I’ve come to the conclusion that babies live like royalty. They spend most of their time sitting and eating and napping continuously. I would love to live that life very much.

This is Jaelyn. She’s very young, but she’s rather chunky (and I say that in the most adorable way ever) for her age. I loved poking at the different segments of her arms (as shown in the third photo.) Not all babies have the rare and highly-coveted arm divisions so I had to take advantage of it by pinching every single one. I loved it, it was super incredible!

Erich Chen Photography. Riverside Portrait Photographer. Los Angeles Portrait Photographer. Baby Portraits. Baby Photos. Orange County Portrait Photographer. Creative Family Portrait Photographer. If you are interested in your own family portrait session please contact me through my website www.erichchen.com

UCLA! The Home of the Bruins! My dream school (that I never got in to) and a beautiful place for an engagement session. I love being there.

Meet Jasmine and Jason, a wonderful and lovely couple.  While we were strolling around campus, I tried to impress them with my knowledge of the campus. I don’t know what I was thinking because it turned out I know very little about the school and they knew much, much more about the school they attended.  That was a fail for me. But not a fail for the photos!  Oh, these are precious! This was a longer engagement session, but we had some really bomb ass cuban garlic chicken in between so I was all good. That and some sangria.  Yum, thank you guys.

On another note, Jason and Jasmine are having different types of cookies at their wedding, and I told them I’d pick up some Hawaiian cookies (probably Macadamian nut)  when I go to Hawaii this week. I didn’t forget

Erich Chen Photography. UCLA engagement photos with Jasmine and Jason. Royce Hall Engagement Photos. Sculpture Garden Engagement Photos. Los Angeles Engagement Photos. Creative Engagement Photographer. Modern Engagement  Photographer. If you are interested in your own engagement session please contact me through my website www.erichchen.com

Hi readership, intern Emilie here. Just helping out with the blog.

Firstly, thanks Erich, for picking me as your new intern! : )

Secondly, he asked me to blog a little about myself.  Well, I am sort of an art-loving, music-craving, Yoga-doing, vegetarian environmentalist wanna-be.  When I’m at UCI, I host a weekly radio show on which I spin obscure goth rock and punk tracks.  Maybe I sound like an artsy-fartsy cliché, but everything I do and believe, I am really passionate about!

I most enjoy wildlife and animal photography, but occasionally I will take pictures of people.

So to wrap up, I’ll be helping Erich out around and behind the scenes. He’s already taught me a lot of what I know about cameras and Photoshop, so I’m excited for more insight from a new perspective.

And even though this is a blog and not radio, I’m gonna say: stay tuned for more exciting news from Erich!

This is news that I’ve been holding back for a while, because I didn’t want to announce it until it was published. But recently I entered into the Look of Love Photography Contest associated with American Photo Magazine and also Destination Weddings and Honeymoon Magazine. and I won! I won!

I am very esctatic to tell the world that I won for the “Getting Ready” Category and received runner-up for “Couples Portrait” Category. Considering it was my first photography contest that I won, I was very surprised to win. When I got the call one morning I was speechless, it was one of those moments in life where you’re really happy and your brain has so many thoughts going on but nothing comes out of your mouth.

This is the winning photo for “Getting Ready”

Runner-up for Couples Portrait

These photos are also published in American Photo Magazine, and when they get published I’ll put up another post, but for now these will do

Erich Chen Photography. Los Angeles Wedding and Portrait Photographer. Orange County Wedding and Portrait Photographer. Look of Love Photography Contest Winner. Published in American Photo. Published in Destination Weddings and Honeymoon Magazine. If you are interested in booking me for a wedding please go to the contact page on my website www.erichchen.com