Two weeks ago, I am so blessed and had a perfect trip to Melbourne. Two weeks later now, I am making another trip to Australia again, but this time I will be visiting Perth for a holiday with my wife, let’s hope it’s a great trip again!
Before I am off to Perth, here are some of my favorite photos which I’ve shot for Annette and Nicole, they are lovely sisters. All of us had a lot of fun during the photo session!
Photos time!
Annette…
Nicole…
I absolutely had a great trip to Melbourne, great weather, great coffee, beautiful city and not forgetting the relaxing St Kilda Beach….everything is just awesome! It was my 50% holiday + 50% work trip for a pre-wedding and a wedding shoot, it was so enjoyable to capture beautiful shots of a friendly couple and it was also so much fun to with work my buddies – Daren and Harn, you guys rock!! I definitely will plan to visit and to have more pre-wedding and wedding shoots in Melbourne again, hopefully very soon….
I will be posting the pre-wedding and wedding photos taken in Melbourne here, so stay tuned! But for now, go on and enjoy some snap shots from this trip.
My favorite cake shop in St Kilda Beach.
A street artist who is passionate about her work, she smiles a lot when she draws. Inspiring!
The cafe that I will go again in the city, great coffee here and served by a beautiful Japanese waitress. Opps! Please don’t tell my wife..haha!!
I will be traveling to Melbourne this month and Perth in April for some pre-wedding and wedding shoots. And of course, it’s spending some vacation time with my my wife as well. I really hope to enjoy my trip there. For couples who are interested to have their pre-wedding or engagement photo sessions taken in Perth from 7th to 10th April 2010 (It’s Autumn and it’s the best season for its colour and weather!) we still have one more slot to be filled up; and I promise this is one great offer that’s still in store for you. So…feel free to contact us here.
Here’s one more sneak peek before I am off to Australia!
Here is a true story about Christmas..
While Mary was still engaged to Joseph, she miraculously became pregnant through the Holy Spirit, as foretold to her by the angel. When Mary told Joseph she was pregnant, he had every right to feel disgraced. He knew the child was not his own, and Mary’s apparent unfaithfulness carried a grave social stigma. Joseph not only had the right to divorce Mary, under Jewish law she could be put to death by stoning.
Although Joseph’s initial reaction was to break the engagement, the appropriate thing for a righteous man to do, he treated Mary with extreme kindness. He did not want to cause her further shame, so he decided to act quietly. But God sent an angel to Joseph in a dream to verify Mary’s story and reassure him that his marriage to her was God’s will. The angel explained that the child within Mary was conceived by the Holy Spirit, that his name would be Jesus and that he was the Messiah, God with us.
When Joseph woke from his dream, he willingly obeyed God and took Mary home to be his wife, in spite of the public humiliation he would face. Perhaps this noble quality is one of the reasons God chose him to be the Messiah’s earthly father.
Joseph too must have wondered in awe as he remembered the words found in Isaiah 7:14, “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.” (NIV)
At that time, Caesar Augustus decreed that a census be taken, and every person in the entire Roman world had to go to his own town to register. Joseph, being of the line of David, was required to go to Bethlehem to register with Mary. While in Bethlehem, Mary gave birth to Jesus. Probably due to the census, the inn was too crowded, and Mary gave birth in a crude stable. She wrapped the baby in cloths and placed him in a manger.
Out in the fields, an angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds who were tending their flocks of sheep by night. The angel announced that the Savior had been born in the town of David. Suddenly a great host of heavenly beings appeared with the angels and began singing praises to God. As the angelic beings departed, the shepherds decided to travel to Bethlehem and see the Christ-child.
There they found Mary, Joseph and the baby, in the stable. After their visit, they began to spread the word about this amazing child and everything the angel had said about him. They went on their way still praising and glorifying God. But Mary kept quiet, treasuring their words and pondering them in her heart. It must have been beyond her ability to grasp, that sleeping in her arms—the tender child she had just borne—was the Savior of the world.
After Jesus’ birth, Herod was king of Judea. At this time wise men (Magi) from the east saw a star, they came in search, knowing the star signified the birth of the king of the Jews. The wise men came to the Jewish rulers in Jerusalem and asked where the Christ was to be born. The rulers explained, “In Bethlehem in Judea,” referring to Micah 5:2. Herod secretly met with the Magi and asked them to report back after they had found the child. Herod told the Magi that he too wanted to go and worship the babe. But secretly Herod was plotting to kill the child. So the wise men continued to follow the star in search of the new born king and found Jesus with his mother in Bethlehem. They bowed and worshipped him, offering treasures of gold, incense and myrrh. When they left, they did not return to Herod. They had been warned in a dream of his plot to destroy the child. ( Courtesy of About.com )
Merry Christmas!
Here are my favorite Christmas songs, enjoy!
