Engagement Party of Season & Eric

Many sleepless nights after here it is
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I met Season in 2004 as she was helping her sister Courtney's wedding.
So I was thrilled to get an e-mail from Season.
Let me tell you little more about this extraordinary family.
I meet many families through my job, but this family is just so much fun and loving.
Both mother's helped with the decoration & set up.
I love talking to parents of bride and groom to be. They usually tell me lovely stories about their children. I felt so loved and cared at this party!! These mothers made sure that I was fed and Corky even gave me a bottle of her homemade drink for me to take home.
I saw Season's dad in the kitchen right before the party cutting bread for everyone.
Mike arrived with their four well dressed children all by himself. (Courtney had to come early to help) Can I say that men in this family Rock!

Season's friend who is a great event coordinator sent the crew to help.
Music by Spanish Touch Entertainment

This trio played great music!
Thank you Miguel Rivera for allowing me to use his music to this slideshow.

Your music is so beautiful. I've been listening as I was working on this job in my office.

. Eric hired Victor Migenes of 2nd Street Cigar & Gallery in Los Angeles who brought cigar roller. Nice unique touch Eric! Everyone loved it even ladies! Thank you Victor for taking time to model for me. We will definitely be in touch!

e-session with Season & Eric

First of all, Sonny I am so sorry that I could not put up a slide show that I promised you today, but here is something that you would enjoy! There will be more. Thank you for your kind understanding. I've had total 6hours of sleep this weekend and worked 24 hours so far! now I am off to shoot more~~~

And to all the wonderful guests at S&E's engagement party, I've never seen so many gorgeous & nice people at one place. Hope you enjoyed the party as much as I did. Please check back later this week for complete preview.

My Beautiful Couple Season & Eric
Can't wait to photograph their wedding in 2008! Possibly in Spain!
Here are few of my favorites from their engagement session & the party.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0

Today... I did it!!! I did it!!!
I opened my red coach wallet then took my VISA card out
and bought Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0!
I just download it off the web because they are offering promotional price of $199 until April 30,2007. Yes, you stil have few more days. You better hurry.
I've never thoght that I will get so excited over a new software! But this is really cool program just like Photoshop. I am in love with my PhotoshopCS2 and Lightroom definitely helps me to save my time infront of the computer. I love working on photoshop and I am very comfortable with it, but I only have limited hours each day so I'd rather take some more photos than to sit infront of the computer all day long. Plus, I prefer not to apply too much Photoshop effect to my images, so Lightroom is perfect for me.

Normally, I would hesitate to buy first generation product,but I already know that this is a great product and I have some sentimental value with this first generation Lightroom.

Last year, I was chosen to participate in Colin Finlay's workshop that I adobe sponsered. In addtion to spending whole day with Colin Finlay. I also met Julianne Kost for the first time in Person! She is so patient and awesome, she stayed extra hours editing our work and going over key features of Ligthroom. I probably don't need to tell you that she is the goddes of Photoshop.
Jennifer Stern,Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe is also such a sweet and down to earth person who fits so into her position and to this project that adobe is sponsering with emerging photographers. I am so glad that I got to know her little bit in person as well.

You can go to Project: Photoshop Lightroom website to see and inspire by emerging photographer's work. You can also see my work at Santa Monica College Gallery. I went to big university, but Santa Monica college is where I found my passion.

My friends ask me all the time whether I am still in school. My answer is that I will always be in school. People may say that I am afraid of the real world. That's not true at all. I make time to attend classes and workshops because I want to stay inspire. I can't wait to share more of my personal work with you all!