Volunteering Rocks,! A new group of wedding professionals who enjoy volunteering their time together, had their second event this Tuesday at The Second Harvest Food Bank in San Jose (also the second time volunteering with this organization.
The first person I saw when I arrived was Robbie Schlosser of The Magnolia Jazz Band, who I had met before at a Silicon Vally NACE meeting. We were joined by Volunteering Rocks! members, as well as volunteers of other organizations. Our group leader, Rich Amooi, the owner of Hey Mr. DJ, arranged for members of our group to work together at the various jobs that were being given out.
One of the jobs was described as requiring two people who would be communicating with each other the whole time. I suggested Christina Romero, the wedding coordinator owner of Elegant Occasions, who I had just met and talked with a few minutes before take that job and we did. We had to assemble and line up boxes to be filled with food donations.
Christina and I made boxes so fast that a few times we had to slow down to let others opening food and filling them catch up. During one of our purposeful slow downs, I noticed Oren Arieli of Awesome Shot Studios taking videos on a Flip of our group, so I decided to start using my Leica to take some no flash photos of the group. Here’s Oren posing for my camera.
Rich did a great job taking videos and even captured a hilarious one in which he asked me to demonstrate making a boxing and I joked the tape gun would fail on camera, and it did (I’m trying to add the video here, should hopefully be up soon). I took this shot off one of his videos of me, in which he was interviewing me on the good shots I was taking, which started with me smiling as I reviewed a good shot on my viewfinder.
After he put down the video camera, Oren showed up in quite a few of my photos. In this one he’s clowning around while I was taking a quick portrait of Vince Ramirez from ProSound Entertainment. Vince and Oren have a little Facebook dialog going on this shot in which they claim it looks like Oren is being hatched from the box.
A quick portrait of Christina, Amy Frugoli of Twitterpated Weddings, and Lindsay.
I made a collage of photos of Rich, who decided to juggle cans for some fun shots.
At the end of the night our group, left, along with another group we had worked with, came together for a group photo. It was such a pleasure to work with such great and hardworking people. I had a lot of fun and look forward to the next Volunteering Rocks! event.
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