I LOVE Cafe places, not a big fan of Coffees BUT I love the other stuff they offer like cakes! Tea! Atmosphere! This weekend I went to Cafe Maxim with Kristine! I ordered Cold Mochaccino, Mango Mousse cake, Tiramisu cake. Here’s the good stuff:

E-portrait setting on my Olympus E-P1.

On another note, I got my Candy Doll mineral powder! Yeah, it’s Japanese. You can only get it in Japan. So I asked my friend’s sister nicely if she can get me one because she was coming here to Toronto, Canada.

All photos taken with my new Olympus Pen E-p1 camera!

Lina is very lovely in person! If you meet her, she’s really friendly! I intended to do her portraits as soon as I can but our schedules did not match and then she had to go to Dominican Republic for vacation. She got back from Dominican Republic and got tanned! It was nice, but she didn’t want to take portraits when she was tanned because she’s normally light skinned. Lina wanted her light skin for her portraits because that’s her, naturally. I agreed that portraits should show the person in their natural way and their personality. And here are my favourites and also hers! She helped me select her photos

Look its a painting of me and Lina! Well, not really, but just pretend

Happy Monday!

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I’m off to more editing!

(I should really go for a jog since it’s a nice weather and the light is golden outside…)

I know my last post said I would get some rest, but guess what? I couldn’t sleep! The past weekend was a little hectic for me. In a good way. But you know what I forgot about it already, because I just finished editing these adorable kids! Noah and Sophia are siblings. The morning we got to the location of our shoot they were already cooperating! The session went smoothly, I even got a big hug from these cuties! This was no ordinary portrait photography for children. We got STACKED! Aaron and Jenny from Stacked Rentals were also there with us to provide props for the vintage theme we were going for. Enjoy!

Here are the rest from Stephanie’s portrait session. I’m gonna tell you it is worth the wait! She’s such a sweetheart! After her photoshoot session, we went to Pacific Mall (Asian mall here in Toronto) and got bubble tea and those pancake waffles! But anyway she’s super nice! But I’ll let the photos do the talking.

Goodnight!

Izakaya: a Japanese bar offering alcoholic beverages and snacks (Dictionary.com)

So, I love food. I like trying out new places and dishes. I am not a food or restaurant critic so please don’t take my opinion as a general review, this is just my opinion, and I want to share it with everyone

Japanese sake. I didn’t have some! It was just on display, I swear.

Salmon sashimi.

I think this was fish salad, I forgot. Lucas makes me try different types of food and this was another one of them.

Takoyaki! mmmmm…

Uni. Lucas made me try uni by itself a while back. I was hesitant at first. But I tried it. In my opinion, the after taste is a little bitter and the texture is too soft and fragile.

This was Beef something. =/ It was on a sizzling platter.

Frozen grapes at the end of the meal. So cute.

They don’t have a website yet. I know, I like looking at websites too. But they said they’re working on it because they just recently opened up their restaurant.

Fin Izakaya
55 Eglinton Avenue East,
Toronto, ON M4P1G8
(647) 347-3864

Okay, so I updated the blog a little bit

For now, enjoy!

Happy Tuesday!

I listen to the radio or my iPod Touch almost everyday in my car and I hear almost every song that’s new out there or that’s been in top 40s or something like that. I’m not really a celebrity-fanatic type of person. So, last Friday I went out to with my friend and her sister. A couple of hours later the night was dying down and thought I’d leave a little earlier. Then, they announced a performance from Danny Fernandes. In my head, “that name seems familiar, but I can’t put a face on it”. He performed, “Private Dancer” and “Down” or something like that, I’m also not a know-it-all music person. But yes he performed a couple of his songs. I got to take photos of him and got to take a photo with him. Just thought it would be cool to have a photo with an artist. =P I guess you can say this is my first time in a somewhat “concert” hehehe.

His back-up dancers.

His bodyguard, I believe.

Let me tell you, Christo is so adorable! I just want to bite his cheeks! 7 months old in these portraits

look at that innocent smile

he loves making faces like me!

ahh yes, he’s even cuter when he cries!

look at those tiny hands & feet! Oh! That one foot is curling up its toes!

he was totally not listening to me anymore at this point haha.

I love babies they’re so cute, especially their cheeks!

Anastasia, you are blessed with a wonderful son! I had a pleasure working with both of you!

Happy Mother’s Day everyone!

Cupcakes are from The Cupcake Shoppe – they’re soooooo good!

So we took a mini video of her routine! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a videographer, I’m a photographer but I do love playing around with the iMovie software

Diana Kwon Rhythm Gymnastics from ARTIESE Photography on Vimeo.

For those of you who is viewing this on mobile, here’s the Youtube alternate link:

Diana Kwon’s Rhythm Gymnastics