New Weblog’s Up!
October 1st, 2009
Redirect your bookmarks, this is currently the Christine Chang’s old blog. Check out the new pizazz-y weblog, it has been four months in the making!
YAY!!
Welcome
February 17th, 2009
You are currently visiting Christine Chang Photography’s blog site. Thanks for dropping by! Feel free to look around. Get a glimpse of who I am and what I do.
For those of you who are here because you’re interested in wedding photography, Christine Chang Photography is also known as C Wedddings. You can check out my portfolio on the main site or you can look to your right and click on the weddings and engagements categories. Also, here are the packages that I offer, and here’s two entries about the albums that I carry, here and here.
Feel free to email me (christine at christinechangphotography.com) if you have any questions or comments.
The Office
January 6th, 2009
I’m long overdue for an office makeover. I’ve always been on the messier side, so I usually try to claim the creative artist’s exemption. But seriously, I can be clean. It’s just that I need to find a home for everything. I’m not exactly a pack rat either, throwing things away gives me alot of joy. It’s just that sometimes the paperwork piles up, and little things, like this expired coupon, get kept for too long.
Additionally I’ve also acquired more photo equipment last year than usual so they need a home too. This business is currently in its toddler stages and the kid that is my business needs to learn how to put her toys in the toy box. Don’t you like it when I personify my business? It makes me feel less guilty when I look at this pile on my desk:
Pictures are close up–I’m saving the wider angle lens for when the office is done. For this project I will be enlisting the help of Ikea and the readers of this blog for accountability. Feel free to email me and ask how the office project is going. I’ll try to update as I go. My goal is to get this office revamped by the end of January.
Hope everyone had a great holiday season! This year because of my shooting schedule I got to stay home and let me tell you, the traffic in LA is perfect during Christmas and New Year’s. Everyone’s gone and the freeways were not congested at all. As an LA veteran usually I schedule everything around times when the traffic is low, but this season it was pretty clear at most times.
You know traffic in LA is bad when that’s the first thing you think of when people ask you how your holiday season was. But all in all it was a nice break, time with husband, family and friends. Oh, and I tried a slice of baguette with blue cheese and honey for the first time. It’s supposed to be really good with champagne. But I thought it was all right. Maybe I’m just a cheese whiz and crackers kind of girl.
I also got to take a short weekend trip to Vegas and see one of my friends win a small poker tournament and another friend hit a royal flush in pai gow. I love watching people play poker, perhaps more than I love playing poker myself.
My 2009 is off to a great start. Hope the same is true for you!
Post-Great Bridal Expo
May 30th, 2008
The Great Bridal Show was….great! Not only great as in lovely, but great as in big. I think I talked to about 500 brides. Some brides were from as near as Alhambra, and a few were from Hawaii and Las Vegas. Some of you were inquiring for a wedding in 2010! Most of you seemed glad to be in the air-conditioned convention center and out of the 110 degrees of OC heat.
This month consisted of much email exchange; thanks to all of you who got in touch with me this month and took advantage of the 20% discount. I know sorting through all of those pamphlets can be time consuming, so if you still need time deciding take your time. Though the 20% discount promotion ends this month (that’s in two days! May 31st at 11:59 PM Pacific time!), if I’m still in the running to shoot your wedding pictures go ahead and give yourself some insurance; send me an email before June 1 saying you’re interested (no obligation at this point) and I’ll extend the discount for you until you decide. Though this does not guarantee that your date won’t be filled up it does give all of you some more time to think without worrying about the discount.
Here are ten memories that I will keep with me since this is the first bridal show ever that I’ve done (not necessarily in any order):
1) New respect for all of the entrepreneurs out there. They work the hardest! From carrying a ten-pound bamboo divider for what seemed like half a mile to going the extra mile to serve our customers, I was humbled by what it takes to simply and practically execute a dream.
2) My sister driving all the way down to help me. I think it will be the only day in her life when she says, “Hi! Enter to win a free digital frame!”, and, “Have you found a photographer yet?” at least 100 times.
3) Standing on Tommy Hilfiger sandal/heels all day and feeling okay. I have wide (and big) feet so this was a Godsend.
4) Meeting a bride named Christine Chang. She is taller and more beautiful than I! Though there are plenty of Christine Changs out there I have actually never met one in person.
5) Kindness: from the janitor lending me his screwdriver to the DJ next door lending me a rolling cart and offering kind words.
6) Close friends who prayed for me, offered me support, and were excited for me. A few of you even lent your hands and embossed my business cards for me! I was touched.
7) Seeing my church kids in the evening for youth group after a long day. I told the kids ahead of time that I was going to be late and upon arrival one exasperated kid said, “It’s about time!!!”
8. While I was gone for the day my husband went out with friends and brought home for me this insane meatball sandwich with cheese, corned beef, pepperoni, and what looked like a meat conglomerate and it was the first meal I had eaten all day…at 10pm.
9) Lying in bed at the end of the day and feeling all of the muscles in my body, I was sore from all of the moving.
10) Through all of this God really carried me through. Things would be a lot more difficult had I not depended on Him. To quote Homer Simpson, “THANK YOU JEEBUS!!!”
The rest
February 24th, 2008
(L to R) On September 6, 2007, Grant and Oliver Mass enjoy the last days of summer as well as their Sponge Bob Popsicles, purchased by their caretaker from an ice cream truck on California Avenue in Santa Monica, California. The Sponge Bob is their favorite type of popsicle, and here they begin by gnawing off their favorite part first, the eyeballs on Sponge Bob.
Barbershops
August 7th, 2007
Update
August 6th, 2007
Recently I have been assigned a page every Friday at The Santa Monica Daily Press. My job is to walk around different parts of Santa Monica and document life as it is, and as usual, it has been refreshing meeting others and catching moments. My husband always likes to plan and plan some more before doing a task, and in doing photojournalistic assignments his personality has rubbed off on me and I have been doing that also. But in the “day in the life of” essays I think my editor is challenging me to think of solutions at the moment and, for this assignment, not to worry about so much preplanning. By this time I think my editor knows my weaknesses, so what he seemingly does is he keeps on giving me challenging assignments so that I can strengthen my weaknesses. It’s great, especially after I complete the assignment and think of what I’ve learned.
Here are some pictures from the weekly photo essays:
Summer
June 28th, 2007
Little League
June 8th, 2007
