Married // Charlene + Geoff
I started the wedding season quite early this year! in January! Charlene and Geoff got married on a beautiful, sunny but chilly, Saturday afternoon at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Grove City. It had been cold all week but the sun came out for their wedding! I was introduced to Charlene through one of the bridesmaids, Alice, who recommended me to be their wedding photographer! Luckily, Charlene liked my work and gave me a call. And now here are the photographs!
Hairspray!
Charlene got her hair and makeup done at New Wave Salon in Columbus
their rings are made out of recycled silver!
all smiles!
I saw you sneak a peek at me!
boom! married!
Love my new lens! It's so sharp!
Although it was sunny, it still was cold!
took awhile to get, but we got the jumping shot!
I love when dads tell embarrassing stories!
A nice moment
I think kids always have the best time at receptions!
Charlene and Geoff, thank you so much for letting me be apart of your day! Wish you all the best back in NYC!
Victor
Retreat Recap Video/New Years
Over Winter Break, I attended my church's Winter Youth Retreat. It was a blast seeing all these guys get pumped up and really learn about who God is and what He is about. I was asked to serve in the roles of worship and video. Every year, there is a mistake that I make and something that I learn. I'm always humbled in some sort of way and this year was no different. There were times that I stepped in when I shouldn't have, there were times where I should have trusted where I didn't; there were times that I spoke when I should have just stayed quiet. It just really shows my weaknesses and what areas I severely lack in. Although the retreat theme was Passion, I felt God speaking to me in a different way. I felt God was speaking to me about a time of quiet and of stillness, to really be still and quiet and listen.
Being a photographer, student, worship leader, and a small group leader, doesn't really give me much time. So my time with God easily gets pushed off to the side. Which is awful =/ I feel very convicted and sad that I have neglected the one thing that should be first and foremost. I have been so focused on taking care of everyone else that I have forgotten to take care of myself. So this is where I am. I know what I need to do.
Whoo, that was a loaded little post. Sorry about that ><
Alright! In addition to doing some worship while I was at retreat. I was in charge of doing all the video there (by myself). The night before the end of the retreat, I stayed up in the cafeteria until 5:30am editing the video so that it would be able to be shown at the Praising into the New Year. So here it is! Instead of calling it a SDE (same day edit), you could call it a SRE (same retreat edit), get it?! hahaha...
Victor
Hacked!
Over my vacation/break, I was hacked by someone...I don't know who, but I came back from my retreat with a text message stating that something was wrong with my website! I quickly called my webmaster Kevan and explained to him the situation. Since he was also on break, he did some quick magic and got my website back but the blog was still down. I wanted him to enjoy his break so I told him to do it after =)
We are officially back! YAY! Thank you Kevan for being awesome and as always so helpful to me and my business. I couldn't do it without you.
Meet Sarah + Ted // Engagement
Meet Sarah and Ted! Right as I sat down at the Starbucks we were meeting, I knew that this was a pretty cool couple! I think they have a really cool life story, especially how they met! I can't reveal too much, but let's just say they met through mutual friends who were dating but about to break up. They say that they don't photograph well. But after photographing them for their engagement session at Scioto Mile, I kind of don't believe them. I'll let you decide!
I wanted to do the shoot indoors since it's december and...really cold outside, but they convinced me to photograph them outside. Although it was cold, I think they were right to shoot it outside. I got some really good photographs! Thank you to my lovely assistant Paul Woo, who is currently in Kenya on a mission trip, I couldn't have done it without you.
Sometimes mid sentence photographs are pretty awesome
Huddle/Cuddle for warmth!
I rarely do silhouette photographs, but I snuck a couple in. I really like this one alot
You guys look pretty awesome in this one.
The bridge lights up at night with a whole bunch of LED's and this is the result. Some awesome photos!
Columbus skyline
In addition to the engagement session, they requested a design for a save the date! I had my good friend/designer Norman Ai do the design and he came up with this awesome Save the Date! They wanted to do a combined Christmas card and Save the Date. Good stuff!
front
back
Sarah and Ted, I look forward to photographing your wedding next year!
Victor!
Early Merry Christmas
This break has been pretty busy in terms of work. Right after finals were over, life/work decided to dump everything on my plate. So far, this has been break for me:
shoot video, edit video, worship practice, meet with clients, shoot photographs, edit photographs, shoot videos, edit videos, meet with clients, worship practice, sprinkle hangout times, sprinkle in not much sleep.
As much as it is draining, I am grateful, thankful, and blessed to be doing things I love.
But, I need to really get some R&R in, so I am going on vacation for a week! I most likely have to do some work while I'm there, but I plan on sitting by the pool, read some books that have been sitting on the shelf collecting dust, and eating a lot of food!
This Christmas, I am not going to my parents since I have to prep for retreat. So this will be the first Christmas I spend alone away from family. It will be alright, because I need some time to myself to reflect on everything that has happened this year.
And to keep me busy, I bought myself some early Christmas presents. Yay! In addition to being a photographer, I am also a musician, so I bought myself a Akai MPK25 which is a synth machine. This enables me to produce and make music, so I'm excited to see where that leads! Also, I bought something for the business. A new lens! Yay! I haven't bought a new lens in a couple of years. It was time to update/upgrade. My clients deserve the best quality images and this new lens will help me do that.
Anyways, have a Merry Christmas from Boris Honeycomb and I. Remember why we celebrate Christmas (Jesus).
Victor