LKC Photography Blog

We're moved!

2008-06-08T04:02:00.008-07:00

It's finally here! I've been working on the new blog in the past 3 months. My goal is to combine the blog and the gallery site for easy viewing. The new blog is built with wordpress. It is highly configurable. (Had to learn some CSS coding during the development process). The outcome is excellent!

Also, my business name is changed to Kelvin Photographer. Go check out the new blog!

From now on all the new events will be posted in the new blog !!

2008 GPCCC Retreat in Camp Pine Rock

2008-05-26T09:16:00.003-07:00

Had a great time up in Prescott during weekend. Went to the annual GPCCC family retreat in Camp Pine Rock. The weather was cold (in the 40s) on Friday and Saturday. Pastor Daniel Low from Bread of Life church in Torrance, CA came to speak to us. It's great to be away from work/home/email to fellowship with brothers and sisters.

Enjoy the slideshow!

Dustin's Graduation

2008-05-23T09:34:00.002-07:00

It was a very touching moment to witness Dustin's graduation in Desert Vista High School. During the graduation ceremony, I saw the unconditional love of the parents. They've spent years to bring up their children whom need extra care and help to finish their high school study. I just want to say that these are some wonderful students working together with their 'super' parents!

The pictures of the graduation ceremony can be view and purchase in the following link. Use coupon code 'DUSTIN' to get 15% for the entire order. Just enter the coupon code when you're ready to check out.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PICTURES

Time for graduation

2008-05-10T08:21:00.003-07:00

It's time of the year for graduation. These senior are graduating this year and they are so excited (as well as their parents). After the youth meeting last night in GPCCC. I gather all of them in the parking lot to take this graduation picture. It's something different I want to do rather than typical group picture.

Brenda + Nathan

2008-05-06T06:30:00.004-07:00

Brenda and Nathan had a very touching wedding in Phoenix, AZ. Both sides of the family are so excited for this marriage. It's a great joy to be there.

UPDATE!!!
Family and friends can order pictures from the wedding in this link. Use 'FISHER' as the coupon code to save %15 for order over $50. Expire on June 22th!!!

Brenda is getting ready.

Brenda and the bridesmaid have so much fun!

Maquel is thrilled to see Brenda with wedding gown.

The rings.

Brenda in the courtyard right before the ceremony starts.

Beautiful voice!

It's one of my favorite;)

This is taken by Bruce, very artistic.

Grandma enjoys the dance!

Romantic moment.

Turn up the volume, enjoy the slideshow here!

Steve + Wei Wedding

2008-04-20T08:25:00.003-07:00

My very good friend Steve got married yesterday here in Phoenix. It was a very touching wedding because friends from Steve & Wei shared about how God put them together and the promise of prayers. Ceremony was held in Scottsdale Bible Church Chapel where the reception was held in Westin Kierland Resort.

One of Wei's friend specially performed a dance to the couple. The dance is beautiful.

Music chosen for the sideshow Mas Que Nada. Very Brazilian style:)

Enjoy the slideshow here!

Pingg

2008-04-17T09:23:00.003-07:00

I've been using Evite to organize events like birthday party, Christmas party. Just found this new site provides

custom event. Inspire and invite with sophisticated styles for personal parties or professional events. Event organization is getting very easy with Pingg with money collection, news update, photo sharing. Go check it out!

Viva Las Vegas photos are ready!

2008-04-13T03:30:00.008-07:00

Thank you for the wait, the photos from the Viva Las Vegas dance show by Desert Vista High School Dance Club is ready for viewing and purchasing. You can order individual pictures from the site. We also offer digital picture download options. With coupon "2008DVH", you can save 10% for order over $40 before April 30th, 2008. Click on the following link to view the photos. (Make sure to get yourself a drink / snack before viewing the photos, there are over 2000 pictures for viewing)

We're working on the photobook. It should be ready in three weeks.

Hurry up! Get the 10% saving before it expire on 4/30!!!

CLICK ME TO VIEW THE VIVA LAS VEGAS PICTURES

Lily and friendship

2008-04-09T23:11:00.005-07:00

Right before I got off from work, our very good friend Betty gave me a call. She said she has prepared some food for us. When I arrived their home, I was given with some yummy homemade food and some home grown lilies. They are so beautiful that I have to photograph them when I got home. I just want to say, Bruce and Betty are very thoughtful:)

Responsibility

2008-04-08T22:33:00.004-07:00

Every day, I'll spend time to help Audrey for her homework from school. Some days she doesn't feel like to work on it because she wants to play or she is very tired. I told her this is her responsibility and she has to finish it. We all have our responsibilities and we really should try our best to finish our part.

Brenda & Nathan Engagement

2008-04-08T07:40:00.006-07:00

Brenda and Nathan is getting married on May 3rd. We had an engagement session in Desert Botanical Garden last week. We got there early, and there is an early bird free admission offer:) Brenda and Nathan love hiking. They are a fun couple. They are willing to try different shooting angle and we even climb up the tree to shoot(there is no park ranger around;). They will be heading to Hawaii for their honeymoon after the wedding.

Individual pictures can be viewed and purchased here.

Lovely couple!

They are in love!

Enjoy the slideshow!

Desert Vista Dance Photos

2008-04-07T11:12:00.004-07:00

Thanks for your interest in the dance photos. Due to technical difficulty, the photo release date will be delayed to Apr 13th (coming Sunday). Thanks for your patience and stay tune:)

Kelvin

* The Thank You Sign picture is found in Customer Rock blog by Becky, her blog has a lot of information about customer service. The picture is taken by Jim Parkin*

Alexa

2008-04-07T03:06:00.006-07:00

I photographed Alexa last week in downtown Chandler with her beautiful dress. The dress is made for her first communion. Instead of "Trash The Dress", Alexa's mom make this dress with her own wedding gown. It is very special and it means a lot to the entire family.

Pictures can be viewed and purchased in this link.

Turn on the volume to enjoy the slideshow:)

Baby Jaxon

2008-04-02T05:29:00.002-07:00

My friends Julie and John had their baby boy couple weeks ago. Baby Jaxon was born on Mar 18th. He is a very cute boy. Even though there was some complication during the pregnancy period, by God's grace Jaxon is born healthy and strong. I'm so glad to see baby Jaxon especially his long fingers:) He'll keep Domi, Henry, Julie and John busy for a while!

Turn on your speaker and enjoy the slideshow below:)

Lightroom 2.0 Beta

2008-04-02T03:00:00.003-07:00

Lightroom 2.0 Beta is available! There are some new neat features in this beta:
1) Localized Corrections
2) Better Photoshop Integration
3) Post-crop vignetting
4) Multiple Monitor support
5) Picture Packages in the print module.
6) Output Sharpening in the print module
7) Smart Collections
8) Printing directly to a JPEG file in the Print module
9) Suggested Keywords
10) New filter panel in the Library module + Slideshow and Web modules both have Content panels as well as Collection panels

- Download Lightroom 2 beta here
- NAPP’s online learning center
- John Nack’s Blog
- Scott Kelby’s blog

Family time

2008-03-30T01:58:00.003-07:00

Weather is so nice here in Arizona. Audrey and Brian spend a lot of time outside. Audrey even jumped into the swimming pool last week. Water is still cold but they can't wait to swim! This is the first time I got to shot some family pictures in 2008.

It's show time!

2008-03-29T06:44:00.002-07:00

Congratulation to the dance club of Desert Vista High School. The 100+ dancers did a wonderful job in the Viva Las Vegas show. This is the annual Spring Dance show of the dance club. All the dancers have spent hours and hours in preparation. Click the slideshow below to take a peek of the show. All the pictures will be available to view and purchase by next Sunday (4/6)

Good Friday

2008-03-25T11:36:00.003-07:00

Attended the Good Friday service in GPCCC last week. It is a good reminder for me about the sacrifice Jesus has made...

Viva Las Vegas!

2008-03-25T01:18:00.001-07:00

Have the privilege to photograph the dance show performed by Desert Vista High School Dance Club. The title of this year's dance is "Viva Las Vegas". Over 100 dancers have been practicing for weeks. They're rehearsing daily until the show go public on this Thursday and Friday. The dance teacher is Elizabeth. She used to be the instructor in Marilyn Bostic Ballet Centre. Can't wait to shoot the show on this Thursday!

Gmail and Thunderbird

2008-03-15T00:18:00.003-07:00

Gmail is a very popular webmail and I believe most of you have one or multiple gmail accounts. It has a lot of advantage over yahoo or hotmail. The interface is simple and fast. The mail search is extremely powerful. If you like me, want to archive those emails into your own computer. You would probably use some kind of email clients in your computer. I use Mozilla Thunderbird which is completely free, just like his sibling Firefox. Lately Gmail starts supporting IMAP, which makes it extremely powerful for using with offline email clients. However, setting up Thunderbird with Gmail is not straightforward. I found this link giving out the complete procedure to sync between your Gmail account(s) and Thunderbird. The neat things such as sent, trash folders sync. Labels in gmail syncs with folders in Thunderbird. Once you got it setup, it is extremely convenient.

The other cool thing I found from Google is the Google Apps. I just set it up in my upcoming "Kelvin Photographer" site.

Amber & Truman

2008-03-09T22:45:00.004-07:00

Congratulation to Amber & Truman!!! I was invited to witness this wonderful couple's wedding in Ponderosa Gardens. I used to be Amber's neighbor in Chandler. It's fun to meet her family again (Heather, Hunter and Elizabeth have grown so much that I barely recognize them!!!) I really like the sermon given by the pastor about marriage. It's a very touching wedding because Amber and Truman are elementary school sweetheart. Hope you have a wonderful marriage.

What a small world, I also met Kacy who was Audrey's teacher in Bethany Learning Center. Kacy is the wedding photographer of this wedding;)

Enjoy the slideshow below:)

Retouching

2008-03-08T02:49:00.006-07:00

The technology of digital photography brings the photography business into a whole new world. Digital post processing helps a lot of photographers in refining their pictures. It's especially crucial for lifestyle type pictures which the photographers don't really have a lot time to get the lighting right before the precious moment goes away. I've been creating my own photoshop actions for a while. Lately I decide to do a housekeeping work in my action palette. With the button mode in Photoshop action palette, it's extremely easy to retouch pictures 'straight out of the camera' in couple of minutes. Here is an example of lighting, soft filter and sharpening actions.

My Photoshop Action Palette

The Interview With God and Nature Photos

2008-03-07T10:31:00.012-07:00

Got this link from a friend. The video is an interview with God and pretend we're asking God with questions in our mind. The answers from God is a good reminding for adults and especially great for parents to teach their children about life... Those nature pictures are very nice as well.

You can check out The Interview With God site in this link.

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Pretty bad flu

2008-02-25T10:13:00.002-07:00

I got a pretty bad flu during the weekend. I had high fever, stuffy nose in last couple days. Can't do much except resting and taking medication. It's my body telling me to rest... Hope you all well!

Carter's Gymnastic Portrait is available!

2008-02-20T09:27:00.007-07:00

Finally, we finish all the touch up work (yeah!!). You can view and order the pictures through this link. It'll bring you to an online ordering site. All the pictures can be viewed online. To order, simply click on individual pictures and select the size. We found out that the system does not allow customer to stack 'discount packages'. So, instead of having 20% off over $100 order. We now offer 15% off over $50 order and 25% off over $100 order for A La Carte orders. This discount will not apply to the original discount package. Check out this link for details.