Alright guys, here’s the long awaited the most outrageous eSession I’ve ever had!  I have to say at the end of the day, it was worth almost getting arrested, the longest eSession (8 hrs!) I’ve ever had, and a bunch of miscommunication and obstacles we had that day. 

I absolutely love the photos we got that day.  Hope you guys will like it too.    Enjoy!

Remember my previous post about the crazy engagement session that I had when I almost got arrested at the port of Long Beach???

Well, these are the long awaited photos from that outrageous eSession!  It’s just a little teaser for now.  I’ll post the entire slide show soon.  Enjoy!

Yup, this is where we got in trouble….

I love this photo!!!

And this one, too!

Took these underneath a freeway

We had some fun dancing in the truck trailer.

I love how grainy this photo looks.

Yummy!

Mmmm…nice and peaceful.  This is a new color palette for me, just experimenting with something different.  
More to come!

Nora and Ryan, thank you guys so much for giving me the privilege to be part of your big day.  I had so much fun with you guys.  I loved the chemistry you guys have with each other, and Nora’s wonderful laugh through out the whole day, especially during the ceremony! 

Thank you for sharing your joy with me.

Uhh….this last picture, I’m not sure what happened here.  It looks like Nora is trying to kill Ryan with her cake spatula.  Haha, I thought it’s hilarious and decided to post it. 

Thanks to my sister who took this photo with her camera phone.  This is my favorite photo right now.  Sigh…I miss Marcus sooooooo much! 

This cute little baby is Marcus, my cousin’s baby.  He has absolutely been my delight this past year.  We had so much fun together.  I miss laughing with him.  I have to say that I have successfully established myself as his favorite, fun aunty this past year!  Hahaha.  Mission accomplished.    Every time he sees me he just starts to crack up.  His laugh makes me so happy and I just love seeing him so happy. 

Too bad he just moved to New York permanently on Saturday.  Sigh….no more trips down to SD just cuz I miss playing with him.  No more rubbing my nose against his sweaty little nose and laughing together.  No more swinging him around.  No more visits to the park.  No more swimming and kicking the water together.  Sigh…..I’m sooooooo sad that he’s not here anymore!  Of course, I can always visit him in NYC, but I’m sooo missing out on his growing up!  Especially now!  He’s changing by the second, every week is something different with him.  One week he’s barely crawing, the next week he’s crawling all over the place, and the next week he’s climbing up the stairs by himself.  I honestly don’t know how divorce parents part from their children.  I mean, it’s sooo hard!  Marcus is not even my own child, and I’ve already been crying quite a bit since Saturday cuz I miss him so much. 

AHHHH!!!  I just miss holding him and make him laugh.  I just miss playing with him.  I hope he won’t forget who I am when I do get to visit in the future. 

Bye bye baby.  I miss you so much and I promise I’ll visit and we’ll go play in Central Park.    I love you so much little dude.  I’m so thankful that I got to play with you this past year and have the privilege of being your aunty (well….technically, first cousin once removed).  Don’t let that universal amnesia affect you and make sure you remember me when I visit okay?!  Or else, I’ll be very sad.    Here’s a big hug for you!  Sleep tight my little one. 

Thank you guys for sharing your special day with me.  I had so much fun with you two and I will never forget what happened while Danielle walked down the aisle! 

Alright folks, let me try this again.  This time with captions too! 

Danielle getting ready….

Some detail shots!

The gorgeous dress

The diva shoes

The flowers

And of course the rings

My favorite portraiture time!

Sexy ladies

The gents

Now the lovey-dovey stuff… 

The gorgeous Kimberly Crest Mansion

The reception

The cake

The boutonniere

Let’s get the party started!

I absolutely loooove this abstract shot during the reception dance

My favorite shot of them dancing

It was a beautiful day indeed…

I really love this photo.  I love the action and color in it.  Look at her crazy dress!  So pretty!

Okay, so I totally resized the following photos wrong, I’ll resize them again tomorrow, but for now…a few detail shots.

First dance…..

Another getting ready shot….

Finally, one portraiture

I noticed that my pastor needed reading glasses today.  I think this is my first time seeing him using reading glasses while he read a passage from the Bible. 

He’s a 5’7″ Japanese American guy who’s really hip and edgy.  He’s often known as the artsy pastor, someone who listens to rock music, knows all the latest in thing…etc.  But today, as the stage light fell on him, outlining his slightly bent over body frame, his scruffy beard, and him holding his reading glasses reading out of the Bible to us, I all of the sudden realized that he’s aged over the years. 

I took another look at him as he continued reading from the Bible.  Maybe it’s the combination of his scruffy beard and his reading glasses, or maybe it’s the light that outlined his bent over posture because he was reading…something about that picture made me realize that this is the guy that I grew up with.  It’s been 10 years since I’ve known him, it’s been 9 long years of journeying together as a community.  And we’ve all grown up and aged.  It kind of felt like the moment when you realize that your dad’s getting older.  It’s that same feeling.  Of course, I didn’t technically grew up with my pastor, cuz I’ve only known him for 10 years.   But I think in some ways, yes I have grown up with him because he is the man who first said one of the most revolutionary phrase to me when I in a rut about my family problems.  He told me, “Ingrid, there’s no such thing as a good Christian, but there is such a thing as a real Christian.”  I was dumb founded when I first heard that because I’ve never heard of such concept before. 

It’s been 10 years since I followed him, his teaching.  In the past 10 years, much of my inner child got healing and grew up.  He played such a huge part in that, directly and indirectly. 

Sigh…time flies, we’re all getting older.  Seeing the kids in our congregation grow taller each year made me become more aware of how I’m getting older too.  Haha.  Sigh….anyway, just had one of those moments today. 

I love my pastor and the community that I’m in.  Thank you God for the amazing community that you have blessed me with.  I can’t tell You how thankful I am.  I love doing life with this group of people.  I love the values we have.  I love being where I’m at.  Thank you God.

Oh my gosh!  You seriously won’t believe this.  I had the most outrageous eSession ever!  It’s actually quite hilarious and just a great story that I can tell now that it’s over. 

The day started with my wonderful clients’ car breaking down right when we met up.  So they had to call the towing company to tow the poor baby.  Because of this delay, we had to change our shooting location.
So we thought fast and decided to go to the Queen Mary in Long Beach.

We drove there and found out that it’s way too expensive to shoot there because we had to buy tickets to get in.  So forget that…we saw all these cargo by the port, so we thought it’d be a great idea to shoot there.  So head on over there and started shooting.  2 hours into the shoot, this security guy walked in and asked us if we had permission to shoot here.  We said no, we didn’t know we needed permission.  And it’s not just the security guy okay…he brought cops with him.  I mean cops with guns!!!  They asked for our ID and took our picture with their cell phones.  The cop was totally yelling at us and calling me stupid.  Cops are mean.  Boo them!  Of course we apologized profusely and said we didn’t know.  But he said that he has to talk to the police office or something like that.  So he goes and comes back and said that he shouldn’t have called us stupid.  At least he apologized.  Then he goes on telling us that if we had done the shoot at night, then we would have been hand cuffed and arrested right away…He eventually let us go. 

Then we decided to go back to Fullerton to finish the rest of the shoot.  Just to add on to the day, my clients cell phones died on the way there, so I couldn’t contact them to meet up.  I finally got through to them after they stopped to get a cell phone charger, which delayed our shoot again.  I told them to meet me at Starbucks at a particular intersection, they said okay.  I waited, they called to tell me that they’re at Starbucks, but they don’t see me.  Of course, as if our day isn’t filled with obstacles yet….they for whatever reason went to the wrong Starbucks.  Sigh…at this point, I’m just busting up inside, seriously what else could go wrong?! 

We finally meet up and my clients tell me that their car tire is totally cracking!  He was not joking.  Not only it’s cracking, it’s actually missing a big chunk of rubber!!!  That tire can explode anytime!  Man….

So we finally started to shoot again, but somehow my off camera flash wouldn’t work correctly!  Oh my gosh, seriously, this is just way too much!  Hahaha.  Man, talk about a difficult eSession.  Things seriously was not going smoothly at all!!!  Then we finally finish shooting, as we were wrapping up, Erik, my client spilled his drink all over his base guitar case…hahaha.  Yes, we had to end the day with something right?!  Or else it wouldn’t be a perfectly disastrous day! 

Oh boy….I’m just glad the day is over…