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I would be hard-pressed... to try and find a greater mentor of art and business in my life than my mom. Next to backpacking in the Appalachians with my dad and step mom, some of my most treasured memories are those of being dragged across the Los Angeles basin in my mom's red VW beetle bumbling from one wholesale source to another in search of the units and ingredients that would shape the quality product she would brand as her own. In a world without Internet a lot of things were a bit more hectic. People were forced to travel out a bit more and engage with different scenes and culture. Sometimes the city grunge had its own beauty and haunts me still today with its sadness and dystopian foreshadowing of every human millennium before now and still to come. The Du-Pars slice of apple pie on the way home always made things grounded again. After my mom passed in 2014 my sisters and I gathered to clean and sift through her house in Hailey, Idaho. My memories were stirred when I happened across a very special folder. Its contents of film, negatives, sketches and mock-ups spilled out and opened a window to the past... one that I found fascinating as a child. In the 1970s, sitting in Al Workman’s studio above the Palms Restaurant in Carpenteria, I would watch him meticulously building a story... with his pen, paper, camera, props, drafting table, lighting equipment and dark room full of smelly chemicals.. he crafted my Mom’s brand. Today with computers the methods of photography, design and branding are vastly different (and smell better) but the care and contemplation of the clients' needs remain the same. It has and will always be my mission to understand and appreciate their needs and get down to knowing the very essence of their passions and visions. Feel free to contact me for a free consultation.. in person, on-line or over the phone. I look forward to seeing your vision and being an integral part of that vision.

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