To be honest, I'm not a big fan of Xmas. I normally neither look forward nor make any big plan for the day. I simply recognize the season coming by beautiful festive scenes that catch my eyes here and there.
From a peaceful day in Molinary
With the handsome guard
And the splendid Xmas tree
To those interesting presents on the street
From cozy Paris Deli
and its beautiful bakery-display Xmas tree
To this amazing lady ...
... with some added function ...
... to make the most beautiful Xmas tree that I've ever seen.
Yeap, those images are still blinking in my mind like the lights on the Xmas tree. So I can't help to share :D
Besides, it's an great opportunity for me to send my best regards to all my beloved ones, my family and my friends. I wish you all a wonderful Xmas, just as you are.
Last Sat I accompanied J.An (yeah, this time I accompanied her :D) to wedding shoot for her best friend’s wedding – Phuong and Jake - in Phu My Hung. They are a very lovely couple. The bride is naturally attractive. And the groom is very handsome (everybody says that he looks like Zesus and he actually said that he’s the result of gay love between Zesus and our Uncle Ho :P). However, this is the 3rd time he has been photographed so far so we had trouble telling him what he should do in front of the cameras :) Besides, they have such a natural instinct to follow any rules or guides, so we just let them do whatever they feel comfortable with while keep talking and distracting them from the cameras
Fortunately, it turned out not difficult at all to have good photos of them. They are just so sweet with each other. I love the way they look at and adore each other, love the happy voice when they talk about their love, about the other … All I tried to catch were neither their good poses nor their cute faces but their sweet moments.
Here come the groom and bride
See how cute the bride is?
He teaches her how to play leaf-horn
The sweet side
And the wild side
Touch up
Well, I know that simple leaves are not good objects to focus on, but I love the feel of the kiss, not only the kiss itself :D
Practice for the first dance
Other sweet moments
Other photographers – J.An and Oliver
After the shooting, we stopped at Paris Deli, and I couldn’t help getting my favorite Corn Cake
Oh, almost forget, despite that I took my new love to the shooting, I had a crush on the new guy, and still wondering if I should take one home …
Well, you can tell that the wedding season has already come, I get offers to accompany wedding shoots from my friends every weekend :P And here I go, again. But as this time my friend has a photo crew with her so my main task is to entertain the bride and groom, take behind the scene photos and enjoy the trip (yeah, you hear me. Means that I have lots of pics here :D) Ah, I forgot to mention that besides the main crew and me, there were 2 other friends join the day, with their cameras of course.
Here we are
The photographer from Australia
The photographer of Al Qaeda
And me
Our first stop is a railway on the way to Phan Thiet. It’s nothing special but a good spot for taking photos.
The second stop is the rubber tree forest. It is amazingly beautiful and really enjoys it here
The issue here was that while I wanted the couple to relax and have fun while taking photos, as long as they look happy together which matters, the crew wanted them to pose stiffly for them to take good shots and the bride was not allowed to have big smile since they think that she doesn’t look good with big smiles (wtf??????) Anyway, it was their working day so I respected them. While they did their work, I and my friend enjoyed ourselves
Dance in the forest
Oopps, watch out for the guerrillas
The couples were not happy about that either. So I took the chance to have fun with them whenever I could, I do think that they look good in relaxing and funny style also. And I love the bride’s big smile :D
On the way out, we saw a truck coming, so why not take it as a prop?
The negotiator
The actor and actress
Then we left the forest for the daisy field.
Enough! It’s our turn :D
And here are the bride and groom in Vietnamese traditional dresses.
Finally, we headed to the site of the day – Mui Ke Ga. I have been to Phan Thiet for so many times but we mostly went straight to Mui Ne. So Mui Ke Ga is really a new discovery to me, it’s beautiful, wild and quiet.
We had to walk 20’ cross the beach to the special spot.
There are a lot of beautiful rocks there. And for the spirit of the shooting, we had to climb up there.
The pathfinder
Brave bride and groom
Wait wait, here I come. You have to notice that I am afraid of height :P
Yoga on the beach
Wedding shots
And our distraction :P
After all, the sunset closed the day
Behind the scene photos, just to show you how hard we worked, he he
For those who are interested in Mui Ke Ga. Here is a nice place to stay.
With the handsome guard
And the splendid Xmas tree
To those interesting presents on the street
From cozy Paris Deli
and its beautiful bakery-display Xmas tree
To this amazing lady ...
... with some added function ...
... to make the most beautiful Xmas tree that I've ever seen.
Yeap, those images are still blinking in my mind like the lights on the Xmas tree. So I can't help to share :D
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