I had the privilege to photograph The Trinh’s family portrait a few weeks ago.  Uncle Nghi has been battling cancer, but despite all that, he managed to get out of his bed, walk out of his room, and sat on his couch for about an hour or so, letting me take his photos. 

I was truly blessed to have met this family.  The love they have for each other and Uncle Nghi’s amazing spirit touched me deeply.

Thank you for sharing your life stories with me.

 Hello my xanga friends.  I’m sorry that I haven’t posted any photos for such a long long time!  I kind of took a break, partly because of my trip a month ago.  I was on the road for about 3 weeks.  After I returned, I fell into a reflective mode, I’m kind of still in that mode.  But, I want to post this slide show to share Agnes & Victor’s beautiful love with you guys.

We went to Balboa Island, had tons of fun.  Thank you guys for showing me around in Balboa.  It was a blast hanging out with you guys.

Hi guys,

I’m currently looking for a place to move into somewhere in OC, preferably in North OC.  So if you know someone who’s looking for a roommate, or know somewhere that has a open room/space to rent, please let me know.  If you know someone who’s also looking for a place to rent, please hook her up with me so maybe we can be roommates and rent together. 

Thank you guys so much!  Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!

Love,

Ingrid

Does anyone want to shoot a wedding with me this weekend?  If you’re free and would want to shoot a wedding with me, please message me and we’ll talk about the details.  Thanks!

ps.  This wedding is gonna be a long, long wedding.  I’m not sure exactly how many hours it’ll be yet since I haven’t gotten the itinerary yet.  But I know it’s gonna be at least 12 hours long.  So if you don’t think you can last that long, please don’t contact me.  I need someone who can hang in there with me so I don’t have to drag another person as I’m already dragging my equipment.    Thanks!

I am in love. 

I can’t tell you how great I feel right now.  Canada has been such a HUGE blessing to me.  I’m finally back to Cali, ending my 3 week trip.  What I have gained from this trip will stay with me for the rest of my life.  I have to say that although I’ve traveled much, this is by far the best trip I have ever taken in my entire life!  (I’m not exaggerating at all!)  Yes, the best trip of my ENTIRE life. 

I want to write more about what I’ve learned from this trip, but I’m gonna sleep first because I also caught a bad cold from the trip….  My body needs rest.

I can’t believe this is gonna be my last night at NYC.  I’m soooooooooooooo sad that I’m leaving here.  I’ve had an amazing time here this week. 

I can’t tell you how much I’ve fallen in love with this city this time around (this is the third time I’ve been here).  I’ve met some wonderful people, met up with some old friends, walked around the city.  Even though I’ve only been here for a week.  I feel like it’s been much longer. 

There’s always so much to do here.  I absolutely love it!  Even though I’ve been sick for the latter part of my stay here.  It hasn’t stopped me from going out and staying up late at night…which made me sicker…    I’ll be flying out to Canada tomorrow.  I have to say that I do miss Cali a bit.  But it definitely has been a great trip.  I’m so in love with NYC.   

The diversity that I’ve experienced here has been so refreshing and great.  I absolutely love walking on the streets and always hearing different types of languages being spoken.  Whether that be Italian, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese…etc.  I’m sure I’ve heard other ones that I just don’t recognize what language it is.  I love walking around the city.  You’ll never need a gym membership here because you walk everywhere.  I have to say that there aren’t that many overweight people around here. 

Anyway, I can go on and on about how great NY is, but I gotta pack because I leave early tomorrow morning and I gotta sleep soon.  So…..I’ll update another time.

Love,

Ingrid

What a journey already!  Haha, it’s the most hilarious thing just getting to the Burbank airport last night.  So I asked my friend to take me to the airport.  Being the great friend that she is, she said yes.  So I get to her place and she asks me, “did you bring your passport?”  I said, “no”.    “Did I need my passport?”  “Yeah, if you’re going to Canada.”  “Oh my gosh!  Are you serious?  But I’ve been to Canada before and I didn’t need it.”  “Oh that was before, they changed it now.”  “Great…good thing I came early.”  So we drove back to my house to get my passport, then we headed to Burbank airport. 

We were just having a great time catching up in the car, then all of the sudden, my friend goes, “oh no, I’m on High!”  I looked over to her thermometer dial and her car was most definitely overheating.  “Hey, you should pull over.”  “No, it’s okay, I’m gonna try to make it to the airport since we’re close.”  “No, I smell something, you should really pull over at the next exit.”  So she exits and right when we exited, her car died.  LOL.

“Okay….do you have triple A?”  “Yeah, I’m gonna call triple A and my husband to come pick me up.”  “Should I call my friend to have him drop me off at the airport then?”  “Yeah…probably.”  LOL.  So we both called, then triple A, her husband and my friend all came to rescue two damsels in distress.  Hahaha.  Man, it was hilarious.  We both laughed about the situation and reminisce about our crazy college days and how a very similar experience happen to me when I was in college.  Good times, good times. 

Then Scott came to my rescue and dropped me off at Burbank.  lol.  What would I do without him right?!  lol.  Anyway, thanks a million for dropping me off tonight Scott!  You’re the best!

Doing a red eye flight is not pretty……my eyes are literally red right now….super tired.  I think I’ll just sleep when I get to NC instead of touring around.  Haha. 

Alright, I’ll try to update as my trip continues.

Love you all!

Oh my gosh, I can’t believe how time just flew by and it’s already the end of October.  My big trip to the east coast is finally here! 

This is gonna be my first time traveling by myself….well, technically the second time, cuz I flew to Germany by myself, too.  But I had someone host me while I was in Germany…so I guess that doesn’t really count.  Anyway, I’m so excited about this trip, while I still have so much to do before my trip tomorrow!  Ahhhh!!!  Just started doing laundry…..oy.

Anyway, so remember a while ago I posted about my destination wedding in NY, well that’s in November.  But another client of mine asked me to stop by VA before NY to do their engagement session there.  I gladly agreed to it.  Hey, I’ve never been to VA before, so why not right?!  Since VA is so close to NC.  I decided to fly to NC to visit some friends first before I head over to VA for the eSession.  So my schedule for the next 2 weeks are as follows:

Fly to NC tomorrow,
drive to VA for an eSession for two days,
drive back to NC to fly to NY, shoot the wedding, hang out with some friends,
then fly to Vancouver, Canada for Jesh de Rox’s workshop!!!
then finally return home around mid November. 

My schedule for November is gonna be crazy too!  Right when I get back from Canada, I’ll be going to a MIA concert that night, then second shoot a wedding the next day.  The weekend after that, I’ll be shoot another weedding and an engagement session.  The weekend after that, I’ll be doing a commercial shoot for my friend’s company. 

Then December!!!  I’ve got to attend a wedding the first weekend.  (This is gonna be the first wedding I attend when I wont’ be working).  I’m actually really excited about that because I finally get to drink and dance at a wedding!  Ha!  And my friend’s having an open bar for like an hour, oh my gosh, I’m gonna be sooooo happy that day!  Hahahaha.  jk.  I’m really not an alchie!  Then the weekend after that, I’ve got another wedding to shoot. 

Finally some rest after that….then first weekend of January, I’ll have another wedding to shoot. 

This is such a blessing from God.  A year ago, I would have never thought that my fall/winter would be this eventful.  I really can’t complain.  Life is good man. 

All I hope is that I’ll still have enough money to move out after my trip.  Hahaha.    We’ll see.

So I’ll be gone from xanga for a while.  I’ll try to update.  But knowing me….I’ll probably be too busy having fun with friends instead of sitting in front of a computer xangaing.  Hahaha.  We’ll see.  I might have some down time.  I’ll try to post some photos. 

Alright, that’s it for now folks.  I love you all!

Veasna & Doug wanted some formal shots for their parents.  So we went to Doug’s brother’s loft in downtown LA shot around in his tiny living room/Doug’s bedroom.  Haha, it was quite an interesting experience for me because of the limited space I was given to work with.  But everything turned out alright.  Veasna was quite a trooper in that wedding dress.  She dragged her train in the tiny space and did all the poses I asked her to do!  Thanks Veasna! 

Then we had some time to do a few casual/engagement shots afterwards.  I got them running on the street through downtown LA.  That was fun too.  lol. 

Anyway, here’s the show, enjoy!

Alright, sorry this slide show is late.  But it’s finally here!  It took me a long time timing the song to the photos.  I know it’s not that hard of a task for people who can keep beat.  But I’m totally rhythm challenged!  I couldn’t even do the simple class cheer back in HS!  I totally clapped out of beat this one time…..so embarrassing! 

I don’t know if you can tell from the pictures that they’re both VERY tall.  So the funny thing is that Sarah has always wanted to find someone taller than she is, but she goes to a mostly Asian church.  Most guys at our church are shorter.  (I think she’s 6′ tall).   She finally meets Dan who’s 6’4” or something like that, she’s super happy about the fact that she can finally wear heels at her wedding and still be shorter than Dan.  But the dress she picked out didn’t come with the “extra long” option.  So she had to wear flats again at her wedding.  How sad is that?!  So Dan, being the goof ball that he is, calls Sarah shorty.  And he calls me midget….

Even though we all go to the same church, but I never got to know them until after they booked me.  Then they started coming to my house church, so we all made an effort to get to know each other better.  I have to say that I’ve enjoyed getting to know them through this whole wedding process, and I feel very blessed to have gained two friends through it.  This is why I love doing what I do because I get to meet cool people like them. 

The other night my friend asked me which one is my favorite wedding so far.  I told her I don’t have a favorite because I have loved every single wedding I’ve shot so far.  Every couple I’ve had has been so awesome!  I’ve been very lucky & blessed by all of them.