Official blog of Ben Lau, an international wedding photographer based in Northern NJ.
When Lisa and Kai mentioned they wanted to have their session in Williamsburg, I was absolutely thrilled. In my mind, I envisioned Lisa and Kai in a warm embrace as a downpour of skittles rained down from the sky…all while a paintball war was being waged around them. You guys will have to believe me…
It’s Friday Funday, so I thought I’d share one of my most recent favorites! After all the requisite kissy-romantic poses are done, this is what we usually end up doing at the end of our engagement sessions. I kid you not. I mean, look at the skill and coordination between these two! This bodes very…
Lauren and Tony hail from my (other) hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Lucky for us, they love the Big Apple! So they packed their bags one early morning and headed to our neck of the woods if only for one awesome distinction: being the first couple I’ve ever photographed in Times Square (which I’ve avoided, up…
In our line of work, you must always have a contingency plan. You must be able to see brick walls coming from a mile away and decide if you’re going to bust through (Oh Yeaaah!) or figure out a way to work around them. I generally opt for the latter approach and find the path…
Battery Park is probably the 4th most popular park destination with my clients for engagement sessions (after Central, Brooklyn Bridge and High Line – in that order), and despite this I still manage to get lost every single time. This is good news though; this means each one of our sessions gets a new unique…
New York weather has been unpredictable lately, which might be considered normal by Colorado standards (so I’ve heard). Despite the fact we’re already well into “Spring”, the weather-gods seem to enjoy throwing in a few jabs of 40 degree weather at us. This creates a minor snafu for my wonderful couples who’ve already planned their glorious spring-bloom…
As we wrapped up another meeting last week, the groom-to-be asked me: “So…what kinda gear do you use? Is that a question we should be asking our prospective photographers?”. It was the second most popular question I’d ever been asked, a distant second to “How much is this going to cost me?” (a whole ‘nother…
“Strangers are just friends I haven’t met yet.” – Will Rogers Happy Friday ya’ll! The shooting season started about a month ago for us, so we’ve got tons to share in these coming weeks! Here we have Mizuki and Soichiro, who found me all the way from Japan! Yowza!!!! Stay tuned for more! Hope everyone…
Hello Friends! So we’ve disappeared for almost two weeks, but we’re going through some exciting changes here at Ben Lau Photography! We’ll get into all that awesomeness in a future post. But now on to the meat and potatoes of this post, which actually contains neither :). Client meetings are probably one of my most…
Only a few minutes past 11pm on December 31, a phone rang in El Paso, Texas. It was Vanessa on the other line, wishing her parents a happy new year and that 2012 seemed like the perfect year to get married :). As most normal people would, her parents congratulated the giddy couple who were…
