My blog is moving!

Hey everyone! Got some cool news: I've got a new blog address! Yah it's http://claudiahungweddings.com/blog
Not only is it a new address but it's newly designed and ready to showcase a series of images I'll be shooting in Japan next week, including an engagement session :D It's also in preparation for a full and exciting year of weddings and other projects lined up for 2009.
So go ahead and please update your bookmarks and links. Now you'll be able to see really clean, large images and experience more dynamic and fluid navigation! I figured if I spend thousands of

Thanks for dropping by and see you on the other side.

Ellen's wedding photos

It's been quite a while since I've said, "Whoa" when looking at wedding photos but today I certainly did say it when I was looking at Ellen Degeneres' wedding images! The photographer was Lara Porzak whose website portfolio doesn't really represent the images I saw from Ellen's wedding but what the heck, her work is still really awesome.

Such nice soft, even lighting :) Check the images out:



Oh and also wanted to note how fantastically simple yet elegant their wedding was. Ah, inspiration for my own... hm, maybe I should get on that... :S

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mum, dad and growing up

It seems like this year is going to a big one for my family. Both my brother and I will be married and my parents will also be new grandparents :) However nothing made me realize how much has changed, or rather, how much time is passing by as when I was touching up a bunch of photos for a book today and landed on my parents' portrait.
There's something about being able to zoom into a 12mp image and see every detail, blemish, pore, and wrinkle on someone's face and realize how much a person's face changes as they age. A lot of it is subtle as I can see the same smiles and same expressions in their faces as I did when I was a mere infant. It's the way the texture of their skin has changed, the lines that have appeared from well, laughing a lot these past years, and the way the shape of their faces are different. In all ways they are simply just... older. I have yet to wrap my mind around the idea that I'm in the stage of life that I'm in and my parents are in the stage of life that they're in. Getting married, having kids, your parents retiring -- all of those things seem like such far away events that would never happen but yet here I am in the very middle of it.

It's weird, good and bittersweet all at the same time.

I guess being in the profession that I'm in does this to you once in a while. It really hits you that life is made up of a bunch of fleeting moments. If you're lucky, you'll have some of those moments captured in a collection of photographs so that you can remember them forever.

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trevor + julie, proposal

Trevor had such an elaborate plan for his proposal to Julie and he let me in on it from the beginning! It involved an art gallery, a painting he did himself of the sky and a diamond ring in the middle disguised as a star. The artist info had Julie's name on it, along with the words, "Will you marry me?" Julie was totally blown away and in shock :) What a great success! After the emotional moment (which I photographed and kind of stunned Julie cuz she didn't know I'd be there haha) we hopped outside to do a really quick post-proposal shoot for literally 10 minutes or less because it was so windy outside!




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Big car accident on Wednesday

On the scene of the accident at Kennedy and Denison around 11am

I went to eat dim sum with my friend Audrey on Wednesday and it was actually at the corner of Kennedy and Denison. The intersection was blocked so we had to take a detour in order to get into the plaza where our restaurant was. I didn't realize that it was such a huge accident and Wilson was actually on scene with his crew helping to remove a guy from his car. It was pretty serious. Check out the images taken by the chief:

Car swerved on the road and then wrapped around a tree. Wife got out easily. Husband's hand and leg were trapped. His head was sliced open, brain exposed...

The chopper arrives and everyone helps lift him out of the car after they take it apart, section by section (there's Wilson holding the IV bag hehe)

Looks like a convertible now.

oooo, jose in singapore

Did I post about Jose before? I swear I did when he revamped his site but I can't find it and maybe I just did it in my head or in a dream haha

Jose Villa is one of my favourite photographers. He still shoot in film -- crazy man. I have a folder on my hard drive of just his images so I can look at em and be inspired. He just posted a wedding from Singapore and it looks so phenomenal. I don't get how all of his images look like he shot on an overcast day each time. The lighting is so even. I know he pushes his film a stop so that it get it slightly overexposed but I don't think that's what it is... he's just a genius. Let's leave it at that.

Wonder what kind of images I'm going to pump out when I go on my trip in a week...

This is how we roll

Yah, we do this at weddings too when no one's looking.