spring fever

a highway near the hotel i stayed at

street vendors

ice skaters at lloyd center

looking out of a coffee shop window in pearl district

 autumn and her mum, victoria

trying to find our way around

 getting back and finding seattle like this, beautiful

 sakura

 roses from a shoot

 denny building. me trying my new 35mm 1.4 lens out.

 sometimes the sky outside my window looks like this

 matt cooking dinner

the forest next to his home

traveling to vancouver, british columbia

my grandpa, 88 years old

the street next to their apartment. the light always shines so brightly over there, it's such a contrast to seattle.

 playing lion king sing-a-long in one of the disney stores

 my grandma

grandpa to the left, grandma to the right. taking me to the bus station back to seattle.

 the quad when i got back to campus. it's pretty crazy how fast sakura bloom, i think it took probably less than a week..

me and matt's dinners. so healthy it's actually ridiculous.

and now i'm back to school! had my first day of classes today. i'm actually looking forward to this quarter a lot actually. better weather so i can run more, brighter skies so it's easier to shoot outside. etc, etc :)

stranger

the boy pictured is nicholas strobelt
i scouted him last year in my psychology 101 class. he is a photographer himself- check here
^click the link, he takes beautiful pictures

february

and so another weekend passes. it's late sunday night and i am sitting with my textbook open to a chapter on freud and his theories on the mind (for those of you who don't know, i'm a psychology major). it's been strangely beautiful the past few days- where is the seattle rain? the cold? but i'm not complaining at all. i've managed to fit in two shoots the past two days, and better yet, i'm actually proud of the photos i took! hopefully i'll get them edited soon.

selfs with photobooth (taken while listening to hans zimmer. one of the coolest composers ever)

it's crazy watching time fly by the past few months. the total opposite of last year- not that my first year in college was bad, but that looking back, it feels like i've just had more time to do recreational things last year. sophomore year is so much more busy than i would have thought. school takes up a lot of time and photography and spending time with friends takes up the rest. but that's okay, because i signed up for this. i think you should never complain if you were the one who chose what you have (bad schedule, bad relationships, etc so on and so forth)

anyways, enough time spent rambling! gotta get back to my homework. cheers everyone x

a magma sunset

luminescence

a collaboration with photographer andrew parsons
model : chloe @ SMG
makeup : jamyrlyn wright

storm upon the shore

major props to both the model and the makeup artist. it was SUCH a cold day haha. also, a huge thank you to elizabeth (emily's mum) who ferried us between locations and starbucks :)

hopefully i'll be able to edit the photos from winter break (though i'm still shooting them so maybe not for a few weeks), there are so many amazing memories that i want to share! i just landed in california yesterday night. from honolulu. my parents decided to buy a house in irvine so that's where we (me, my brother, aunt and uncle, and cousin) are staying right now. it's a little sad though, i thought my mum and sister would be here but they're not- oh well. family reunion another time i guess.

have to go christmas shopping today! i need to stop slacking haha....