Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco’
Anime on Display (AOD) is a yearly event that takes places in San Francisco. It’s a smaller local Japanese Animation convention compared to FAnime or WonderCon, but still draws an impressive crowd. Held this year at the beautiful Hotel Kabuki, we at Bui Photography was fortunate enough to receive media passes courtesy of AOD and you can see some samples of what we got below. You can also view all the photos in our gallery here. Thank you to all the wonderful and amazing cosplayers who we photographed!
Some people have wondered why we didn’t take any shots inside the beautiful Hotel Kabuki and the gorgeous garden they have inside is because we saw and knew there would be lots of other photographers photographing in those locations and we always pride ourselves on the challenge of doing things differently, so we selected parts around Japantown. You can also see behind-the-scene photos on our Facebook page here and here.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes video that you can also find on our Facebook page:
Tags: Anime on Display, AOD, AODSF.org, Bekalou, cosplay, event, Hotel Kabuki, Naxul, San Francisco, Yukai Shinobi
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This past Saturday, the crew got together and did two photo shoots with two amazing models, Jane and Stacey, on Treasure Island. Some of you might recognize Jane, as she was a contestant for Miss Asian American (MAA), winning Miss Photogenic for the 2009 MAA. Stacey on the other hand, has a ballet background that we most definitely will be putting to use in the next photo shoot with her. Treasure Island, named after Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel of the same name, is an artificial island in California that sits in the Bay between San Francisco and Oakland accessed via the Interstate 80 freeway. It is home to some 1,453 residents, and is a popular tourist attraction as you can see sea lions on the shoreline and also get a very nice view of San Francisco along with the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge (Interstate 80).
There are many condemned and decrepit buildings with warning signs of asbestos strewn upon boarded up doors and broken windows making for an urban explorer’s wet dream and, in our case, a great site for urban portraits.
Tags: Bay Bridge, Canon 580EX II, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM, Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II, CLS, Creative Lighting System, Eric Lee, EzyBox, Golden Gate Bridge, Jane Hwang, Joe McNally, Lastolite, Lastolite EzyBox, Lynn Truong, Nikon, Rendy Lai, Robert Louis Stevenson, San Francisco, Speedlite, Stacey Madamba, The Hot Shoe Diaries, Tibor Duliskovich, Treasure Island, urban explorer
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Having never heard of this Japanese manga: NANA, I did some research online by reading the Wikipedia entry and even reading a few chapters of the English translated manga to get some insight. Nadia and Steff taking some pity on me, explained their respective characters:
It’s about two rival bands, one is a punk band and the other is a rock band. Nana [Osakai] and Layla “Reira” Serizawa (Nadia) are the respective vocalists. Shinichi “Shin” Okazaki is a bassist from Nana’s band. He kept the fact that he was underage a secret from everyone, and was actually sleeping around with women for money. When he met Reira, it started out to be like that, but they ended up falling in love. One of the things that these two have in common is that they’re half Caucasian and have had a hard time with it when they were younger. They were always hiding their relationship though, due to their age difference and their band’s reputation.
Certainly sounds interesting. Sounds like if they were Facebook buddies, their relationship status would be “It’s complicated.”
Tags: Anime, Anti-Ai-Chan, cosplay, Eric Lee, Fort Point, Layla Serizawa, Nadia, NANA, Pho3nix, Reira, Rendy Lai, San Francisco, Shin, Shinichi Okazaki, Steff
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© Robert Gumpert
Documentary photographer, Robert “Bob” Gumpert, is a good friend who produce some amazing and telling photographs. Since 1994, he’s been working on several self-funded projects, documenting the criminal justice system. With unfettered access to the jails in San Francisco, Bob is able to get up close and personal and interview many condemned souls as they tell him their story and struggles, in essence humanizing the institution that is often dehumanized in the media and society.
His latest project, Take A Picture, Tell A Story, Bob:
There is now a website for the latest segment of “Lost Promise: The Criminal Justice System.” ”Take A Picture, Tell A Story” (http://takeapicturetellastory.com/) is where you can find portraits and recorded stories from the two major projects of my 35 years in documentary photography. In “Locked and Found” prisoners in the county jails of San Francisco tell stories of their circumstances, hopes and sorrows. In “Tales of Work” workers tell of their lives and their jobs.
Visit the website and hear the stories.
Tags: documentary, Robert Gumpert, San Francisco
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Maritza and Erasmus’s Wedding on September 5 was both a beautiful and tornado-speed event! What an amazing couple so full of love, passion, and energy. It was non-stop action from the moment we met them up to the end of the night. We started from the gorgeous Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco to the Missionary Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (Maritza’s home church) for the amazing ceremony, to the Exploratorium for some pictures, and finally boarding the Hornblower for the reception. All this with a twenty-two person wedding party.
Click in to see some photos of the great fun-filled night!
Tags: Exploratorium, Hornblower, Missionary Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, San Francisco, Sir Francis Drake Hotel
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We had incredible fun at this year’s San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade. Tons of people came out this year to celebrate “In Order To Form A More Perfect Union…”. There were lots of good food, excellent costumes, excellent floats, and great people to see. The weather was nice and sunny in the 80’s with nice blue skies. You can see all the pictures in our gallery from this year’s Pride Parade here.
Tags: Andrea Shorter, Carmen Chu, Dan Choi, David Chiu, Dennis Herrera, Gavin Newsom, Heather Fong, Helen Zia, Jeff Adachi, Jose Cisneros, Kamala D. Harris, Knights Out, Leland Y. Lee, LGBT, Mark Leno, Michael Hennessey, Ongina, parade, Phil Ting, San Francisco, SF LGBT Pride Parade, SF Pride, Theresa Sparks, Tom Ammiano
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At last minute, Eric and I decided to go check out the Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco. From what I’ve heard, this is the first year that it hasn’t rained, which makes it a good opportunity to get some pictures.
We scoped out a nice little spot at Montgomery and Market and fired away. The turn out was quite good and we had a lot of fun! Notable attendees were Betty Yee (Board of Equalization), Jackie Speier (California State Senator), Leland Y. Lee (California State Senator), Fiona Ma (California Assemblywoman), David Campos (San Francisco Supervisor District 9), Tom Ammiano (California Assemblyman), Sean Elsbernd (San Francisco Supervisor District 7), Bevan Dufty (San Francisco Supervisor District 8), Sophie Maxwell (San Francisco Supervisor District 10), Phil Ting (San Francisco Accessor Recorder), Jeff Adachi (San Francisco Public Defender), Kamala D. Harris (San Francisco District Attorney), Dennis Herrera (San Francisco City Attorney), David Chiu (San Francisco Supervisor 3), Gavin Newson (San Francisco Mayor) with his wife, Jennifer Siebel.
See all the pictures here.
Tags: Betty Yee, Bevan Dufty, Chinese New Year, David Campos, David Chiu, Dennis Herrera, Fiona Ma, Gavin Newson, Jackie Speier, Jeff Adachi, Jennifer Siebel, Kamala D. Harris, Leland Y. Lee, parade, Phil Ting, San Francisco, Sean Elsbernd, Sophie Maxwell, Southwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade, Tom Ammiano
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I was fortunate enough to be selected to be Alma and Megan’s official wedding photographer and I had a blast! They are such a beautiful looking couple so full of life and love. Alma and Megan chose to take their vows at San Francisco City Hall administered by their good friend amongst close intimate family and friends. It was a very lovely event.
The next day we all got back together to celebrate, this time with more family and friends at the Foreign Cinema in San Francisco for the wedding reception. Eric and I once again had the honor to record this momentous occasion. It was a fun filled night of laughter, excitement, and dancing throughout the night! Thank you both for the wonderful opportunity of sharing in such a wonderful experience!
For friends and family, see all the reception pictures here (ceremony pics are here), please contact the couple for the password. For everyone else, there is a Flash slideshow of selected pictures from the reception at the Foreign Cinema.
Tags: Alma Leon-Reveles, Foreign Cinema, Megan Burns, San Francisco, San Francisco City Hall
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Eric and I had the great opportunity of being some of the official photographers for the 2008 San Francisco Renaissance Faire at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park. It was an excellent event with a lot of eager and willing subjects to be photographed. I can definitely tell that a lot of time and effort was put forth on creating their costumes. The colors and the realism was stunning.
The live action jousting was also very cool.
Tags: Renaissance, San Francisco, SF Ren Faire, SF Renaissance Faire
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