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Check out my team’s entry for this years Fashion Week Mash Up comprising the skills of photographer, designer, hair stylist, makeup artist and jeweler and our two AMAZING models.

Until midnight August 2oth 2010, you can click to vote for this for the peoples choice award and the awards are then given out at the Fashion Awards on the 21st.

The URLto vote for my team entry is

http://www.fashionweekaustin.com/participants/mash-up-teams/fashion-assassins/

and the URL to vote for my individual profile is

http://www.fashionweekaustin.com/participants/photographers/hananexposures/

It is a simple no registration voting system that just requires one vote – no repeat voting allowed.

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Our submission

Team Fashion Assassins is made up of the following professional creative souls who made it a total blast to be a part of this years event:

PHOTOGRAPHER: Gerry Hanan, Hananexposures

HAIR STYLIST: Pamela Ivy Kim

MAKEUP ARTIST: Lecia Harkins

CLOTHING: Apron Allure

JEWELRY: Adaptive Reuse

MODELS: Jessa Peters & Christian Ramirez

Yesterday on Friday the 13th, (definitely not unlucky for me  the video of my interview that was done with GSD&M for their Profiles in Creativity series launched.

It was the final interview conducted with 5 creative professionals who are participating in Fashion week. Saturday the 14th marks the huge kick off event at the GSD&M Idea City offices here in Austin Texas.

I just completed a video interview with GSD&M, the largest ad agency in Austin Texas. GSD&M Idea City is an advertising agency that has helped grow some of the world’s most successful brands. For more information visit www.ideacity.com. GSD&M Idea City is part of Omnicom Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMC) and their client list includes PGA Tour, BMW, US Air Force, American Red Cross, John Deere, Hallmark and AT&T.

On August 14th, GSD&M Idea City will host 2010 Fashion Week kick off event with the “Bright Lights, Idea City” event at the GSD&M location.

As part of GSD&M’s tradition of  ”supporting the creative culture” this web series highlights the careers of 5 artists and their connection with creativity in Austin, and was created to build buzz about Launch787’s Austin Fashion Week. The creative professionals selected for this series were makeup artist Maris Malone Caldron, Ilios Lighting owner Brian Azar, sound engineer Richard Belisle and fashion photographer Gerry Hanan.

Duff Stewart, president and CEO of GSD&M Idea City said “We are proud to be part of this year’s Fashion Week events and to recognize these individuals for their impact on Austin as a city of ideas.”

“For the casting, we sought out people who represent unique roles when it came to the Bright Lights, Idea City event – from presenters to the experts working behind the scenes,” said Melanie Mahaffey, senior manager of media relations for GSD&M Idea City in an e-mail. “Our goal with the profile series is to not only highlight but recognize these people for their hard work and influence on Austin’s creative scene.”

Today, August 9th saw the launch of the first interview with Currie Bucher,  Touch of Sass boutique owner. Over the remainder of this week, one new video will be released & the interview with me will go live on GSD&M’s Youtube channel on Friday the 13th.

I was interviewed in my home studio and after the interview was over I insisted on a group shot

From left to right :

Kelly Sutton, Amanda Phelps, Gerry Hanan, Hua Liu, Reagan Ward andMadeline DeWree

The photograph was taken by my assistant Melissa Weston of Melissawestonphotography.com

But this time I really liked it

I was assisting Dell senior photographer, Brian Kuntz, on a shoot, doing corporate profile shots in the Executive Briefing Center, and we were setting up the lighting for a shot after lunch.  Once the location was to Brians liking, I was the stand-in model (to enable Bryan to shoot and make sure the lighting was to his liking before the real subject arrived).

For this shoot, Bryan was shooting with the Canon 1DS Mark II, which was tethered to his Dell Precision Notebook.

Because he was tethered, I was able to see the images appear on the notebook screen as he took them, and when I saw this one, I actually liked it enough to get a copy for myself.  It’s a little uncommon for me to get a shot of myself that I like.

Voila!