I was delighted and honored to hear that I was chosen by Oregon Bride Magazine readers and other vendors as the 2009 Oregon Best All Around Wedding Vendor! It is a great honor to be listed among some of the top names in the industry. Thank you!
Here is what they say on their site:
All-Around Best Wedding Vendor
PORTLAND: Evrim Icoz Photography
NE Portland; 503.341.4762; evrimgallery.com
First and foremost, Northeast Portland’s Evrim Icoz is an artist. Formerly a full-time techie at Intel, Evrim left in 2005 to focus full-time on photography, and fell in love with wedding photojournalism. Through Evrim’s lens, your wedding becomes a story; his specialty is capturing the unique, behind-the-scenes moments. But the real reason you love Evrim so much? We’re guessing it’s his boundless enthusiasm and infectious smile; he is genuinely excited about each of his couples—and it shows.
As you most likely know, I go out swing and blues dancing couple times a week in Portland. When I showed up at PPAA dance featuring Midnight Serenaders couple months ago, I saw that they were filming it!
The footage was used in Oregon Art Beat on Oregon Public Broadcasting - you can see it here:
Oregon Art Beat featuring Midnight Serenaders
I appear for couple seconds at the 10.5 second mark. Fun!
It is with great sadness I learned Frankie Manning passes away today. He was an amazing dancer, and has been teaching workshops event his year, at the age of 95. He was scheduled to be in Portland later this year. Earlier this month we photographed a shim sham event by Denise Steele that was done by him. The video of it was to be shown at his 95th birthday. I was able to attend some of his workshops and one thing I learned from him was to always smile while dancing. He had an infectious energy. He will be missed.
Manning and his partner Fredi Washington are credited by creating the first air step or an aerial at a 1935 competition at the famous Savoy Ballroom. He was also the chreographer for the famous Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. On his birthdays he insisted on dancing with as many women as his age.
Here is a video of him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pMDf4ciCRs
Here is his bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Manning
Denise Steele and Frankie Manning at 1999 Workshop at Crystal Ballroom
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Paul Newman passed away today. He was a great actor, one of my favorites, and also a great philanthropist. I buy his Newman-O’s and his popcorn all the time. You will be missed.
My friend Katie sent me this and it totally blew my mind - what a brilliant idea! Julian Beever and Kurt Wenner’s art is amazing to look at and most of the time it is so hard to tell what is real and what is not.
~~ Amazing 3D Sidewalk Art ~~
I love animals and we have two cute kitties. This is one of them, Kofte.
Here are some photos I took from my latest trip to Puerto Rico. I was able to visit San Juan and Vieques. Vieques is one of the most beautiful places ever. The phosphorescent bay is unbelievable. Also, I was able to hike El Yunque Rain Forest and the caves.
This is the view from my window! How cool!!! Not the greatest shot by a long stretch but it was great to watch!I think (correct me if I am wrong) that is Saturn on the left around 7 o’clock and Regulus at almost 12 o’clock.
