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Tag Archives: mountain view

Tapas Photos at Cascal Restaurant in Mountain View

Usually a sampler plate of food is not much to be impressed by, but at Cascal in Mountain View, it’s truly a site to behold – and you may want to bring a friend or three to help you tackle it. Every time I rotated this enormous dish to get new angles for the food […]

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2015 Year in Review

I have a really hard time picking my favorites from each shoot, but it’s a great exercise to review your work from time to time. This is the first installment of what I hope becomes an annual tradition – picking JUST ONE photo from each of my shoots from the past year, be it a business portrait […]

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Business Head Shots in Mountain View

When I take an individual’s portrait for business purposes, I try to find out exactly how they intend to use the photos. Usually it’s for their LinkedIn profile or their professional website. However, sometimes they’d also like a couple more casual portraits for dating sites or other uses – so my goal is always to […]

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Ristorante Don Giovanni (Food & Restaurant Photography)

It’s been several years since I last shot at Ristorante Don Giovanni in Mountain View. It’s a pretty tasty place to visit, definitely worth checking out if you’re in the area and looking for some italian cuisine. During this shoot, we got some new food/drink photos, some portraits of the owner, John Akkaya, some interiors […]

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New Chef in the Kitchen at Chez TJ (Portrait)

Scott Nishiyama is the new Executive Chef at critically-acclaimed restaurant Chez TJ in Mountain View. This is a gem of a restaurant, and a great place to take that special someone for some fine french dining. The atmosphere is rich and subdued, soft light cast from colorful hand-blown lamps at each table. Scott took 10 […]

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Pool Hall, Cue Ball (California Billiards)

Shot down this morning to California Billiard Club near El Camino Real and Highway 85 in Mountain View. This place is easy to miss given the city’s denial of decent signage, but it’s actually a quite large venue capable of holding parties of 600! Chris Swart, one of the new owners, explained how pool halls […]

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Fibbar & Molly Magee’s

Nice guy named Liam owns both these well-known local Irish bars. Molly Magee’s is in Mountain View, Fibbar Magee’s is in Sunnyvale. They are very similar in execution, here’s a few photos from the shoot. I did do some HDR processing on some of the shots as they are very dark inside, but the flip […]

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