Quinces Photography in Vizcaya, Wynwood and Gold Coast Railroad Museum
Here are a few images from a recent Quinces Photo Shoot done in Villa Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Wynwood Walls and the Gold Coast Railroad Museum.
Jorge R Gonzalez Visual Artist
Excellence in Visual Arts
A few images from our latest Real Estate Photography in Key Largo, Florida. These are from a 3 million dollar home located in Ocean Reef which is the northern area of Key Largo. Is a Five Bedroom plus, two story house surrounded by lush mangroves. The owners will be renting it out during the summer while they live in their home country of Canada. These images and others will be used for advertising the home in different social media outlets and real estate websites. I did these while bracketing and then combining the images in a slight hdr effect using Photomatix Software. Hope you enjoy.
Is not every day that a real estate photographer finds himself photographing his own home with the goal of placing it on the market to sell. But nevertheless this is where I find myself and this is the result of a few days of work to get the house set up to be photographed. It is a sad time for the Gonzalez household having to let go of our dream home in the Redlands near Homestead and Miami. A home that both my wife and I designed and physically partook in raising it from the barren nearly 3 acres of land that we bought back in 2006. After nearly 9 years of struggling to first build it and then trying to keep it we have determine that unless God does a miracle we will be selling and moving on to what ever His will would have for us. My dream was to see my grandkids play in the trees, ride the horses and just enjoy coming to grandpas big old house, but it will not be so. I hope you enjoy the following images from my home and if you should need any Real Estate Photography in South Florida or any other type of photography please don’t hesitate in calling me. The home will be listed by one of the country’s top real estate agent Nancy J. O’brien with the Keyes Agency.
Fine Art Wedding Photography: The Wedding I Never Shot.
Medium Format Film Photography
A few months back I had the pleasure to be invited to attend as a guest a wedding for a family member. I took the opportunity to bring along my Mamiya C220 Medium Format Film camera and five rolls of Kodak Portra 400 film. Since I was not officially the photographer for the event, hence the title of this post, I had the freedom to shoot without needing to abide to a specific shoot list. I used an old Gossen Lunasix light meter to measure existing light. I was giving this camera by a very kind man with the an old camera case and also a Sunpack 522. The wedding ceremony was held outside around 5:00pm which for South Florida in November is ideal time to get the most beautiful light. I hope you enjoy some of the images that came out of those five rolls of film.
Had the great pleasure of working on an engagement photography session with this beautiful and very much in love young couple yesterday at the Deering Estate. Ben is a Marine, while Kaylee is going to college, they got engaged during the Christmas Holiday and they are planning a 2015 October Wedding.
For this coming year, I will place this passage as an anchor for my decision making, especially verse 33 and I will not allow the cares of life move me from serving Him with all of my heart, mind and soul.
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew 6:24-33 KJV
I had a great time capturing Villa Vizcaya Quinces Photography of this young lady this past Sunday morning. Our day started with a trip to Gloria Pelo for Hair and Make up, what a treat that was, Gloria is a true pro. Then we embarked towards Vizcaya Museum and Gardens with a perfect south florida weather waiting for us. Bright, blue skies and a wonderful 7o degrees in temperature, perfect! The young lady is a natural at posing, all I had to say was get a bit this way and she would always answer back “got it” and she did. Thanks to all involved a was a total pleasure working with you all. Hope you enjoy this sneak peek.
Jorge
Persian Wedding Photography in Miami
When Sophia approached me to capture the images of her beautiful Persian Wedding the first thing I did was of course google it! Because I had no idea what a Persian Wedding was all about I turned to the work of other photographers and research the ceremony and reception sequence. I also received help from the bride which is actually Lebanese descendant and it was then that she mentioned that there would be a grand entrance into the reception hall by the bride and groom accompanied by dancers, a Zaffa or Zeffa.
So that in a nutshell is what got me ready for the event and the traditions that would be unfolding in front of my camera lens. But what really became apparent and manifested itself during the course of the ceremony and in the reception was that this was a FAMILY. It was a family just like many that I have known, similar to my own in many ways. Not just a few individuals gathered to go through a few traditions but a true family that showed the love they had for each other and the joy that they all felt to be part of such an occasion. I was truly moved with what I was feeling and seeing. And in the course of the evening the feeling of being someone hired to work an event turned in to someone that was just another guest in a celebration of the love that two people have for each other.
I would like to share a few images and also a video with the highlights of the beautiful wedding. The dancing was performed by the wonderful artists from Belly Motions with Portia, Luisa and Alexandra. You can get more information about their services on their site HERE.