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Rikki Guns : Lifelong Visual Artist. Autistic. ProTog. ~ Music, Street, Documentary Wedding Photographer... oh, other mediums? Yup. BIO:
Lady Erika Patten a.k.a.
Def into all of it. #neurospicy #ASD #Artist #Creator "Rikki Guns" is a lifelong visual artist and formally-educated professional photographer who started her visual arts career in Washington DC - her specialties are Offbeat & Documentary Wedding Photography, Music, Event, Vacation, Real Estate, Commercial and Lifestyle Photography. She has owned and operated a very successful freelance photograph
FINALLY getting around to the 1st look at my ( ) shots from show at back in August and WOW- seeing these moments makes me smile so hard 😁 I couldn't resist sharing! .. it's been a rough several weeks with my 95 year old Pop in & out of the ER 😢 But he's stable now, and I can try to catch up a little on my work.
for everyone's love & understanding with all that's happened these past few months - thank you ❤️
Your shots are coming SOON!
Her name was . She was "The Most Wonderful Girl" 💋🤘🏼
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Hey Loves,
After 30+ years I'm saying bye-bye to my brand: Cozmik Photography
and Hello to just me: Rikki Guns. Stay tuned!
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As a with 3 decades experience and a former professional & , I can ease you into it like no one else. 💋
DM for the 411.
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Sweet West Palm Beach, Florida family vacation moments.❤📷
Book your Airbnb Pro Shoot Experience with me, I've got 3 gorgeous locations to choose from or I can host you at a location of your choice:
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Interested in something different? Contact me via my website: www.cozmikphotography.com
Ok, I'm gonna change it up.
19 artists/bands I've shot. 📷
1 I have not.😝
Can you guess which one?
1. Fitz & the Tantrums
2. Ultra Nate
3. Sting
4. Flaming Lips
5. Nancy Sinatra
6. Deep Dish
7. Louie Vega
8. Youngr
9. Jack White (musician)
10. The Dead Kennedys
11. Johnny Mathis
12. NKotB
13. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
14. Derrick May
15. Thomas Dolby
16. Bassnectar
17. Cyro Baptista
18. Elephant
19. Willie Nelson and Friends Museum and General Store
20. BT
Ahh, memories of helping budding young photogs ❤...this experience actually inspired me to begin teaching classes years ago - yes, 1-on-1 in-the-field hands-on tutelage by a formally-educated, insured, published pro with over 3 decades experience shooting both digital AND film as well as a lifelong visual artist.
Let me teach you all about that beautiful tool that stops time, and how to stop time exquisitely.
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While shooting the Manson-Cooper concert at Merriweather a few months ago I noticed a girl with a Nikon Coolpix trying to get a zoom shot from the lawn. I saw her struggling with each try, every image washed out and a big blur, so I offered to help her with her settings and showed her how to get a better shot. I handed her my card and wished her happy shooting. This is her sweet message to me (I literally just saw it today):
"Hello Erika!
I just wanted to thank you so much for taking the time to give me a brief yet very helpful camera/photography lesson the other night at Merriweather! I can't tell you what an honor & privilege it was for me, a novice, trying to improve my photography to get such advice. The bands were awesome & the help from you so much appreciated. Your work is amazing... I just wanted to show you a couple of the shots I did get with much thanks to you..."
This is one of the shots she got :-)
Thanks for your message and sharing your shots with me Heather Bauerline Smith!!! Keep it up!!!
remember.
Because this is how our craft began. I can still hear the sound of 'advancing'... 😏
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As an accredited, formally-educated, insured and certified professional with over 3 decades experience, it really burns me when I see stealing REAL photographers' work and passing it off as their own just to get clients. But this is what the mediocre do to get your money, and YOU the client suffers. It's at its finest.
LOOKING FOR A LEGIT ? Do your homework, or you could be another victim of a . ✔Check their social media or website images with .
✔Google the photog's name, don't go by the "studio brand" alone, because they just might have changed their branding because they have multiple lawsuits against them for fraud or even a few news stories showing they stole money from clients & never delivered photos.
✔ Ask to see their contract, business license and insurance UP FRONT *only a REAL protog will be able to supply this to you!
✔ AND ALWAYS ALWAYS request an in-person consultation. Ask about their education, experience and the gear/post-production software they use; do they use filters/presets or do they actually edit each image individually with care. Who you decide to trust with your life moments is SO important!
YOUR MEMORIES ARE WORTH IT, AND SHOULD *ONLY* BE TRUSTED TO A PRO. ❤💋
You Are Not a Photographer
Fstoppers Matt Grant
Hot damn! An actual 1 Hour Photo lab. In a strip mall. Gotta dig up my decades-old undeveloped rolls! Wonder if they give you doubles... 🤔
Man... what an awesome memory. I MISS SHOOTING CONCERTS & HANGING WITH THE BANDS!!!
w/ Everclear 🤟
Ahhh, that time I got a concussion and a busted lip in the name of my craft and PUNK FU***NG ROCK. 🤘 Dead Kennedys
DEAD KENNEDYS!
2-13-13 -n-Roll Hotel
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Ahh, memories.
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Thank you Adobe Photoshop.
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Oh how I miss shooting concerts and festivals.....
PHOTO: LIVE 2013, Fairfax, VA
MUZIK - cozmikphotography Summerland Tour @ Celebrate Fairfax, Fairfax VA - 6-2013 LIVE
PRO PHOTO RETOUCHING.
Because & frizz exist.
Every year I get SO. MANY. requests to retouch school photos.
Initial packages with these school-contracted "factory" photography companies are cheap for a reason: so they can charge you 3X more than you paid for the shoot (to fix flyaways, brighten a smile or erase a blemish? Really?) Things like frizz and cowlicks can absolutely be taken care of PRIOR to clicking the shutter, and at least some blemish retouching done after - but they're not. Why? Sure, lack of education, professionalism and experience play a part, but it's mostly to get more $$$$ out of you.
So go ahead, get their cheapest photo package, then come to me for your retouches. 💋 And next year, hire ME for your kid's senior photos.
Ahhh Firefly Music Festival memories...
Jack White with some creative "natural elements" ⛈⚡
End of Day 1 at Firefly Fest....last minute "they" decide no pit photos for Jack White. It's raining, and I have to fight my way into the crowd. Never imagined what a few raindrops would do to make some very unique shots - fitting for shooting White. More to come.....
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A fan shared this today, a moment I shot at The Groove Market, a unique & organic gathering a few years back, produced by Elektrik Eventz ... and it says EVERYTHING.
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Wake & Shake Launch 2.26.17
© Cozmik Photography for Elektrik Eventz
Hope everyone will
1. Stay HOME and safe (everything can be delivered!)
2. Take this time to look at your life differently, get out into Nature (no peopling!)
3. Trust that my calling as an artist and journalist supersedes the fear "they" think I should have as a human living in a ...
I am capturing life in a different light in the midst of all this. And I can't wait to share those shots with all of you.
A true DC has left us today, and my heart is heavy... Not only did I have the pleasure of working with this man, but I danced many Sunday night cyphers at Eighteenth Street Lounge to the fine grooves he would lay down - and trust, he laid them down righteously at ESL for decades. Our Nation's Capitol has lost one of its true House Music O.G.s and Underground Pioneers.
Rest in Beats, Sam "The Man" Burns. Thank you for blessing us with your heart, your passion, your friendship and your gifts. ❤️🎶
R.I.P. Wes Wilson. Visual Art .
Wes Wilson, San Francisco Psychedelic Poster Artist, Dead at 82 - Best Classic Bands Wilson was known for inventing and popularizing a ‘psychedelic’ font around 1966 that made the letters look like they were moving or melting.
BRILLIANT capture!! I absolutely think this should win, for the simple fact that wildlife continues to be wildlife despite humans and all their industry. ❤🐁
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Picture Of Mice Fighting At London Underground Up For Wildlife Photo Of The Year The action shot is named 'Station Squabble'
I love Ellen. This Millennial bit she does is really SPECIAL (also quite SAD at the same time), and this one includes the oh-so-ancient 35MM FILM CAMERA (from like 10 long years ago). If your photographer has NO KNOWLEDGE OF 35MM, think twice about hiring them. Seriously.
ENJOY!!
Some moments from that very special evening with B'more native-SoFlo jazz legend Tom McCormick & Friends at Arts Garage last month - hope it was worth the wait!
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