Hola! My name is Chaz Cruz and I am a photographer based out of San Diego, CA. My specialties include weddings, fashion and lifestyle portraits. This blog is named after my obsession with "The Office" and of a lovable character named Creed Bratton. He writes about his random musings under a blog titled "Creed Thoughts," so I thought I'd do the same and name it "Chaz Thoughts." So please, browse around and don't forget to leave me a comment or two!
One of my best friends, Andrea, is doing her part to help the green initiative by putting together a fashion show at Thin/Onyx on October 17th. I'm going to copy and paste a little blurb from her press release:

Ecologique: Fashion for a Green Future will begin with a social cocktail hour and trunk show, which will allow guests to network with other attendees as well as introduce them to great new green products and designs. In addition to the trunk show, a silent auction will take place featuring unique designer clothing, accessories, and green- friendly products. All proceeds of the charity auction will benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure, San Diego (www.komensandiego.org), the local Affiliate of the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures.

A few weeks ago she asked me if I could shoot some promo shots for a video she was putting together for a show and I was happy to oblige! Please visit the website or Facebook page for more information about the show! 

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Here is the video created by Charlie Yi of Rock Step Productions.


So come out on October 17th and lend your support! It should be a great event!
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March 17, 2009 // models
I flew up to San Francisco this weekend for an engagement session but decided to photograph a model while I was up there as well! So I setup a shoot with the beautiful MK and with the help of stylist Eileen Scott and my good friend Kim to assist, we took some awesome shots! The wind was crazy and we had a lot of fun watching MK get attacked by her own hair and me getting attacked by hairspray, haha. 

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My favorite shot of the day.

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I will blog about the engagement shoot with the wonderful Mariel and Joey later in the week, so come back to see it!
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Preston:

Amazing work as usual Chaz. Keep it up!

(03.17.09 @ 04:44 PM)
faye:

wow, she's beautiful! and i miss sf so much!

(03.17.09 @ 04:48 PM)
cha:

gorgeous.

(03.19.09 @ 11:40 AM)
todd Barnes:

looks good dude. keep it up.

(03.21.09 @ 10:15 AM)
November 3, 2008 // models
My friend Andrea and I took a long weekend in San Francisco to visit my good friends Kim and Leslie as well as to take some photographs. We decided to hang out in Chinatown and do a few editorial looks for fun.

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preston:

these are some cool shots man! especially dig the first one.

(11.04.08 @ 01:58 PM)
Kim Salminao:

good times. good weekend. thanks for visitin us again.

(11.07.08 @ 10:36 PM)
September 26, 2008 // models
* Images transferred from old blog, sizing of images will be different.

Spent a fun filled morning with Bre on the beaches of La Jolla, got great shots along with getting hit by a wave, thank goodness for weather sealed cameras! Bre is an awesome girl, along with being an amazing surfer she is a painter as well, check out her website to see her work. We had a lot of fun and cracked a lot of jokes, it was a great way to spend a morning!

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You can definitely see Bre's personality in these shots! I had to make a little animation out of it.

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