What do you call a sweet Korean girl who sings funky & phsychedelic Cuban/Brazilian latin music, plays the accordion, and wears a surgery boot walking around Los Angeles for a photoshoot?


Blossom :)






And she’s got nice dance moves too!

We’re excited! Can’t you tell? :)

Since we started Apertura, the main focus has always been our signature albums, which our clients love oh so dearly.
Then for years, we scoured the globe to find another option for our clients. We’re glad to finally found one!

Introducing our Fine Art Books! This beauty is sleek, sexy, modern and very much looks like those high-end coffee table books with one image per page. We start at 8×10, 100 pages, and upgradable to 10×13 and up to 300 pages. It comes with a beautiful linen slipcase and it has a fully printable cover.

Can’t wait to show these off!

We never got tired of this! So thrilled to see our favorite people ever Nancy +Ed’s wedding going into print. The song from the hip-hop routine is still ringing in our heads! :)


Venue: Pelican Hill
Coordinator: Carolyn Chen
Video: Elysium

2010 had been a crazy travel year for us and our last adventure of the year took us to Asia!

A few months back, we got an invitation from Yu-Hsin of TinyDot Photography in Singapore to do a 2-day workshop for a small group of photographers in Asia. We instantly said yes!

In front of a great group of photographers from Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Brunei, Australia, and London; we discussed our approach, inspirations, and the philosophies of what we do, starting from photojournalism to portraits. Of course, there’s a short shooting session with a gorgeous real couple despite the rain. And as a bonus for Top Chef fans, our awesome venue is GardenAsia where the last season’s finale was filmed!

We had a great experience and made many new friends. Thank you, TinyDot for being such a great host! Totally worth the twenty hours of traveling! :)

Wanna learn?  We have two awesome workshops that would guarantee to get you thinking about your photos:  

The intense 2ON1, or the soon scheduled Photo 102 for amateurs.  Drop us an email through our contact form and indicate which types of workshops you would be interested in!


Below are some pics from TinyDot:

And our resulting images:

The next afternoon we all went to shoot the day-after session of Samar + Ali in the magnificent city of Firenze/Florence. Despite Ali’s swollen foot, he’s a trooper for walking around on uneven cobblestones all day and we took a short tour savoring the beautiful city. Starting our day in a coffee shop, we realized that the coffee in Italy just tasted so much better than their American counterparts. The Italians take their coffee seriously! Then we walked through Piazza della Signoria, Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo), Uffizi, Ponte Vecchio, and explored the small streets and back alleys before ending the night at Piazzale Michelangelo.


It was a truly memorable experience and we can’t wait to go back to Italy!