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New Headshot and Portraits!

Portland Wedding Photographer - August 24, 2010

I had the chance to do headshot photographs for Maya, a young actress I know from blues dancing. She has a beautiful look, and since she is also a blues dancer, we ended up doing some vintage style fun portraits as well. She can use these as a model portfolio as well. Portland Retro Portraits Portland Actor Headshots

Vintage Hollywood Style Portraits

Portland Wedding Photographer - March 26, 2010

I am a big fan of vintage portraiture – be it pinups or Hollywood glamor, I love it! I met Joel at Blues Dancing. He had a great look, so we did a portrait session. Here are the results of the retro inspired vintage portraits. I think he looks a lot like James Dean and sometimes attitude of Marlon Brando as well. Vintage Portrait

Portland 2009 Blues Dance Competition

Portland Wedding Photographer - August 28, 2009

I took some photographs at the first Portland Blues Dance competition at Portland’s Lenora’s Room. It was a very fun event and got some great black and white dance pictures of the dancers. The rest of the night was filled with great blues dancing as well!

High Definition Blues Dancing Video with Canon 5d MkII

Portland Wedding Photographer - May 16, 2009

I have been very interested in shooting video for some time now. I actually want to go into directing at one point in the future. So I decided to do some videography, photographing my favorite subject matter: dance and dancers! This particular video was shot at a Portland Blues Dance party. I love low light photography, so low light video is a perfect fit. Here …

Portland Lindy Exchange – Day 3 at Portland McMenamins Crystal Ballroom

Portland Wedding Photographer - May 14, 2009

This is the photographs from the 3rd day of the Portland Lindy Exchange at the Crystal Ballroom, one of my favorite places ever. There was lots of swing dancing, lindy hop, balboa and blues dancing. You can order prints from this shopping cart: http://evrim.zenfolio.com/f56202098 It even allows you to buy digital files (for personal usage only).

Blues Dance Birthday at Lenora’s Room in Portland 8/12/2008

Portland Wedding Photographer - August 18, 2008

Last Tuesday was the “birthday” of blues dancing in Portland at Lenora’s room. Lots of people showed and it was a very fun night. I took some pictures in between dancing – or more like danced in between taking photos. As I mentioned in my previous Blues Dance picture post, these are darker to reflect the ambiance of the room. To see the full set, …

Blues Dance in Portland’s Lenora’s Room 8/05/2008

Portland Wedding Photographer - August 13, 2008

I am doing more dance photography lately, especially of Portland’s growing blues dance scene. It helps me explore different styles of photography, try out new techniques, and make new connections. I try not to use any flash for the blues scene as it kills the mood. So some of these are darker than normal, but that is how the ambiance was. Taking pictures of fast …

Blues Dancing in Portland’s Lenora’s Room

Portland Wedding Photographer - July 17, 2008

I went dancing last night at Lenora’s Room ( 615 SE 6th Ave and Alder, Portland, OR) and had a blast. I had very low energy from editing until late night for couple days but I convinced myself to go dancing by taking my camera with me. I had a vision to photograph the blues dancers (very very low light) in the moody environment they …