DannyStudio Blog http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog Welcome to my new blog Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:40:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 the Valentine’s day engagement photo session | Emily & Evan | Santa Barbara, CA http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2859 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2859#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:40:26 +0000 admin http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2859 We have been looking forward to the Valentine’s day engagement photo session for Emily & Evan for a long time. It’s our first time to shoot an engagement photo session at the beautiful Santa Barbara. Emily & Evan both went to UC Santa Barbara for school, so the engagement session in Santa Barbara will be very sweet for them. We originally planned to spend the whole weekend there, but we got a short-notice wedding booking. So it’s just a one day tour in Santa Barbara. Working with Emily & Evan is awesome. They are so photogenic and so easy to work with. And when we got to the beach, it’s the right sunset time. We love the photos and very looking forward to their wedding in September.

]]> http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2859 the Bridges Golf Club Wedding | Ying & Ning | San Ramon, CA http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2854 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2854#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:38:22 +0000 admin http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2854 This is the first wedding in 2011 for us, and we had a great time with Ying & Ning’s family and close friends. It’s an intimate wedding but very cozy. It’s great that both Ying & Ning’s parents came from China for this beautiful wedding. Ying & Ning knew each other since their college school at Peking University. Then Ying went to University of Michigan and Ning went to Carnegie Mellon. After many years of long distance, they were finally able to be together forever and form a family. We were really happy for them.

]]> http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2854 Christchurch - Fox Glacier - Queenstown | Danny & Julia’s trip to New Zealand | Part 4 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2849 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2849#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:35:47 +0000 admin http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2849 The scenic view in New Zealand is peaceful but speechless. The helicopter snowlanding experience in Fox Glacier is one of the most unforgettable experience we have. We first arrived at the town of Fox Glacier on Dec 25, and scheduled the flight on 11 AM. But when we checked in at 10 AM, the weather changed and the Helicopter couldn’t land on the snow mountain. We were so disappointed and sad at that moment. 4 days later, after back from Queenstown, we scheduled to try it again. We were nervously waiting for check in and no one can tell for sure if the weather allows the landing at all. Even until we already sat inside the helicopter, we couldn’t believe that this time we can fly up to the glacier.

]]> http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2849 From Great Barrier Reef to Sydney | Danny & Julia’s trip to Australia | Part 3 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2805 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2805#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:37:06 +0000 admin http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2805 We have spent 4 days in Cairns, the town which is the access to the Great Barrier Reef. It’s hot and humid there, so we had to get on cruise to get out of the town everyday. It’s nice and beautiful, and we got sunburn. On the way back, we stayed in Sydney. Sydney has the amazing night view in the harbor. It’s the last night of the whole 3 weeks trip, so we decided to treat ourselves really well for a great dinner. We picked “Yuki’s”, a Japanese cuisine restaurant on the top floor of the Harbor terminal building with best view of the Opera house. The food is amazing. The whole dinner took us about 3 hours to finish. And it can compete with any French cuisine. That’s the first time that we got so full in Japanese cuisine restaurant.

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]]> http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2805 Trash the Dress Photo Session | Cindy & Kai | Santa Cruz, CA http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2783 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2783#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:22:31 +0000 admin http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2783 It was extremely fun to have this trash-the-dress photo session for Cindy & Kai. We have shot the engagement photo session and covered their beautiful wedding in palm even center last year, so by the time for this trash-the-dress session, we were already friends and they knew us really well. So the entire session has been so smooth and relaxed. We don’t need to pose them at all, as they were already very skilled at that. It was freezing in the water for the TTD session, but all of us got so excited and just jumped in. That’s also the fun part for trash-the-dress, isn’t it?

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]]> http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2783 On the Road from Christchurch to Queenstown | Danny & Julia’s trip to New Zealand | Part 1 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2740 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2740#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:13:47 +0000 admin http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2740 The trip to New Zealand was amazing. Not to mention the gorgeous Fox Glacier, all the scenic view on the road is so peaceful. Driving in New Zealand is a great experience. Yes, it’s challenging to me and people driving in US, because you need to drive on left hand side. So I always got confused on left turn and right turns. Also, the road in New Zealand is so narrow. But great thing is, there is no many cars in New Zealand. Even the free way has just one lane in each side. When we drove from Christchurch to Queenstown, we just stoped again and again to take photos, all the views are just on the road.

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]]> http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2740 San Francisco Engagement & Pre-wedding Portrait | Ying & Ning | Jan, 2011 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2725 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2725#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:43:40 +0000 admin http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2725 This is our first Engagement portrait session in year 2011. After the long vocation in New Zealand and Australia, it’s really hard to back to working mood. Thanks Ying & Ning for being so patient and so easy to work together. We feel like just having fun together in San Francisco. And thanks for their New Year gift, we love Chocolate. In the end of the photo session, all of us got scared, because we couldn’t find Ying & Ning’s hang bag. And all the car keys are inside that bag. Thanks god and lucky enough, we got the bag in the lost and found office of union square. Although scared for a while, it’s a very happy ending. So next time, never leave car keys in the hand bag when doing photo session. We are looking forward to Ying & Ning’s wedding. Coming soon in February, next month.

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]]> http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2725 the Great Ocean Road | Danny & Julia’s Trip to Australia | Part 1 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2721 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2721#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:29:25 +0000 admin http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2721 We stayed in Melbourne for 4 days, and one big attraction to us is the Great Ocean Road, which is a 4-hour ocean scenic drive. But if you’d like to stop at each town to take photos like us, it will take you 2 days. We spent 1 day driving from Melbourne to Warmambool, the town in the end of the Great Ocean Road. We had great fun stopping by each of the 12 Apostles. Each of them is very unique.
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]]> http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2721 Back from New Zealand & Australia | Danny & Julia | Vocation trip photo sneak peek http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2671 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2671#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:01:40 +0000 admin http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2671 We are back!!! Happy New Year to everyone. We finally came back from a 3-week vocation trip to New Zealand & Australia. We had a blast and it’s an amazing trip. We had so many funny stories to share for this trip, but don’t know where to start. Just post a few shots from the trip for sneak peek, a lot more photos will come out later:

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]]> http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2671 Lost in Vegas | Danny & Julia | Encore Wynn Las Vegas http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2629 http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2629#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:11:35 +0000 admin http://dannyphotostudio.com/blog/?p=2629 This is our thanksgiving vocation trip to L.A & Vegas. It’s a complete relaxing trip. As a habit, I still brought a camera with us, but no plan to shoot anything at all. But when we got into the Encore Wynn hotel suite room with this amazing strip view, I cannot help taking the camera out, and Julia started doing makeup for herself:

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