5,000+ views!

So exciting that this post gets an exclamation mark!

This is pretty exciting. When I made this blog on February 28th, 2010, I never thought I'd reach this point in under three years!

It's all thanks to you:
- who would ask me when I would be posting more on this blog
- who encouraged me in my photography
- who were willing to be photographed so I could build up my portfolio
- who checked my blog more than a hundred times, (and for some people, I'm pretty sure a big chunk of the 5,000+ views is because of you. hehe).
- who affirmed what I've been pursuing in photography
- who believed in me and my photography

Thank you, thank you, thank you! It's crazy to really see how far I've come in photography, and it's been so amazing to think that I'm continuing to learn so much about photography, as well.

Recently, I started an internship at a photo studio, and I was able to edit pictures. (Woohoo! Step up from deleting blurry/blinking pictures!) I started using presets, and I let out an audible gasp at how it beautifully transformed an already gorgeous photo. For a good 10-minutes, I was smiling and so excited over the beauty of photography and thought that I'd love to do this for awhile.

I'm not sure what the next few years will bring and what will happen, but I thank you so much for being a part of my journey.

{I was trying to look for a picture that encapsulates all that this post is and how I feel, but I couldn't find any. Thus, I took webcam pictures. However, I couldn't find quite the right emotion. So I'm posting multiple! hehe}.

winter family road trip.

This holiday season, my family decided to go on a road trip! :) We visited Upper Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona, Monument Valley in Utah, and the Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. It was very different from the weather that we're used to, but it was a nice change; it even snowed on Christmas Eve! Here are a few pictures from the trip.

{Upper Antelope Canyon. Page, Arizona.}

 {Monument Valley. Utah}

{The Arches National Park. Moab, Utah.}

And these were taken with my iPhone:

Hope everyone enjoyed celebrating the holidays, whether it was spending time with family at home or exploring!

ariel.

This is the last of the Disney Hipster Princesses series! My friend Marisabel was Ariel. She went all out and bought a red wig and everything! :)

jasmine.

Happy New Year, everyone! Hope you had a fun time ringing in the new year. Hooray for 2013!

Featuring my lovely friend Rachel again! ;) This time on my blog, she's Jasmine. Enjoy the pictures!

mulan.

Hello! Hope you all had a wonderful time celebrating Christmas with family and friends. :)

Here are some pictures of one of the Princesses we took photos of: Mulan. Nicole went more for this outfit, rather than the more common ones you see of Mulan.

disney hipster princesses 2.

Some of my friends were interested in also participating in a Disney Hipster Princesses photoshoot, so my friend Traci and I put together another one. Unfortunately it was raining that day, but it set the mood for how we would shoot the pictures.

These girls brought it and toughed it out through the cold. ;) We ended up going to the Mesa Parking Structure at UCI. Here are some of the group pictures I got of the girls.

hehe, and this is Traci. :)

Stay tuned for the individual pictures! :)