Kerry Ling

Meagan and Mat Engagement Session in SF

2009-09-21T22:33:00.000-07:00

This engagement session in taken in September 6th, I am behind on my photo stuff for a big reason. I am selling my house and looking for new one!!! I am going to miss my current house. Put a lot effort and work in it.

Back Meagan and Mat. They are in the hollywood filming industry so they were from LA. They do special effect for movies like Transformer 2!!! GEEE, if they are the God behind Transformer 2, they are IT!!! So ... I ask them if my work is like child play to them, they told me I can't compare the two. Photography is just a difference kind of Arts and they do admire my work. I was so happy.

8-15-09 Ellie and Eric (E+E)

2009-08-16T23:48:00.000-07:00

8 - 1 - 09 + Helene + Jason = San Jose Downtown + Wedding

2009-08-04T02:16:00.000-07:00

Helene told me that she is a make up artist the first time I meet her. I could't helped but kept starring at her model like body and thought "geee... sweet". Jason wasn't there the first we meet but I asked Helene for his photo. KaChun, tall handsome man. Well I couldn't tell hisbody height from a picture, I asked Helene. I was so excited and so eager to get on board to shoot their wedding. I guess Helene could see that from my face of how bad I wanted it. A big ear puppy jumpped around a beautiful girl sticking out long tougne and swinging mouth water all over. I can't help, it was the kind of wedding that we professional photographers looking forward to shoot.

In the wedding day, I arrived to Sainte Claire Hotel a whole an hour and a half earlier!! I just can't wait. When I got to the suite, the first thing I ask Helene was "where is the wedding gown?". I knew she is an artist, but deep down I still worried that how the gown look. My worry was totally un-necessary!!! The gown was beautiful and it was one of the best I have seen in my career.

The hotel, Sainte Claire Hotel. Sitting in the middle of the downtown San Jose. CLASSIC! Beaiful inside out! I don't even need to going anywhere for portrait. I did it right in front it. Couldn't find anything better than this, one of my favor city backdrop. See it yourself.

I took my iPhone out from my pocket, it read 11:55am August 2nd, our contract end at 11:00pm so I had ran over almost an hour for this lovely couple already. But it was a busy wedding day and we didn't have time to do the night portrait till now. And the party was just began on the dance floor. I couldn't care about my signed up time anymore, got to finish it. So, I pulled Helene and Jason out from reception party we rushed out for some night portrait. Downtown San Jose is so gorgous in the midnight. I love city night live, I love my shoots.

12:30pm Mission Accomplished

My good friend Michael and Phiona haved finally left CLUB SINGLE

2009-07-14T00:50:00.000-07:00

June 28th, 2009 Donald and Evelyn Wedding

2009-06-29T17:27:00.000-07:00

Donald called me about 2 weeks ago trying to look for photographers of this Tea Ceremony and Reception. The event turned out to be something pretty big, Especially the group size of the wedding party.

A big group of wedding party is not a easy thing to handle during the wedding day. Even harder, when the temperature was like 100F. Donald did really well as the wedding coordinator in such a hot day. And remember, he was also the Groom.

I am confused myself in this photo of how the mirrors were arranged???

Creative, chinese door game inside a hotel suite. The Bridemaids used chairs as a gate to block the stairway to the upstair. Donald and his groom men had to accomplish Mission Impossible to get to Evelyn.

Evelyn is Grad Student major in graphic design and Donald works for Silverlign. Silerlign a graphic design compamy. They decorated the reception location in 2 hours!!! Take a good look, the theme, the color and the unique huge projection of the chinese charactor "double happiness" with their names under it. It was all done so beautifully and professionally.

The wedding party designed a great game. The blind folded Donald and put him in one corner of the dance floor, and the put Evelyn at the other corner. And then they also placed a lot of bottles on the dance floor, between Evelyn and Donald. Donald had to get to the Evelyn and the only thing he could relied on was the direction given by the Evelyn. They did well initial and then the groom men started moving all the bottles infront of him. Man!!! they even staged up the bottles in front of him!!! So he couldn't step over them!! Haven't mentioned that Donald had to drink a bottle of beer for each bottle he knocked out.

May 25th 2009 - Michael and Phiona Engagement

2009-05-27T21:25:00.000-07:00

Michael was my coworker. We worked for the same large semi-conductor compamy and we both quit about 2 years ago. And we remain good friend. He once helped assist one of my wedding shooting because I couldn't find any help.
I first meet Phiona in a BBQ party in my house, Michael bring her along. It was the first time I saw them together and I could already felt that they match each other perfectly. And I was right, they are going getting marry in July. Sure enough, I will be their wedding photographer. It will also be the first wedding I shot with the present of my wife and my kids as the guess of the wedding.

May 16th, 2009 Emily and David Wedding

2009-05-20T01:14:00.000-07:00

Now, some indication of how hot is that day. How many feet are fighting to get into the ice bucket?

Leslie and Kelvin Reception Party in Apirl 25

2009-05-18T23:19:00.000-07:00

Posted are some highlights for Leslie and Kelvin in their Reception Party. I normal find shooting reception less exciting than bride/groom getting ready and ceremony, but this time, I had tons of fun.

Pay attention to the next two shoot and try to get my intention of displaying them together.

April 3, 2009 Fay and Damon Wedding

2009-05-14T00:15:00.001-07:00

Remember Fay and Damon? I shoot their engagement back in December. I have shoot their wedding in April. Here is some highlight to the event. We had 3 hour before ceremony and we went to 3 locations for wedding portraits. I love this kind of wedding that give me lot of opportunity for creativities.

This photos was based on a observation I made during getting ready where I saw multiple frame embedded in frames, up to 3 layers. Count carefully and you can see more than 4 frames was capture in one getting ready shot. Before you have noticed it, your eyes and your mind is already accepted and approved it.

San Franciso Wedding Photography - Emily and David Engagement in Fairmont Hotel, Janurary 23rd, 2009

2009-01-26T00:09:00.000-08:00

Happy new year and Happy lunar new year!!

I was so glad that my first official photo shooting this year was the Engagemnet of Emily and David . I can conclude the entire evening in two simple words - BREATH TAKING.
Emily and David are very young and very beautiful, they are camera magnet. It was a true pleasure to work with couple this gorgeous and classy. If you pay enough attention to detial, you can see that they had put in lot of effort on the preparation for this engagement session, their out fits blend into difference rooms in the shooting location.

Speaking of the location. What do you thing? Do you want to take photo over there? Ofcourse you do, you can do it but prepare to spend big to get in there. It is the president suite of the San Francisco Fairmont Hotel. Sitting on the top of Nob Hill, we can out look the heart of the city of San Francisco form the balcony of the the president suite. The hotel has been standing for more than a hundred year witness the up and down of San Francisco. This suite is big, it takes up the whole top floor of the hotel. I got lost during my first hour over there. According the David, every single president of United State had lived in this suite before except for ofcourse Obama.

Also like to mention that this is my first official shooting in 09, it is the first task of my 1 month oldEOS 5D Mark 2. And agian my first time to shoot in San Francisco Fairmont. I say my 2009 has a very impressive starting and I surely will keep pushing with the strong momentum, arrow ahead the year of OX.

December 20, 2008 Aileen and Eddie Wedding

2008-12-28T02:25:00.000-08:00

It was cold, in Aileen and Eddie wedding day, in San Francisco. But I was wearing short sleeve, why?? It was their passion and love, this cute newly wed couple had melted me away. As a matter of fact, the whole wedding party was a like a big burning oven, see the photos for the heat they were radiated!

Fay and Damon Engagement

2008-12-08T00:31:00.000-08:00

September 20, 2008 Akiko and Hiroshi Reception

2008-09-21T11:25:00.000-07:00

Later afternoon, blue sky, champagne glasses, Tux's and high heels, rose padels, convertible, dance and laughters... and shutter clicks...

Thank you "My Day" to assign to me such a beauful event. See it for yourself...

This event was a Reception party for Akiko and Hiroshi's Friend in US, they already had their ceremony in Japan. The location of this reception is in Dolce Hayes Mansions in San Jose. The environment of the hotel is very good, you can see all of the photos were taken in the hotel area. Akiko and Hiroshi has done a very good job organized this event, to ensure that their friends were comfortable and entertained. At the same time managed to keep the photographers busy:> (That certainly wasn't in their agenda but more like a side effect).

Beautiful host always have beautiful guests.

Jason, my 2nd photographer has also done an excellent job capturing beautiful moments like this one. I am in this shot, can you find me?

A week before the event, I called up Akiko to talk about event detail. She mentioned that at the end of the party, their friends would line up with sparklers to make a sparkler tunnel. I was very excited about this opportunity as I have not photographed this famous sparkler tunnel before. So I did some research on how this is normally photograph. To my surprise, I couldn't find much info online. So I created a plan which allow me to make quick adjust based on the difficulty situation. My planning work paid off, and the outcomming is nothing short from stunning.

September 13, 2008 Jaclyn and Brandon Wedding

2008-09-14T20:07:00.000-07:00

It is quite a coincident that I had photographed 2 weddings in the same location in a row. That also tells that Chateau La Joye in La Honda is a very popular location for wedding.

I knew the Jaclyn and Brandon for more than a year and a half now. They were planning for their wedding when Jacyln found that she was pregnant, so the wedding was prosponed to yesterday. I knew their wedding will be fun because they were so playful and stylish during the engagement session. I am such a prophecer!! The wedding was full of laughter and joy. I was charged by all the energy around me.

Also meet Sharon the videographer of Sharon and Isaac Photography. She told me she has just moved from Philadelpia. wish her luck and friendships in California.

Am I right? I told you that everybody was enjoying it. See, look at junior
Brandon, even their baby was so cheerful.

I designed my web HOME

2008-09-12T14:42:00.000-07:00

As many of you have already known, I have been working on my new website for a while. Technically, I should not say I am working on it, since I have hired professional to do it.

You know WHAT!!! I can't wait any longer, and I am also eager to try for myself, to find out how hard is web building. So, in 2 days I did a little reading on HTML and I finished REMODELing my web HOME, by pazzled pieces of html pages, frames and flash together. It is temporarily only, and before the grant new web MANSION is completed, this is my new web HOME. 100% Kerry Ling production, just like my photowork.

Front Page, one link to got to web HOME and one go to this blog

hehe... Sorry, I am still working on the "i select" page. Promise I will finish it this weekend.

Hey Hey Hey!! Don't click on the screenshoots. They are images only, you are still in my blog. Want to see it in action? Go to my web HOME" <--now you can click this

A Beauty, City of San Francisco and Photographer

2008-09-06T22:33:00.000-07:00

It was a hot day. Above 90F in San Francisco. If photograph can produce smell, you probably would smell my sweat now. Hehe, just kidding. Please,don't close my page, it won't smell I swear.

It was the day we picked and we sticked to it, no matter how hot the weather was. Luckily, We always planned ahead and studied all the locations before we went, making this hot day flew. We did taken some longer break between locations but that didn't make much problem. But it wasn't making it much easier for Phiona thought.

Speaking of her, I would like to give a big thank you to her, Fiona, she is the model. She is a awesome, isn't she? A great model, She is fast, natural, focus, very professional and her beauty... muuuu... Jaw dropping!! And you know what, she was doing this for just her friend.. free of CHARGE!!! ARRR, want to be her friend? there is a long waiting list, so keep trying, yeah!!!

I would also like to give a big thank you to Sandra and Marria in Royal Formal. Not only did they gave big discount on the wedding gown, they helped customized it to fit Fiona in less than 3 days, with ZERO extra charge for the rush.

The purpose for the day, idea execution/comfirmation and experiment technique, teaching and new equipement testing. Why didn't we do it on client weddings? Because this was risked free, stress free, no time limitation,enjoyable and most importantly, it was done without anyhow imposed on client expense. The day was a big success, and I decided this will be something we will be continuously doing every now and then. And we are also currently looking for sponsors.

Family day with a our new family member Happy

2008-09-02T00:11:00.000-07:00

Happy is her name. She shown up one day in front of our house and it wouldn't leave so I took it in temporarily. I found her owner later by street posting and her owner couldn't spent time taken care of her because of his job travel requirement. He asked if we can take her and we were thrilled. My son Jonas and my daugther Katie felt kind of sad known that I found its owner. And they jumped up and down when they heard about the good new. So here is our new family member - Happy.

She is 3 years old. She like caughing ball, she seem to enjoy that more with little kids. Well she has lot of opportunity doing that in the park half a block from my house.

My daughter complaint about that Happy seems to have a high preference to play OTHER kids. But she get tired of playing with Happy after a little while.

Jonas is never a animal person and just like many of the other boys, he rather play with Petz on Nintendo DS. But Happy made him changed a little, he like to take him to the park.

Augest 23, 2008 Jennifer and Jason Wedding

2008-08-24T10:28:00.000-07:00

Sweet, very sweet, is best way to decribe this newly wedded couple, Jennifer and Jason. Location for both ceremony and reception are set in Chateau La Joye in La Honda, this cozy little cottage give a lot of variation for difference photography style. And it perfect fit this mid size around 70 guest wedding.

Arrived 3:20pm, 40 minutes ahead of her assigned schedule, I asked my 2nd photography to head out to look for Jason the Groom, and I went straight to the Getting Ready Room. Jennfer had not had her wedding gown on... 30 minutes before the ceremony scheduled time!! Hey, needless to say, she is waiting for someone... the photographers! me! She looked so stunningly beautiful even before the gown, credit also to the hair dresser who I had not meet.