Jeff Nenarella: The Unvanity Project To be unvain is to be free.jeff@brightvillage.com
It’s Been a Busy 2012!
As the old saying goes, “Where does the time go?” My last post was nearly a year ago and life has been anything but slow. There’s been a bunch of travel, a bunch of photos, and a bunch of videos being made. So many people have so many interesting stories to be told and I’m [...]
Drew Parker – Rockstar Photo Shoot in the Capital
My first interaction with this rockstar was back in college. He wasn’t a rockstar yet, but I knew he was meant to be. I don’t even remember the details of how I came across his simple webpage with links to a few songs he recorded. Even his raw tracks were sounding good and he had [...]
Belle Photo Shoot in Brooklyn
There’s lots of cool stuff happening on the music scene these days. New talent emerges and brings us fresh sounds and perspectives. Ingenious Records (My Amends, Drew Parker, Demori, Primera Edicion) has been presenting just this kind of talent and Belle is a stellar addition to the lineup! I had the great fortune of doing [...]
Musical Inspiration – 4 strings, 7 times
Today I came across something remarkable on YouTube — the above video of 7 cellos reprising J.S. Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude. The catch was that the 7 cellists were played by the same person and stitched together in the same moving video. If you follow my blog, you know I’m a big [...]
Sunday strolls and macro photography
Today I felt the urge to get out and shoot some photos of nature. So I decided to take a little Sunday stroll (arduous hike) through the woods. My mission was to focus on the details using a macro adapter filter lens. It’s really quite incredible to see the worlds within worlds that we walk [...]
Taipei Trip Two-Thousand 11
Taiwan is fantastic. Great people, great food, great city. Well, I believe there are more great cities in Taiwan, but we only managed to make it to Taipei. We lost one day due to unfortunate travel difficulties so we had to scale back our plans a bit. Yet we still managed to pack it into [...]
Big Time Photo Shoot, Very Small Scale
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. When life hands you a matchbox car, you light it and take photos like crazy. Today’s faux advertisement is brought to you by Rowdi, luxury sports (toy) car manufacturer. As an added bonus, I’m going to open up the hood and take you behind the scenes in [...]
Monday (i)Teatime
Ah, Monday is here again. Actually, I have no problem with Monday, as it fits in quite well with the seven-day work week. But knowing full well the stigma associated with Mondays — the horrid sound of that early morning alarm after a weekend of late nights, the impossibility of acquiring enough caffeine, the long [...]
Spoke & Chain Magazine: New photo. New faux.
It was just a matter of time. Nouveau faux. Fall is upon us and the bitter winter is right on its heels. Before heralding the return of the Last Snowbender, we take a moment to observe the delights of autumn and riding bicycles through heavily wooded areas. Photographer and friend, Henry Lam, was in the [...]
Bright Village Magazine – A portfolio in faux print
Recently I came across this grand internet innovation called issuu.com. Essentially it allows you to publish documents such that your viewers can read them as if they were in print. Faux print is born! So in the spirit of unvanity, I’ve taken a crack at laying out my portfolio of work as a full blown [...]
Prepare and prepare, then prepare to change
For one of my first corporate photo gigs, I was determined to be well prepared. I had some vacation time before the shoot so when I went back home I decided to shoot portraits as many of my friends and family I could. My goal was to be totally prepared and focused when it came [...]
Spontaneous creation… and combustion
Boys will be boys, as they say. There is something about a bamboo forest that brings out the inner kung fu warrior in us. What begins as an uneventful stroll through a park, becomes a (fake) magazine cover shoot with fists of flaming fury flying! No one was (mortally) hurt during the shooting of these [...]