I am very proud of this shoot! I look forward to working with Mani and Sean again (Hamidah too! when she comes back from Chicago). The first few shots in this post, are supposed to be clean and commercial while the last few are supposed to be edgy and dark. Let me know what you think.
Model: Hamidah Ahmad
Makeup: Mani Gardner
Hair: Sean
This is a family session, that I photographed this last weekend. I don’t do a whole lot of family sessions, but they’re always fun. That’s because they’re really low stress, relaxing, and half the time all I do is just follow the kids around. That’s how I get my cardio sometimes. After the session we went to get some Thai food at Palms Thai, yum!
I hope you like my flier that I created. If you’re not doing anything next Monday come on by! I’ll be talking about my creative processes in my photography and answering any questions that you may have.
UPDATE: Not the 7th, the 8th my bad! You’re right Carrie! Thank you.
Okay, okay, okay! I’m very excited to present to you the engagement photos of Alli and Alex. Alli and I go wayyyyy back. I’d say we were both the few crazy, energetic, funny, outgoing types at the church that we both used to attend. It was truly good seeing her again, and it’s good to know that she’s still the same. This is only my second time meeting Alex, but I like him! He’s a lot more silly than I originally thought, and I told him that. This engagement shoot was a whole lot of fun, and I’m sure you’ll be able to see that from these photos. I was really trying to push for fun, interesting, and out there. We had a lot of laughs just like old times. I loved it.
So Alex teaches chemistry…AND they have chemistry! OHhhhhhh. Haha.
Peek….
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Boo! (yeah i know that was kinda cheesy huh? but it was fun)
Some of my favorite, of all time are right here.
I didnt tell Alex to look away. I think he was zoning out, since this was the end of the shoot. But I loved the way it came out.
And thats a wrap!
This is another engagement that I photographed in NYC. This lovely young couple is Serena and Mark, and arguably one of the most fashionable couple’s I have photographed in my career. I have to give it up to Mark for his strikingly sharp jacket, I love it. Mark and I had a considerably long conversation about fashion which is not something I’m used to having with guys. But it was actually really fun and interesting. But before that conversation we had a very exciting conversation about camera gear and camera backpacks. He showed me his Canon 7D with this cool eye attachment that he uses to shoot video. Mark shoots for MTV by the way, which is pretty incredible. Then I busted out my favorite camera backpack of all time the Lowepro Flipside 300 to show him and he was impressed, I think.
After the shoot we all went to Central Park to go ice skating, it was a lot of fun despite having to pay a whole lot of money for for rentals and lockers. 
. There are photos from their shoot. At the request of Serena, this was shot in a fashionable way.
The shot below is kinda cliche with a blurry moving train in the back, but I’ve always wanted to do it. So yay!
I love this couple. I love! I don’t even know where to begin with all my excitement. Allison and Hok are authentic New Yorkers, and they’re some of the nicest people I’ve met. They are awesome, in fact, they are more awesome than awesome itself.
Let me tell you a little about the couple. Allison’s a Brooklyn girl and she loves food, traveling, and everything wedding. Everything. That’s how she found me actually, she found me through my blog. The more I got to know her the more I realized she’s a lot like me. Both of us can’t seem to lie and we both wear our feelings on our sleeve, meaning if we’re unhappy we’ll show it unintentionally and there’s nothing we can do about it. She’s also very social, very cool, and very hip.
Hok likes seafood And I like seafood. Anyone who likes seafood is cool, period. And I think he said he’s going to have seafood at their wedding. I look forward to eating it, and I think Hok’s gonna make sure it’s gonna be some damn good seafood. 
These are their engagement photos!
So these are photos from my very recent trip to NYC. I had the opportunity to have two engagement photo sessions here in the freakin awesome city of NYC! Those posts will be next!
I’m back today from a 1 week trip from NYC and it was a very wnoderful, interesting, exciting trip! I’ll post some of those photos soon. But as much as I love traveling, it’s becoming harder and harder to enjoy traveling when TSA makes it harder and harder to get through security. I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually one day everyone has to go to the airport in their underwear, and in their underwear only. That might be easier than waiting in line to strip down and put it into plastic tubs just to put it back on again after you wait till everyone in front of you does the same. Bleh. Today, TSA pulled me aside to do a ‘random’ search, which only made my traveling experience less fun.
Anyway, this is Patty and Randy, they’re a happily (and sorta newly) married couple. In case you can’t tell, Randy’s in the Air Force which is why I shot him with jets, airplanes, and hangars in the background. I loved this shoot! This is some of my best work yet, I had a great looking couple in front of aircraft. Uber awesome.
Today I had a mens underwear shoot for Tumbler and Tipsy. And my photo is already up on the website. I am very excited! I will post more photos when more of them are up.
Thank you very much Lien!
This is Patty and Randy Mullen! I’ll write about them in part 2, because I’m very tired right now.
