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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!