We are excited to share with you our pre-wedding photos of Pan & Lihong from Shanghai, who traveled over ten-thousand miles to meet us in the birth place of renaissance art,

city of Florence Italy for their pre-wedding photoshoot. We are grateful for where our photography journey has brought us to.

Isn’t the bride Li-Hong’s Tadashi Shoji Vintage Style wedding gown looked amazing with Florence as back drop?

Scroll down to look at these pictures and read a long post of my random thoughts if you wouldn’t mind.

 

This was some random rambling I’ve written on our flight back from Paris to SFO, May 15th, 2013 –

Jeremy and I are so happy to be home after almost entire month in Europe.  As much as we love being in Europe, a land where endless dramatic clouds, historical architectures, classical music, birth place of renaissance art and freshly prepared food.  Home is where Jeremy and I can enjoy life together as a husband and wife and being our miniature schnauzer doggy Rambo.  In the last month, we’ve photographed over 12 assignments including engagement, pre-weddings, fashion & lifestyle photo sessions. Shooting almost every other day. This trip has been the trip with the least sleep, most connecting flights, almost no free time to roam and enjoy these wonderful cities such as Paris, Florence & Vienna.  However, this has been one of the most fulfilling experience in our career, not because we are shooting in exotic locations, what really matters is we’ve made many great new friends along the way and reconnected with old ones while in Europe.  Photographer Matthew Jordan Smith once said “Life is about places you go, the books you read & people you meet.” I would like to add on his quote as the “Life is about the Food you eat, the stories you’ve shared, and the good times you’ve had”. This is what makes traveling so fascinating and exciting.  We are extremely grateful to work with clients who traveled  tens of thousands miles from Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai, Toronto & San Francisco to meet us in Europe for their photoshoot.  What makes this very special to us is that we’ve listened, heard and understood many clients’ life stories, understanding what they are about as a couple really helps us to build better photographic relationship during the shoot.  We hope that our relationships can transform from being clients to friends and really keep each other accountable along the ways to be a better wife & husband to each other, find exciting new ways to renew our love for each other as a couple.

Yesterday was the last night we’ve spent in Paris to hang out with great friends Bandele, David Lok, Claudia & Matt in Europe. We all got together for dinner and watched CreativeLive in a cafe Paris of our photography mentor Scott Robert Lim’s CreativeLive – an online photography class board cast live program with tens of millions of views. We remembered the first time when we were in Paris, almost exactly two years ago, Jeremy and I just started doing photography full time and did whatever it takes to shoot our very first assignments in Paris with local parisian client Ana Paula & Nadjim, Anna & Parry from Hong Kong. As much as we were embarrassed to see our first Paris Pictures from Scott’s Lecture being shown in CreativeLive, but that really reminded us went to Paris in 2011 & attending Scott’s Paris Photography Workshop was such an important mile stone for our career which lead to us to becoming an international photographer team today.  We honestly don’t think we would have understood, digested and lived in the philosophy of what it means to be an international photographer if we haven’t gone to Scott’s international photography workshop. Scott believes that we all have the potential to do something if we really want to and “there will be a time when your dream will require all of you”.  We wanted to live a life of producing excellence in what we do, including being a great husband & wife to each other, provider for our own family, and be an photographer not only takes good pictures, takes EXCELLENT pictures. If you are a photographer and if you are reading this, in order to unleash this potential, we have to work extremely hard, sleep less, go on a diet, STUDY STUDY & STUDY photography, be inspired by art, and not to afraid to showcase the world who we are in what we believed in, including the good, the bad & the ugly. Also get your community of support, your entourage to help you & keep you accountable.   If you are a photographer who needs pointers & inspirations, I hope you will follow Scott’s Story here and if you still hungry for more join us to Journey to China for a joint workshop with Scott Robert x  Tauran x JeZa Photography. Until next time, keep on smiling! PTL!  – zabrina

 

about jeza photography

jeremy and zabrina are wedding & fashion photographers in san francisco, california. they thrive to produce excellence in imagery pleasing the clients as well as marking a superior industry standard and named as one of the 30 rising stars of wedding photography in america by the rangefinder magazine, november 2012 issue.  they are six times 1st place winners of wedding portraits and professional international (wppi) from 2011 – 2013.  in 2012 & 2013, they are the 1st asian american photographer who has won two international image of the year awards, and an grand award from international portraiture from wppi against thousands of photographers’ entries around the world. they’ve also been published in many publications including vanity fair, cosmopolitan bride china, elle wedding hong kong, stuff magazine, dc photo hong kong, vogue italia, rangefinder & international master photographer vol 1 and many more.

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our 2013 travel schedule:

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China Photography Workshop: august 23-30th, guang zhou & hong kong – reserve now

2013 Fall Season European Photo shoot –  Contact to Reseve now:

September 24 – 28 Paris: FULL

September 30th – 4th: Italy: Florence or  Venice  (2 slots available)

October 6th – 12th: Florence, Prague, Paris: FULL

October 14th – 18th: Paris & France (3 slots available)

October 20th – 21st: Prague (1 slot available)

October 23th – 24th: Prague FULL

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