Official blog of Ben Lau, an international wedding photographer based in Northern NJ.
“What will we do if it rains?” she asked during our first meeting. I went through my usual responses, which typically involves my awesome use of umbrellas as props and some suggestions for indoor shooting locations “However…the only exception is if it starts raining sideways and we’re standing in a foot of water.” I explained….
If anyone’s been following us for any amount of time, they’ll know that we shoot under any weather condition. We manage a very tight shooting schedule without many opportunities to reschedule. While we would love to schedule in an occasional weekend off every month (in anticipation of these potential reschedules), I think most folks also…
Have you ever encountered people whose lives just make you wonder, “There’s no frigg’n way! That stuff only happens in movies!”? You know, the kinda off-the-script, color-outside-the-lines and habitual rule-breakers whose stories can entertain you for hours on end? Erin and Tim are those rule breakers :). Karis and I spent our first meeting with…
I first met Kathleen and Tim on a distant island about 1700 miles away at another wedding, only to find ourselves back on our home island of New York City a few months later to discuss their wedding plans. Any groom-to-be who jumps into a pool while still wearing his nice clothes will always find…
The anomalies we encounter during engagement sessions are usually the weather-related kind; there aren’t many curveballs my clients (or weather-gods) could possibly throw at me that’ll catch me off guard. Enter stage left (drum-roll): Fran & Joe. Here’s a guy that I’ve known since he was 13 and the only thing I remember is that…
There’s something to be said about high school sweethearts who’ve been together for the better part of a decade; in the way they communicate with one other and how their body language just swirls around each other in such a seemingly orchestrated fashion. They’re essentially an old married couple, simply wise beyond their years. There…
When we got married a number of years ago, Karis and I were offered a large matted poster-print of one of the images we had taken during our pre-wedding session. While it was nice, the thing was just so abso-freaking-lutely ginormous. “Where the heck are we going to hang this thing?” was our first response,…
Jenny and Jeff hail from my old stomping grounds of Philadelphia, which also happens to be where my darling wife and I met many years ago. Needless to say, the city has a special place in our hearts, as it does for Jenny and Jeff! Though I’d worked and played throughout most of the usual…
Christina and Nick first met when they were in elementary school. While I’m sure Nick rebuffed all of Christina’s advances at that tender age of five, I’m also pretty sure Christina’s forgiven him by now :). Their little romance took a hiatus of oh, about twenty years or so, and the rest was pretty much…
It was an engagement session that had been almost half a year in the making. We racked our brains with a long list of possible locations, and finally settled on two. Christina and Nick wanted something unique, romantic and awe-inspiring. Well, good thing for them we/re pretty resourceful when it comes to unique, romantic and…
