Had a little Holiday company dinner recently.
Invited out everyone who works with us and Cloudless, from all over SoCal, and fortunately most of them were able to make it. We all met up and grabbed some sushi in Huntington.
Tye and Jeremy shoot for us and are students up at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara. We tried, unsuccessfully thus far, to encourage them to drop out and simply work for us all the time.
The homie Rick, with Veronica.
Daly and his fiancee Vicky.
Obviously it's been a blessing to be able to do all of this and work with our friends. Very proud we've been able to build it to this point working entirely with people that we know and like and don't mind traveling or being stuck in the middle of nowhere with. Between us and Cloudless we've been fortunate enough to shoot an insane amount of projects this past year. And obviously it gets stressful and hectic at times, so it was definitely nice to get to sit down with everyone and celebrate and just enjoy it all a bit.
Petra and I.
Spellman, the programmer extraordinaire, and Sarah.
Wouldn't be a real company event without Ryan and Petra nerding out over some new photo gear.
Anyway, everybody at this table, from the guys who shoot with us to their girlfriends and wives who hardly ever see them, have sacrificed at some point to help us build this. All these guys have worked with us under some extreme and some sketchy circumstances - for long hours over weekends, or at times for hardly any money, or in the the back of a pickup truck in some foreign country in the middle of nowhere, but in the end it's definitely paid off. Thankful for the trust and dedication from all of these guys.
And shout out to everyone who couldn't make it - Shane, Chris, Jeff, Marc and Josh - we owe you dinner.
