The summer wedding season is finally over, and now I finally have time to breathe.  Without a doubt, this summer has been the busiest summer that I’ve ever dealt with so far in my life.  With multiple weddings, portraits, family shoots, meetings, photo editing, travel, family visits, etc…, I’ve had very little time to relax, let alone do anything for myself.  I also did not get a chance to even check my own blog, let alone update it.  So without further delay, I bring you an update to the blog.  There will be plenty of more updates coming soon and more frequently, so be sure to check back or rss the blog.

After working non stop on weddings for 3 months straight, I decided to just take a few days off of wedding work.  During this time, I was hired by Unaabi Grille, a local restaurant in Cary to get them some photos of their menu and venue.  Now I must admit, I am not a commercial food photographer.  Matter of fact, this was only my 3rd food related photoshoot I’ve done, and I do not have a food studio and all the gizmos & gadgets you need for the true pro food shots.  However, I still enjoyed the challenge, and was quite pleased with the outcome of the images from the restaurant.  I was even more pleased considering the environmental limitations, light limitations, and time frame I had.  If any of you readers are photographers as well, I suggest you try to take a descent food photograph at least once in your life.   It will give you a whole new perspective, and truly let you understand how much work has to go into these.  It’s amazing how often we just glimpse through a cookbook, an ad, or a commercial, and  notice how wonderful images look, without really understanding how it came to be.  However, the amount of work that has to go into getting those excellent results, can take hours or even days, with multitude of lights, camera, lenses, and assistants.  All I know is, I find weddings… an event that only happens once in a couples life, and something you have to capture it perfectly the first time around with no re-takes… easier than food photography 🙂  Hope you enjoy the images.

Hi folks.  Summer is rolling on by, and I’ve been busier than ever.  I’ve been terrible at updating the blog on a regular basis, but I promise I will do a better job once the wedding season passes.  Just thought I throw you all a quick update about some stuff that’s been happening with Limon Photography lately.  This season I’ve been featured and published a few times,  so I figured I share it with all of you as well.

Feature #1: Rivaaj Magazine

Rivaaj Magazine is a trendy Desi fashion magazine that’s based in Atlanta GA.  The editor from Rivaaj Magazine randomly contacted me and said she absolutely loved my work.  I thought that was pretty awesome.  Now when she told me that she liked my work so much, she wanted to feature it in the magazine… I was ecstatic.  I had a hard time choosing what wedding I was going to feature, but in the end, it was the NY wedding that won.  To see some of the pictures from one of my favorite weddings so far, and here what the bride had to say… click on this link.  You can also pick up the current issue of Rivaaj, and see the article on page 90 and 91.

Feature #2: JPG Magazine

I wanted to share some of the images and my experiences from my very first Bengali wedding that I covered in April.  I decided to write a short story in JPG magazine about it, and submit it online to share it with the world.   When I got a newsletter from the magazine stating that my story had been chosen as their favorite wedding story, I was shocked and excited!  To check out the story, just click on this link.

Feature #3: The Sari-Clad Bride

Sumaiya, a writer for the popular wedding blog The Sari-Clad Bride, contacted me a few days ago and said that they had chosen me for their vendor spotlight.  They sent me some simple questions, and I answered them to the best of my ability 🙂  To read more about it, simply click here.

I was asked on behalf of UNC to come and cover a guest speaker they would have in Chapel Hill.  Little did I know, the guest speaker was non other than Dr. Muhammad Yunus!

This was such an extreme  honor, my words can’t even express it.  Dr. Yunus not only won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, but he’s also from my native country of Bangladesh!  How awesome is that?  He pretty much single handedly introduced the concept of micro-financing with Grameen bank in Bangladesh, and revolutionized the country because of it.  If you don’t know much about what he did or why he got the much deserving award, I suggest you find out a bit more information here… it’s very interesting.   Although I was mostly focused on getting these pictures, I also very much enjoyed his lecture.  His brilliant ways of combining both business and humanitarian efforts are just remarkable.  His ideas is simply not to waste anything, because someone can always find use for it.  I remember one part I found particularly interesting was his relationship with Danon yogurt company.  Danon approached him to see how may be able to help him.  His response was, make an affordable yogurt for poor people, that anyone can buy.  However, this yogurt must have all the vitamins and minerals that children are lacking in the poorest part.  This way the yogurt can be given to all children, and it will not only feed them, but pretty much give them the suppliments they desperately need.  When Danon agreed, he said there’s still one problem… the cups are made out of plastic.  You should make the cups edible as well, so it’s not just being wasted.  On top of that, that edible cup should also contain vitamins and nutrients since it’s being eaten 🙂  This concept of helping people, conducting business, and not wasting anything is just amazing to me.

This was a very informative shoot, and I thoroughly enjoyed being there.  If you ever get a chance to hear this man speak, be sure you’re there.  I also suggest you read his book: creating a world without poverty.  It may very well change your outlook on life and what you can do for the needy.

So… here are the pictures:

This guy waited at the door throughout the whole speech, and then right when they’re giving him the award, literally jumps in front of everyone, block their view, and takes pictures like a paparazzi.  The most unprofessional photographer I’ve ever seen.

I wanted a quick picture with the man, but no one knew how to use my camera in there 🙁  <– that’s how sad I was because this picture wasn’t focused