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50 Shades of Summer

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This year will be my 10 year anniversary with my baby girl, I feel like I need to get her something or do something for her… maybe take an amazing photoshoot with an awesome backdrop and print it out. Hmm, we’ll see how the rest of the year looks like. I did want to start in the power department but my stupid head can’t keep its mind on what to do. But how she sits now I couldn’t be anymore happier. Its exactly what I wanted her to look, aggressive as hell and breaking necks.

Couple of life changing moments has happen this year so I’ve been trying to deal with that as best as I can. The only thing I can turn to that can make me feel better or forget my stuff is my photography and Summer. I just get into a groove, my own world, it’s just me and my work. At my worse point one day I decided to stop by a location along side the beach to take my mind off of things. These are a little dark than my usual edits but I think it fit my mood at the time. Anyways, enjoy everyone.

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Winter is coming!

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*Cover Photo done by my girlfriend Roxie (instagram – @rblgti)

The last biggest car show was here and now its gone. It was a great way to end a freaking crazy year. Like last year I helped out my good buddy Nickoli from Simply Clean to cover the event. Hopefully I did a decent job, I’ve been up since 5am so I was starting to crash hard towards the early afternoon. Anyways, I’ll post more pictures here as soon as he posts up the article on his site. I added some teasers for now but hopefully I’ll have the full set late this week or early next. Till next time!

**UPDATE**

Article is out! Short but sweet over at Simply Clean.

You can also hit up my Flickr set too here – WinterFest 2014 Set.

Simply Clean 6

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Another year and another amazing time at this year’s Simply Clean event. We come to Destination Daytona at 7:30am and the long lines were already forming outside. This year was a little different for me personally because I was secretly working on my car for the past 3 weeks as my full fender flare kit from Circuit Garage finally came in almost a year and 3 months of waiting. You had no idea how hard it was not posting any updates on my progress, only my girlfriend Roxie knew about it. My boys at De’Caudella’s auto body shop did an amazing job on Summer and with the attention she got at CCW Pre-Meet and Simply Clean 6 show it was all worth it!

The show it self was good as well, Nickoli always puts the right mix of cars inside the pavilion. As always its the meeting of old friends from all over the east coast that you don’t regularly see is awesome. I also met a lot of new faces too from my instagram which was always nice to put faces behind the screen names. Thanks again Nickoli and the rest of the staff at Simply Clean, you made another successful show. Time to see what’s in store for 2015! #sc7prep

Full Simply Clean 6 Set – https://www.flickr.com/photos/djdorifto/sets/72157649116225427/

SoWo 2014

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Finally got around to finishing up the last bit of photos from SoWo. Had a blast but I’m definitely seeing an age gap with all the hard drinking and partying. It kept a good crowd at our hotel parking lot so it wasn’t all too bad. Anyways, this will probably be my last SoWo as I want to use my vacation time and money on bigger trips, like Japan and Germany for car events. Enjoy the photo set everyone!

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Sowo 2014

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Sorry for the lack of updates everyone, reason being there wasn’t really much going on after the Rolex race. Thankfully May was a nice busy month of snap some pictures with SoWo and Formula D Round 3 in Miami. I’ll be posting up SoWo pictures first later tonight or tomorrow. For FD I have to wait till canibeat releases my coverage as I was shooting for them. So stoked they got me media this year, hopefully it will be a annual thing that I can do that for them. Here are a few teaser shots from both events, stay tuned for more!

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GLI2000 Shoot

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It always nice to go out with fellow photographers to do some late night pictures. Its nicer when they too have a nice car for me to photograph other than my own. This Volkswagen GLI is no exception, it had before CCW Classics like my car, but he wanted to upgrade to a crazier sizing and new look, so he went with a CCW LM5 face wheel. Beautiful polished wheels looks amazing on a dark color car. Hope to do an extensive photoshoot soon, I want to see these wheels shine in the sun light.

Flickr Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/djdorifto/sets/72157629496949235/

A Cruise Through Wynwood

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First weekend of December an event called Primary Flight is held in the Wynwood Art District. Here world famous and underground artist come out and show their art work. Some at galleries that they rent for the weekend or a lot of them show off their art work by actually doing graffiti work on the walls in the Art District area. For 2011 it would be my 2nd year coming out as my brother from another mother invited me along back in 2010. I was hooked and I hope to make this an every year trip down to Miami. On the last day I decided to take the last pictures around the area with my S2000. Hopefully this year I’ll be able to do this with more cars, can’t wait!

Flickr Set : http://www.flickr.com/photos/djdorifto/sets/72157629128053532/

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