Adam is a music and portrait photographer from San Diego. While he had me out in San Diego shooting the lookbook for his popular brand Lens Bracelets, he asked me to shoot some portraits of him as well in our freetime. Make sure to check his bracelets  out, such a cool idea and especially based on it's success, I'm sure your photographer friends or family member will love one.

Also, his photoblog is entertaining to follow, especially if you enjoy seeing behind the scenes for popular bands and want to tag along with his travels: http://adamelmakias.com/

In honor of her move to NYC today, here's a session I shot with my friend Vicky in Paris last August. 

When I was traveling through Europe last year with my friend Nick (see this post), we stopped in Paris for a few days. Through a few good friends from Brussels I got to meet Victoria and was able to shoot with her around her neighborhood and in her apartment in north east Paris. Vicky is a super sweet girl and helped Nick and I around the city for the few short days we were there. She was gracious enough to even feed us breakfast before I shot with her early in the morning!

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http://cargocollective.com/collinhughes#1072870/Victoria

 

Joe and Alli are mathematicians. And not just any regular ole math geeks who know everything there is to know about calculus. They are the certain type that do this type of theoretical mathematics - but in a practical application. Pretty awesome stuff, and way over my head. Either way it's incredibly cool hearing what they're doing with their work, and made for some good discussion over dinner. We spent some time the night before getting to know each other better, and I had a great time seeing them both interact. Very genuine personalities with a unique outlook on life and each other, something that is a joy for me as a photographer to witness.

We shot around for an afternoon in the West Village and Upper West Side where they have spent much of their time together over the past few years, including near Columbia University, which is where they met and studied.

Definitely looking forward to their wedding day in August, I'm sure I'll be surrounded by some pretty intelligent people...hopefully it might rub off...we'll see!

This past week was quite the experience. I traveled back and forth to New York twice in the span of 7 days for meetings and a couple shoots. I also took some time to bring my girlfriend with me on the first trip, to finally give us some time to travel together. The down time was completely necessary for the both of us. We even had an opportunity to do a shoot with my good friend Eliesa Johnson, and cannot wait to see the pictures. It was an interesting experience being on the other side of the camera for once!

While I was there I met with a few potential clients as well as one of my favorite photographers Joao Canziani. We had brunch in Brooklyn and had a great time getting to know each other, and it was an honor to hear such great advice from him as well as get a feel for his process, which I really respect. One of the qualities of Joao's work that I truly admire is his artful and careful approach to portrait work. Every portrait feels so calm and genuinely real for each subject. I particularly admire his project for Nike soccer, along with everything in his travel and fashion/lifestyle portraits. Definitely a photographer worth checking out: http://joaocanziani.com/www/

On Friday I did a quick shoot with the Madbury Club shooting some behind-the-scenes for their next feature. Their site is all about delivering fresh new content in the fashion, design, and music industries instead of featuring what has already been done. It was all about capturing the personality of the club and the guys involved, and it was a blast to finally get to know the guys behind the site, especially after they gave my shoot for Cavalier Essentials a full-fledged feature. Phillip Annand, the brains behind the operation, is an incredibly genuine and personable character who seems to know everybody and their mother, along with having a keen and critical eye for style and quality. I'm very excited to work with them in the future. You can view their post about it HERE.

Lots of exciting news to come in the next few months, thanks for reading!