New Website to Celebrate 2 Years!!!

Yay!

On February 5 of this year, NTME Photography celebrated its 2 year anniversary!  I am just so thankful as I didn't know what to expect when I started this business.. they say you should have a plan, but all I knew is that I enjoyed taking pictures and wanted to touch the lives of others through doing this!

2 years later though, I do have a plan, I have goals I wish to reach, and dreams that I will entrust to God.  No matter what happens, I just pray I will be allowed to keep doing what I love as it really has brought such happiness in my life.

I know I just unveiled a website like last August, but here I am again!  I've been using Showit for my webdesign, and felt that I wasn't using it to its full potential, so suddenly I found myself redesigning it over the past 2 weeks.  Thanks to everyone who helped me through my rounds of edits, your input was VERY valuable and I definitely incorporated  a lot of suggestions into my final design.

I put the link at the bottom of the post, as I hope you will go along for a journey with me through the post first HAHAHA :)

Here's some screen shots of my original site:

Main entrance page:

Wedding home page:

Now here's the EVOLUTION.. What I first started with, it's definitely a bit busy and hard to keep the focus on the center panel where all the images would be.  But I liked the personality, as it reflects me HAHAHAHA:

Gallery home page draft:

And this is what I ended up with (more focus on the panel where the images will be, as a lot of people suggested to make it bigger and everything else smaller).  I wanted it to reflect my personality but not to the point that it's ... too playful?  So I toned it down a bit.

Gallery page final:

Main entrance page:

 Weddings home page:

 About us!

Portrait home page 

(I decided to still keep a bit more of the .. color and my random facts panel with the portrait site lol):

Blog page:

Hope you like!  I am feeling very accomplished since I designed it myself.  I guess when you don't have the extra thousands laying around to get someone to do a redesign for you, you do what you can with what you got HAHAHAHA!  I'm very happy with the redesign and feel it's SOOO ME!!!!

Love you all!

Thanks so much for the 2 years, please help me to reach my 3rd by spreading the word :)

www.ntmephotography.com

WHAT?! It's Been 3 Years!? Happy Anniversary :)

So, yesterday marked Fred and my 3rd wedding anniversary!!! YAY!!!

Thanks to everyone who greeted us or 'liked' my status on facebook :)  We felt so loved - 56 likes is like a record for me HAHAHAHAH!!!  Maybe I just need more friends LOL!

Thanks be to God for blessing our marriage and allowing us to reach another year of happiness together!!  I truly believe in soulmates.. for I have been blessed with mine, and I cannot even begin to fathom all the miraculous ways in which God works.  For it was HIM who brought us together, even though we grew up on different sides of the country... everything just fell into place.  We started going out on August 9, 2007, and exactly one year later, August 9, 2008, we were married.  I guess you just... KNOW sometimes.. yeah, you just do.

So happy 4 year anniversary of our first date, and happy 3 year anniversary of when we said, "I do"!!  Fred is truly a blessing in my life.  He is so patient, so loving, so understanding, so many more wonderful things.. I don't know how I got so lucky.  All I know is - thank you Fred for loving me!

In celebration of our anniversary, I am sharing with you some of my favorite wedding images, courtesy of Es-Sense Photography!

But first, I felt the need to document 'us' on our 3rd anniversary.  Nothing special, but I wanted a record of how we are at this moment, so that I don't forget. 

First I tried to hold the camera myself... hahahaha!

Okay this one isn't too bad except for my extreme neck flex lol!

Alright, let's set up the self timer lol!

Thank you Fred for the wonderful sunflowers - I've never gotten sunflowers before! SO BIG!!

Macro lens hehe!

Okay time for my favorite wedding images!

We still don't know what I was doing in this pic HAHAHAHA!

His song was literally:  Sparkle sparkle sparkle - NATASHA!

AND he got the whole reception to sing along with him LOL!!

Be cool, eat a Rita's!!

Thanks for reading!!!

Teaser - Anniversary: Cathleya & Phillip

Hello everyone!

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of photographing Cathleya and Phillip in Philadelphia for their 3rd year wedding anniversary!  We had a blast with them and went to get some cheesesteaks afterward!  Here's a teaser :)

50 Years of Happiness

So about a few weeks ago, Fred and I along with some other members of the Long Beach Photo Society (LBPS) covered a party for the 50th Wedding Anniversary of Phillip and Cora Macaraeg.  They are the grandparents of our friend and fellow LBPS member, Jeff Gabriel.  It was a lot of fun, and so touching to see that after 50 years of marriage, Phillip and Cora are still head over heels for each other.  I only hope that Fred and I will be able to still stand each other after 49 more years as well, hahaha lemme stop :)

Let me tell you how funny these two are.  I asked Cora to place her hands on Philip's hands, and do you know what she told me?  "Why can't I just slap him instead?" HAHAHAHA!  Fred and I were NOT expecting that!  But they are so funny and truly love a good time!  Very young at heart!  I also see where Jeff gets his funny side from :)

Here are some shots!