I finally finished sorting through and processing the shots from that crazy Cirque du Soleil shoot.  I got it down to about 250 and I’ll short list further to get it to about 50 for the final hand-off.  It’s been a wild ride juggling my day job at Microsoft, my personal life, other photography gigs and trying to process these photos.  I’ve really accumulated a backlog of photos I have to sort through, but the good news is that the total number of photos from those shoots are far, far fewer.

Here are 3 shots from what I recently uploaded to Flickr:

I’ve created a Facebook group for my photography endeavors that you should all join! Consider this my shameless self-promotion

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trevin-Chow-Photography/17873920773

Photograph by Danny Ngan at our last photo meetup.

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) open on May 22 and I can’t wait! Last year I got out to to see 3 films, and hoping to at least double that this year. Last year was crazy for me to schedule due to work but I’m hoping this year I can organize my time better and drag along at least one person with me on my movie adventures.

It seems they re-did their website this year and it is much more difficult to navigate than I remember.  Last year, you were able to browse the movie schedule and pick and choose movies to add to a personalize calendar. That way you could easily select movies and see conflicting schedules before you bought tickets.  With the new website, I can’t find a way to do this.  It might be just because the tickets aren’t for sale yet, so I’m hoping this changes when the online box office opens on Sunday.

My good friend Phil Holden is having a photography show on May 16, 2008 at Kuhlman in Belltown and starts at 7:30pm.  This will be the second show I’ve seen of Phil’s and his photography always amazes and inspires me.  I guess it’s no coincidence that I’ve roped him into being my photography mentor and helping me jump head first into this crazy business.

In Phil’s own words about the show:

I decided against defining the show.  Some might call them landscapes, yet others mine say there were more abstract pieces.  No matter what you call them you can expect to see is lots of color, water and movement.  Some were taken in faraway places such as Japan and Europe, yet true to my own last two years many were taken here in the Pacific North West which maybe represents a renewed love for the place that I call home these days.   As someone that is always experimenting with new ways to present my work I have found a new process for this show and all of the photographs are printed and displayed on aluminum sheets of metal which really adds additional depth to the work.   These are then hung slightly away from the wall creating a modern and contemporary look.

Read more about it on Phil’s blog: http://blog.philholden.com/2008/05/06/squares-an-exhibition-of-photography-by-phil-holden/