Most of people know me as Wedding and Portrait Photographer, but I also have Bachelor in Physical Education and Master Degree in Sports and Training.
As a parent of a 6 years old boy and as a soccer coach, I want my son to keep practicing soccer during the summer vacation.
Some parents have asked me if I would coach their child too, and I thought it would be a great idea if we could get together and practice at least once a week.
Our training sessions will be held every Wednesday from 5:30pm to 7:00pm (June, July and August - City of Hollywood, Florida).
Yesterday I had the honor of being the photographer for Zachary’s first birthday.
Here are some reason for that:
I love photography
I love to photograph beautiful people
great food
do I need to mention about money??? LOL
But when I said that it was an honor to be the photographer for Zachary’s first birthday, is because a little more than one year ago, I had the pleasure to photograph one the most beautiful Pregnancy Session that any photographer could wish for, Zachary’s Mom - Ana (Check here her Pregnancy Session)
Back to the birthday party…; it was a party for family and closest friends and even Elmo was there to help entertaining the kids.
Ana asked me to have some Professional Portrait done at the party with her family and guests, so I brought two of my studio lights + a 12′ x 25′ backdrop to have everybody looking their best.
I am still editing the images and in one or two days all the images will be posted on this link - CLICK HERE (PAGE ALREADY ONLINE) -, but since I promised everybody that I would post a Blog with the link, so they could look all the images, I wanted at least show one of the images that I shot there:
Once again, I want to thank everybody form Zachary’s birthday party for for the great time.
Some clients have been asking me to make their Portrait Experience something more unique.
Here, is what my selected clients can expect from me…
This is a technique where I paint over the photo, using Photoshop, and at the end your Photo will look like an Oil or Acrylic Portrait, and is perfect for clients that want a large Print or Canvas to hang at their house.
Here in the computer, with this small sample in low resolution, it is very hard to notice all the strokes details of the oil portrait style as well as you can see in a Photo Paper or Canvas, but I can assure you… It is gorgeous!
If you want your next Portrait Experience to be something more unique, Call me:
Yesterday, I had a great experience shooting here, in Fort Lauderdale , FL. The weather was perfect and I couldn’t wish for a better model to shoot.
Josh, is a ten years old young man with a very promising career into the modeling and acting industry. Handsome and with a great smile, Josh made my work a lot easier and with some increadible results.
I also need to thank Josh’s dad and mom to be there supporting and motivating him all the time.
I am also blessed to have a great wife (one the best Photo Stylist of USA Esat Coast) that was there helping me with the lighting, props and styling (It doesn’t hurt to have a great Photo Stylist helping you once a while - LOL). If you need to contact her, here is her Photo Stylist Website
If you need a Professional Photographer in Fort lauderdale or Miami area, CLICK HERE
Here are some of Josh’s images from our Photo Shoot yesterday.
Tonight I came with Peggy and Ryan to a Super Hero Party.
It was a great party organized by the city of Hollywood, FL - where the kids would dress-up like super heroes. There were few kids dressed as bat-man, super-man, spider-man, etc - Ryan was one the more handsome spider-man of the party.
Last Weekend I Was invited to Michele’s 4th Birthday Party.
The party’s theme was ARIEL (little mermaid) at the YMCA Fort Lauderdale/ Hollywood area (taff st).
The kids were supposed to use the Pool for 2 hours, but because of our “South Florida” peculiar weather, they had to use one of the Aerobic Classes Room to let the kids have some playtime.
The kids had a blast…
OK… Not just the kids!!! I had some fun also.
at the end… It was a fun party! I Felt like a big BIG KID!!!
One year ago I was hired to cover this amazing birthday. Stefano was celebrating his 1st birthday, and he had the best party ever.
Today is July 11th, and Stefano will be celebrating his 2nd birthday. I am glad to say that once more, I will be there to help him saving some little, but important memories for generations to come.
Check this little video from last year’s birthday party.
Let me know what you think about this video… I love comments!
Sure I have been celebrating Father’s day since I was born, but I was celebrating it from other perspective (as the son). And by the way… In Brazil, we celebrate Father’s Day on “Second Sunday of August”.
Four years ago father’s Day started having a completely different meaning to me… Ryan was born in MAY of 2004, and a month latter I was celebrating my FIRST OFFICIAL FATHER’S DAY.
I don’t want to take to much of your time explaining how great my life has been this last four years, or how proud I feel seen Ryan growing up to be the extraordinary person that he is (at least through my eyes). I would have to write a book just to describe my last four years of fatherhood, but instead I wanted to show you only the beginning… and maybe you can understand what runs inside my heart!!!
Please whatch the video (Ryan’s First Year - around 10 minutes long) and Multiply my feelings X 100 times :-)
Today was the last day of the Power Lab, a FREE Bible Summer Camp that my son Ryan was going for this last whole week.
They had a great program and I was very impressed with the program and all the decorations that they created for this Power Lab. I was so impressed that I offered my services to come on their last day and take some pictures for them, so they can use the pictures to promote the next Power Lab.
Anyway, I don’t want to get to much in details here… I just want to show you few pictures that I took there.
Today was a great day… I took Ryan to his first Tennis Class in the morning and latter Peggy wanted to have some pictures done so she could send them to her agent in Boston. She wanted some very casual pictures with some kid and a set of clothes from Old Navy (who better for the job than our son RYAN)
Here are few shots… I will post a slide show with more pictures tomorrow. OK?
As I promised you few days ago, I would post some pictures of my 3 days vacation at Disney World.
Few months ago, I had to go to Orlando to a Videographer’s Convention, and I enjoyed the occasion to bring Peggy and Ryan along. I was going to my classes and they bought a 4 days PASS to Disney. At the time, they just used 2 passes and they would have to usethe other 2 passes the next 6 months.
After Simon’s Bar Mitzvah (2weeks ago), we decided that would be the perfect time to have a little vacation.
OK!!! LETS GO TO DISNEY…
I thought that because all the kids are still in School, it would be perfect to go there on a week day (Thursday and Friday). Does anybody work? How about the economy?
For me, it was a huge surprise that the MGM and Magic Kingdom had that many people in. It was not as bad as Christmas time (believe me), but it did have a lot of people walking around. You will see one of the pictures that I took from one of the rides saying “wait time - 70 minutes”. Can you imagine stay in line for that long? In each park would have 2 or 3 rides that you would have to wait at least 60 minutes in line.
Just one more thing before I show you the pictures…
I wanted to upload some pictures on my last post, but I didn’t have a subject to shoot other than my son, and he was not on the mood. So I took just these two shots.
That was in my TV room with a little light coming from a french door on his right hand side (camera settings: NO FLASH - AV - f/1.4 - 1/30s - ISO 100)
At night, just before we went to take a shower, he was goofing around wearing my tennis shoes and using my socks as gloves. So I grabbed the camera and took some more shots.
I decided that I would shoot with the same conditions as I do when I shoot my indoor events using my Canon 580EX II Speedlite TTL Shoe Mount Flash + THE LIGHTSPHERE from Gary Fong. NOW, the camera setting was on MANUAL - f/1.6 - 1/80s - ISO 100 (PS- On most of my indoor events I shoot ISO 400).
Today it was the “Trophy Day” at Dania Optimist Club. This means that today was the last day of the baseball season.
The people responsible for the organization of the teams, uniform, snacks and today’s great party “Trophy Day”, did a great job. We had three huge bouncing houses for the kids, plus hot-dogs, hamburgers, drinks, deserts, etc…
At the end, was the time to give the trophy to the little athletes. What a great Trophy that they got this year.
The baseball season will happen next year again, but in few months the Dania Optimist Club will start their Soccer season.
I can’t wait to see my little athlete playing soccer.
P.S. - GOOD NEWS… All the pictures are already available on Pictage Website. If you would like to see and/or purchase all the pictures taken at the “TROPHY DAY”, please ”Click Here” .
Today is my son’s birthday, but is also mother’s day. So My wife and I decided to celebrate Ryan’s birthday yesterday, so today we could focus more on mother’s day.
Ryan just turned 4 years old. We always celebrate his birthday in our house. So we have to organize the backyard, clean the house, take care of the garden, paint the deck, etc… To say the truth, It is a realy hard work just for a birthday, and we do that every single year.
But now, the party is gone and we have one year to rest until Ryan’s next birthday . I just want to wish him a Happy Birthday and show you few of the pictures that I took yesterday.
If you want to see all the pictures, please CLICK HERE.
Here, Ryan is hugging few of his friends ( most of his friends are girls )
I want to thank you for stopping by and having some time to read and comment on my posts.
This blog was created with you in mind. Here I will post few of my professional work, plus few little things of my personal life. I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I do creating it for you.
Thank You For Your Support!
