Salinas Gettin Exposed

Went out last night in Salinas to do some shooting for the Salinas Exposed photo exhibit.

I have a lot of fun shooting at night, you never know what you'll capture or who you'll run into.

Good times..

Christmas List

Never done this before, but if you feel obligated to get me a Christmas gift (or for my upcoming Birthday) feel free to get me anything off this list. Thanks!

A EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM (Wide angle lens for my Canon)

Been a fan of The Hundreds Footwear for a few years. My current favorite shoe is their Johnson Low (black leather)

An Acapulco Gold New Era hat (size 7 3/4)

Some money for a tattoo from Abraham Ortega (don't think he does gift certificates) would be nice.

A GoPro HD HERO2 set for filming.

Any Rod Powell Original piece of art!

Some Tribal Gear (This Flaks Hoodie is nice)

A gas card to any gas station since I drive so much!

A 1977 - 1979 Lincoln Continental (prefer black but will accept white or tan) And of course I accept cash! Thanks for reading! -Juan

Good Karma

I must be doing something right, had some good things happen this week...

Rod Powell had been working on my dad's old motorcycle helmet. He surprised me this Thursday when he called me up and told me it was ready for me to pick up just in time for the 6th year anniversary of when my dad passed. I am really happy with how it turned out! Rod is one of the most talented guys I know.

It says "El Bonito" in the front and has the date passed on the back.



It looks even better in person.


We also finally got ourselves a video camera. The Canon HV40...




More good things happened too, a good friend gave me the set of wheels I've been wanting for my truck, another good friend gave me a 24" BMX bike, and another good friend hooked me up with tickets to watch Travis barker & ATrak live... It feels good to have such good friends.

-Juan

PHLOG

I'm posting a few photographs I've taken... Like I said before some are good and some aren't as good. Here you go... stuff I see through my canon. In no particular order.

This is s photograph I took a couple years back at Hollywood Hot Rods' Open house deal in Burbank California. I really dig how colors & composition came out.

I took this photo a few months back at the Tribal Gear warehouse party in San Diego.

The last couple of years I've been going to Austin Texas for the Lonestar Round-Up in April. I took this photo of the infamous Continental Club on a late cloudy evening. I dig old neon signage.

I took this shot of Henry Gong's Salinas Boys built 56 Nomad from the Traveler's Hotel in Oldtown Salinas. Henry thought he got a crappy parking spot but this shot was actually published in the CHURCH Numero Tres book, and was appropriately titled "Ghetto Fabulous."


Took this shot out of the passenger side of my brother's Honda as we followed Lionzo to San Gabriel to shoot his bikes. Clean Moto!

Here's a photo of Killa Vee, she's the 2nd model I ever shot. I really like the mood of this photo.

This was one of the shot's my brother & I took for Confused Clothing & Nor Cal Kustoms. We were called by Nor Cal Kustoms to see if we could set up & shoot a few models the same day and deliver nice cropped color corrected shots in a couple of days. We accepted the challenge and did okay considering both my brother & I aren't "real" photographers.

This is one of the shots I captured while shooting the cover for the next Gearhead Magazine (Issue 18) of Punk Rocker Roger Miret (of the Disasters) & Alex Gambino (of Gambino Kustoms)

Here's a shot of model Kayla D, shot for Make-up artist Alecia Hernandez.

Lots of times when my brother & I both go on a shoot we bring along our old film camera. While my brother was shooting Jeff's car I snapped a few, and liked this shot.

I took this photo of my good friend Beto while we waited for his wife & baby to finish getting ready for a family portrait.. my favorite type of photography (sarcastic)

My beautiful god-daughter on Easter weekend 2008.

Here's little Beto, loving the camera! Haha...

I'll keep snapping away & uploading pictures more often... stay tuned ninjas!
Peace
-Juan