Category Archives: 03. Personal

Personal posts by San Francisco wedding photographer Shang Chen Photography

Travel makes life rich

photo by Shang Chen Photography

It’s not about the four star hotels, which we avoid unless we can afford it through Starwood points earned on sleepless work nights. We only hop into cabs when it is raining cats and dogs, otherwise navigating our ways through the tubes and tracks of the city’s underbelly. We pack lightly, our souvenirs are often...

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My Engagement Ring

photo by Shang Chen Photography

The ring wasn’t the first thing on my mind when I got engaged – in fact, I didn’t get a ring when I became engaged. However, in the process of designing my ring, it has truly become a very personalized piece of the wedding. It all began with the fact that I didn’t want a...

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Thank you for all your love and congratulations

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“You will throw a fabulous wedding!” “Who’s going to be your wedding photographer?” I have received so many beautiful notes over the last week congratulating me on my engagement and I am so overwhelmed with love, thank you, thank you, thank you! Now I can finally reveal that a big reason behind why I’d been...

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Good causes

This spring I have had the privilege of backing several projects that I felt were meaningful and changing the world. Some of these are ongoing so I hope that you guys, if moved, would support them. Divided Families Film Project – Kickstarter – $7,696 needed and 10 days to go My friend Jieun is one...

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Land of fog, mountains, and lakes | New Zealand

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My family vacation to New Zealand was extremely short (only four days, due to work schedule on my end). If I could, I would have gone for longer. My family rented two cars so that we could road trip all around the southern island. Oftentimes it felt like we’d stop, get out, hurriedly snap some...

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