SF Cityscape Part III

For fun, I snapped a random picture of the city's downtown buildings while I was driving through town one day and was stopped at a red light. I believe this is the corner of O'farrell and Market Street. Pretty cool eh?

Happy Chinese New Year of the Ox!

This is a particularly special year for Randy and I, because to those of you who don't already know, we are expecting our first baby :) To make it even more special on this day of Chinese New Year, we had our second official ultrasound and we were told we're having a boy!

In this 3D ultrasound photo, our baby may look like a little alien, but he's one cute alien to us!

SF Cityscape Part II

My weekly Friday SF Cityscape posting continues with a picture of Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach (thanks for the correction from a blog reader). This photography project mainly started when my good friend Robyn asked me to take black and white pictures of famous San Francisco landmarks so she could decorate her home with these photos. I thought, what a wonderful idea! So stay tuned for SF Cityscape Part III next Friday :)

Baby Dylan

Meet 4 month old baby Dylan! I spent a morning and afternoon with this little cutie and she was the most mellow and content baby!

Celebrating History with Barack Obama!

(picture found on Google search)

"Our stories are singular, but our destinies are shared..."

Today we live in history as Barack Obama celebrates his inaugeration! GOOO Obama!

Happy Martin Luther King Day!

(picture taken from Google search)

I have a dream too....what's yours?

SF Cityscape Part I

TGIF! For the next consecutive fridays, I thought I'd post a picture of San Francisco's famous landmarks for all to see! For those of you who have never visited this beautiful city, this will be a chance to marvel at the architecture and landmarks that SF has to offer, and for me to practice my hand at landscape photography! Stayed tuned each friday :)

The above picture is the famous Coit Tower in North Beach, it over looks the San Francisco waterfront.

E-session: Sarah + Mark

Over the weekend I met up with my young and vibrant couple, Sarah and Mark. These two are super sweet, loads of fun and really easy going! Even though it was my second time meeting them, it felt like we were long time friends! Thanks for a wonderful shoot, Randy and I look forward to photographing your wedding next month! For their engagement session, they decided to go to AT&T Park, where they spend a lot of time together watching the SF Giants :)













Mark looks handsome in this solo picture of him :)


Next, we went to the Palace of Fine Arts to catch the warm light and sunset


I love my sun flares!

Bridal Shoot

You might remember my really good friend Robyn, who recently had her wedding in Las Vegas last year. When her wedding gown goes for cleaning and preservation, it will be sealed in a box and treasured forever until her kids will ask to see it one day :) So, she agreed to wear her gown one last time and we did a little bridal session! Here are a few my favorites, I hope you'll like them!

New 2009 Banner

To ring in the new year, I decided to create a new banner for my blog! Tell me what you think!

Last Blog Post for 2008!

This year whizzed by amazingly fast! As most of my blog followers know, I started my journey in photography exactly 2 years ago when I picked up my first dslr. I can't thank my friends/clients enough for trusting me and giving me the opportunity to document such a special moment in your life. What touches me the most is that YOU believed in me, and have allowed me to grow as a professional photographer in such little time. 2008 marked the beginning of my photography business, and I can't wait to see what 2009 will hold!

I wish everyone has a safe and Happy New Year, and enjoy your last day in 2008!

Love,
Cathy

White Winter

Here are a couple photos that I snapped while we were in Vancouver for Christmas. Talk about snow! It's probably been more than 10+ years since we had so much white goodness in the 604!

This is my parent's house, aaaahh it's so good to be home :)


A car parked in my neighbor's driveway...

Merry Christmas Everyone!

This year is a very special Christmas because Randy and I are in Vancouver right now to celebrate with our family and friends :) What makes it even more special is that we have a white Christmas with about one feet of snow! We'll be back in San Francisco on December 29th!

Have a happy and safe holiday everyone!

Italy Trip: Venice, Florence, Rome

EARLY this morning, Randy and I arrived safely back to SF. It took nearly 11.5 hours for us to travel from Rome with a 6 hour lay over in Atlanta, Georgia. And then another 6 hour flight from Atlanta back to SFO. Do the math, and that was a LONG day of travelling! Here are some tidbits of our trip, I'm not very good at landscape photography, so here's my shot at it---I hope you enjoy them!

Our first stop was in Venice. It rained heavily there for the past weeks, with major flooding in the city. Randy and I even purchased authentic Italian gum boots to fit in with the Venetian style :)





Venice was exactly what I imagined it to be, a very old city with a lot of history behind it. Many of the buildings looked run down and abandoned like the picture here.








The next city we went to was Florence, I just fell in love with this city because it felt so romantic there. Here is a picture at Piazza Del Duomo, it is such a magnificent sight because of its pure size and grandness.


Here is another picture of the Duomo


I love creating those starburst flares :)






At the famous Ponte Vecchio bridge


Next, we took a short train ride to see the leaning tower of Pisa.




It was funny to see all the tourists doing this, so we had to come up with something funny ourselves :)




The last city we visited was Rome. We did soooo much walking throughout the entire trip that I was in tears on the last day because my feet were hurting so bad!



Can you take a guess where this is? Yep, the Colliseum








Randy and I stayed until it was dark so I could take a night picture of the Colliseum. It was worth the wait!


Rome is a large and major city, so I was happy when we were able to take the train to the different areas :)


The next day, we went to the Vatican City and also saw the Sistine Chapel. The buildings and artwork were simply breathtaking and amazing.



Here I am feeding the pigeons :)