Well, first of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Alexis Evanoff and I am a photographer.

I'm on an adventure, just at a new beginning of it. I have just moved to San Diego, California from the Los Angeles area where I was born and have lived for most of my life. I had established myself up there with several regular clients, also doing contract work for a few studios. In my beginning years in photography, my convenient location in the world allowed me to cover a lot of the local music scene (which included a lot of well-known people) and since then I had established myself and become known for doing photography of the performing arts.

But now I'm in San Diego, where nobody knows my name.

So, this is the challenge, re-establishing my small business and starting all over again. Not to mention, this time, I'm doing it newly married.

The nice thing about this time around is that I have some experience with this behind me and I've built up a decent resumé and portfolio to show people. I actually am old enough to know what I'm doing, and still, young enough to have the energy to begin again.

So, we'll see what happens.

Incidentally, this is me on the left. Each of these are linked to my Flickr where you can see the original in a bigger size.

I apologize that I am not a very good or cooperative model, even with myself. In fact, just to get myself to loosen up, in the last two shots you can see that I'm singing out loud with the radio. I just felt it only right that the first entry have me in it so you can see me at least once, since I am usually never ever in my own images, you know, since I'm making them.

The thing I'm really getting into on a personal artistic level right now is textures. Photoshop brushes work very well for this and its fairly easy to make your own, but in this case I did not do that. To create the shadowy ghost-like effect, that is especially prominent in the second image down, I used one of my favorite techniques- The flash-blur. More on that later...