I Love Miami:
Its all in the planning, and when I got invited to shoot a wedding in Miami with the great Ray Santana it was like returning home. Ray is a great friend and person and we had such a blast and the shots we got were just drop dead. I knew the Wedding was unusual because it was identical twins getting married at the same time. Beautiful people and the latino dancing was just great, a pleasure to photograph and be part of so thanks Ray. The Twins were beautiful and just great fun to work with.

Another cool Miami photographer was Alex Rodriguez who came on the shoot and we had extra fun sharing gear, CF cards and food.  Alex is as big a nikon baby as Ray and I so he rocks !!! . 

Now the apres Wedding is almost as important on these destination Weddings, getting over jet lag the one cure I know is good Italian food and Ray took us to Caffe Abbracci. If you are in the area our dish is Black Ravioli filled with Lobster !!!!! Thanks to Ray and his wife for taking me back to home cooking, southern Italy style.

I am back in the new year, can't wait guys, thanks again for everything. T

A short fun Sanzari Zimbo Production.

Serves as a constant reminder why I stay one side of the camera.

To Pamela & Simon

I shot a lovely, very refined, exquisite Wedding this weekend. The theme was all about their passions, each other, food, drink and of course vintage cars. For those that know me I am always looking to add that bit extra and do some new cool shots for my Bride & Groom.

That little extra that gives a great surprise to the final album.

My good friend zimbo helped me out as I taught him how to hang out the side of a car doing 40 miles per hour to get the shot. Thanks for keeping the car straight Rob. Thanks to Pamela, Simon, Harriet and Toby for being great sports.

CSI MIAMI :
I am so excited and cannot wait to get on the plane. I'm off to Miami for my second wedding shoot there and it's gonna be so cool. CSI means Come Shoot Images right?Twins getting married at the same time and my great friend Ray Santana has done me the honour of inviting me to shoot with him and Alex Rodriguez. It will be a big Wedding with so much to capture.
Miami is like no other place, the beauty, the heat, the culture mash up if that was not enough, great places to get married and light that gives California a run for it's money.

The three of us will just have a blast the whole weekend, and i get to come home with the new Boda lens bag as well. Life is good.

I love High Society Gigs, so much fun and I really enjoy being challenged each year to get some more interesting angles and shots on the same theme, in extreme conditions of cold, darkness, dampness.

So when many of the 200 guests arrive by helicopters

Get entertained by traveling musicians 

Sit around a huge bonfire, that warms your face from 50 feet,

get to watch 30 minutes of the most amazing fireworks

finally get entertained by a cool live band until the early hours

thats a gig I love. Sorry under NDA and cannot share the details but just a few shots to torture you. I had a real blast and thank you to my friend Sophie for inviting me down. 

oh boy I knew the iPhone was good but it makes it all that much sweeter when the vodafone sales rep spent 10 minutes telling me how crap it was compared to the new Nokia N95 thing. I said "but it does look good though" and it works even better. Perfect data email contacts one touch sync I love apple they do it right. Let's face it for a photag its all in the look and how it makes u feel.

So now I will be connected at all time and got some great news today on the iphone, looks like I will get published in the new year so have to update the site as I start to get some artwork splashes.

New number coming soon........ ah and new business cards, blast.

1930's:
Would you get married in the 1930's. I was hired by Grant-Riley Weddings to shot some promo shots for their up and coming exhibitions and art work. Tiffany is building her planning business and hopes to focus on period weddings moving forward. The models, make up and runners all turned up for a day of running around at the beautiful Petersham Hotel where Tiffany re-created the 1930's.

My buddy Zimbo helped out and got some rocking shots as we worked the angles together with MultiBlitz and Elinchrom lights. Fun stuff and I would do it all again. The model Annette was just stunning and fitted into the period with great grace and ease. Check out some style and shots of an era gone by. 

So as a tribute to my good friend Ray Santana I had to put together a short film. He makes it look so easy, and the MAC is just sweet for all things media. I tried and well you can judge but we had fun shooting once Rob the runner worked out how to use the camera. 

Harry Dosanjh and the boys are too cool
This is a big shout to Harry Dosanjh and the boys who were ultra cool and moody at the Wedding last weekend. Guys I promised you the image and while the bride is looking through her pictures here's a couple that i liked of the gang. Thanks to the American who taught me a new sign, and the big guy who made sure everyone followed orders. nice to meet you guys. T

NIKON D3 BABY:
The future is bright and has a yellow sun from the East and its name is Nikon. Last night I got a very privileged invite to look, play and shoot with the new Nikon D3. I was ready to sign.
This is by no means a review, there are enough of those, this is just a few samples and 1:1 crops of the potential for this camera and how Nikon is going to sweap across Europe leaving Canon feeling a little low.
The camera is a little heavier than the D2x, but my word what a re-design of an all ready ergonomic master piece. The view finder is as bright and large as a shop window and all the buttons and menus are just placed so well, the transition from cameras was simple.
I only got to play for around 10 minutes as the room was full of geeks like myself eager to understand more, but in fairness all i wanted to know was what could it shoot at 3200 - 25k ISO. And boy did i find out. The room was a dark hall with side lights and little else, full of people and little room to swing a cat or camera.

The lens was the new 14-24mm and it was a beast. Nano crystals, and Nikon's claim it out performs a prime lens was bold but interestingly confident.

The twin card slots is a new concept for Nikon shooters but so well executed. I shoved my 2 gig into slot 2 and passed the camera onto the next man so i got some extra stuff as a bonus.

Now lets get things straight this was no photo shot, more a paparazzi expolsion of shutter speeds and high ISO. The content was simple and the angles did not matter, the goal get some RAW files to convert and peruse at 100% on screen.
Below is the story so far.
First shot data is 6400 ISO, 1/250, f4
100 crop of the image after viewing actual pixels
100 crop of the image after viewing actual pixels
6400ISO, f4, 1/60th this has been croped about 25% already. and the subsequent image is 1:1 Crop.

Finally the 25600 ISO , f5.6, 1/100, which is the had to get A shot, but it worked.

The last one is a 1:1 crop of a 1600 ISO, 1/20th. f2.8 image not traditional a Nikon strength area but check out the detail and noiseless crop.

Hope you enjoy and get as excited as the room was about the beast.
Final caveat, none of the images have been manipulated in anyway. Straight from camera into Nikon ViewNX (only product that can process D3 RAW) output to a 16 bit TIFF and passed to Aperture for 640x480 processing. Role on end of November - 30th to be exact. I got my NPS number today so I jumped the queue somewhere in the world.
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