Long-time photographer friend, Steve Dawson and I had an historic opportunity to work with PSAV Presentation Services to photograph over 6,000 Chinese attendees at a conference for Perfect China outside the Anaheim Convention Center. I then photographed that same 6,000 as they enjoyed a sit down dinner and show one of the convention halls that night.

About a month ago I was contacted about my availability to be a part of the project. I meet with Steve at the Anaheim Convention to look at the location. When we first looked at the space I said there is no way all those people will fit. Then we started to walk it off – figuring how many people would fit across and how many rows we would need. To our surprise they would fit.

This is the largest group from China to visit the United States and California and it was an amazing sight to see and photograph. Read more details about the visit HERE

Perfect China 6,000 group photo

I volunteered again this year to photograph Aids Walk 2014 for Aids Service Foundation Orange County (ASF-OC) at the Grand Park in Irvine. I feel it is important for all of us to give back to our community anyway we can - donating our services, money or both.

Below, Executive Director/CEO of Aids Service Foundation Orange County, Philip Yaeger speaks to the crowd before the start of the walk.

I photographed the AT&T Golf Classic that benefited the Boy Scouts of America, Orange County Council at the Pelican Hill Golf Club in Newport Coast on a day in which the temperature reached 98 degrees. My job was to tell the story of the day and also photograph all 70 four-some’s on both the North and South courses and provide 4 x 6 prints for the 280 golfers. It was already hot when I arrived at 9am and looking out at the 140 golf carts lined up everywhere it seemed like a impossible task to photograph all of those golfers but, with help of Kaleigh Teskey, the Market Specialist with the BSA Orange County Council we managed to complete that job in 4 ½ hours. Once back at the clubhouse I grabbed my computer, quickly edited the photographs, put the files on a thumb drive and drove to Pro Photo Connection in Irvine to make the prints - which they did much faster and cheaper than if I had printed them on-site. I returned in time to photograph the dinner, auction, awards presentation and had the prints ready for the golfers to take home. It was a much longer day because of the heat but, “we gotter done” before I melted. Once back in my air conditioned home I celebrated the success of the day with a nice cold beer and long, cold shower. Cheers!