Welcome to our new blogsite!

Hey there, we are Alice + Eric, owners of Serendipity Photography! This is the perfect place to get to know a little more about us both professionally and personally. Instead of a website where the pictures never change, we want to show you our latest work, all the time! Of course, if you would like to see our older work, just hover over "categories" on the menu bar and click away!

The blog is frequently updated with images from weddings, engagement/bridal shoots, family shoots, you name it. If there are no shoots to blog about, we'll probably show you what kind of food we are eating, where we are off to this weekend, what new toys we got, etc...you just never know. Life inspires us, and we want to show you how passionate we are about capturing it on camera.

Whether you are already a fan of ours or you somehow just stumpled onto our blog, we are glad you are here! So come on in!! Take your shoes off, grab a seat, put your feet up on the couch, and make yourselves at home!!

Website Maintenance Completed, Almost!

It’s all done!! Well, almost. We are waiting till Saturday to take down the old proofsite in case people have saved pictures to submit. Other then that, email is up, blogsite is up, and the proofsite is up on an new url and the link can be found under the “client”->”proofing”. If you sent us an email either on Saturday or Sunday and have not yet gotten a reply, the email is probably lost somewhere in the cyber space. Go ahead and resend us the email if you still need to contact us.

Can you notice the difference? Pictures load up so much faster on the blog and the proofsite now. Sweeeet!!!

Website Maintenance

Hi everyone! We are currently performing a maintenance on our website to improve its speed. If you see any weird things happening, that’s because the system is still being updated. I know at this time our email info (at) serendipity-photography.com doesn’t work. It should resolve itself within 72 hours (that’s what they say anyway). If you need to contact us, please call us anytime at 281.738.2011. You can always find us on Facebook too: Alice at http://www.facebook.com/ajlin or Eric at http://www.facebook.com/icyeh

Also, here is an email I sent out to people who has an active gallery on our proof site. Sorry if I have missed your emails, please take a look below:

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Hi everyone!

We will be performing a maintenance on our online gallery proof site on Saturday, July 4th, 2009. It will be taken offline for 2-3 days and all your saved images will be lost. If you have any images saved in “My Cart”, “My Album” or “My Favorites” folders, please be sure to submit your order or write down the image numbers by Friday, July 3rd, 2009. If you don’t get a chance to save your image numbers before then, you will have to go through the pictures again once the galleries are back online.

TIP: If you have a lot of pictures saved in “My Album” folder and you are not quite done with your picture selections, here is what you can do. Instead of writing down all the image numbers, you can just submit the images. When you do that, you will get a copy of the image numbers in your email. Write a short note in “add album instructions” to let us know that you are only doing this to save your image numbers.

Let me know if you have any questions!!
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Please bear with us while this maintenance is taking place. The new system is going to be a LOT faster so there will be a LOT less waiting when looking at the pictures. So exciting!!!

Rachel + Lam Wedding

We have seen many types of weddings with countless different combinations of cultures, religions, languages, and traditions. I have got to say that we have never seen anything quite like Rachel + Lam’s Wedding. Yea, we’ve seen tea ceremonies, Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, you name it, but they had something else nobody had. They had the wedding ceremony at a Buddhist Temple. That is super unique!! We picked out only the highlights for the blog. So after viewing them, you’ve got to check out the slideshow to see their entire day. I promise it’s going to be very different from what you’ve ever seen…well, on our blog anyway :) Enjoy!

Super cool lanterns leading the way!!

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Groom’s uncle greets groom’s family.

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Wow…that is one fancy Vietnamese dress!!

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All the guys are holding a bouquet waiting to hand it to the girls.

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Rachel receiving earrings a gift from her new mom. She looks so happy :)

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Offering tea to parents while kneeling.

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Lam gets a happy hug from his new mom :)

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Buddhist wedding ceremony!! Very unique!

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After the ceremony, everyone heads to the groom’s parents’ house. Here Lam’s mom and dad is paying respect to their ancestors.

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Rachel offers tea to her new mom.

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Rachel’s mom, dad, and uncle look on with big smiles.

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That’s a really tall cake! We don’t normally have to look up to take pictures of a cake. This one was different.

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Those figurines are really cute! We took a pair home :P

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Click HERE if can’t see the slideshow above.

June 25, 2009 - 4:00 pm efro^^ - I don't even think I have seen any weddings in a temple in Taiwan! This is something special! Man, that cake is tall!  I would be hesitating if I had to cut it :D

Mason + Ryan 4-month session

I can’t believe it’s been a week since our last blog entry!! Things went by so fast, I don’t even remember what happened. It’s usually so crazy that I have to look back to our google calendar to remember what we did last week!! Our google calendar is so colorfully filled with events, I don’t know what we’d do without it…heh heh!

One thing I remember vividly is that I bought the newest iPhone for Alice!! We waited in line only for 15 mins at the Apple store, not too bad at all! Her old phone was way past retirement age. This new phone has got everything you can think of…potentially anyway. Did you know there are 50,000 applications for the iphone??!! We are so excited to have our email and calendar with us pretty much everywhere we go!!!

Okay, let’s meet Mason and Ryan, for the 2nd time (last time was a sneak peek)! I know we are posting it way out of order…there are so many weddings, e-sessions and bridals before this. Call me unfair, I don’t care :P They are just too cute and I can’t wait to show everyone! We are so glad the proud mom, Kathy, found us. She knew about us through her sister, Natalie, our bride to be in 2009. Kathy is a twin herself, so is Natalie. At the wedding we are going to have three sets of twins!! It’s going to be so cool!!!!

Already posing like pros at such a young age!

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You know, after spending over an hour with them, I still can’t tell which one is which. I just know they are both so adorable!

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Flying twins?!

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Happy feet!

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Staring contest :D

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I love my brother!!

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Being a model is hard work you know!

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Now that is a happy family :)

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June 23, 2009 - 2:17 pm Abbey Saloiye - These babies are beautiful. I love how you captured the personality.

June 23, 2009 - 3:13 pm efro^^ - I love their big and bright eyes!! Super cute babies! The 7th pic is so funny :D

June 23, 2009 - 3:42 pm Jamie - Hello! How more precious can these be!?!?! Great job! See ya'll Thursday in none other than SHINER TX! :)

June 23, 2009 - 4:55 pm Lequyen - The twins are super CUTE and ADORABLE!!! LOVE IT!! CONGRATS Kathy!! :-)

June 24, 2009 - 2:17 pm Natalie Nga - Soooo Cute!!! Abbey is right; their personalities do shine through the pictures. Love it!!!

June 24, 2009 - 8:46 pm Kathy - Thanks everyone for the sweet comments of my boys. Hope we have another great session in Aug!

June 25, 2009 - 3:45 pm Hanh - The pic of them sleeping is so precious!! :)

Germany Trip: Part 3

Can’t believe it’s only been one month since we got back from our Germany Trip. It felt like 6 months has gone by already with all the things that we’ve accomplished in this short amount of time. I think we’ve shot something like 4 weddings and 7 sessions and who knows how many client meetings. Busy busy!! I kinda miss those two weeks in Germany when we had nothing to do but eat, sleep, sightseeing, and sleep some more :) Ahhhhh…good times!

BTW, we just found out the travel agency saw our pictures and wants them for their website. I had no idea we would be helping them with promotion/marketing with our silly trip pictures…heh heh. Pretty cool huh?

I love looking back at the pictures we took…it brought back a lot of good memories from the trip. I want to put up a third post to share with everybody.

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The bricks mark where the Berlin wall used to be.

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Waiting in line to get into the German Parliament. The rain was annoying, but the colors are great :)

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Some structure made up of mirrors on top of the Parliament building. Not sure what it’s for, but it looks cool.

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Half of Alice is in West Berlin, heehee!!

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The only section of the wall that’s left today. It’s now a big tourist attraction.

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Who is that cute girl drinking coffee all by herself? I can keep her company :)

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Interesting Gothic architecture in Dresden.

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Inside the Nuremberg Castle.

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BMW, Porche, Mercedes, BMW, BMW, Audi, BMW, Audi, they are everywhere. People everywhere else pay through their nose to get their hands on one of those…it’s weird to think that to the Germans they are just ordinary cars.

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Cute!

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Now that is what I call swan dive!!!

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Every other shop was selling sausages. Man…that’s going a little overboard…

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Another shot of old town Munich. It’s like being inside a fairytale.

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HAHAHA…that’s funny. I think people come here to pray before they ski down the mountain :D

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This is breathtaking!!! We took a shortcut through Austria just for a few minutes to get to our next destination and this is what we saw! Another one of my drive-by shootings.

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Serene scenery near Fussen.

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The city of Bern, capital of Switzerland.

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We took that thing up the mountain. It was rotating the entire way. Good idea or bad idea? You tell me. Everybody was feeling nauseous after the ride, so I guess it was a bad idea.

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We ate the famous Black Forest Cake in The Black Forest. Needless to say…it was awesome!

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They called it The Black Forest because it is so dark inside that you can’t see anything. I wouldn’t wanna go in there…

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That’s Fred, our driver. He’s a funny man from Austria! Every time a motorist did something he didn’t like he would say something like “%@@#$&! (in Austrian/German) or “stupid Germans!!!” HAHAAHA!

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Yea…that is so me. Always checking out other photog’s work to see how I can improve my own pictures.

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That’s my Alice, she’s soaking it all in!!!

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Frankfurt! Very old looking buildings in the center of the super modern city. It’s hard to tell that they have the busiest airport in Europe from this picture!

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June 16, 2009 - 5:10 pm efro^^ - Cool! More pics from the amazing trip!! You guys looks so cute and happy in these pics! :D I really like that little church in snow! The mountain scenery pics are spectacular!

June 17, 2009 - 7:50 am Cathy - AHH! You've done it again! I must head to Europe ASAP! Thanks for brightening my day with your pictures!

June 17, 2009 - 9:18 am Jamie - Efro -- I agree -- they look SO happy in here! I love the one of Alice on both sides of Berlin!!! GREAT pic of you! You guys are so great. It's no surprise the touring company wants your pics!!!

June 17, 2009 - 9:30 am serendipity - Europe is amazing, you all have to go NOW!! :P