sx-70 polaroid . los angeles chinatown . 2006
Happy Chinese New Year! The title of this post is how you would greet one another for the new year in Cantonese (it literally means “Best wishes and Congratulations. Have a prosperous and good year.”)
Since moving out of my parent’s house, I no longer get to see all the traditions and rituals that go along with Chinese New Year anymore. My mom was very rigid in her beliefs with the new year, I remember getting up at the crack of dawn to eat “breakfast” (it would really be dinner at the crack of dawn) and burn incense and rituals like that. I never learned any of them, so I honestly don’t know what much of it meant, but that’s what I knew growing up.
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot, and thinking a lot about how *much* I want to go to China & Hong Kong again and photograph *everything.* When I went my first time, it was before I was into photography like I am now, and there were so many beautiful sights that I saw that I want to recapture. Not to mention the history of it all with my family – going back to where my parents grew up and capturing that in images as well. I want to document China & Hong Kong as I saw it. This is one of the biggest dreams I have right now. :) Someday. ;)
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In other fabulous news, Verlee & Josh’s trash the dress shoot has been featured on Shutterfly’s new section – Shutterfly Weddings! :)
Here’s their feature story! :) I was notified a few months ago about the possibility of being featured on the site – Tracy from their staff stumbled upon my blog & wanted to do a story about our Trash the Dress shoot. They interviewed Verlee & Josh (and apparently other brides as well), and we waited anxiously to see if we made the cut – and we did! It went live yesterday and it’s just so exciting to see all this in print! ;)
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YAY!! Awesome press! :)
wow – so cool – your work is absolutely stunning! So glad I found it!
Happy Chinese New Year! And Congrats on the Shutterfly site…. I
hey you..!!
wheee..print! i’m happy we made the cut — can’t believe it! it’s all very exciting, and of course you’re like the major part of why we all got featured..:-)
..anyways — tracy got back to me and she said they should’ve linked our trash the dress photos from your blog you did on it, and that they will. they’ll do an update that goes live in a week or so, so she’ll link your blog in the paragraph that begins, “Their sense of fun comes through in each of their photos…”
cool huh? i’m so glad you’re posted all over the article..!! ;-)
*hugs!
congratulations! happy new year.. can’t wait to see what amazing things are in store for you!
STACY;; thanks dear! :D
ASHLEY;; thank you for stopping by & your kind words :)
JONILYN;; thank you!!
VERLEE;; yay! thanks so much dear! of course it wouldn’t have happened without *you* either!! ;)
JENGEE;; thank you, love! this is going to be an exciting upcoming year :D
I totally know what you mean about visiting your roots and where your parents grew up. It is definitely an amazing and humbling experience. I’m sure you’ll get to go one day soon and I will anxiously wait to see China and Hong Kong through your eyes until then ;-). Congratulations to you and V&J on being featured on Shutterfly Weddings! As Victoria Beckham would say, that is so major!!