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Welcome to my blog-site! A website/blog hybrid, you say?! YES! You can find information (usually found on a website) in the drop-down menus above.

My name is Sherry Lu, and I'm a Vancouver, B.C. based portrait and lifestyle photographer. Sessions with me are primarily outdoors since I LOVE natural lighting. I strive to make every session as fun, fabulous and comfortable as possible- all while creating amazing images that you will cherish forever.

This is where I'll be posting photos, blogging about recent sessions, the weather, my life, and other tidbits. Blog comments and e-mails make me happy <3! If you have any questions, or are looking to book a session with me, just click on the "contact me" link above or e-mail me (sherry[at]sherry-lu.com).

Thanks for visiting my blog-site, and check back often!

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Portraits | Paul & Dan

February 7, 2010 Posted in portfolio, portraits

I was super lucky to go to Portland, OR for the weekend (two weekends ago). I went to visit my friends Paul and Dan. We studied abroad together in Taiwan during the fall 2009 semester! It was SO awesome to see them again and catch up! Also, the no sales tax part was pretty enticing too! I just wanted to blog these quickly before a week of two midterms! (Eeep). I miss Paul and Dan already! :) And I can’t wait until we get to meet up again!

I don’t photograph boys often, so it’s always interesting! (This photoshoot also gave me enough bargaining leverage for a trip to Fabric Depot- only THE biggest fabric store on the West Coast!!!) Thanks again ;D

The very dapper Paul!

relaxed portraits in portland oregon

Oh, Dan is super silly! :D He pretends he’s a ballerina. (kidding). He was just being a goof!

Pensive Dan. (With awesome catchlights!)

Did I mention Paul is super silly too? :D

Um, so I love tall grass!

And… BOKEH!

This was a huge outdoor amphitheatre. Must be SUPER awesome in the summer!

This next one of Paul is my favourite favourite favourite!

Taken from our hotel room. I happen to think window sill portraits are interesting, and I’ve always wanted to make a portrait like so:

portrait at the downtown portland marriott hotel in oregon

Thanks again for driving me around in Portland, and I seriously can’t wait to meet up again! :) BUT! In other news, I’m leaving for California on Saturday (Feb 13th). While I’m there for two weeks, I’m also going to have the chance to meet up with MOOOORE study abroad friends! (I sense that I will be photographing lots! People, places and things!!!) But before then, midterms beckon.

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8 comments

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February 8, 2010 - 6:23 pm Ashleigh - aw sherry these are gorgeous!!! eek can't wait to meet sooo soon!

February 8, 2010 - 6:22 pm Michelle Kane - fab job with the guys! have a great time in ca, take lots of pretty pictures, share much.

February 8, 2010 - 4:15 pm Elaine - Looks like Portland has some pretty nice places to shoot! Great shots =) Good luck on your midterms!

February 8, 2010 - 1:29 pm larissa - these are all so perfect. You post so many shots, I love it! I have barely any experience doing portraits with men. I need to step that up.

February 8, 2010 - 11:09 am Sandy - Your photos are gorgeous! The vibrancy and color in them are fab! [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us '0 which is not a hashcash value.

February 8, 2010 - 9:23 am Mandy Jill - You happened across a tennis court while you were there I see :) Great shots and I think window portraits are interesting too!

February 8, 2010 - 2:07 am Sean - Really nice, Sherry! Love your favourite, it's definitely the best of the bunch! All very nice, smart looks from the gents and beautiful photography as always from you! Good luck with school this week!

February 7, 2010 - 9:54 pm Jeanna Hayes - It's official - I WANT TO SHOOT IN PORTLAND! Is it just magical or what??? These are so beautiful. (well, manly AND beautiful, ha!) You guys look like you had so much fun! P.S. Good luck with mid-terms...

Pets | Daisy and Whiskers

February 4, 2010 Posted in portfolio

Ok. Quickie blog post before going to bed… I woke up with a sore throat on Sunday morning and basically chalked it up to talking/yelling too much. (It happens, right?) But then last night, I started sneezing and sniffling, and this morning was just brutal! Thankfully my only class today was cancelled (my professor was in Toronto), so I got to stay home and finish my assignment and heal. But I really wanted to blog these photos of my friend Sara-Jane’s dogs. :) Her family has two dogs, Whiskey and Daisy, and a cat named Cleo! They’re super cute, but you can judge for yourself…

Whiskers, aka Whiskey, is probably the MOST well behaved dog on Earth! :) He sits and looks CUTE. I love his one floppy ear!! AHH.

Coquitlam dog photographer

This is Daisy. Not as well behaved, but still SUPER cute! She’s pretty hyper and can’t sit still.

Poodle cross

Whiskers <3

-blink- (omg so CUTE)

Whiskers WINKED at me! :D

May I just point out the <3 shape on his nose?

A better view of the <3 on his nose.

Oh, Daisy…

Haha, Daisy makes a hilarious snarling face right after she yawns.

This is Cleo, who made a cameo appearance…

Daisy!

That’s all. I love going over and fawning over her pets. Haha, I am the crazy lady who baby talks to all animals. They probably judge me, but I just think they’re sooo adooowablleeee. I’ll be blogging about humans again soon- I promise! But 2 midterms next week, and my CALIFORNIA ROAD TRIP to come. Haaaah. (Seriously, immune system, kick into gear and get rid of this cold already!!)

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February 5, 2010 - 10:52 pm Rebecca - I like the one of Cleo! Eerie...

February 5, 2010 - 6:27 am {15:51} photography - I think that Whiskers has a crush on you ;)

February 5, 2010 - 1:55 am Alexandra - Sooo cute!

February 5, 2010 - 1:00 am Sean - I love these! The floppy ear is so cute! Ha, I love it! Most excellent, Sherry! Be well very soon indeed.

Portraits | Mandy

January 30, 2010 Posted in portfolio, portraits

I welcome to my blog, the lovely Mandy Jill!! :) She’s also another local photographer in the area. We started tweeting to each other, and decided that we should meet up once and for all! :) She brought me to this awesome pho (Vietnamese noodles) place in Port Coquitlam. I found out this girls eats a LOT of spicy food. :) Mad props. My esophagus would have needed replacing if I ate as much hot sauce as her! Then we busted out our cameras and took photos of each other in a near by park :D

Be warned: she’s super pretty, and we had some AMAZING light after a whole week of RAIN!!! And we swapped our 50mm f/1.4 lenses for the shoot. So these were taken with HER lens. Tricky, eh…

I love this one because of the bokeh on the left side. (She may be a Nikon girl now, but that may change… For SHAME! ;D I tease, Mandy!)

Um, yummy light? PLEASE.

Haha, I think every photographer has photos of themselves behind the camera …

She’s wearing one of my hair flowers. The sunlight was such a treat for us!

LOVE this one!! (I didn’t make this flower clip, I bought it from Forever 21)

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Yeah, Mandy! Rock it out. The light makes it so pretty!

I lied. This may be my favourite… :/

Haha, work it work it! :)

Pretty sure I said something REALLY dumb at this point in time. Whatever it takes, right?

Yay, I brought a lot of headbands and props. Here Many is wearing my Minnie Mouse ears (I got them in Disneyland in May 2009. But I’ll be wearing them to Disneyland again in a couple weeks!)

I saw a similar shot that someone did, but they had a Mickey AND Minnie… I just had Minnie ears. :) But it’s a portrait without a face…

portrait taken in coquitlam with minnie mouse ears

This is right after Mandy seriously cuddled with the fence. Haha.

The sun started setting, and we found more gorgeous light! <3

portrait taken right before sunset with warm lighting

Mandy is checking out the dirt bikers :)

We all want to levitate, right? Well, Mandy is a pro.

jumping photo that looks like she is levitating

This park had a little community garden (that’s open in the summer). But we borrowed the fence!

SUNSET!!

Mandy is twirling like a ballerina :) I love the sun in her hair…

Okay, so the last 3 photos are super similar, but I just couldn’t choose ONE! :) It was so much fun meeting you, Mandy! :) I hope these photos make it as a Facebook profile picture, or Twitter avatar ;D It’s always fun and scary photographing another photographer, but Mandy worked it and made it easy for me! :D That and she thinks I’m HILARIOUS and laughed at my jokes. Haha.

I went to the [b]ecker workshop in Vancouver two days ago and learned a TON (Didn’t bring a camera, so I don’t have photos :( )… And in 2 weeks, I will be in San Francisco. THEN I’ll be spending 2 weeks in California (SF, LA, SD and all along the coast)… On Feb 23rd, I’ll be attending Jessica Claire’s workshop in Ladera Ranch!! I’m SUPER stoked (or ‘excited’ for my American readers. I’ve heard that you don’t use the word ’stoked’) SO MUCH LEARNING, my sponge brain is ready to absorb. But before all that fun, I have lots of assignments, readings, and two midterms! Wish me luck! :)

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34 comments

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February 6, 2010 - 7:36 pm Stefano Choi - Your favorite is my favorite as well! The pink flower against the green background just makes the image pop. Great job on the entire set.

February 5, 2010 - 5:42 pm Cathy Empey - Great photos! I really love seeing your rockin' style! And Melissa is gorgeous! Win Win. So, when do we get to see photos of you?! LOL

February 5, 2010 - 10:27 am Ricki ford - Very nice i am loving the light in theses!

February 4, 2010 - 11:10 pm laurahana - Sorry i missed this! They look amazing! I love love the hair lights!! Great job Sherry. Mandy, you look great! Such a natural model!

February 4, 2010 - 8:07 am Meg Borders - Sherry-Gorgeous light and I love the headbands!! :) I am headband-aholic. I am jealous of all the workshops you are going to. How fun!!!

February 3, 2010 - 5:04 pm Kasey - Love these. I can't wait to hear your take on the JC Workshop! I hope to go to one of hers sometime in the not so distant future!

February 3, 2010 - 9:17 am Evie Perez - Sherry...these are uber fabulish!!! I am so jealous and excited that you attended the [b] workshop and that you are going to Jessica Claire's workshop!!!! Do you think you can throw my in your luggage - lol. Have a super time and I can't wait to read all about it.

February 3, 2010 - 4:05 am Cathy Crawley - You captured the light so beautifully! And I say stupid things all the time to make my clients laugh, that's why they are always giggling, I'm a clown!

February 2, 2010 - 1:28 pm Sarah - What?? I could have sworn you were a Canon user!? What camera do you have? xo sarah

February 2, 2010 - 10:32 am Jeanna Hayes - I ADORE these. Yep, completely and utterly adore them. Oh, and that's SO cool you're going to JC's workshop! You'll have so much fun (I did!). It was great and the mock-wedding she did was total camera candy. I can't wait to see what you shoot there!

February 2, 2010 - 10:27 am PamN - Love her big smile and the light in these!

February 2, 2010 - 10:18 am Sebrina - that bokeh is insane in the first shot!! These are lovely!!

February 2, 2010 - 10:12 am Scott Andrew - Sherry, this is such a nice set! If I was in your area, I'd totally do a trade. Or if I was a senior or engaged or something, I'd totally call you. The light is just radical. Congrats on the Becker Workshop too, he is a good friend and a rad guy all around.

February 2, 2010 - 9:05 am Michelle Kane - Sherry, such beautiful use of light in these. Your friend is so beautiful and it looks like you two had a blast paling about. You are just the traveling fool... with all your visits to the US and the workshops. Hope you have a fab time.

February 2, 2010 - 5:54 am Sarah - Hey dont hate on us few nikon users that are out there :) These portraits are awesome Sherry!! Love them... xo

February 1, 2010 - 5:25 pm Ericha - These are FANTASTIC, Sherry!!! Definitely jealous of your light!! What brand lens were you using? I love the 8,9 &10th ones down. Hahah stoked vs. excited.

February 1, 2010 - 2:09 pm Ashleigh - beautiful sherry!!! the light is so amazing in all these!!!

February 1, 2010 - 11:13 am Jessica - What beautiful pictures and beautiful light!! Love the tennis court shots!! :)

February 1, 2010 - 10:15 am cindee bae - Looks like you guys had a blast!!! Me? sitting here craving pho now, lol....

February 1, 2010 - 7:14 am Alexandra - Sherry, do you think it's fair that you somehow ALWAYS seem to find the delicious light? I'm jealous, wish the light was like that more often here in England. :) Anyways the shots are beautiful. I think my favorite is the very last one. Great job.

February 1, 2010 - 5:20 am Cat Watson - wow you weren't kidding about the light! absolutely gorgeous! love the different headbands, that little touch really mixed things up and got different looks. great job!

January 31, 2010 - 7:34 pm Shannon Rosan - This session is adorable. LoveloveLove the mickey ears photo!

January 31, 2010 - 5:55 pm Miranda - Great to see you this week! Cheers!

January 31, 2010 - 2:44 pm Sean - She is a ridiculously gorgeous & fierce lady! LOVE her look, and her style! Awesome exposures, Sherry... Technically, so perfect and creativity, so delicious. Love the few of her laughing in the middle of the series - so fun!

January 31, 2010 - 9:24 am Samantha - I'm loving there Sherry! Your work is phenomenal... I'm also a fan of Mandy's!! You did a great job as usual. Keep it coming girl! :-)

January 31, 2010 - 6:39 am marissa moss - great job sherry! she is so cute and i love her work! i love it when the blogs i read lead to others to love. :)

January 31, 2010 - 1:55 am Rose - Wow! Love the Minnie ears so much! Such fun! And the one with Mandy jumping, flawless! Wonderful session!

January 30, 2010 - 11:18 pm Katelyn James - Oh la la! What great light!!:)

January 30, 2010 - 10:29 pm GAry - The lighting are wonderful as usual. I like 4th one, with all the bokeh at the back. It's pretty!!

January 30, 2010 - 9:16 pm michele dyson - Hey Sherry - my first time stopping by ( thank you for your lovely comments on my blog:) Adore your style.....your backlighting in this shoot is gorgeous; second to last image I think is my fave. And your wallpaper is superduper cute!

January 30, 2010 - 7:43 pm Marissa Rodriguez - Sherry these are so beautiful! You just keep getting better and better I love it!

January 30, 2010 - 5:40 pm Alyssa Schroeder - WOW! These are all absolutely gorgeous portraits. I love Mandy`s outfits/accessories and the lovely light! Cool locations & backgrounds too. Awesome!

January 30, 2010 - 5:28 pm Geoff Heith - These are great Sherry...Mandy you look amazing!!

January 30, 2010 - 5:16 pm Mandy Jill - Ahhhhhh! I'm part of Sherry Lu legacy now. I love it! I know we'll be hanging out a lot more! So good luck with your busy busy busy schedule these next few weeks and I'll see you on the 7th!