2010-03-27 San Francisco Children Photographer ? Chung Li ?

San Francisco Children Photographer - Chung Li ???
Haha , don't get me wrong I'm not suddenly switching from a wedding photographer to a children photographer , but well, if you have been following my blog, you realize I love to photograph kids during the wedding and in the low wedding seasons or for friends' kids just for fun. I just love photographing people.

Here is a sneak peek image of a portrait session I did for the cutest Annalisa last week in a park in Sunnyvale at around 5-6pm. The reason I love this picture so much is that when I am looking at this picture, I just feel like Annalisa is also looking at me, I can feel her soul. I have more stunning images coming from this portrait session and even a behind the scene video footage of how this image was created . Oh, and forget to mention, I AM developing another website , it is going to be a subdivision of Chung Li Photography for Children and Family Portrait, I want to make it unique, very artistic, stay tuned !!! My goal is to have it up and running in a a month or two :) currently, I am still thinking the name of the site, any thoughts ? welcome to email me or leave me a comment here !!!

2010-03-22 Pregnancy portrait of the beautiful Chloe & Won

Chloe and Won are very good friend of my former wine making couple Cecil and David. Cecil and David love their pictures so much that we took back in November (here is the link), raved about me to their friends and wanted their good friends to have me to photography them. I met the mom-to-be Chloe about the end of last yr about the shoot, Chloe told me their wedding pictures by the other photographer when they got married were horrible and they really really wanted to have some pictures taken again before the baby due in April, how exciting :). However I was too busy traveling at the end of last yr followed by the trip to Hong Kong and Las Vegas in February and March this yr, we finally did it last week !!!!

Chloe and Won have some ideas in their mind already, they want view of golden gate bridge, they want some nature scene with bench and grass.. and also with their lovely dog Max :)

Couple days before the shoot, we talked on the phone finalizing the location we are going to shoot and also the outfit options.....we came up with an elegant evening dress formal wear and the casual engagement shoot style.

Here is the highlight slideshow <<<<<<

2010-03-17 Just received the press release from WPPI

It just feel great to receive two Award of Excellence in the 16"x20" WPPI print competition among the total 3388 prints submitted by all talented photographers over the world

2010-03-11 Just came back from Las Vegas WPPI 2010

Last Sunday I jumped on a plane to Vegas for WPPI 2010-- an annual Wedding & Portrait Photographer International convention. This yr is my 2nd year going cause last yr was AWESOME !!!

There were over 13,000 photographers there from ALL OVER THE WORLD for different classes , trade show and parties, it is such a great opportunity to connect with so many talented photographers and industry friends .

One of the highlights of the trip was that I had 2 images received the Award of Excellence in the annual 16"x20" Print Competition !! ( I submitted 5 images ) One in the "Bride and Groom" category and one in the "Bride" category. YAY !! I am still feeling excited and surprised to win these international print awards !!

2010-03-05 Heading Las Vegas for the WPPI 2010

SOOOOO excited be able to go MGM Vegas for this year's WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International ) again , last yr was tons of fun, met a lot of friends in the wedding photography industry and learned a lot . This yr ? I'm sure its going to be AWESOME again !

Out of studio from 3/7 to 3/10

2010-03-03 Share some pictures I took in Hong Kong

Have a lot of pictures to share from my Hong Kong trip .. here are some..
A lot of people, A lot of shopping, A lot of YUMMY FOOD !!!

My vacation house in Hong Kong :)


U see all high rise residential buildings everywhere


Some Hong Kong friends


Busy shopping area

2010-02-28 Portrait of the Yip's family

Fun to photograph the Yip's family in Hong Kong , Hannah is 6 months old already !!!!! The pictures were taken at their home in Hung Hom. Hannah is so cute, especially her chubby face :P

I'm starting a new baby and family photography site , developing a brand new website now and thinking about the new domain name, any idea ????

2010-02-16 Just got back from Hong Kong

Just got back from my 11 days Hong Kong trip , have a lot of casual day-to-day pictures, 2 baby portrait session (2 yr old Hannah and 6 months old Ryan)and my cousin and his girlfriend's portrait to share...... will post them in these 2 days . I usually post all my images in my facebook page first, then here, so, add me on facebook :)

http://www.facebook.com/chungli

2010-02-11 Traveling Hong Kong for 2 weeks

Just came back from my weekend trip to San Luis Obispo , now getting ready for my trip to Hong Kong, from Feb 11 - Feb 23 , out of studio, but will have email access chung@chungliphotography.com

2010-02-15 Finally !!!! My Studio Video Promo !

Thought about making a video promo for myself for a long long time, feeling super excited to have it done finally ! Hope it gives you a better idea the way I work in a wedding day by showing some behind the scene footages as well as the final images taken in those scene. YAY !!