Donny and Thu | Trash The Dress
Donny and Thu are really good friends of ours. I’ve actually known Donny my entire life. We’ve been like brothers for the longest time and were even each others best men at our weddings so Chau and I were very excited when they asked us to trash Thu’s dress. Thu likes field shots so we decided to head over to Half Moon Bay for some field shots by the beach and maybe try to sneak in an ocean sunset shot or two. I especially was excited to shoot in some mustard fields.
Rain of Fire | Light Painting
One of my good friends Jon and I have always talked about going to each other’s houses to practice photo techniques. This past Friday we decided to finally make it happen and practice some light painting. Jon’s been into light painting for a while so he has an assortment of lights to use. We decided to just practice the techniques in his backyard so later we can bring them to more exotic locations. Chau and I came over armed with our camera, flashes, and sparklers for a fun filled night with Jon and his wife Kelly.
Chau’s dress… retrashed
This shoot is part of our effort to get our butts out of the house and take some pictures. We had already trashed Chau's dress in Mexico with our fabulous photographers Sol Tamargo and Matt Adcock of Del Sol Photography so we figured since the dress had already been trashed why don't we just trash it again =]. However I'm not satisfied that we trashed Chau's dress enough (we didn't get her wet) so we might go out again sometime in the near future. We've been on a mission lately to try to find places for shoots away from the obvious spots.
Anh at the ranch
Ok so there’s no pictures of a ranch but to the best of my knowledge we did this shoot at one =]. We randomly found this place driving around while looking for a semi wide open green area with tall grasses. We basically wanted the shire is what we told ourselves. This setting we found at the end of a road with the gate open. We ignored the signs and walked on in and randomly found another photographer doing a shoot there as well who informed us we were at a ranch. It was perfect and was exactly what we were looking for!
We’re Married!
Over March Chau and I finally got married! We had our wedding in beautiful Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. The way we chose Playa Del Carmen as our destination was a little reckless however. We had never been to Playa so we completely went into this blindly. We decided to do a destination wedding after looking at a few places around the Bay Area and not being satisfied with any venues that could hold a large crowd. Coming from Vietnamese families our guest list was getting out of hand and we quickly realized if we had our wedding in the Bay we wouldn’t be able to do it how we wanted.