Mixed-race Asian American freelance photographer based in Houston, TX

Feel free to contact via e-mail: montrose.patriot@yahoo.com for service inquiries and consultations. I have an open door policy on free sessions if s/he would consider; if it is someone that I know well as if they were my best friend, I would forgo this option if needed (e.g. the model/clients are established). This is often used for in-service training exercises for live photoshoots.

CD archive policy (photos of runway shows, private modeling shoots et.al.) - I have had requests from models, photographers, promoters, artists, musicians, and/or clientele that I have done business with where they wanted their pics e-mailed. The first individual who wanted their pics e-mailed was not a model - H-town artist Dune-Micheli De Pareja Patten - was the first who requested my hi-rez out-takes e-mailed where he was sending e-mails on a regular basis requesting pics e-mailed direct. Direct e-mail with pics is OK for 640/480; 3456 x 2304 is not since 2 pics can be e-mailed only once (some of my clients usually end up with overdue pics - I have one model (one of my angels who I would collaborate with - Shaune Sharmaine) who I wanted to shoot with although she wanted to view my raw footage - usually previewed - b-4 they are used in a modeling portfolio.

I seldom use my point-n-shoot Canon SD600 these days for official photoshoots where I used the lo-rez option of 640/480; these days, I have shot hi-rez where anything 5MP+ are impossible to e-mail (e.g. one 10MP shot being e-mailed over 200+ is a waste of time, $$$, and hours worked to which e-mailboxes are either overloaded and/or hard drives being slowed down where pics are saved to hard drives; this is what Visker Studios does for a living - service/update PCs and laptops besides designing flaming skulls and New Guinea-themed art cars) to which the only alternative is to burn CD-ROM archives (TFCD). Here's my current rates (subjected to change):

Portfolios on CD (TFCD footage): $25+
Event coverage (live fashion shows et.al): $25+
Photoshoot on location: inquire within; email first since I only give my # to clients that I know well

Work # available on request (if booking in advance - contact ASAP since I am booked for other events e.g. niteclubs, art car events, political coverage, and/or live performances - runway, live music, stage shows).

Will consider travel outside the Houston, TX Metro area if needed (a gallon of 87 octane is averaging $3.00/gal where I am using a hooptie SUV as a work vehicle instead of my art rig)...

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Photography services via appointment, my rates start @ $100 depending on the job in question (ps - I would not collaborate with someone that I do not know too well)

Events covered:

Ink Houston Model Search @ Drillers, 12.21.07
Fight Girl, Inc. Calendar Release @ Rocbar (w/Skin Industries), 12.15.07
Masquerade Ball w/AZAC Designs @ #s Nightclub, 11.17.07
Rogue photoshoot @ Truant Studios w/James Felton Body Art, 11.17.07
Rogue photoshoot w/Gelusa Zaripova outside Sullivans, 11.3.07#
Rogue photoshoot w/AnnaFaye Schoephoester outside Scene Lounge, 10.31.07#
Fight Girl, Inc. Calendar Release 10.20.07
Planet Beach State Finals @ Crome Lounge, 10.14.07
Concrete Rose live performance @ Numbers, 10.13.07
Rod Ryan's Hottie Posse Fashion Show @ Zone D'Erotica (Galleria location), 10.12.07
Terrie Barr's b-day bash @ Rocbar, 10.6.07
Black Train 72 photoshoot #2, 9.30.07*
Planet Beach preliminary round, 9.15.07
Bikini USA preliminary round, 9.7.07
Concrete Rose Cabaret live performance, 8.31.07*
Carol Newinn rogue photoshoot, 8.29.07#
Black Train 72 photoshoot #1, 8.27.07*
TikiGlam Fashion Expo, 8.5.07
Rod Ryan's Hottie Posse (poster signing), 7.26.07
Hawaiian Tropic preliminaries, 7.20.07, 7.27.07, 8.1.07, 8.12.07
Fashion Faceoff #3 @ Deco, 7.18.07
Presidential Rides Calendar Model Search, 7.14.07
Miss Clear Lake Finals, 7.8.07
Fight Girl, Inc. Calendar Model Search, 7.7.07
Concrete Rose Cabaret live performace, 6.15.07
Bikini-USA Preliminary Round #1, 6.9.07
Gelusa Zaripova's Penthouse Swimwear appearance, 5.24.07
Premiere Swimwear Fashion Show @ FOX Sports Bar (Galleria III), 5.23.07
Club Deco Fashion Face-Off, 4.25.07
Miss Golden Nugget Bikini Contest, 4.15.07
ABC Body Art, 4.14.07
Essencia Brasil Fashion Show, 4.11.07
Concrete Rose Cabaret, 3.24.07 - present
Sophisticated Bitch-King Dick Clothing, 2.25.07 - present
Fight Girl, Inc. Fashion Face-Off, 4.6.07
Miss Grand Prix Model Search, 1.26.07 - 3.23.07
Bikini-USA Calendar Release, 1.5.07
Premiere Swimwear Calendar Release, 12.6.06
Miss Envy Houston Finals, 11.22.06
Mikki and Her Mates (Playboy Magazine parties), 10.29.06, 1.20.07, 2.3.07*
Miss Darque Tan Model Search in Houston, TX (6.05 - 8.05)
Premiere Swimwear's official launch, February 2005

*currently the Mikki and Her Mates' blogger/best friend to Elisa Prevot

Special Events: Six Degrees Lounge's Lingerie Fashion Show, October 2005
Wear It Again, Sam! Fashion Show (located on 19th Streets in the Heights), 2.10.07

Available for hire in the Greater Houston area; compensation for travel outside the Greater Houston area expected

Services: Event Coverage (2005 Halliburton protest - 2 pics were used in the May 25, 2005 issue of the Houston Press)

Publicity (current photographer for Sophisticated Bitch/King Dick Clothing)

Portfolio Development

Commercial Photography

Fashion Photography

Landscape Photography

Swimwear

Clientele:

Politicians (Houston City Controller Annise Parker and Texas State Representatives Scott Hochberg, Jessica Farrar, Alma Allen, Ph. D., Garnet F. Coleman, TX Senator Rodney Ellis, Congressman Chris Bell, Congressman Nick Lampson, and Houston City Councilmembers At-Large members Peter Brown, Sue Lovell, Melissa Noriega, and Ronald C. Green)

Political Candidates (Richard Morrison, Jim S. Dougherty, Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich)

Musicians (Guy Schwartz, Kelly Rowland, Sky Blue 72, Jon Tristram, rap stars Scarface and Paul Wall)

Community Activists (Travis Morales, Rahul Mahajan, David Michael Smith, Ph.D.)

Models (whom I have photographed from live modeling events or informally during intermissions):

Mikki Chernoff (Playboy events/Mikki and Her Mates; would like to collaborate with although I am 100% outsider to PEI Enterprises)
Michelle Manhart (featured in the 2.07 issue of Playboy)
Elisa Prevot (my best friend)
Sha' Ross
Jessie Rohmfeld*
Sarah Lampe (Amerifit Wellness)
Brittney Layne (Presidential Rides, Rod Ryan's Hottie Posse, Fight Girl, Inc, Bikini-USA, Essencia Brasil)
Shaune Sharmaine
Laura Gonzalez
Lisa Hilton (Bikini USA)
Marylynn Lynch (Bikini USA, Miss Golden Nugget, Hawaiian Tropic)
Amber Lee (Darque Tan 2005, niteclub footage)
Jennifer Alose (Darque Tan 2005, Miss Grand Prix Model Search)
AnnaFaye Schoephorster (Miss Grand Prix 3.15.07, Sophisticated Bitch/King Dick Clothing, Hawaiian Tropic)
Terrie Barr
Laci Willis (Miss Grand Prix, Fight Girl, Inc., Essencia Brasil, Hawaiian Tropic)
Courtney Willis-Robison (Fight Girl, Inc., Presidential Rides)
Rachael Monroe (Fight Girl, Inc., Miss Grand Prix, Hawaiian Tropic, Presidential Rides)
Angela Rutledge (Miss Grand Prix, Bikini USA, Hawaiian Tropic)
Trinna Maree New (Bikini USA, Hawaiian Tropic, Fight Girl, Inc.)
Erin Kirk (Houston Press Music Awards)
Ali Smith-Ray (Bikini USA)
Chanika Moses (Presidential Rides, Fight Girl, Inc., Rod Ryan's Hottie Posse)
Amanda Czapla
Gelusa Zaripova (Penthouse Swimwear/Diva Bikinis)
Krystal Klear
Sarah Chelle (model/MUA for SBKD)
Emily Peng
Nancy Bui

Clientele whom I have collaborated with:

Amber Lee (MM #112527 - 7.20.05 - present)
Mikki and Her Mates (10.29.06 - present)
Gelusa Zaripova (MM #208754)
Bikini USA (1.5.07 - present)
Jessie Rohmfeld (1.26.07 - present)
Sophisticated Bitch-King Dick Clothing (since 2.25.07)
Anna Faye Schoephoester (since 3.15.07 - both modeling and club footage)
Fight Girl, Inc. (4.6.07 - present)
Fashion Faceoff w/the Houston Queen of Clubs (4.25.07, 7.18.07)
Elite Productions (Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Model Search, Planet Beach, 7.20.07 - present)
Rod Ryan's Hottie Posse (7.26.07 - present)
TikiGlam (8.5.07)
AZAC Designs (11.17.07)

feel free to e-mail if there are reservations to collaborate

Artists (Tim Dean Snider's artist expo, Slainte Irish Pub, January 2005, Dune-Micheli Patten)

Photographer for Artists At Large (www.artvalet.org)

Art Car Events (2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Houston Art Car Parade; current resident photographer for the Houston Art Car Klub)

Equipment used

Canon Powershot S230 (no longer in service - replaced with refurbished SD600 in 4.07; currently unused)
Canon Powershot SD600 #2223009432 (acquired 1.20.07)
Minolta DiMAGE A1 (2.24.07 - 7.4.07) - current service hi-end SLR hybrid camera; sold 10.8.07)
Canon EOS 350D (6.07 - present; camera in service since 7.5.07)
(future plans will include a prosumer camera upgrade - possibly a Canon EOS 40D)
Canon Speedlite 550EX (12.14.07 - present)