[embed width="720"] http://mattyphotography.smugmug.com/Clients/2014/2014-Video/i-N7W7H9c/A [/embed] Mobile Viewers - Click here for Video I've thoroughly enjoyed shooting for Emergency Food Network for many years now. In the beginning, I shot exclusively photography, then progressively shot video here and there while I was shooting stills at events. We used the stills...
The Emergency Food Network organization has been a client for... three years now. I've really enjoyed working on a number of projects for them, some which have opened my own eyes to the really great contribution they make in the Tacoma and surrounding area communities. My favorite and most in-depth work so far with EFN was the video I created a couple years ago, you can check that out HERE. 
I was in attendance for the Emergency Food Network's 'Amazing Abundance Auction' the other weekend, and for a couple reasons. Most importantly, I was there to capture the event. Secondly, I was there to enjoy the product which accounted for about an entire week of my evenings. That was the video I captured/edited for EFN for displaying at this event and future presentations. You can view that video by clicking here. I'd estimate about 500-600 guests in total for the event. Over the last year, I've pretty much established myself as EFN's photographer, which I've greatly enjoyed. This last larger project, which tasked me to visit all of the locations and aspects of EFN operations, I captured photo and video. A very humbling experience. At one point, I was capturing material at a hot meal site where those less fortunate came for a lunch. A middle-aged couple stopped and asked for a photo of the two of them. As I raised a $6,000 dollar camera setup to take their photo, it really hit me how lucky I was, and I almost felt embarrassed in a way. Here they were just trying to get a meal, and I had thousands of dollars of equipment hanging off my shoulders. I turned, took their photo, and they just went on about there business, didn't ask how to get the photo, they just wanted to be documented as part of the experience. This photo has touched me most through the project, I feel it's the best out of the months of photos and video that I captured. It's the pic below here.
Months ago, the Emergency Food Network, a non-profit food organization in Tacoma, tasked me with an on-going photography project. The project ultimately grew into something larger, incorporating video as well. Working with EFN, I visited their location, harvest fields, and surrounding food banks, capturing all...
Got an email from Helen McGovern, executive director of the EFN, checking my availability for their "Abundance" fundraiser. She had attended the Tacoma Community House fundraising event I worked a few weeks back, also saw the pictures I captured there, and asked if I could do the same for her organization. But of course! ;) That was a busy Saturday. I was (and still am) in the middle of shooting the Smokin' Hot Espresso calendar. That day I had two months scheduled to shoot, and I threw this event right on top of that. Piece of cake, right? Maybe if I wasn't still in the middle of a horse pasture wrapping my last calendar shoot for the day, an hour out of town, and needing to be present and clicking at the fundraiser 30 minutes from then! Let's just say I had a "vision problem" and I couldn't quite accurately make out the speed limit signs on the way back into town. Made the event just as things started to ramp up. phew!
