It’s this time of the year again! Chinese New Year this year will be next Sunday on Valentine’s day. Every year around the actual new year’s time, the University of Washington Chinese students and volunteers organize a great performance to celebrate this big festivity. This year is no exception, around 1000 people attended the show. Here are some a few of my the favorite pictures I took of the performance. Please see link below to visit the whole gallery.

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If you were in the show, please see if you can find yourself here: http://pics.blackcatwhitecatphotography.com/uw2010

Happy Chinese New Year!

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Haleh and Guillaume live in the most romantic city in the world, Paris!  I dream that I could go there to shoot their engagement session but I guess in my reality, Bellevue, Washington will have to do.  Today was just like any other typical Seattle winter day, cold and a bit drizzly and the sun sets at around 4pm.  Haleh and Guillaume helped brighten the the day though.  They make each other laugh so easily that the dark gloomy day cannot stop them from having fun at their session.  We spent a few hours taking pictures in downtown Bellevue and nearby waterfront.

If you ask me, I’d say this picture looks like one from a magazine commercial and these two could get by as models.

And here they are, down to earth and in love

Haleh, Guillaume, congratulations on getting engaged!  I can’t wait to see how beautiful your wedding will look like.  Oh, Guillaume, I’d say you are pretty photogenic too.

Posting some personal pictures that I have taken recently. I love the mood of this series.

Hope you are having a great holiday season and looking forward to the new year! I have two great news to share with everybody! If you are not reading from an RSS reader, you’ll probably notice the new website design. I hope you like this improved look better! I am slowly updating old posts with the new design, soon portfolio galleries will also be up and running. Please let me know what you think!

As I was waiting for the new website to be designed, I had to hold back the excitement that I have been accepted by the Wedding Photojournalist Association! It is really an honor for me.  WPJA was the place where I find out more about awesome wedding photojournalists from my area and around the world. Being accepted into that list of photographers is humbling and exciting for me. If you are a bride, I hope you can find great resources about photographers from that website as I did when I planned for my wedding.

Today I met up with Laura and Mike to have their engagement session taken at Carkeek Park in Seattle. This is the beautiful park where they just got engaged! The short hike was a great way to help burn off some of those extra calories consumed in Thanksgiving! The weather was gloomy and cold but that did not stop them from having a lot of fun at the session. Bear, their dog, came along and was excited to be able to run around the park. He definitely stole some spotlight from the lovely couple.

Laura, Mike, congratulations! Can’t wait to photograph your beautiful wedding next year!