I am so grateful to have grown up within a Taiwanese American community that has not only nurtured my own creativity but also connected me to many fellow creatives who have charted their own unique paths in the world. This summer, several friends joined forces to start working on an ambitious documentary project: Life Lessons…
What an incredible miracle it is that Baby S is now here with us in the world, working her way from someone who didn’t even exist a year ago into whomever she’s going to become one day. And what a joy it is to get to meet her and to see my two good friends…
What a joy it is to document my dear friends Dan and Jeri as they journey into this next chapter of their lives! We embraced that warm South Bay sunshine for this magical session in the rolling hills of San Jose. I can’t wait to meet baby girl, and you can bet there will be…
I still don’t know what kind of a crazy time warp we all stepped into in 2020, but I am still a bit bewildered, trying to step out on the other side. The Lynch family was one of the last photo sessions I photographed before we all went into lockdown in March, 2020, and now…
After a very fun sangeet, Neera and Jeff had their wedding ceremony at the San Jose Gurdwara, which is the largest Sikh temple outside of India. Neera got ready in her family home, while Jeff got ready at a nearby hotel. I love the parallel preparations they were having, apart but together in spirit. For…
Jeri and Dan were originally planning for a big wedding in 2020, but of course, things shifted a little bit. They decided to move the big party to 2021 and were still able to have a wedding on the original date– just smaller. But as life continued on, and with them buying a new house,…
This was such a sweet way to wrap up a very strange year. Christina and Kelvin decided to go for their personal trifecta in 2020: get engaged, buy their first house, and get married! All amidst a pandemic. On New Year’s Eve, just under the wire, we met in the back yard of their new…
It was such a joy and a privilege to meet up with the Lynch family to photograph them for the third time. It’s especially fun to look back on the first session and see how much the boys have grown in four years. Now the eldest is getting ready to go off to college! See…
June was filled with so many adventures that I’m splitting it up into a handful of posts. Today, I’m sharing three of the history-related sites I got to visit as part of my 100 Bay Area Gems: Mission San Jose, Bale Grist Mill, and History Park San Jose. Here are the paintings I painted of…
There has been a trend of grey wedding albums this year! And we’re continuing it with this lovely book I’m sharing today: Cindy and Jon’s album, with a grey silk cover and their names debossed on the front. They opted for the 8×8″ size, with 40 pages to show off their beautiful photographs inside. Take…
Cindy and Jon technically met in the second grade, as classmates and loose family friends in Katy, Texas. But they weren’t all that close, and both their families eventually moved away from Texas. It wasn’t until college that they reconnected through a mutual friend. And then, though Jon was attending the University of Michigan and Cindy…
It was a great treat to photograph the whole Ng family, with half of them visiting from Singapore in honor of the littlest one’s first birthday. We had tons of fun with the six grownups wrangling four rambunctious little ones. See some of my favorite snaps below! Anna Wu is a wedding and…