time for a two min stop off.