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Daicy and Jairo’s wedding was the first wedding we photographed in the year 2020, on a gorgeous January morning in Miami.

The wedding ceremony took place in the picturesque Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables. After the ceremony, we took photos of the lovely couple in various spots around the garden. We were really lucky to capture the rare moments inside the exotic butterfly garden when a butterfly landed on Jairo!

The fun and beautiful wedding reception was held in the one of a kind Dolores But You Can Call Me Lolita in Brickell.

Daicy and Jairo, thank you so much for making us part of your important day!

On a sunny morning of last December, we did a photo session for Y and her little sister, Dolby the 4 year old golden retriever. They definitely made a happy pair!

If you have seen our previous 2 blog posts, you know who baby Olive is. If you haven’t, click Part 1 and Part 2.

One thing we wanted to achieve but wasn’t quite successful during the on location photo session in Bill Baggs State Park was for Olive to lie down on her tummy for some typical textbook cute baby looks. We hope to accomplish this during the in-studio photo session in the more controlled environment with less noise and disturbance. We tried everything and it was still impossible for Olive to do so simply because she didn’t feel secure or comfortable with that pose. We decided that no baby should be forced to pose again their own will.

For one last try though, daddy told us that Olive actually liked to lie down on the tummy on him. So we fired up our camera and got some powerful shots…

The days in December 2019 in Miami were mostly somber if not rainy. We were worried whether the rain would stop on the morning of baby Olive’s 100-day & family photo session day. Luckily, not only the rain stopped two hours before the photo shoot, the sun was actually generous enough to show up during the 90-minute window of the photo session. And it turned out to be a fabulous photo session with a lovely extended family!

This blog post focuses more on the adults, by showcasing the lovely extended family that surrounds lucky baby Olive.

P.S. Does anyone also think that the grandpa looks like Jackie Chan?

The days in December 2019 in Miami were mostly somber if not rainy. We were worried whether the rain would stop on the morning of baby Olive’s 100-day & family photo session day. Luckily, not only the rain stopped two hours before the photo shoot, the sun was actually generous enough to show up during the 90-minute window of the photo session. And it turned out to be a fabulous photo session with a lovely extended family!

This blog post focuses on the cute baby Olive and her beautiful parents.

Jade’s family loves to travel and we were honored to be their destination photographer when they visited Miami in February 2019. The photo session started just after sun rise at South Beach and later on progressed to Ocean Drive for some street shots. It was cloudy to begin with but the sun must be impressed by the beautiful happy family and eventually decided to come out.

It was a fun and pleasant photo session. The fact that Jade understood how to pose made our job such a breeze. Thanks to years of yoga training, Jade’s every movement and posture were elegant, uplifting and super photogenic. We are still in awe every time we revisit their photos for posing inspirations. We hope these sample pix can inspire you as well!

This year we continue our annual tradition of the in studio photo shoot to celebrate the Lunar New Year – Year of the pig. We incorporated elements of cuteness to light up the heavy start of Year 2020. Things will get better…

We had the honor of shooting the wedding ceremony & reception for a lovely couple on a pleasant 2018 spring afternoon at the Deering Bay Yacht & Country Club in Coral Gables. The couple, their families and the wedding party are really photogenic and super nice to work with.

We started the photo shoot in the dressing suits where the wedding parties were getting ready. Don’t be surprised to see a photo showing the bride and groom seeing each other walking out of their dressing rooms. Prior to that there was actually a mini special ceremony when the groom and the groomsmen welcomed the bride and bridesmaids’s arrival in a limo in different outfits. And this is completely normal in the Chinese tradition.

The Ceremony was very well designed and absolutely beautiful, one of the most touching ones we’ve ever photographed. Using a drone to deliver the wedding rings was also memorable and fun to witness. And the florists did a wonderful job to make the whole scene dreamy.

After the ceremony, we hopped on golf carts with the wedding party to take photos on the gorgeous landscapes of Deering Bay Yacht & Country Club (big thanks to the ultra friendly and helpful Deering Bay staff) and ended the photo shoot with the First Dance. We heard the peacocks singing when we drove out. Such an unforgettable event and place!

Please enjoy some of the selected moments from that day:

This past weekend we visited Jungle Island at night for its Chinese Lantern Festival, Luminosa. It was quite a delightful experience with magical lights, creative lanterns, groovy music, fun activities and intoxicating fragrance of corn plant blossoms. The event has an extended end date of Feb 9, 2020. There’s still time to visit!

Get the full visual & sound experience from our vlog and read on for some quick tips.

Even though it’s a popular event, the crowd size was actually not as bad as we had predicted. Parking was plenty when we arrived at 8:00pm (the nightly event is open from 5:00pm – 10:00pm). But if you could, arrive early to watch the Chinese Acrobatic Show at 6:30pm (or 8:00pm) or even earlier to watch the Winged Wonders bird show at 5:30pm.

Tickets are available both at the gate or on Jungle Island’s official website. The list price is $35 per adult, $27 per child or $99 per family of two adults and two children. You get 10% off ticket price if purchasing online but there’s a $3.15 convenience fee for each ticket. So both options are about the same.

Parking is $20 per car — it is a bit expensive but there are no other parking options available around the isolated area (middle of McArthur Causeway between downtown Miami and South Beach).

There are plenty of options/locations for food and drinks around the park. Restrooms are also abundant and easy to find, available at almost every building around the corner.

We had the honor to be the photographer and videographer for Burton’s Bar Mitzvah at Temple Judea in Coral Gables. Due to temple restrictions, we were only allowed in the back of the hall for the morning service. But we still managed to capture the beautiful ceremony which included: Tallit Presentation, First Ark Opening, English Prayer Reading, Second Ark Opening, Passing the Torah from Generation to Generation, First Aliyah, Second Aliyah, Third Aliyah, Fourth Aliyah, Hagba’ah — Lifting the Torah, G’Lilah — Dressing the Torah, and Third Ark Opening.

Later that day we also joined the fun and memorable evening celebration in Key Biscayne featuring Hora Dance and the Candle Lighting Ceremony.

Hope you enjoy the following feel-good moments as well!

It was our great pleasure to welcome baby Alice in zzfoto’s studio for her One-Month photos three days before the end of 2019. We had great fun experimenting different outfits and poses with Alice, a smiling angel!

We did a bridal photo session in August 2019 for a beautiful couple in Vizcaya Museum & Gardens. Summer is not considered a typical or ideal season for photo shoots because of the humidity, high temperatures and unpredictable weathers in South Florida. But we were able to pull it off for this traveling couple who only had a whole day in Miami.

We have done many bridal photo sessions at Vizcaya and we are always able to discover new inspirations shooting here. We hope you enjoying seeing photos from this session as well as any previous sessions.

on a beautiful late afternoon in May 2017, we were given the task of photographing a “surprise beach bridal” session at the Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park for a group of friend who were visiting Miami. The group of friends were so thoughtful they even secretly prepared a bridal gown and the whole set of wedding party dresses and suit just to make their visit to the south Florida beaches a life long memory. It was a lot of fun doing the hour-long photo session. We loved the dynamics of the group and how they truly cared about each other, especially the two main characters. This special photo shoot certainly gave us something special to cherish too.

On an ultra fabulous morning of a Miami winter in the beginning of 2019, we did a two-location photo session for a lovely couple traveling from China. The lucky man is an UM alumnus so we also did a bonus photo for the couple with the university sign on campus.

We had the pleasure and great honor of filming an interview session for Philip Kotler, the Father of Modern Marketing, and his brother Milton Kotler, President of Kotler Marketing Group at Philip’s Sarasota, FL residence. After the filming session, we were also invited by the generous host to enjoy their extensive home collection of fine art pieces, predominantly grass masterpieces.

Please find some exclusive behind the scene snapshots of that day.

We did a family photo session for a beautiful family of 4 on the beautiful Sunny Isles Beach on a gorgeous South Florida late February evening. Later on joined the cousins and aunt, who brought so much more fun!

This blog features a maternity photo session at South Beach right after dawn in later November, 2018. The morning was absolutely beautiful. The warm “winter” months in Miami are perfect for outdoor photo shoot. Whats more beautiful was the gorgeous couple, Xu and Chen. For moments we were not sure whether we were shooting maternity or high fashion.

Happy Holiday Season! This gallery features a fun session we did for Mr. Zhuo and Mrs. Zhang at Deering Estate in Miami, Florida.

The Deering Estate preserves the 1920s era Miami estate of Charles Deering, Chicago industrialist, early preservationist, environmentalist, art collector, philanthropist and first chairman of the International Harvester Company. Nestled along the coast in South Dade, the Deering Estate is a cultural asset and historic site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The place is absolutely gorgeous for engagement, weddings or even just a family photo shoot session.