Denny's and TriCoast Photography...We Made Their Catalog

Well I just found out TriCoast made Denny's Mfg new Fall/Winter Supplement Catalog for their company. If you do not know about Denny's check them out, truly their products have changed our business for the better.

For years TriCoast has believed in the quality and products of Denny's Mfg. We have purchased everything from large props and backdrops for over 10 years now. Their products have simply changed our business for the better, without changing a thing, using their backdrops in our senior business and their props in our baby settings has simply made TriCoast look better. So for us to be in their new Fall/Winter Supplement Catalog has truly humbled us and is a great honor.



CHECK OUT THE SUPPLEMENT

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Wedding down home...

We had the pleasure of having a local wedding in our home town, something that only happens maybe once every year or two.

Tanith and Paul were truly an amazing couple, high school sweethearts. Tanith's best friend is Paul's sister so these two have known each other almost their entire life.

Tanith is from South Africa and has the most amazing family. We truly fell in love with her mother and Aunt and Cousin. Paul is truly a Texan if I ever meet one and loves many of the same things I personally do and between him and his friends they really knew how to drink and well sing. OK so the singing they did was only good if you were drunk but as a sober photographer covering the event they were fun and interesting to cover. Here is a slideshow from the day.

Tanith and Paul - it was truly an honor covering your wedding day!

And if you look closely you might notice Cody of TriCoast and Suzy of SuzyMinPhotography getting down with a couple wedding guest including the bride!!!

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Blogging through my email

Just wanted to see how it works.



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Jordan Chan
TriCoast Photography

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Jorden the Senior

Not Jordan the photographer. I know you're disappointed. But that's life. You might recalled that I mentioned a bit about her in Aaron's blog post.

One of TriCoast's Senior Rep.

Usually, I would try to put something witty here. But instead, I will plagiarize straight out her MySpace page. And because it's 2am and I'm on allergy meds, so the creative wittiness is just not here.

My names Jorden Shelby

I'm the pimp with a limp. ahahaha.

I'm a senior at sweeny.

I'm the captain of the varsity cheer squad.

I love my family and friends!

Hannah Montana IS my idol! haha NOT

Aaron has my heart.. but so does chocolate =] and sweet tea

I love watching lifetime, oxygen, and HGTV

My cat Lily is crazy but she's my hero

Thats about it.

There is a correction. Hannah Montana IS her IDOL! During the shoot she raved all about her. For reals. She also mention that she is a big fan of Kim Possible.










- Jordan
(The Photographer...not the senior)

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From the Swamp

Sometimes the most unexpected things come in the mail. While I was waiting for some spare CF cards to arrive, I got a peculiar package in the mail.

So lets take a look at this package. Simple, card stock envelope with two labels and the third being the postage. From Clute, TX, I might add. The content of this envelope doesn't matter. (But if you're really curious, it's a long lost sex tape belonging to Bea Arthur of the Golden Girls fame.) What's important is the person that sent the envelope. "Pimptress of the Swamp". Of course now I'm thinking it was someone from the Lousiana PPA we had previously attended, but closer inspection shows a Lake Jackson address.

Lake Jackson. Population 4001. Demographically speaking, that's 4000 blue collar workers and 1 misplaced Korean girl. I guess it's official. Suzy had won the Pimptress of the Swamp pageant held locally at the strip mall. Congrats!!!





And for wasting your time, I bring you a photo of my cat. Whom apparently feels it's a waste of time as well to make an effort of making eye contact with the camera.




- Jordan

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LSPS Photo Shoot

Local favorite "LSPS", formerly known as Lonestar Pornstar, is debuting their sophomore album end of August. Just like the first album, this one will be distributed worldwide as well. The new album took a different direction from their original sound. A bit more, attitude, metal, and rock.

The unmastered version of the album sounds awesome. I'm excited to check out the released version at the end of the month. This band is perhaps the most organized and structured that I've ever worked with. I believe this is all thanks to frontman Gregg Stegman. Weeks prior to the shoot, Greg worked with his band in creating the final image ranging from posing, wardrobe, make-up, budget and location. LSPS photo shoot was also sponsored by Juliet and Romeo Couture, providing the wardrobe and fashion styling.

The shoot was in an underground parking lot. Even without the heat of day, temperatures ran up to the stuffy high nineties. We shot five or six different sets which took about 5 mins max! But because of the wardrobe changes in between sets, it took a bit longer. Absolutely no complaints and I had great time.

I will also have to mention that the Radiopopper and wireless e-TTL played a massive role in the shoot. All I had to worry about was light placements. Thanks Kevin!

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TriCoast and Rangefinder Magazine - A great new article...

In the new August Issue of Rangefinder Magazine - Senior POWER - TriCoast has an article called "TriCoast Photos - Super Senior Success"

A couple months ago we were contacted by Alice Miller a great person and writer for Rangefinder and other magazines. We talked a lot via email and well after some time of joking around and laughing and of course talking about our Senior Business a great new article came out in Rangefinder this month.

You can find the entire article on the Rangefinder website or you can just CLICK HERE to download it

TriCoast would also like to thank our wonderful sponsors such as Collages.net and Denny's Mfg and Miller's Lab for without these guys supporting us, creating such amazing products and taking care of us when needed, well I really do not think we could be where we are without their support! So thank you to our fans, our clients, our viewers, our sponsors and even those who dislike us, we truly feel without each and every one of you all we simply could not see our dreams come true.

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A Senior - A Mushroom - Some Fairy Dust.....Huh?

Well today in the studio while shooting one of our AMAZING senior reps, (more coming from her session a little bit later) we all needed a little break so we decided to play with one of our amazing new props from Denny's. and things got a little crazy!!!

We added a new mushroom prop, some old green fake plants and some overhead lighting for a little spot light effect on Denny's Flextex background and flooring....



After a little Photoshop we ended up with Kirby the Fairy Princess sitting on her Mushroom Throne keeping a watchful eye over her peeps!


OK that was stupid to even type out, but hey so is the picture, but it sure was fun to capture and play around with in Photoshop!

Thanks Kirby for an amazing session today!

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Photoshoot: Taylor in Super Secret Location

Taylor had been itching to get together for a shoot again. So ,we shot these in a super secret location. Grass was tall and green. Plenty of shade for a natural light photo session. Downside is that it's outdoors and there were plenty of insects. And Houston summer heat to boot.

Also, check out her new tattoo!

I guess it's not really new...actually it's not real anyways. Here's the real one...

Not as cool as the other one :)

Couple more:









I guess I really should go mow the grass in my backyard...

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Summer + Baseball + Senior = Fun Combo

The first movie I think of when I hear the word "Baseball" is Major League. Not Field of Dreams, Bad News Bears, The Natural, or countless other movies. I'm kinda glad it was Mike and Suzy that that created these images because I don' think Aaron would have been able to handle all the movie references...

Aaron came into the studio with Jorden, one of our Senior Reps. I'll post images of Jorden a bit later :) They are both from Sweeney, which has really amazed us with quality of people out of that tiny little town. Needless to say, Aaron plays baseball for the Sweeney Bulldogs.

Here are a couple of samples.








- Jordan

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