Borra Vineyards

Borra Vineyards is a small winery out of Lodi, CA. They produce some really good red wines as well as a few whites and what they call fusion wines. Fusion wines are when they take multiple wines and combine them to create a new one, think of it like a wine suiceide but instead of soda, wine.

I've had the pleasure of getting to know Markus at Borra Vineyards since I graduated from Brooks this past June. He has taught me a lot about wine and being that my family once upon a time grew grapes and has always been in the agriculture business I am naturally curious about it.

Recently, Borra Vineyards hired me to do a basic product photo shoot of there bottles on a simple white background. Their labels are very unique my favorite wine of theirs is their Barbera. It's a red wine that to me is similar to a cabernet to me because it taste good and its not over powering like some merlots can be.

The bottle below is a syrah wine, another one of my favorites.

I am a firm believer is supporting locally grown products, especially with living in California and being in a family that are farmers.

Family Photo Restoration

I hope everyone had a Happy Holidays. One thing that I really like about the holidays is getting everyone together to hang out and enjoy time with one another to eat, give thanks, watch football and just have a good time. As I have done in a few of my prior post I am starting on restoring some of my old family photos for my grandma and mom, it's something I take great pride in doing

It's pretty interesting to me to see old family photos, especially ones that are of people that you may never have met before because they may have passed away before you where born or just live on the other side of the world. The later of the two is the case with me and this image. The short little girl in this image is my mom and the lady in the white in the back is my grandmother. Those are the only two in this image that I have met before. The two men in the image are my grandmothers brothers and they live in Oaklahoma and Michigan respectfully. I'm not sure exactly who the other two women are in this image but I could probably assume one was my great grandmother. If I have met them, I was in diapers and thus dont remember. I'm also intrigued on the location selection chosen for this photo to be taken: in a corner near a piano.

Before

After

1000

My new business cards that I had made just came in ! 1000 of them hot off the press. I was excited to find a place that was local that had some very good prices especially for having 1000 made on an offset press. Riverbank Printing is where I go them made and unfortunately they do not have a web site.

holiday season

I'm sorry I havn't posted in a while I've been consumed by the holidays and trying to get my Junk yard series of images into an art gallery. I do have some images that I took for Borra Vineyards that I will be posting soon as well as some old family photos that I have restored.

2010 is going to be epic. My goal is to get my photography into an art gallery. Some where, I don't really care where as long as people can see my vision. Maybe Modesto? Sacramento? LA? Pasadena? Only time will tell.

I would like to also announce that before the end of the year I will have a new web site launched to replace my current one. (same address new design)

He's gonna be a heartbreaker ...

Did a photo shoot the other day of my friend Niccole's son John. He's going to be a heart breaker for sure when he gets older.

Wineo

The other day I shot some more bottles of wine. This time it was for a smaller company, out of Lodi, CA. Borra Vineyards isn't a high volume company but what they lack in massive producing they more than make up for it in taste.

Here's a little taste of what I shot. This is a raw, undedited screen grab. More images will be coming soon.

New stuff ...

I have been working on some new designs lately not only for my new web site that I am still working on but some new business cards to match my site. Here is a little sneak peak of whats to come in the near future.

Front of Business card

Back of Business Card

New Web Site Design

Tell me what you think. Be honest, I can take it.

Meet the Dimas Family

I've been fortunate enough to know Brittney (purple outfit) since I was 5 years old. We grew up together. Went to school together from kindergarden all the way through high school. I'm very blessed to have friends like her that I have known for the majority of my life. Her mom, Sheila approached me about doing a family photo shoot and this is some of my favorites from the shoot.

The cute little boys name is John and there will be more photos coming of him soon.

Morris Show

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