Congratulations Park Tae-Hwan, You did it again!  When I heard that he won few more gold medals in Guanzhou Asian Game this month, I knew it was time for me to post these images on my blog.  This was my humble celebrity moment.  A while back, I had an amazing opportunity to photograph this young Korean athlete while he was training in the States. Park Tae-Hwan is a gifted south Korean swimmer and 2008 a China Olympic gold medalist. He’s already had excellent records when I photographed him last year. He is now one of the biggest celebrity in South Korea. Can you blame them?  He is quite handsome and charming in person as well.  He worked very professionally with me even though he was very tired from his training. I have to say, I really wasn’t nervous about photographing him at all. I was able to demand signed model release so I could use these images for my portfolio. ( so please do not use these images on your site without permission everyone) I was first trained as a commercial photographer,  so technically and mentally I was fully prepared.  However what made me nervous was that the agency gave me less than 2 hours to photograph him plus 20 other product shot in two different locations. On top of that I had to photograph production images.  I guess that’s normal for photographing celebrities,but I certainly wasn’t experienced in that. I guess I was lucky to get more than 5 minutes. Here are what I was able to produce for myself .  Sunny California sky, Korean agency wanted didn’t happen. These were concept images that I submitted for their review.  A Special Thanks to my day of assistants :  Mike Kim and Daniel Kim

21 years old, being the best at what he does. It must feel so good Park Tae Hwan, Congratulations Again!