I had the pleasure of covering Glen and Charissa's cliffside engagement in Dana Point. It wasn't just a beautiful proposal by Glen, but a full-on celebration put on by friends and family. The setup took many hours and many hands to complete, but here's the awesome result!

Spectacular natural and artificial light session at USC. Here's a post featuring a graduation portrait session at USC with Ryan!

Being an automotive fan, I've wanted to do a car shoot for quite a while, but never really got around to it until now.

Even though the world can be confusing, don't close yourself off from new ideas. Otherwise, you will never know the amazing things that can come from putting yourself out there. Photos from Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and words from my own experiences.

A themed shoot that incorporates lighting techniques to create the atmosphere of a dark and modern fantasy.

Here's a little preview from shoot I did this morning with Nicole and her awesome group of friends! We had to get up way before the sun did, but the amazing morning light we got was worth it a hundred times over.

Remember how in the land of fairy tales, if you wanted to propose to your girlfriend, you'd get an elaborate lush forest background with big mushroom steps and a snowy owl to make a fly-by with a great banner proclaiming the message "Will you marry me"? Well, this was basically the modern version of that.

Here was one of my later sessions for 2016 with Becky and Chengye. I met Becky through Bruinlife, the school yearbook organization, and the Photography Club at UCLA.

Congrats again to these two! Shot with this photogenic, fun-loving, bird-chasing and now married couple once more for an engagement session at the beach!

I had an amazing time shooting Ben and Marissa's wedding this weekend at the Portofino Hotel and American Martyrs Church. It was a super long day, but as a result, I got to experience many wonderful moments, such as the genuinity of the couple's love for each other and for their families and friends.

In that spirit of something awesome about to happen this weekend, I'll post an awesome engagement session that I did last year that I haven't yet shared. Jazmin and Thomas were an absolute joy to work with, and the location, Walt Disney Concert Hall, was just perfect as always.

Here's a highlight with the super fun couple Mickeala and Kevin! Since Berkeley is on the semester system and finishes the year earlier, Kevin was able to come down to come up with hilarious jokes to use on photo shoots with Mickeala. I very much appreciated the energy and spirit that they brought to the shoot, and we definitely got some awesome shots to show for it!

I always love to explore new places, and this excitement has only increased ever since I became a photographer. I got one great opportunity to do so when I was approached by Breanainn to shoot at O'Melveny park in Granada Hills.

A grad session with Dennis, one of the most energetic kids I knew back from middle school who has since developed a great passion for medicine.

A grad highlight from a shoot last week with Olivia and her friends. As a photographer, nothing often beats a portrait session done well in how rewarding it is.

Tegan, a CSULA grad, contacted me for a session, but we decided to shoot at UCLA, so I thought this was an exciting opportunity to do something new: how to make our campus not look like campus. 

In the spirit of always wanting to try new things, I was very excited when my friend Sonny invited me to USC for a portrait session. Check out some of the awesome shots we got!

A graduation portrait session with atmospheric and glowing natural light.

When I first met them together, they were at the campus rooftop observatory, testing out the telescope they made together on the night of a lunar eclipse. To memorialize that, we decided to shoot at that same rooftop for part of our session. 

Creative senior portrait session for an engineer couple at UCLA

A concept shoot related to letters and memories, followed by a portrait session with the current cast of the UCLA Chinese American Culture Night.

Here is a graduation portrait session I did this weekend with Justin, a 4th year Economics major who has a passion for taiko, Japanese drumming.

It's named as the valley of death, yet thousands of individuals come to see the desert filled with vibrant life. This rare event, known as a super bloom, is a product of the heavy storms that happened later last year. A portrait session among the flowers and the stars.

First post with Squarespace! Here's my first graduation portrait session of the year at UCLA with Kristie and her awesome group of friends.