Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Hollywood; FL; Seminole Hard Rock's Wine & Food Festival;

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Hollywood; FL; Seminole Hard Rock's Wine & Food Festival;

Working, while sampling every wine, dozens of vodkas, sucking down a plethora of water! Eating some of best finger foods the Floridian coast has seen. Local chefs and chef's from around the USA where hustling, running around still preparing meals for 15000 or more attendees that ponied up a $100 per ticket / per/ person to enter the pit of foods, to taste what was in the air, what could be smelled from 4 miles away to kick back and relax on a 75 degree cloudless blue sky, paradise in paradise a perfect day, a kind of day that Florida has 360 days a year...

Arriving only minutes before the gate had opened where over 2500 people were alreadu waiting to enter waiting for the gates to open. Waiting to eat, waiting drink, waiting to dance and have the chance to meet some of the stars of this show.........

The air was filled with the familiar smell of your common back yard BBQ, but this was different this was gourmet this was BBQ masters on steroids this was spiced islands this was southern style, this was latin american style this was Philly style this was a day that should have been extended for a week...:)

Drinking eating and meeting the talented chefs, the staff at the ; Seminole Hard Rock

http://www.thewineandfoodfestival.com; Sunday; November 4th; 2012-

Chef Creole; Jason Gronlund: Executive Chef; Senior Director Of Culinary R&D; Seminole Hard Rock Hotels and Casinos in Tampa and Hollywood; Fla.; Executive Chef Chris Wong from NewPort Beachside hotel and resort; Celebrity Chef Steve Martorano

Other chefs and restaurants that knocked us dead were:

Kitchen 305; Brooklyn Italian Ice; Shula's Steak House; TATU; Mya Handmade Cigars; Allied Kitchen and Bath: Brooklyn Italian Ice Company; J.Lohr Vineyards and Wines:Estefan Enterprises Inc.: Amn Distributors:The Alexander Hotel Miami Beach; The Mad Platter Catering:Icelandic Glacial Water: Then there was NBC 6 reporter Roxanne Vargas; who held the reins and drove the crowd to want more, more wine more food more dancing more cigars more more and more..........

Because it was for a cause a great cause it was for both The Memorial Foundation and Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Foundation......

My first blog in 6 months and this is Crazy!

"The answer is NO. I don't work for opportunists, publishers, magazines, newspapers, charities corporations, or the infamous "start-ups" for no pay, bylines or "exposure". If you have no budget, don't knock on my door with promises barters, kick-backs, or better, paid work later - if only I can help you now. I am a professional and expect to be treated like one. In short, I DON'T WORK FOR FREE. If FREE matters more than GOOD, ask someone else…" NOW IT'S TIME TO CATCH UP AND POST UP ALL THE WORK FROM THE PAST 6 MONTHS...

From the docks of Miami to plates on the high seas...

Aboard the Oceania Cruise Line: Working with some of the most talented chefs / knives wielding (men and women)linguist !


It all begins at dawn on the docks of the Port of Miami! Hundreds of shipping containers get unloaded from ships, then load onto trucks and finally taken to a huge warehouse for inspection only to be unloaded and loaded to be trucked back to the docks to be loaded onto and into over sized refrigerators and freezers aboard the Oceania Cruise ship.







Who's waiting for the foods to be delivered and itemized is this team of amazing chefs that included Master Chef Eric Barale Culinary Director, Chef De Cuisine Jean Marc Tetu at Jacques, Executive Chef Christophe Belin, Chef Pastry Jose Da Costa Silva, Chef Sompong Sae Jew Chef De Cuisine at Red Ginger.



From all the work of all the persons involved here are some of the results:





Chefs thank you... Thank all of you aboard, on the dock, in the kitchens, in the restaurants thank you for making this shoot one of the best ever!


The Apolla Group Miami; The Apollo Group; www.theapollogroup.com; Oceania Cruises; Luxury Cruise Line; www.oceaniacruises.com; Chef De Cuisine Jean Marc Tetu at Jacques; Chef Christophe Belin; Oceania Cruises; Executive Chef Christophe Belin Oceania Cruises; Chef Chef Jose Da Costa Silva Pastry; Chef Jose Da Costa Silva Pastry Chef; Oceania Cruises; Chef Sompong Sae Jew Chef De Cuisine at Red Ginger Oceania Cruises; Chef Jacques Pépin; Jacques; Red Ginger; Toscana; Maitres Cuisiniers de France; Master Chef Eric Barale Culinary Director; Chef Eric Barale; Culinary Director at Apollo Ship Chandlers; Gourmet Foods; Gourmet Desserts; Gourmet foods on Cruise Lines; Cruising; Caviar; Sushi

We Love Colors....... We Love Miami...... We love Life!

Life without color is well just not the same, we need the vibrant colors to pop or stand out..... Here on Miami Beach there is always so much color...



Working with We Love Colors it is always a fun filled day. Never boring and never the same............







Steady70 photography & We Love Colors: Photoshoot South Beach; Pamela Wasabi Stylist; www.Wasabifashionkult.com; www.welovecolors.com;

Driving down a mountain and into the belly of the madness created by Young the Giant opening for INCUBUS!

Ahhh just how life works, well at least that is how life works for me.. From the preachers in the mountains to madness in Miami............











After all these years I still would not change a thing!





Steady 70 2011 Steve Levine photographer, Incubus, Bayfront Park, miami, Klipsch Amphitheatre ,UniMedia,livenation.com, Brandon Boyd; singer; Mike Einziger; guitar; Ben Kenney; bass; Chris Kilmore; turntables; keyboards; Jose Pasillas

Bloomsburg, PA~ Floods Sept 2011

The peninsula was immersed in water the town was isolated like an island in the Caribbean. This story started on journey out west, the rains came down, the rivers and streams rose along the banks of the town of Nescopeck Pennsylvania ( Named of the Shawnee- Delaware Indian village that was located here back in 1755) The nuclear reactor raged on and bellowed clouds of smoke into the air.



I found myself on the Nescopeck bridge where rushing waters keep the pillars of this bridge moving under my feet cars and trucks crawled to a halt people slowly approached the bridge debris flowed under it, the current was whipping trees, gas drums and propane tanks as far as my eyes could see. I met Joseph and his son on the bridge a humble man who just lost his house his business everything; except his family and his pickup truck.




This was the start of a long 36 hours here in Pennsylvania. Stranded on this peninsula, the airport was under 6 feet of water, the water sewage plant had shut down hours before my arrival, and sewage flowed out with no mercy the gates were open and all major interstates like route 81, route 80, route 11, route 93, route 467, man I could not count all side roads or all roads leading to east to NYC and west to California, North and south highways and bi ways were shut down due to flood waters. Water flowed cascading down mountains like Dunn Falls in Jamaica. Here I was right in the middle of it. National guardsmen were out and about, search and rescue crew were on the waters on the land clearing houses clearing streets, Sirens blared, and people were walking aimlessly down main street with nothing, houses floated away trailers were swept away the towns people were in shock the new crews reporting this were reporting that the water rose to 30.5 and quickly peaked to 41 feet….. Swells flash floods and some chaos ensued.





With Search and rescue of from around PA helping out like the team from Greensboro PA there was almost no loss of life!

Love is everywhere.....................

Love;



Love is everywhere..................... It is written on walls, it is written in the sky, Love seen and these are images of love; signs of Love; Love from Moscow; Love from San Francisco; Love from Arizona; Love from Maine; Love from Virginia; Love from from St. Barts; Love from St Martin; Love from New York; Love from Miami; Love from Montana; Love from Aruba; Love from the world.....






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