80's Glam Rock Party w/ Photobooth Santa Barbara at Q's

This past weekend, our Photo Booth was hired for an amazing private 80's Glam Rock Party at Q's in downtown Santa Barbara. The party was thrown by the Queen of Theme parties, Vern Rodriguez. I've heard stories about her Prom Night Themed parties and the infamous Pirate Party that was on a boat out of the Santa Barbara Harbor!

This party was pretty amazing, with Hair stylists from 19 Blue for anyone wanting to give their bangs an extra shot of hairspray or if they wanted their hair as big as humanly possible. There were also face/body artists from Makeup by Tilley and Paiges Magical Facepainting for anyone wanting to finish off their KISS motif!

Q's had full on 80's jammin the whole time and the Photo Booth was pumping out hilarious pictures all night long. Everyone had so much fun!

Here are some pics from the night. You can also see more pics from the booth on the Photo Booth Santa Barbara Blog.

Playing for Change: Song Around the world "Stand by Me"

I just think this is awesome and wanted to share. Take a few minutes and enjoy the song... Have a great day!

Santa Barbara Portrait Photography for Holly Newman

Holly was such a pleasure to work with and what a great wardrobe too! We could have shot for days! Holly wanted to update her portfolio and I had the honor of being her photographer! We ran around Santa Barbara, went to the harbor and wound up at the beach.

Here are some of my favs.

Santa Barbara Portrait Photography for Andre Sheremetiev

I've been shooting some fashion and model sessions lately and I had a chance to shoot Andre Sheremetiev the other day for an updated Modeling Portfolio Zed card. We had a lot of fun running around town, here are some favorites.

FotoCielo Wedding Studio & PhotoBooth Santa Barbara

So Happy New Year everyone! This is going to be a great year! I wanted to share a couple new things going on with me. I've started 2 new business ventures for 2009 with my good buddy Tim Halberg.

We both have successful wedding photography businesses and find that we have to refer couples out when we're not available. We solved this problem by putting together a team of 4 amazing photographers under one roof that we can refer to. Each photographer was hand picked for their photographic style, professionalism and fun personalities.

Meet the team of Fotocielo.




The other business we started is so great! We all know how much fun photo booths are, they're usually the biggest hit at any event! We've been asked so many times where to find one but couldn't find a high quality photo booth in the Santa Barbara area so we filled the need and built one! This past weekend both the PhotoBooth and FotoCielo were at the Santa Barbara Bridal Fair. Here are some pics from the event!



Here is a slideshow of images from the event.

Mission Wealth Management, LLC presents Carter Larsen - A Fundraiser for the Tea Fire Non-Profits

I have the honor of covering a Fundraiser for the Tea Fire Non-Profits this weekend. Mission Wealth Management, LLC presents Carter Larsen at the Music Academy of the West in Montecito. The event will be Sunday, December 14, 2008, 3:00-5:00pm.

From the program:

We wish to thank the Santa Barbara Humane society and the American Red Cross Santa Barbara County Chapter (among many others) and the entire community of Santa barbara for all the support provided during and after the Tea Fire. It is great to see everyone come together in a time of need!

We would also like to thank, Carter Larsen for his generous support, the music Academy of the West for sharing their Hahn Hall as a perfect venue, Barlett, Pringle & Wolf, LLP., Charles Schwab and the Bank of Santa Barbara for supporting tonight's event, Consilience wines and Season's Catering, Ricky Mia Photography, the local media for spreading the word and for all of our valued clients who we appreciate ery much!

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everday life. ~Berthold Auerbach

This is going to be a beautiful event for a wonderful cause. I had the opportunity to meet Carter Larsen and was able to shoot some images while he rehearsed.

Here are some favorites.

Rolando, Sande, Sarah and Jordan - Mia Family Portraits

Well it's about time I did family portraits for my brother's family and what a better time than the holidays! Rolando, Sande, Sarah and Jordan are the Santa Barbara Mias and I also have another brother and his family on the east coast in Baltimore. It means so much to me to have family so close, I don't know what I'd do without them.

I can't even say enough about my nieces and nephews. Rachel and Ben are on the east coast and Sarah and Jordan are close enough to take out and spoil. I love these kids more than anything!

Here are some favs!