Evolution 2011: Recap

Evolution 2011: Recap

Over 2, 400 competitors, 44 different countries, viewed by 1.9 million different people online, over 10,000 live in attendance, all equated to the biggest Evolution to this date. This year’s Evo had a different feel than the previous ones, with the anticipation that was building up and the sheer number of foreign...
EVO 2011 Autographed Team MadCatz Photo Giveaway (Updated)

EVO 2011 Autographed Team MadCatz Photo Giveaway (Updated)

So you want to win an autographed photo by members of Team MadCatz? Follow the instructions below to win: - Follow Team Mad Catz on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/MadCatzInc) - Follow MarkMan on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/MarkMan23) - Follow Karaface on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/karaleung)
2011: New Year, New Events, New Equipment

2011: New Year, New Events, New Equipment

Wow! It has been quite a while since I updated this website and blog, over a year in fact. Over the course of the last year many things have happened including: photographing an international, multi-genre eSports tournament, the World Cyber Games USA and World Cyber Games Grand Finals; I have...
Japanese TV Station (NHK)'s Documentary on Daigo Umehara

Japanese TV Station (NHK)’s Documentary on Daigo Umehara

This is very exciting news! Last month I was approached by the manager of Daigo Umehara – one of the top Japanese Street Fighter players – about using my photographs in a documentary about Daigo to be broadcasted by NHK. I was honored that the production company was interested in...
Evolution 2009

Evolution 2009

What an amazing eSports event Evolution 2009 was! The biggest fighting game tournament in North America took place this past weekend (July 17-19, 2009) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. EVO 2009 definitely lived up to its billing from start to finish the venue was packed with spectators and...
eSports Photo of the Year

eSports Photo of the Year

I woke up Tuesday morning to a barrage of Twitter mentions notifying that one of my photos had been nominated for the 2009 eSports Photo of the Year.  Personally I was hoping that I would be nominated as one of the finalists, but not exactly as confident as others had...
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Evolution 2011: Recap

Evolution 2011: Recap

Over 2, 400 competitors, 44 different countries, viewed by 1.9 million different people online, over 10,000 live in attendance, all equated to the biggest Evolution to this date. This year’s Evo had a different feel than the previous ones, with the anticipation that was building up and the sheer number of foreign attendees making the trip to...
EVO 2011 Autographed Team MadCatz Photo Giveaway (Updated)

EVO 2011 Autographed Team MadCatz Photo Giveaway (Updated)

So you want to win an autographed photo by members of Team MadCatz? Follow the instructions below to win: - Follow Team Mad Catz on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/MadCatzInc) - Follow MarkMan on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/MarkMan23) - Follow Karaface on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/karaleung)
ReveLAtions 2011: Day 1

ReveLAtions 2011: Day 1

ReveLAtions 2011 was an event held at The Proud Bird from June 10-12, 2011. Day 1 was probably the most uneventful day of the 3 day tournament – not to say it did not have excitement packed games – but it was on a Friday and only team tournaments were held on Day 1. This...
2011: New Year, New Events, New Equipment

2011: New Year, New Events, New Equipment

Wow! It has been quite a while since I updated this website and blog, over a year in fact. Over the course of the last year many things have happened including: photographing an international, multi-genre eSports tournament, the World Cyber Games USA and World Cyber Games Grand Finals; I have updated my main lens to...
Japanese TV Station (NHK)'s Documentary on Daigo Umehara

Japanese TV Station (NHK)’s Documentary on Daigo Umehara

This is very exciting news! Last month I was approached by the manager of Daigo Umehara – one of the top Japanese Street Fighter players – about using my photographs in a documentary about Daigo to be broadcasted by NHK. I was honored that the production company was interested in my photography and wanted to...
Cleanup

Cleanup

Decided to do some sprucing up around my website as it was getting a bit dusty. The first thing you will notice if you have been to the site before is the new theme, the old one was getting a bit long in the tooth and a change was needed. Something a bit more youthful...
Evolution 2009

Evolution 2009

What an amazing eSports event Evolution 2009 was! The biggest fighting game tournament in North America took place this past weekend (July 17-19, 2009) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. EVO 2009 definitely lived up to its billing from start to finish the venue was packed with spectators and energy that kept growing as...
eSports Photo of the Year

eSports Photo of the Year

I woke up Tuesday morning to a barrage of Twitter mentions notifying that one of my photos had been nominated for the 2009 eSports Photo of the Year.  Personally I was hoping that I would be nominated as one of the finalists, but not exactly as confident as others had been telling me I should...

Photo Equipment

I’ve received a number of questions from people asking about the equipment I use to photograph eSports events and tournaments. In the interest of answering everyone’s question without feeling like I’m repeating myself over and over again, I have decided the best solution to the question is to answer it with a blog post going...

Paradise Hills Showdown

Yesterday I went down with the Get Your Tournament crew to San Diego to cover a pre-EVO tournament. Since media coverage was denied for a tournament at Fullerton, we decided we needed to cover at least one last tournament before EVO. San Diego is not exactly a local tournament, we had to drive for a...

A Street Fighter Filled 4th of July Weekend

What an interesting, fun-filled 4th of July weekend. The weekend included two nights of playing Street Fighter 4 till the sun started to rise and going to sleep with the sun up. AJ Papa, a video-journalist working at Get Your Tournament with me, and I met up at Arcade Infinity on Friday night. He was...

Welcome

Well, I dusted up the old website a bit and finally uploaded part of my portfolio onto the website. I’ll be expanding my current portfolio soon and I’m hoping that eSports will become a prominent section of it. Talking about eSports photography, I have decided to move my eSports photography to my SmugMug account and...