Especially when they are from DH.
I hope you’re having a blast in Cali! My mother said never to talk to strangers, she insisted repeatedly every time I got ready to leave the house, her mantra always is, ” Fola, do not talk to people you do not know, also be alert and tuck your purse under your arm when walking”. Well mommy I am sorry I broke one rule. One day last year I met a beautiful stranger on a china town bus, we started a conversation about rings, love and wedding plans. She had plans to move from NY to VA to be with her love whilst I had plans to be with mine in MD. One thing led to another and we exchanged emails, numbers and added one another on facebook.
Ten months later, I received an email from my stranger turned facebook friend, she requested our services for her wedding but first insisted she treat us to dinner, all home cooked. You see my friend is Thai and her amazing cooking conjures up happy and fuzzy feelings while leaving you delirious with joy. DH and I went over with empty bellies and Cf cards, and we returned with our bellies full, our hearts warm and our CF cards filled with images of love, laughter and food.
This is JJ, a stranger who became a friend and who has treated DH and I to the best homecooked meal ever. She is also available to cater for weddings, parties and other special occasions.
This is JJ with Paully, her supportive and loving better half. DH and I fell in love not just with their food but also with their personality and charm. We truly cannot wait to photograph their wedding this summer.
Full blog post of their beautiful session is coming soon.
On the menu was a six course meal, starting with sweet navel oranges, delicious hot tom yum soup, crisp vegetable spring rolls, succulent coconut shrimp, awe-inducing drunken noodles and my absolute favorite fried vanilla ice cream.
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))Aba is the techy and manly part of me, he made me fall in love with the 50mm 1.2 and as if that was not enough he began raving about the 85mm1.2 pointing out pictures where it had been used. Slowly but surely I fell in love too, I was excited about trying it out and I finally did at a party Kristie Blake had recently – another photographer Tisha Mccuiston brought her entire arsenal of lenses to the party. Well I am glad she did because testing hers finally helped nudge me in the right direction. Today Aba and I proud to add this lens to our growing arsenal of camera gear.
Here is the 85mm 1.2
Welcome home baby…
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It was like every other summer day- sunny with a chance of rain,my hands itched in tune with the pounding of my heart and the twitching of my right eye. My nerves announced today was to be the day I shot my first wedding. Two weeks earlier my friend’s older sister had contacted me, her friend needed a photographer who would capture a wedding ceremony and reception in Brooklyn at the Chapel of love church. They decided to ask me since I was always seen every where with a camera in my hand…I accepted eagerly, excited at the prospect of shooting a real wedding – you see I day dream in color I imagined everything working out beautifully where as in reality I had no external flash and no car- yup in new york you can live without a car and still get everywhere you need to be. I attended the rehearsal, met the couple’s friends and family, scouted the location and was a bit intimidated by the lighting of the church – a photographer’s nightmare- I dream of perfect natural light, no shadows no highlights well in nightmares its the opposite and in this reality it was white florescent.
The day of the wedding, I headed over with a second shooter – a friend who also wanted to be photographer and who had a car – to the bride’s house, photographed all the detail shots, as well as pictures of the bride and her bridesmaids. It was all going smoothly, then we noticed the car to take the bride to the church was late, this definitely caused tension – which is the last thing you can ever want for your bride- we want our brides to be happy and smiling. Needless to say we all got to the church three hours late. Emotions ran high with the minister threatening to start the event without the bride- it basically went down hill from there – my batteries went flat, my borrowed flash stopped working, my bride stopped smiling, it started to rain- when my flash stopped working I used the videographer’s light to light my subjects after all we were documenting the same event.
Looking back I can say now, I enjoyed every bit of my learning experience, since that first wedding I have shot many more weddings, but I always cast my mind back to the very first time when I took my camera and shot a wedding of a wonderful couple who trusted me with their special day – and each time I realize I would not change that experience for a single thing.
Since pictures make posts more fun, here is one of my favorite pictures from my very first wedding.
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Today I am the chic with a magical click…recently I granted an interview on femme lounge-an online magazine , which is the brain child of an amazing and wonderful young lady – Shola Adu-Okubote.
To read more about the interview, click here
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