Macaroni? Macaroon? Macarone? Macaron?

Say the title six times, fast! :D

So, it has been a while since the last time we baked. This time, we challenged ourselves to bake macarons. Choc Raspberry Macarons. We didn't bake from scratch but bought the Adriano Zumbo pre-prepared box.

Always believe in yourself

Hi everyone!

Before we go on with today's post, we have mentioned about our Facebook page that went up a week ago. We hope you readers have liked our page to support us and continue to follow us through there and here. If you do not know our Facebook, on the side there is a big white F with a blue background. Click! and you're there!

Now that's said, let's move on. Recently we have done a shoot that Luminary and the client have been planning since the start of May. We excitingly have wait so long for this shoot and we finally got to it!
We would like to present Ai-lien through the theme of Believe!

Illuminated night in Sydney

Two nights were spent to visit light artworks that were displayed throughout Sydney CBD. Even though the nights were freezing and wet, it was worth visiting the city for Vivid Light Festival. Luna and I attended Vivid on the 1st of June and on the 9th of June, exploring Sydney a bit more for the first time. Those nights were so crowded that it was hard to try and take photos without having other people's silhouettes intervening. Nonetheless, the photos turned out great and it was worth being out there, exploring our city.

Now, you guys shall view some photos that we took on these two colourful nights. We will also add in some photos we took when Luna and I decided to travel to a place near my university of a beautiful peace garden at Chatswood.

It's uni break, why not bake?

The title says that Luna and I were baking. (Ly is currently in her exam periods, wish her luck!) Yes, we baked today and we decided to post this up tonight before we sleep. Hehe.

So, we decided a while ago, perhaps a month ago, to bake during the uni winter holidays. Taking advantage to be creative and innovative! We challenged ourselves to make a rainbow layered cake. I'm sure we all have seen those awesome and successfully made cakes on the internet, books, magazine etc. that's why we chose it.

We started at 1PM and finished making the cake around 7:30PM. It took us 6 hours to make this cake, patiently waiting to bake each layer, cleaning up, deciding what to do next and how we were going to do it. A good way to use your brain during break.

Making this cake was messy and time consuming, nonetheless worth every single moment of our effort and time. Luna and I, as well as our extra helper (thank you, you know who you are when you read this!) were so happy that we successfully did it! Ticking this off our holiday-to-do list!

If you bloggers/readers want to know how to make a rainbow cake, just type into google 'rainbow cake recipe' and all sorts will pop up! Challenge yourself today, be creative and inventive!

Here are the photographs showing our progression throughout this whole day.

Welcoming...!

Hi guys!

Sorry for being really, really, really quiet lately! The uni life has been hectic and mind-killing. *cries* Anyway, let's move on, shall we?

Back in March, I made a post about one of first photo shoots that I did for a friend. If you guys don't remember, here is the link. Now that you have clicked on that link (I will just assume you guys have or not X3), Luminary Photography is introducing a new member to the team ~~

LY

Now I shall let Ly introduce herself in this post. Please welcome her aswell!

Hi Folks! The name's Ly. Currently an undergraduate student. Have a habit of capturing moments of vagueness and awkwardness. My photography skills picked up during High School where I would secretly take photos of myself (I do love taking selfies) and other people when they are unaware. *Ninja ^.^b* This obsession of taking photos whenever and wherever I was and am, was constantly at the back of my mind, demanding me to take as much pictures as I can and of this instant (hands twitching) and not let anything go to waste! That was when I realized, I have a hobby for photography. And boy, lads and gents do I have an eye for great detail. ;) I hope, further down the track, whatever commitments I have, whether it be uni, work or maybe going to the toilet, I would still have time to share my photos with you hungry photo bloggers out there! BRING ON THE CAMERAS CAUSE LIFE'S TOO SHORT!

AKA, LYTHEZOMBIE.

We'll be back soon! 

Coming together like Yin and Yang

On Saturday night, the 11th of May, Luna and I attended an 18th birthday party of a two friends of ours. We were asked to take photos of their special night, to commemorate, not only their 18th year on this planet but their friendship that they have shared since the day they were born. Happy belated birthday to our friends, Andrew and Tony.

The night was quite spontaneous with various activities provided by the host themselves. This night was actually challenging for us because we have not had much experience the flash. Taking photos, trying to get the flash bounce off the roof to give a nice light fill to the photos. It was quite fun trying though and looking forward to using the flash in the near future.

The theme of this party was Yin-Yang where everywhere you look, majority of what you see was black and white, even the birthday boys were wearing black and white. There is not much words I can explain this night aside from saying it was an enjoyable night, celebrating with these beings and sharing to us their touching story. Here are the photos!

We walk great distances to get to where we are in life

Hello folks!

Sorry for being absent for almost three weeks! We did mention we had a shoot on the 6th of May and we've edited the photographs. However time has been constraint for me (Marie) due to uni work -- it's hard to juggle everything and trying to get this post up ASAP. *sad face*

Anyway, during these three weeks, we've been planning projects and experimenting with Adobe Photoshop. We were also preparing for the recent shoot we just did too. Quite hectic going to places, trying to plan before the actual date. Also bought a new lens! Now our cameras are twins!

Enough of that, let's move on to the day and some sweet and innocent photographs of our dear friend, Alexandra. Alexandra is another friend of ours from school, and it was really fun working with her. The theme of the shoot was Life and Strength, personally chosen by Alex herself. We also had Alex pick the location and she chose Royal National Park, Watamolla. A really nice and relaxing location South Coast of Sydney. Although it took us more than an hour to get there (due to wrong turns) it was all worth the travel.

It took us less than 2 hours to make these props that we later gave to Alex to keep.

The water at the beach was so blue. Could not resist to take pictures of it. If you guys ever come to Watamolla, you'll love it here! 

Also, throughout those three weeks, we had to help Alex to pick out outfits for the shoot. So it resulted in a white dress and a red one also. Luckily, it took less than 2 hours to pick out dresses. 

Now moving on, finally~~

Surrounded by beauty

Hey guys!

We've mentioned in yesterday's post that we would be posting up a recent shoot fairly soon -- well, fairly soon was very soon. So, Luna and I had a shoot on the 22nd of April, which was only two days ago! So, we worked very quickly to edit photos and discussed with our client with what photos are best to present here. 

The shoot had taken place at Hyde Park in the city and Pitt St Mall Westfields. The park is very residential, so we had to be aware of our surroundings. We thought the day was not going to be good, but the sun came out nice and bright.

Moving on, our client Yaeun (make sure to check out her blog by clicking on her name) was ready and set and we were too by the time we've met up. Being that this is our third, second for Luna, shoot it is giving a good experience with different type of individuals. It is a good way in helping making decisions -- we didn't know where to start and how to start but we eventually rolled in.

We started off at Hyde Park first where Yaeun is wearing a nice green blouse with a aqua skater skirt.

One step at a time

It has been almost a week since we said we thought of a name. After a few days, trying to work out our name and asking different point of views, we finally came up with it. Before we say the name, we share how we came around to it too!

So as we said in our previous post, we thought of the name Night Sky's Glow. We thought it sounded pretty and nice, however from a third perspective it's long and hard to say which resulted in us thinking that it sounded a bit childish too. Outcome of it: It stays as our blog title name and the previous name becomes our slogan "one photograph, one thousand memories". To recap, the name originated from the meanings of our name Luna and Marie, moon and stars of the sea. Moon and stars have the similarity of being in the sky, also the universe, and also shine or glow.


Alrightio, onto our name, so the person I asked about our name gave a suggest of Lunamarie Photography and instantly I thought Luminary. It seems so that we have come to that before but brushed it off. Luminary means "a celestial body that gives light" or "an inspiration to others" which was nice and decent. Luna drew a diagram of the transition of LUNAMARIE to LUMINARY.

Working on our name

Marie and I finally came down to a name to call ourselves, Night sky’s glow. It is derived from our names, Luna and Marie meaning moon and stars of the sea, respectively. Moon and stars both appears and glows at night. With this concept, we gathered many ideas such as moonlight, night light,  illuminate, luminaire and other wild and incompatible names. After all the complications and day dream, it finally took us over 4 hours to come up with this name! However, after asking an opinion a third perspective, we realised the name was a  bit childish and fitted more as a blog title, so we'll be further working on our name and hopefully soon enough reveal it.

As Marie mentioned, I stayed in Taiwan for 3 days along with 4 and a half weeks in Vietnam. It was a great experience trying to understand one’s culture and reuniting with distant families. I took photos and videos wherever possible. Here are some below.

Always have HOPE in the most definite situations

As you can see, HOPE is the main theme in this shoot/project along with some sub-themes that interlinked. As Luna mentioned [hope you guys saw the post Luna put up introducing herself not too long ago] we have another shoot on the 22nd of this month, so I wanted to get this up before then.

This is exactly like the shoot I did for Ly except it was set out in the Royal Botanic Garden at the city. This was a birthday gift again for another friend whom I've known since Kindergarten and I normally not know what to get her. ALSO, she wanted to do a shoot and visit the gardens, so I took great advantage of it too! This was the first time I did the shoot with Luna since during the time I did Ly's shoot, Luna was overseas in Taiwan and Vietnam. Perhaps, she may like to post some of her photos she had taken during the time period (I honestly loved many of the shots she had taken).


Okay, moving on, Amy is also a friend who attended the same school as Luna and I. She has an artistic flair and loves the fashion industry. So, I left the outfit picking up to her as well -- I told her something that nice, sweet, elegant. Unfortunately, in her enormous collection of clothes, she couldn't find anything, so she bought her outfit on the day, along with our help. Alright, onwards to the photographs.

Before you go on, Luna and I spent an hour walking in the gardens before Amy came to accumulate ideas on what kind of scenes we could shoot. It was a good way to see what kind of photos you are trying to aim for.
I'm only posting up photos that Luna has edited for me -- I couldn't edit the photos myself because of my assessments. See how handy it is to have a partner! Makes the photography experience fun!

Introducting...

Goooood-day bloggers!
Allow me for a short self-introduction,  my name is Luna. I like landscape and scenery photography along with creativity! I completed HSC (yr 11 & 12) at the same school with Marie, from there we discovered our interest in photography.You'll hear more about the upcoming projects we will be working on. Sooner or later, there will be a post made by Marie regarding a successful and satisfying project that took place on the 15th of March. Our next project will take place on the 22nd of April. Please excuse our lag with any updates :)

As for now, we're working hard to plan and organise for this coming project.

Happy blogging,
Luna

Marie: And here is a photo of Luna.
We have SLR camera faces. :3
Taken by Marie. 

Why not post something whilst buried under paper?

I decided to post one of my projects I did back in January that I did as a birthday present for one of my friends whom known for 12 years. So, during the time, my friend and I were discussing themes to present that I will try to portray within the area I lived in. It was both for our convenience since it was a humid day and it was too tiring to go out to the city for it.

So, I gave the choice of picking whatever outfit my friend would like to wear, however she hated me for this because she had so many choices to choose from. We had several themes we wanted to portray but we only got through four which were lonesome child, sexy, elegant and sporty. I decided to sum up it all up in Young, Wild and Free. 

Since it was a humid day and it rained that day, the sun came out beautifully but the humidity was killing us, but my friend had to change her outfit  a couple of times so she most likely had it worse off more than I did. Enough of me waffling on, here are the photographs. 

Here and there.

My first semester at uni is just around the corner, meaning posting on this blog will take me a while. These days I've been a bit lazy to do anything since I've been wanting to rest and have a bit of fun before I start uni. I will eventually post up one of my projects that I did just under a month ago, though and perhaps some of the fun stuff I've done over the 6 months.

Whilst waiting and if you have instagram, why not take a peek?
instagram: shizukachuu

Here are a few photographs I have posted on instagram:

www.instagram.com/shizukachuu

Adieu!
Marie

Valentine's Day project.

So, as mentioned before in my previous post -- I was working on a project. The post title says it.

Sometime near the end of January, I was talking to a friend telling them I wanted to make roses for the group and it resulted in making 230 roses in 8 days time. I started on the 4th of February and finished on the 12th. I didn't think I would make it but I guess I was being tenacious and consistent the whole way, along with some unwanted but enjoyable distractions.


My materials were assorted coloured origami paper (that can be bought from daiso or online), as well as some A4 coloured paper that I happened to have, garden wire and small metal/aluminium buckets. Since I was making for about 10 people, I had to buy ten buckets, more than 150 sheets of origami paper and two 50 metres garden wire. Roughly under $50 I'd say.

I barely asked for help in this, especially because the ones I would usually ask were the ones who I was giving the roses to.

So, I trialed and and error'ed before to see how many roses I would need and it turns out 23 roses fits. The origami size paper was the best size to work with since I was trying to work with A4 size square and they were too big.

Why greetings!

Hello children of the earth!

I've decided to put up a blog to post my small projects here and there throughout this year -- projects mainly that fall under the photography category.

Shall I introduce myself? Oh why yes, I should.

Alright, so the name is Marie.
Currently an undergraduate student at UTS.
These past few months, I've taken a keen interest in photography and now has become a constant hobby. Absolutely hold no interest in getting a job within the photography industry but it'd be nice to have as a side job, no?

I also play the guitar and recently started to learn the piano.
I mainly listen to JPOP, a bit of KPOP -- very little and sometime English.

I shall stop here and continue on with my project that is due the day before Valentine's. The night or day after Valentine's I will reveal what I've been working on.

Self-portrait of me at Anish Kapoor's exhibition.

Adieu everyone!