DJ

Recently my friend Destiny (a.k.a. DJ) helped me with the music note silhouette photo (shown on the first blog post). While we were out shooting I couldn't help but want to do a  portrait shoot with her. Let's talk about modeling skills, she had possibly more ideas coming out of her head than me! As a photographer this shoot really helped me refine my personal taste. Anyone who knows her would agree no doubt that she has this contagious brightness that makes you feel so good when you're around her. Lucky me to have a friend like her. :) Thanks DJ! 

Enjoy.

M Kat

Chill

Last week, I was lucky to have time to simply...

chill. :)

M Kat

Candy Cry

When my husband and I were in Japan earlier this year, we came across a company named Papabubble in a big shopping area. They were giving out samples, so I gave it a try. Thank goodness they did. That was the best candy I've ever tasted in my life. Coming back to Los Angeles, I found that there is a location in Pasadena, so I had to check it out & of course do a photo shoot using their candy. Fortunately, the candy here was just as good as back in Japan :)

This is my favorite shot of the candy that was shot with my friend Rachel.

M Kat

Thanksgiving Sushi

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Yesterday for Thanksgiving I got to once again enjoy my family's Japanese style Thanksgiving meal. Japanese style, meaning replacing the turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, etc with... sushi! This new tradition started about a few years ago, when around one Thanksgiving-time, my mother said that she was tired of cooking similar meals for both Thanksgiving and Christmas (mashed potatoes, bread, green beans, corn etc.), so my parents decided to change the tradition for Thanksgiving and ordered sushi as the main dish. We haven't gone back ever since. So now during Thanksgiving instead of having turkey, lucky me, I get to eat some sushi. I really enjoy this new thing going on. :) 

M Kat

Los Angeles Auto Show

Ever since my husband & I started dating, we've gone on dates about once a week, whether it be a small or big date. Even after over two years of marriage, we've kept the once a week tradition going. This may mostly be because I'm an outside person - if I don't go out at least once a day my mind will go a little crazy but on the contrary he can be a home-body quite comfortably. Generally for our dates we end up going somewhere that I want, so last week when we decided to go to the Los Angeles Auto Show I was very excited, because this was something that he wanted to attend! Just saying, I do feel bad that we always go where I want (I'm just far pickier than he is about things, places, etc.)! My husband is a huge car guy, he loves cars. In fact he enjoyed rally driving as a hobby! That day was particularly good because we got to do something that again, he wanted to do. So as he got to check out all sorts of cars & do a test drive, I ended up taking pictures of the cars that particularly stood out from an artistic viewpoint.

Here they are:

Oddly I didn't get very satisfying shots of the innovative automobiles that I personally liked the most like the ones that are trying to be more sustainable, but there were sure some beautiful cars there. My husband and I both had a good time there :).

M Kat 

Beauty is in the eye of the...

Throughout my life I've come across many conversations about the topic of beauty. It is an interesting thing to hear people express their different ideas about what makes somebody beautiful. To each person, his or her perceived beauty is just as real as the beauty conceived by another who has a completely different perspective. Of course many of us can become unknowingly convinced that what is beautiful is what many advertisements and commercially sold images portrays. For example, myself. Just yesterday when I was at Sephora with my friend, I saw a photo of what I thought was a very pretty girl on the wall and thought "Wow I want to look like her" and I even showed my friend.

But really what is beauty? Is it to be pretty? What's the difference? Though I can sometimes mix the words around, when I think about it, there is a clear difference between the two words.

If I were to portray this formula about the two words: Pretty = skin deep, superficial & Beauty = deep, meaningful, would you agree?

This is not to say that being pretty is bad at all. I mean who can blame somebody for coming off as really pretty to someone else? Good for you! Nice face, nice photo, nice artwork etc. My hope though is that we as a society don't stop at "pretty." I hope we don't end up as a shallow nation. When I stop to think about the word beauty, it always reaches the divine. Something beautiful, is meaningful. I hope that we as a people, when we interact with another person do not end the conversation by just "looking" at a person. I hope we can find something beautiful about someone, something, or somewhere, and can create a beautiful nation, beautiful world. :)

 

New Layout

Making a webpage for M Kat Photography has been an interesting journey, and though there is so much I still don't understand about working a website I'm slowly catching on. It's a nice journey. So I switched to this layout because it seems more story-telling-y. Though I hope to pay some bills & save for my little family through a few photo shoots with clients, my main goal with this is to send a message and share my thoughts & vision through photography, so this layout seemed to have a great layout for it! Let's see how it goes. How this layout is, it will definitely require consistent blogging. I better get the blogging act together! 

Last week I had this itch for creation, itch for inspiration so I thought of this idea of "putting soul into music". I want this finished product to ask questions such as "What kind of soul is in your music?". "How does your music make you feel?".

Thank you DJ for being the model for the silhouettes :).