I’m extremely excited to FINALLY post the wedding photos of my good friend Lindy and her husband, Eric! I was honored to attend as a guest which allowed me to relax and enjoy myself while I helped take photos from the side. Lindy and Eric tied the knot on May 28th at Lindy’s family owned vineyard, Wilson Vineyards in Clarksburg, CA. The vineyard was absolutely beautiful and spacious! I knew this was going to be an awesome wedding. The weather was overcast which made for beautiful lighting. However, as the day progressed, the rain made an unexpected visit. The ceremony were to take place outdoors on a beautiful lawn with whispering trees, but plan B took place. The wedding ceremony was moved into the barn where Lindy and Eric said “I do.”
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw how gorgeous Lindy looked!
Lindy was absolutely the most beautiful, timeless, classic bride I’ve ever seen!!
This is Lindy’s mother in-law, pinning a 109 year old pin on Lindy’s dress. It’s a family tradition on Eric’s side for all the brides to wear during their wedding. Now that’s a tradition!
CHEERS!!! 🙂
This is the barn where both ceremony and reception took place. Definitely a unique and AWESOME setting!
While Lindy walked into the barn, her expression was priceless. You could tell she was filled with excitement and happiness.
This is one of my favorite photos of them holding hands during the ceremony :).
This cake was absolutely DELICIOUS!!!!
A BIG congratulations to both Lindy and Eric! While watching you both tie the knot, I couldn’t help but feel so happy and excited for you both. I wish the two of you a life full of love, health, and happiness! 🙂 Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your special day! I hope to see little “muffins” someday ;).
I had the honor of shooting Will & Adora’s wedding with my friend Alex from RedSphere Studios. The wedding was incredibly gorgeous from start to finish; From getting ready in a beautiful home, to getting married in one of the most gorgeous churches in San Jose, to celebrating Will & Adora’s love at the Fairmont Hotel. I definitely had a blast capturing each moment during the wedding. Here are a few photos from Will & Adora’s special day :).
The ceremony was held at Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph. It was one of the most gorgeous churches I’ve ever been in!
While Alex covered the floor level of the church, I had the opportunity to shoot from the choir floor. It was definitely a nice point of view!
I seriously can’t get over how cute these little flower girls and ring bearers are!!! 😀
I love all the details that went into the cake.
The young lady in the purple was destined to catch the bouquet ;).
Congratulations Will & Adora! It was such an honor to be a part of your special day. 🙂
A sneak peak from Will & Adora’s wedding back in May 2011. Stay tuned!
I honestly could not WAIT another minute to post up this photo of Andres Torres. I went to the Giants game this past Friday night – Giants vs. Reds on June 10th, 2011. I’ve always dreamt of taking close up shots of ANY sports player. My dreams came true when I had the once in a lifetime opportunity sitting in Larry Baer’s seats!! Shot this at 200mm, I couldn’t be any happier with the results.
Blog to follow in a few weeks…
Ryan flew from New York City to visit Melissa during the Memorial holiday weekend. Since Ryan was in town, Melissa asked if I could do a photoshoot for them. Of course I couldn’t say no! I love photography too much to turn down anything :).
The night before the photoshoot, I asked Melissa to bring some props that represented their relationship. I thought it was really creative of her to bring souvenirs from the cities they both originate. Both Melissa and Ryan prove that their love is strong despite being in two distant cities. 🙂
This crystal flower was the first gift that Ryan had ever given Melissa. So precious!
The chemistry that Melissa and Ryan both share is pure magic. They were completely themselves during the photoshoot, which made my job much easier ;).
You can really tell that Melissa is so comfortable and protected in Ryan’s arms.
Melissa is definitely a character. She knows how to steal the attention away from Ryan’s shot!
I wanted to try something new with this photoshoot and that was to incorporate the pond in the foreground of my photo. We communicated via cell phone on speakerphone. I’ve never been so far away from my subjects before when doing a photoshoot, but it really worked out!
What was really unique taking photos of the cute couple across the pond was that there were a TON of seagulls flying everywhere! It was really cool capturing them in the photos :).
What do you know… a seagull right next to me 🙂
This photo took me by surprise when I saw that a seagull had flew into my focal point!
Despite there being a ton of people at the Palace, I was able to eliminate everyone by using a tilt-shift lens shooting wide open. Doesn’t it look like they are the only one on the island? ;D
Melissa and Ryan are totally cute! Maybe one day those flowers will turn into a ring??? 😉
Last but not least, some of my favorite photos from the session! Doesn’t it look like they’re in a snow globe?
I definitely had a blast photographing Melissa and Ryan. They are a perfect match for each other. I’m so happy that I had the opportunity to capture these precious moments for them :).
As you may know, my friend Lindy (also my coworker) is getting married! I’m so happy and excited for her and her fiance, Eric. My work threw Lindy a surprise bridal shower last month. We had a TON of Chinese food, and Cafe Madeleine cake. YUM! So, this is how it all went down. I had to get Lindy out of the office so that she couldn’t see our HR managers set up the kitchen with decorations and food. I was held “responsible” for making sure Lindy didn’t make any lunch plans on this day. I thought it would be a great idea to ask Lindy if she wanted to do another photoshoot. She kindly agreed and it was just a perfect way to distract her and get her out of the office. I couldn’t take her too far away from work so we took photos outside the Bank of America building. I had 20 minutes with her to do this shoot.
This time, we concentrated more on portrait photos rather than use a bunch of props. I think Lindy is just a natural in front of the camera. I used solely my Canon 85mm f/1.8 lens that my best friend gave to me a while back. I’ve never used the lens before and I must say, I am quite impressed with the sharpness and quality of this lens! It’s definitely a keeper!
These are some sample moo.com cards that I got. Totally impressed with their card stock quality!
Lindy wanted to wear her “geeky” glasses to show Eric. She was being goofy but I think she totally looks adorable with them on!
SX-70 camera. So vintage! Love it! 🙂
This last photo is definitely one of my favorites from this minishoot! She completely looks like a model! Well, she’s MY model! 😀
In order to trick Lindy into going back to the office, I pretended that I ran out of memory in my camera and that I left my other memory card in the office. We went back to the office and there everyone was, jammed packed inside the kitchen to surprise her with a beautiful bridal shower luncheon! She was completely shocked and overwhelmed with joy. I think everything went pretty smoothly :).
She had one of the most adorable custom coffee cakes from Cafe Madeleine. It was definitely delicious!
Lindy and Eric will be tying the knot this Saturday at her family’s vineyard. I am so honored to be invited and to help her take some photos at the wedding. Can’t wait! Congratulations to Lindy and Eric!!
Until next time… The next set of “Lindy” photos will be her wedding photos!!! 🙂
I am very fortunate to have TWO best friends in my life. One of them is “Nerd”. Some of you may know OF her, but why do I call her “Nerd”? Well… Because she is a Nerd! She’s a total geek when it comes to photography. She’s also one of the sweetest and most generous person’s I know out there. So why am I bringing her up? I’m second shooting a wedding this Saturday with my friend Alex from Red Sphere Studios. I had asked Nerd if I could borrow some of her photography gear to use for the wedding, like her battery pack and fish eye lens. She recently got the Canon TS-E 45mm f/2.8 lens and she was so kind to let me borrow it. I received the lens today and I couldn’t be happier since I had planned to do a photowalk during my lunch break. When I first opened the tilt-shift lens, I was amazed at the quality; the body was made out of metal, not plastic! Super sturdy lens and very easy to manually focus. I’ve never studied on how to use a tilt-shift lens, so it took a few minutes to play and learn how to use it. I absolutely LOVE this lens!! I think its a lot more fun than a fish eye! But I still love the fish eye lens as well :). So I’d like to share my photos that I took today. Keep in mind that this is my first time learning to use a tilt-shift all in one hour. They’re not the greatest photos but it’s so much fun to play with once you get the hang of it and it just gives such a different perspective :).
A small walk through Chinatown. Was inspired by David’s published photo in the Popular Photographer magazine to take photos of the lanterns!
On top of the Chinatown bridge that connects to the Hilton in the Financial District.
This construction guy with the sign made a perfect subject for my tilt-shift lens experience!
Well, hello gorgeous!
Okay, this is probably what tilt-shift shouldn’t look like, but oh well! I’m learning! 😀
I just love how the flag was illuminated by the lighting in the background :).
Thank you so much, Nerd for letting me borrow your fantastic gear!! 😀
My family is the type where eating at home is much more comforting than eating out. When we get together to celebrate, we always throw delicious BBQs! This blog post is a collection of photos from a previous dinner and mother’s day. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s who read this! And if my mom is reading this, Happy Mother’s Day! I’m glad you had an enjoying dinner :).
I don’t have a variety of photos, but the quality of the foods was terrific. I’m a HUGE fan of BBQ. I love it! Anything BBQ will work for me :).
Pineapple scraps. I just like how they were assembled 🙂
Homemade Garlic Cheese Bread
BBQ Cucumbers!
BBQ Portobello Mushrooms… Oh… so… delicious!
My plate! BBQ Tri-Tip and Ribs
Asparagus before being BBQ
Asparagus and Pineapple on the grrrill!!
BBQ Garlic Bread
Fresh spinach salad! I really liked both compositions. So both are posted 🙂
BBQ Steak (yes I ate the whole thing :))
After eating a heavy meal, finish it off with some BBQ pineapple with chopped mint leaves. It just leaves a cooling fresh taste in your mouth…. mMMmm… 🙂
That’s all I have for now. I hope you enjoyed my food segment! 😀 Until next time… Take care!
Jasmine
Hello to you again! 🙂 I finally have a chance to post my photos from last week’s fire dancing show: Temple of Poi. The show was hosted in Union Square in Downtown San Francisco on April 23, 2011. The show lasted about 2 hours with no breaks and best of all, it was completely free to attend! 🙂 If you had a camera, anyone could pretty much be admitted into the photographer’s section. There were a TON of photographers! Perhaps if you were there, you may be in some of my photos that I took.
It was my first time shooting these types of long exposures. I found that an exposure of 1.5 to 3 seconds gave you the best results for the fire dancing. I’m pretty happy with the results I got. Though the event was a ton of fun, I came down with extremely bad allergies the next day. It took me out of work for 3 days and I am still a bit sick as I type this :(. But anyhow, I hope you enjoy the photos! 🙂
I shot 95% of these shots with my 24-70 lens. The close ups where you can see faces I used my 70-200 lens.
Can you believe this lady was pregnant while doing this?! Talk about risk and dedication!! 🙂 ^^
Union Square on FIRE!!!
Such a unique shape!!!
Checkout one of the fire dancing videos at the link below!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosbyjas/5666301329/in/photostream
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