This weekend Susy and I volunteered some time to sell some homemade SusyCakes cupcakes for a good cause.

Susy is part of a cupcake meetup group (Cupcakes Take The Cake) and they were going to sell their tasty cakes at the Brooklyn Flea and donate the proceeds to the CancerCare for Kids foundation.

Here are some photos from a very cold sunday morning… and Susy’s cupcakes… (8 which sold within 10 minutes of their arrival)

Susy’s donation for the day…

These smores cupcakes where GREAT…

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Not just angry looking men…

But I need to just TAKE PHOTOS… of stuff… anything… I need to do it more… alone… for therapy…

But here is a bunch of stuff from the last week of summer…

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Here are a few images from a site me and my partners at Random Order (more on that later!!!) put together for Grae Enterprises

These photos are from a single day shoot that was aiming to capture the Grae lifestyle of class and sophistication…

as always enjoy…

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Here is the second of 5 shirts and photosets from the Secret Society “Think Different” fall 2008 line…

This one is the “The One’s The Matter Don’t Care, The One’s That Care Don’t Matter” shirt…

Initially I was’nt really into the shirt and what it said… It didn’t speak to me…

Part of the challenage of what I do is finding meaning in things, making it personal to me and bringing it out.

So I came up with the concept of the forgotten angel, those tossed aside, using a person you wouldn’t normally associate with poverty and dispair…

These are the resulting images… Do you think it works?

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Here is a quick shoot I did last week…

Rapper/Song writter E Joox was looking for something clean and classy with a little edge to it.

Enjoy

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Here is alittle early birthday present for my brother and fellow artist…

FERNANDO “EPIC” LEON…

See hes “assisted” me on sooo many shoots, so he naturally ends up getting photographed while setting up and getting things right…

But he is an amazing talent in his own right and deserves a little light shined his way…

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I recently shot the look book for Secret Society’s Fall 2008 “Think Different” line of t-shirts…

I am going to post one shirt each few days…

Here is the first set… the lead off..

“Think Different” Shirt

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I figure I’d post some of the work I’ve done in the past ohhh 4 months…

I shot the Allah Made Me Funny guys a while back for their new movie coming out…

Here is the poster they ended up doing…

Ill post up the images I liked from that shoot at another time…

But check their website and be sure to go see the movie… they are actually very funny…

Welcome Anisa Adhami born 11:35PM on July 23rd 2008 at a perfectly healthy 7 pounds 3 ounces… ten fingers and ten toes… and I say she got her mamas nose…

Here it is… Live concert photos of Outlandish in NYC…

It was a pleasure hanging with these brothers and then watching them rock the  show… great performance even in a sub par venue…

If anybody has ever watched me “watch & photograph” a show… they know I greatly enjoy what I do…

I at least hope you can enjoy these images…

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I just bought a new video camera about 3 weeks ago…

I cant wait to video record my daughter (that was the “official” reasoning behind the camera)…

But I haven’t had a lot of time to play with it and record a whole bunch… but here is my first creation…

The Outlandish concert in NYC…

Sorry the sound is HORRIBLE…

Enjoy…

Please leave comments and feedback…

peace
ridwan

PS: click on the video to see it in GLORIOUS HIGH DEFINITION!!!

Here is a blog that I have been meaning to post for… almost a year now… (wow)

Well here it is for your viewing pleasure…

A day out with Sami Yusuf around NYC…

He says to me… “Do your thing… I want it YOUR style and vision”

This is what we come up with…

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I recently shot my homie K-Salaam’s album art photos… for his upcoming album ” Whose World Is This?”…

Much talent and great music… i seriously suggest you check his work out…

After much meddling from the record label… who I didnt even know was involved until the last minute…

This is what we came up with… Enjoy…

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Here is another little bit of work I did that I never seemed to have posted anywhere…

A short advertisement for Illume magazine…

Enjoy…

peace
ridwan

I said I’ve been busy… I have to prove it… more coming soon..

Recent Set from the Grae Enterprises shoot… full set coming when the site goes live…

I started this blog… and said to myself…

“Self… you gotta stay up on this thing if you want people to come here and actually read and comment on it…”

I have let my self down… I need to post more… and keep the flow going with interesting content…

SOOOO.. I will try my best to put up some interesting work…

I have just been SOOOOO busy… which is good… but more to come…

This had to be my first post on my new blog…

The album photography for rapper Sneaky Pete’s “Monkey Business” Album.

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Today is my birthday…

No no… don’t say it… I don’t want to hear it (I do im just saying I don’t)

The reason today is of little importance to me is because is just a few weeks time there will be a birthday that will make mine trivial and pointless…

HER birthday will be the only thing to matter to me…
So this is my last birthday… and honestly… I could care less… the greatest gift I could have is coming soon…

But… to “celebrate” my birthday… I figured… WHY NOT… OPEN MY BLOG… SHED MYSPACE… OPEN MY WORLD..

so…

with that being said…

WELCOME!!!!

Enjoy new photos of Syria from my private collection posted each week:

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Week 6:
COMING SOON LIVE FROM DAMASCUS!!!

Hello everybody, family, friends and fans…

I know its been a while since I’ve posted a PhotoBlog, but ive been soo busy with work and video stuff, a car accident, relatives coming from out of town…
(You know life…)

BUT IM BACK!!! and WITH A NEW CAMERA…

I’ve been saving up to buy a new digital camera for a while just cause mine died like 3 years ago and using a small point and shoot camera while fun, just wasnt professional enough…

SOO I finally put down and bought a brand new Sony DSC R1…
(This thing is a beast… amazing lens and actually pretty fun to just SHOOT)

It took alittle bit getting used to and a bunch of crappy photos to get the hang of it and its controls…

So here it is for your viewing and criticing pleasure…

THE RETURN OF RIDWAN’S PHOTOBLOG…
(THE DIGITAL VERSION)

Enjoy…

She’s gonna kill me for this… but shes the only one around to take pictures of in the rain…

Most of this stuff is just random abstract stuff and shapes… Its me playing around on the way home…

I dont even like that shot, but somebody said she liked it soo i put it up anyway…

On the way to Jones Beach for the Mariah Carey Concert…
(AND PROOF)

Not with the new camera but i snuck a little one in lucky and got this…

and thats it for now….

Im gonna be snapping photos like crazy now and i will be setting up photoshoots as soon as i calm down…

SO THERE WILL BE ALOT MORE COMING SOON

Till next time…

peace
ridwan

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