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The Huffington Post, Girls Talk HQ and Refinery 29

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December 6, 2013/by
Thank you so much, The Huffington Post, Girls Talk HQ and Refinery 29! This week has been awesome and I feel fortunate to get my work pressed by 3 different websites. The Huffington Post Mailet Lopez, a CEO of IHadCancer wrote a blog on The Huffington Post yesterday. I was very much happy to see my work on the website! Girls Talk HQ I contacted Girl Talk HQ by sending email about my work. Asha Dahya got back to me saying that she wants to feature my work on her site! She got all the information from 2 of my web sites and all the other pressed...
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Underwater Healer About Face in NYC!!

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October 31, 2013/by
I'm getting ready to go to NYC! IHadCancer (the company I partnered for the campaign) is flying me out to take photograph of 4 people. I'm packing all the underwater gear in 2 cases just like the Seattle trip. I'm really nervous because this trip is going to be the toughest challenge I'll ever face in my life. 1. I'm photographing my friend Vicky who has been a great supporter for this project. I want to offer a complimentary underwater portrait session. 2. CEO of IHadCancer, Mailet Lopez is a breast cancer survivor. She wanted to create the community for cancer survivors, fighters and supporters connect. 3. Her friend, Brian is my first male survivor and he is flying in from Maine for this photo shoot. 4. Another friend of IHadCancer, Emily is going blind after multiple cancer treatments and a tumor on her optic nerve. She is only 25 years old. Everybody is important to me and I'll do my best work on each person. I'm SO nervous and excited to meet them specially, Emily. Please check out her TO SEE LIST, all the to do list before she loses her vision. Do you see underwater portrait in there? I'm so happy she found...
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CBS NEWS!!!

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October 15, 2013/by
My heart was beating fast all day since they published an article about my campaign this morning. I've been waiting for this moment and I felt so relieved when I saw my work on their website! Thank you so much, CBS!! CHECK OUT CBSNEWS.COM I wanted to post few more images. I originally gave them 30 images but they only used half. You can view the 30 day campaign, Underwater Healer About Face. It seems so long ago.... This is Erica Yee. We are reviewing the poses to improve for the next shots. We both had a great time! Please view her beautiful images here! Setting the camera makes me nervous every photo shoot. I'm finally getting use to it! You can view the simple set up from my pitch...
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Organizing Seattle cancer survivor photo shoot!!

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September 14, 2013/by
So far, I've done photographing 4 survivors from the Bay Area. I'm waiting for one more male survivor, then Bay Area is complete!! You can check out the testimonial page to see their beautiful images and their underwater experience. I loved meeting and working with all of them and it was a precious experience to see their faces glow :) They made my day. Now, I'm getting ready for 2 survivors in Seattle on the 26th. Due to my tight budget, Lindsay from Portland is meeting me and Lori in Seattle to do the photo shoot. I'm heading over there on the 25th to meet the pool owner. My friend's friend, Ann is offering the pool for no charge!! Thank you so much for the generous support. People have been so sweet and supportive for my campaign. My heart is full of happy...
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DAY 30 – end of the campaign. RAISED $10,142!!! Thank you SO much for your support!

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August 9, 2013/by
RAISED $10,142!!! Thank you so much for your support! I finished my campaign with $10,142 and 1000 likes in 30 days!! Unfortunately, I didn't reach my goal but I can still work on survivors from the Bay Area and a few from out side. I'll find out more after all the tax and 40% of the donation to IHadCancer.com are taken out. I felt like I was riding a roller coaster during my campaign! I learned so much and my heart is full with happiness! I was on my computer everyday, marketing, creating graphics, flyers, ads, social net working and I tried everything I came up with. Even though I didn't reach the number, I'm still proud of myself I put 100% of my life into this. Also I wanted to tell everybody thank you for the support. I couldn't do this without anybody's help. I feel fortunate to have you guys in my life Now, my real job starts from here. I want to be proud of my work and I won't let anybody...
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Underwater Healer Project – About Face

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June 30, 2013/by
I had a fantastic underwater portrait session for underwater healer project this weekend. I'm launching a fundraising campaign in July 10th! Details coming soon! Bernadette Leno flew down from Vancouver, Canada on Friday night. We contacted each other only one week ahead to plan everything and fortunately, everything worked out!! I was so excited to meet her and curious to find out who she was because she had never been to SF and met me before! She must be an awesome gal and she was! I felt so happy to meet her! She was only here for 36 hours and I hope she enjoyed her portrait session and stay in SF. She did such an amazing job in the water yesterday. It was about 100F in Walnut creek (thank you, Dina, Adam, Cassi, Juni and Tagboat!) and we forgot to put a sunscreen until we finished the session...... She got some farmer's tan as a souvenir. You can check her out here! 先週末に　アンダーウォーターヒーラープロジェクトのため　バンクーバー、カナダから　バーナデットさんが飛んできて下さいました。一週間ほど前にビデオ チャットで会って企画をしただけなので、二人とも出会ったときは少し緊張しましたが、意気投合して　水中写真撮影を知り合いのプールをかりでする事ができ...
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Look Good Feel Better

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May 17, 2013/by
I started volunteering for Look Good Feel Better from American Cancer Society. It's a program for cancer fighters/survivors to learn about the facial products, wigs and head wraps. It was a full class of 15 people today. They were about late 20s to late 50 and both during and post chemo. I was talking to a woman during the break and she told me that she was diagnosed cancer just last week. I was speechless for seconds but I tried to be helpful instead of telling her my sympathies. She thanked me for being there to help out. It was the most intense moment I ever felt in...
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