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A Ballerina and Blossoms

When I was 6, my mom enrolled me in an after school ballet class. Because my mom had signed me up for the class later in the semester, all of my mates were already pretty advanced in ballet. I dreaded going to the class not only because I had to wear a different outfit (black leotard and red ballet shoes) than everyone else (blush leotard, white tights, and blush ballet shoes), but I also hated being the only one who had to do more basic stretches on the barre all by myself while all of my friends were rehearsing for a dance. Before I got a chance to perform, my ballet teacher got married and quit teaching ballet. So that was the end of my ballet career.

Even so, I’ve always hold a special place in my heart for ballet. I go to ballet recitals to watch people do what I deem the humanly impossible and I collect images of ballerinas on Pinterest. For me ballet is the epitome of grace, elegance, and poise. These are all the qualities I hope I possess.

When I asked a friend of mine if she’d know anyone who would be interested in doing a ballet photo shoot, she told me about Karin. It was so fun to work with Karin because she was such a easy-going and skilled ballerina. Her postures were graceful, which was what I wanted to evoke in my pictures. I am so happy with all of the pictures and I hope you like them too!

Baby rolled over!

My son turned 6 months about two weeks ago. For the longest time I have wanted to take some pictures of him in action, especially of him rolling over. When he first rolled over I missed it because I was in bed and my husband was watching and playing with him in the living room. We were in Vegas for our little weekend getaway last week and I noticed he loved to roll around on the soft, king bed in the hotel room. He would rub his face against the sheet over and over, and he’d roll from his stomach to his back (which he never does at home!) and from his back to his stomach over and over again. It was so fun watching him enjoying himself.

I took advantage of this opportunity and snapped a few pictures of him while he rolled from his back to his stomach. I actually had my husband put him on his back (which he dislikes) and he’d immediately roll over. It took me about three times to get these photos. The lighting was not great because the hotel room windows were tinted and all the lights in the room were orange. But I am pretty satisfy with this series of pictures. My baby was the reason I first got into photography and I am glad that I get to capture some of the milestone moments of his life.

The Churches

When I was about 8 months pregnant, I got a message on Facebook from Becky. She was hoping that I could photograph her family before her eldest son leaves for his mission for the LDS church. Of course I said yes! I’ve always loved the Chruches and I love that they are my returning clients. Also, it was a special family photo shoot for them because they won’t be seeing Braden for 2 years until he returns.

Finally blogged!

So, this is really embarrassing, it seems that I have “abandoned” my photography website (it is STILL under constructions) and blog. I haven’t posted anything here in more than a year! I did not intent to ignore my blog, but as cliche as it may sound, life happened. As in, I got pregnant and had a baby. Life just got stupendously busy and crazy after I found out I was pregnant, and that I still had a year or so left to finish my MA thesis. To be honest, photography was not in my priority list in the past year. I wasn’t very good at multi-tasking. I just could not do being a mother, going to school full time, working part time, and being a photographer all at the same time. Unfortunately, I had to set photography aside for a while.

Even so, I still did a couple of shoots for some friends and clients last year. I have been meaning to blog about their sessions, but every time I sat in front of my computer to try to blog, I could not help but feel really embarrassed that my blog and my site is not all the way done yet. See, I was afraid that when potential clients somehow stumbled upon my blog, they would be turned off by how incomplete my blog was. If you are a potential client, please know that I am truly working on finish building my site and blog and I am hoping to get them all the way done in April. At the mean time, if you have any inquiries, you can reach me by using the form in the contact me page on this blog.

A little update about my life over the past year. I gave birth to a sweet baby boy in September of 2012. He is already 5 months old and he is truly my pride and joy. I will post some pictures of him here real soon. Apart from having a baby, I also finished my MA thesis. It had been the biggest stress in my life for the past year. I am so glad it is finally done! Now I’ll just have to defend it and graduate. 2012 was a year of anticipating the coming of the baby, working frantically on my thesis for months, and learning how to be a mother. It definitely was a great and eventful year for me.

As for my photography, ever since the baby arrived, he’s been the main subject in the photos I took. This year, I hope to shoot more photo sessions of people other than my own baby. If you are interested, I am you girl!

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I know this is really late (like a year late!), but I still want to blog about this engagement session of Karen and Judner. Karen modeled for me once and it was fun to photograph her again. Karen is from Mexico, and Judner, Haiti. They met in college here in Utah. Together, they made a cute couple. The photos were taken in March, which was probably the coldest month here in Utah. I’m so glad they still looked stunning in the pictures despite literally shaking their tails off.