this image warms my heart.
a small sneak peek of a special session i had last week in Hong Kong with a family from Shanghai.
more to come soon…

happy new year!

this was from a while back. i had wanted to capture a nice, classic, and clean shot of the girls. i think i did and love it.

but then our session evolved into something more candid, unplanned, and playful…

looking at them cracks me up. and love seeing kk try her hardest to do whatever big sister is doing.

different styles. different sides captured. which do you prefer to capture? candid or classic?

it was a nice september afternoon. kk accompanied me into the city for a dr appt and afterwards we enjoyed some hard-to-come-by one-on-one time walking around xintiandi. she loved the yellow lines and i loved the undivided time with her. can you tell she likes being out and about?

this makes me wish i was about three feet tall again.  so. much.fun.

after a couple weeks of rain, it was nice to make it out for a walk on a clear morning.  somehow, the sunlight feels particularly enchanting after the rains… which makes me not mind the rain so much after all.

spent a fun-filled morning with these kids.  this is a special sneak peek i know their mom will appreciate.  i was especially looking forward to this session when i learned they were a family of three girls like ours!  perhaps we will get to have one big girly playdate sometime.
love all those gorgeous deep brown eyes.  each girl has her own distinct personality which keeps it interesting!

my bugs’ lives – stages that are fleeting and ever-changing into something beautiful.

hope you had a happy halloween.

they say time goes faster with each kid.  is it also true that each kid goes faster?  because my baby was up and crawling on her hands and knees during her seventh month, much earlier than my other two.  and she skipped the army crawling stage altogether.  i think she just wants to keep up with her two older sisters.  and here i am, just wanting things to slooow down a bit so i can take it all in before it (they) passes me by.  nonetheless, here is my baby on the move — not so much a newborn anymore.

footnote (behind the scenes): Isabella wasn’t the only one on the move that day as these photos were taken by me while rollerblading. sometimes the photographer is perhaps the more interesting subject to photograph.

a couple weeks ago, my sweet niece turned one! (meant to get this post up earlier)
she exudes happiness that is contagious — and goodness, look at those eyes…
thankful for the time we got to spend together over the summer and the special bond that is forming between her and my girls!  happy birthday serena!

a relaxing sunny morning, visiting relatives, picking oranges from their backyard, the bright colors, and a cute model = inspired.