Fallen Angels - Sneak Peak

Here are a few of our favorites More Photos coming soon -

Link to photo gallery here

Hair - David Bui
Wardrobe Stylist and Designer - Misty Spinney
Models - Desired Temptations
Jen Davis
Misty Spinney
& Two New Recruits

Photography by Damien Miller
Art Direction - Sapient Studios

Seventeen Magazine Presents "Twilight Takeover"

Sponsored by Seventeen Magazine, BP at Nordstroms, IZZE Soda, and Twilight Saga New Moon in theaters November 20th.

Photography by Damien MIller
www.SapientStudios.com

Just Add Water

Desired Temptations and Water Candy Bikini put together a hot fashion show at Infusion Lounge... the most fun was backstage with the models and a special shoot with Damien Miller.....check it out!

MTV's Dj Erock's Dirty 30 Birthday Extravaganza

"The Thrill for Frill" Exclusive Shopping Event Hosted by Seventeen and Vera Bradley

Vera Bradley and Seventeen Magazine teamed up to give winter a run for it's colors. "Catch the Thrill for Frill" Hosted by Style Pro Jen Hayes of Seventeen was a day will filled with fashion shows, mini make overs, exclusive discounts, beauty tips and of course a whole lot of color. A truely fun event for daughter and mothers alike!

Photographer
Damien Miller

2009 LovEvolution - Civic Center Plaza SF, CA

Seventeen & Macy's "Style Spotlight"

A New Fun Mix - Ford Fiesta, Mas Sake, and Tyku

Let's learn how to make a Tyku Mohito or what we call here at Mas Sake a TyFoon Lagoon!

Katie and Abhi - Together Forever

It takes two and that is all you will need. It takes love and thats what you will see. It takes trust because that is the seed. It takes you & me to make realize our dream. Have a happy ever after Katie and Abhi.

(Private Video)

Just Another Faboulous Saturday Night at Infusion

We Do Weddings!

Introducing Tim and Clara Daniels

Healthcare Reform... "My Vote at Work"

Tonight our president spoke about what his plan and goals are for U.S. healthcare reform. He was very eloquent between standing ovations. I believe he is on the right track but he will find many American oppose a socialist idea of government.

People want it all they want the "American Dream" which is just that a dream. It is the dream of growing up healthy in a supportive family, getting a great education, then getting a great job or starting your own business. It is about owning land, homes, cars, and things. It is the dream of peace in a world that does not have, yet being able to waste what another would die to have.

It is a dream, but our reality is that most people my age were raised by single parents, and will never buy a home. They will never open a business, or be able to afford healthcare for themselves, their children or their parent or parents. A reality that we wage war against people who wish to deny us what we wish to waste.

A reality that rich and powerful use their influence on change to make sure this Dream continues to be a reality for them and theirs. We need to dream a new dream, we need to want less and save more. We need to help ourselves so that we can help others help themselves

Obama has this new dream and our reality in mind, I hope it is the same as my dream, I hope many others will dream will dream this new dream with us. Dream of peace and prosperity, compassion and confidence, advancement and enlightenment. The Dream of our ancestors and the dream of our planet.

Let us help same the Human Race and save the only planet we are so fortunate to have.

- Damien

On Safari

This hot shoot took place at the 9 month old Infusion Lounge in San Francisco. We reserved a corner of this 5 million dollar lounge for our little safari. We caught a few things while hunting I hope you like wildlife... Enjoy, Damien Miller Photographer Sapient Studios San Francisco

Seventeen Magazine and Under Armour at Caltopia on the UCB Campus

New Short Version:


Long Version: Cal Berkeley is Under Protection it is Under Armour

Thank You San Francisco / Digital Summer Photo Show

Thank you to all those who came out to support us last Wednesday at Temple for the Digital Summer Event. It was a great success with over 800 people in attendance. This movie is a rebroadcast of the show that was displayed before the fashion show. Thanks for all your support and trusting me in my quest for fine-art nightlife photography.

Cheers,

Damien Miller

Prestige

Dj Donovan has produced only a handful of events this year and this was by far the best so far. The event called "Prestige" was somewhat like a late summer homecoming party for the young socialites of San Francisco. Located in the still relatively new Yoshi's on Fillmore this event seemed to exalt a sigh of relief for the production duo Donovan and Christian. Not really sure what to expect during these trying economic times of ours, Prestige proved the nay-sayers wrong.

Vim & Vigor Salon - Grand Opening in SOMA

In San Francisco's SOMA District the Grand Opening of a fabulous new salon that gives all new meaning to "Cut and Color"! Give it a try and tell them Damien sent you! Address: 272 King Street (between 3rd St & 4th St) San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 777-4247 vimandvigorsalon.com Parking at Safeway!!!! Photos by Damien Miller Photographer Extraordinaire www.sapientphoto.com

We Launched Our New Wedding Website - EyeofPassion.com

Juan Carlos and I have successfully launched your first wedding website together on August 1st 2009. This site is a compilation of our best work together as one of the top wedding and event photographer in the Bay Area. Our unique style show through how fun, spontaneous, creative, consistent, and detailed we are. If you have not had a chance to see our site here is the link, please tell us what you think. www.eyeofpassion.com

"UPDATED 07.29.2009" Jam Weds with DJ Slick - D

Only the best Wednesday night party in San Francisco. The best venue, the best bartenders, the best djs, the best crowd... Best Photographer, well we are working on that... Ha Please come by next week and you be the judge! - You've just been UPDATED! See ya...

French Tuesday's Fluid Editon

French Tuesdays visits Fluid a posh, bright, fun, little Ultra Lounge in San Francisco's SOMA District. Fluid is the only place in San Francisco who boasts having a full 7o's style disco floor running its full length. Open Thursday - Sunday Fluid is still one my favorite places to sip champagne and dance my ass off!

Slide Thursdays Presents Reunion

Kalea Cecilia Ashley's Baptisim Sat, July 18th 2009

This slide show is from the Baptisim Ceremony in the chappel. Kalea, her parents, grandparents, God parents, Anunts, Uncles, other family and friends all joined in on the hallmark occasion.

Stars In Stripes - Muisc Video

Party By JenSF
Music By Max Vangeli
Photos By Damien of Sapientphoto.com

Sapient Studios Adds Hq Streaming and DVD Videos of your photos

Rajinder Dua, San Francisco, CA - Review

Damien is a fabulous photographer. His work is ahead of it's time...incredibly creative. Damien photographed all my fundraising events over the last two months for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. He is passionate about his work and about charities. He donated his time for a great cause. Thanks Damien...you are truly a shining star! Five Stars!

The Drobo

A little of over a year ago I purchased a new camera, a Nikon D300. A camera I love so much, I started taking 10,000+ pictures a month. Major problems arisen from this because now I have 80+ Gig for images to store some where. My previous attempts failed miserably by mistakenly purchasing anything with the (WD) or Western Digital name on it. If you have one return it as fast as possible. When it comes to fast, scalable, reliable, and dependable internal and external hard drive WD is what NOT to do.

I had two of the WD MyBooks go down with in 2 weeks of each other. The second was new and what going to be the back up for the first but both started acting funny and became unresponsive and left all my beautiful images and designs from college trapped on them.

Oh but wait! Back up I forgot one part, The Drobo.

The Drobo is a product developed by US Data Robotics located in the Silicon Valley of Northern California. The Drobo is essentially a really smart hard drive. But that would be understating its potential. The Drobo allows it's users to purchase and install any SATA hard drive in any size or manufacturer for a current maximum of 4 - 2 Terabyte (TB) drives for and total of 5.5 TB of usable and supposed redundant safe data storage.

I did some weeks of research and found at the time Nov-Dec of 2008 that there was not other cost effective way to buy and maintain a scalable onsite data storage array. I found that the unit was pretty slow due to it's only interface USB 2.0, but the bad outweighed to good in this case so I went to MacWorld in January of 2008 and purchased to last Drobo and Drobo Share they had at their sales booth.



After taking it home I realized the I need some drives to install in it and they need to be big, fast, and reliable. So I went to amazon and purchased 5 1 TB Seagate Barracudas. This would max out the current capabilities of the Drobo and give me almost 3 TB of accessible storage for all my wonder and beautiful photos.

I received the drives I ordered slid them into their slots 1 - 4 and fired up the Drobo for the fist time. Then I proceeded to copy /back-up all the data was on my crappy and unstable WD drives I mentioned before.

Long Story Short(er) -
#00 (Jan 08) Drobo Purchased (Mar 09 - Put into service with 4 x 1 TB Seagate Barracuda SATA Hard Drives ($250 ea)
#01 (May 08) The Drobo had (1) drive failure within 3 months of putting the unit into service
#02 (Jun 08) The Drobo overheats and dies needing replacement ( Drobo #01 down)
#03 (Jun 08) The Drobo is back up and running just fine! (Drobo #02 delivered and Restored)
#04 (Jun 08) Data Robotics recognized that the Drobo has to faulty equipment and parts and offers a replacement (This is Drobo #02 down)
#05 (Jun 08) The Drobo is back up and running just fine! (Drobo #03 delivered and Restored)
#06 (Jun 08) The Drobo indicates the drive in the Slot #01 position at the top has failed and need replacement
#07 (July 08) The failed drive was replaced with the same quality part (1 TB Seagate Barracuda $250)

#08 (July 08) The Drobo failed to perform what is called a (Re-Layout), will not mount with the three remaining drives with 1.93 TB of data
#09 (Mar 09) The Drobo is back but does NOT mount and non of the Disc utilities purchased will fix it

• DiskWarrior 4.1.1 ($100) - Failed
• Data Rescue II ($100) - Failed
• Drive Genius ($100) - Failed
• Tech Tool Pro 4 ($100) - Failed

#10 (July 08) The Drobo melts down and dies (Takes 7 Months to finish diagnosis and get another Drobo sent to us)
#11 (Mar 09) Drobo is sent back for replacement again ( This is Drobo #03 down)
#12 (Mar 09) The Drobo is back but does NOT mount and non of the Disc utilities purchased will fix it

• DiskWarrior, Data Rescue II, Drive Genius, and Tech Tool Pro 4 all failed to recover, rebuild, or copy the compromised disks

• Hundreds of Disk Malfunctions (See Pic Below)

#13 (Apr 09) Additional Tech Support efforts after a few email exchanges and a conference calls with the VP of Customer Service and a Tier 3 Support Engineer
#14 (Apr 09) I just installed a Read-Only Drobo firm ware verson that will help stabilize my drobo enough to get the data off of it.
#15 (Apr 09) The Drobo back up and running be still will NOT mount but DiskWarrior is able to rebuild a preview of the Damaged / Corrupted Disk Image.

After rebuild I get this message from Diskwarrior:

"DiskWarrior has successfully built a new directory for the disk named "MediaStorage." The new directory cannot replace the original directory because of a disk malfunction. A disk malfunction is a failure of or damage to any mechanical component of the disk device, or any component connected to it. The malfunction will likely worsen. Therefore, recovering your files from the DiskWarrior Preview as quickly as possible is essential. It is highly recommended that you backup all of your data from the preview disk."









#16 It is Currently April 4th 2009 the Disk Image is still stable and we are attempting to transfer/back-up on folder 676.21 GB which the computer indicates will take between 425 to 3000+ house to complete. it is 5:53 AM and I am going to bed. We shall see what happen when we get back...

To Be continued...

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Damien Miller and Jaun Carlos Pometta have combined their photographic skill to bring you one of the most
skilled, thoughtful, creative, sincere, inspiring, and fun photography teams around.

We want to book your wedding today please visit our dedicated wedding site Eye of Passion and contact us when you, your family or friends are having a wedding soon.

Todays Word... Chillax:

Chillax:

Def: A state of relaxation and refreshing coolness. To be cool and relaxed.

I asked my girlfriend to chillax for a second.

Thanks Asia for this great new word I will use it everyday!

#7 Photographer in San Francisco - Aiming for the #1 Spot

Never Ever Do An...

Advice Given to Sydney from fellow actor and mentor John Cassavetes on set

...We are friends but, Never ever do an artistic favor for a friend.

Loan a friend some money, be there for them is every other way but do not give them any favors, because you

must have one area in your life that there is no room for compromise.


Sidney Poitier - Excerpts and quotes from his book "The Measure of a Man" Jan 26th 2009

"The Lens..."

The lens sees what it sees, and it is entirely neutral in its gaze.

Its not looking for my best or my worst and there is not guarantee that it will capture something truly representative.

It can't mirror the self completely but I do know it can tell when I am thinking, and I know that it can tell when there is something

I am trying to hide...

Sidney Poitier - Excerpts and quotes from his book "The Measure of a Man" Jan 26th 2009

Change In Progress

As a person of color with mixed heritage, I am so glad that our nation now has a positive role model, for all of us!

There is so much we must do as a nation, and as a people.

The only way we can face the upcoming challenges is if we can continue to show the world and ourselves that we CARE about the future.

But not just our future but everyone's future.

That we care about the planet, and that we show that we are tired of war and oppression.

We have successfully voted for "CHANGE", we have successfully answered to hope's cry.

Now we must back up our new found president because he can not do it alone!

Believe in change...

Believe in yourself...

Believe in this Nation...

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‘Live Forever’ New Works by David Young at Babylon Falling in San Francisco :: 944

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NYE 2009 @ City Hall Photo Galleries