Gene's Blog...

8/15/10 - Videotaped the National Youth Theatre Awards ceremony. My daughter Lauren won the "best actress" category for her role as Cassie in A Chorus Line! To see Lauren singing a solo piece during the ceremonies, click here.

8/13/10 - I shot some photos a few weeks ago for a designer who created a large sign for a custom automobile shop. He entered the photos into a Design contest, and I just found out he actually WON! OMG!

8/11/10 - Photographed the beautiful and talented actress, Molly Brown, for her college admission headshots.

7/30/10 - Created an online invitation for a Philips Global HR Conference in the Netherlands. It's tough keeping up with folks who are 6 hours ahead of you! Had to work the weekend:-(

7/28/10 - Leaving for 2 corporate photoshoots. Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

7/23/10 - Just finished a complete overhaul of a web site for Philips Electronics. New photos, changes to the navigation system and Flash programming.

7/19/10 - Finally had the much dreaded sinus surgery that I've been putting off for 20 years. So THIS is what it's like to be able to breathe through your nose. Ahhhhh.

7/9/10 - It's great to be working for the Westchester based Speech Therapist, Susan Pike again. We did a whole bunch of updates to her web site and improved the overall look and feel.

7/7/10 - All day photoshoot at the Westchester Broadway Theatre for the show Peter Pan. Click here to view the photos.

6/19/10 - Videoshoot a Bat Mitzvah at the Renaissance Hotel in White Plains for my mentor, Ray Karaman. Beautiful party with everything you could imagine. It's inspiring to think that this video will be watched by this family for generations to come. Maybe that's why I obsess over every little detail:-)

6/12/10 - HUGE day. Videotape the Hackley School graduation at 9am. Drive to Astoria Queens, shoot wedding ceremony for my mentor, Alan Kirschen. Drive to Long Island to shoot wedding reception until 1am. Drive home on beautiful warm night with windows open and decompress.

6/6/10 - Photoshoot at Shaarei Tikvah.

6/4/10 - Photoshoot fo Philips Electronics in Stamford CT.

6/3/10 - Photoshoots for the Lighthouse Youth Theatre presentation of The Wiz in Yorktown. For all you drumming fans, Omar Hakim's daughter played the role of Dorothy. Omar is considered to be one of the best drummers on the planet.

5/30/10 - Photoshoot at Arrowwood Country Club with Ray Karaman. It's always a privelege for me to work side by side with Ray and watch him work his magic behind the camera.

5/20/10 - Photoshoot for Boehringer Ingelheim. This was a tough one. I was shooting inside a mobile medical lab bus, capturing moments of employees visiting the bus and engaging in experiments at the various work stations.

5/15/10 - Videoshoot with Ray Karaman at Mora Mora in Norwalk, Connecticut. Bat Mitzvah. Very cool venue, lots of different rooms and interesting decor and lighting.

5/14/10 - Videoshoot of a wedding at the Davenport Club in New Rochelle. Beautiful location, perfect weather, outdoor ceremony, wonderful people.....good stuff.

5/5/10 - 9am, leave for corporate photoshoot in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. 3pm, drive to Elizabeth NJ. Stay overnight. 9am shoot next morning in Union, NJ. 2pm, shoot in Briarcliff, NY.

5/1/10 - All day videoshoot with mentor Alan Kirschen. Shoot bride and groom at their estate in Staten Island. 5pm, shoot reception at Cipriani's in NYC. By far the largest party I've ever shot. Incredible event.

4/19/10 - Leaving for a week of traveling photoshoots. Tuesday, shooting in Charleston South Carolina. Wednesday, shooting in Cookville, Tennessee. Thursday shooting in Sparta, Tennessee in the morning, then traveling home.

4/17/10 - Videoshoot at Life catering hall in Ardsley, NY with Ray Karaman. Some of the nicest decorated rooms I've seen so far. Makes for great looking video:-)

4/6/10 - Corpoate photoshoots for Philips Electronics in Latham New York.

3/26/10 - Leave for vacation in Naples Florida. Visit family along the way.

3/1/10 - Begin online training course in Flash programming. Picked up the latest version and oh so much has changed, especially in Action Script. Ugh. So let the games begin. Focus focus focus.

2/17/10 - Photoshoot for Philips Electronics in Stamford, CT.

2/12/10 - Just got back from 5 days in Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas. More traveling photo shoots for Philips Electronics. Noisy hotels, no sleep, flight delays, bad food, driving in snow storms, but the shoots went great:-) Finally picked up one of those wireless broadband cards for my laptop. Amazing little gadget.

1/26/10 - Photoshoot at Boehringer Ingelheim. Brought out all the gear on this one. Giant umbrella lights, reflectors, light meters, backdrops, etc. They wanted to do a recreation of the Brady Bunch intro screen where everyone is looking at each other in a checkerboard.

1/12/10 - Photography shoot yesterday at Boehringer Ingelheim for a Woman's Career Expo. This was a full day shoot consisting of portraits, group shots, training sessions and presentations. Nine nonstop hours of running around with my heaviest Canon lens. Need asperin now.

1/9/10 - Shooting video for Beauty and the Beast at The Yorktown Stage in NY. Amazing cast of young people delivering Broadway quality (and then some) performances. It was so cool to see all the headshots I had taken of the entire cast, appear in the playbills.