Christine Chang Photography

Here’s a picture of Angela in her room.  

I enjoy hanging around people younger than I.  Younger people, like those in my youth group at church, still have the world before them and it’s nice to be with kids who have alot of questions and are still a bit unsure about what is going to unfold before them.  I can relate in this aspect, because there are still questions that I ask every day, and there are still answers that I haven’t found.  

One of the big blessings in my life are my youth group kids.  I had some trouble relating to them when they came into youth group in the seventh grade: they had attention spans of bats and no one seemed to be listening more than a minute at a time (well those things don’t change sometimes so maybe I’ve adjusted).  But now they have grown up way too fast and many of them are not just the kids I see every weekend but instead, they are now my friends; people with whom I can completely be myself and not hold anything back.  I connect on a deeper level with them and now many of them are leaving for college.

A month ago I was challenged in a class to do a series, and I wanted to do an ugly sweater series.  Go to the thrift stores and come up with the ugliest sweaters that hit the light of day and do a fun fashion shoot.  So that idea got killed when my professor told me it’s supposed to be in black and white.

Then I thought about kids in their rooms.  I thought about how kids order their room the way they want to and how sometimes their personality and likes and dislikes surface in their room.  In any case, Angela’s room was one of my favorite assignments to do because I really enjoyed talking to her during the shoot.  I hadn’t seen her in a while, and seeing her room really brought me back to my room, and how sometimes my mom would try to clean up my room and I would be so frustrated because then I couldn’t find anything.  Yes, I suppose that sometimes there is disorder in order also.

Here’s the first in the series.  I’ll try to post some more pics as they get done.

I need to make a better effort to blog more often.  Perhaps once a week?  I know, a bit on the sparse side still, considering that some people update online about 3-4 times a day.  Lately I have been getting away from blogging and reading blogs.  Instead I’ve been busy with other things, and keeping in touch with family and friends via an old-fashioned cell phone or over a meal.  Now I try to limit my internet time to my photography business stuff, photography sites, and recipe sites.  It has been good for me because lately I’ve been quite busy with life bursting at the seams.  

When I was a kid my dad would always give me a journal every year, just something the salesmen at his company passed out to their clients to keep track of appointments and such.  Well it was a page a day and I remember journaling every day.  It was short though.  Most pages looked like this:

Today was a normal day.

I’m not sure why that was the most constant journal entry I’ve written, but I can say for sure that now my days are anything but normal, and I’m glad.  I try to switch it up every day so that I’m doing what I need to do, but at different times of the day.  Last week I got to take a break and go to the Getty and listen to the audio tour of the museum.  I only had time to cover one and a quarter exhibits.  What a deal.  5 bucks to learn about history and how the French used to have this style where high heels were made of glass chambers filled with water and a fish.  So these French society women would wear these shoes for a day and by the end of the day the fish would be dead.  Good thing that type of fashion faded quickly.

In any case, this week has been a bit of a breather, and then I finish off the year with two more weddings and a few events along the way to top off a very blessed year.  

Until next week, my fellow readers!

Got to tag along with my friend Rajiv, who has decided to follow his dreams (he was previously an engineer) in making people laugh. I’ve been missing his shows due to schedule conflicts and travelling, but I finally got to see him do his thing at the Laugh Factory. He was the funniest out of the entire group. It’s no wonder he opened for Russell Peters and Dave Chappelle.

He’s a brainy type of funny. He brings to comedy what Weezer brings to rock. Here’s his website: www.funnyindian.com

Here’s Rajiv hamming it up a few days before the show:

The Laugh Factory:

I’m still processing all of my pictures from July. Here’s a recent picture though of my friend Alice in New York. She’s a west coast girl but she loves the Yankees and New York life in general, so she recently moved out here to be a teacher for special ed kids. I can’t blame her for choosing New York, it’s a happening place to be.

Here she is, self-painted room and all. She misses her dog Toby, who is out in the West Coast with her parents.