Audley Yung

Commercial Photographer and Director

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Originally from San Francisco, I just graduated from UNC Charlotte with a B.S. in Economics. It’s been a long journey but I finally got my degree. I enjoy bicycling, the outdoors, photography, textiles and watches. My blog contains original photography, adventures and reviews of my favorite gear. For my original fashion and commercial photography, please come here: www.ollyyung.com Currently seeking a job in the fashion industry, watch industry and production industry.

  • Love!

    I proposed to my girlfriend of 3 years at the Ringling Estate in Sarasota, Florida. The engagement object was not your usual ring, but a Cartier Panthere watch with a full diamond bezel. Low key, high end, and only people who know will know. I’ve always been about understated wealth. A gigantic lab grown diamond is so gaudy and a gigantic natural diamond is just plain wasteful. Eventually I’ll still get her a wedding band but I think the watch was just a good move.

    She is an amazing person, helped me increase my net worth by 3x and taught me about investing. She has provided more value than any other person I’ve dated. She is simply on a different level. At the same time, I have never felt more at ease and natural around her, whereas with other women I’ve had to put up pretenses, act cool or dread having to come along with how much they wanted to go out and socialize with others every weekend, made to feel less then because I didn’t want to drink. With past girlfriends, I would have so much stress about going out and always having people around us or doing activities that I did not want to do. With M, we are truly at peace and joy just being around each other, doing things together that align or just doing things alone. I believe our personalities are very similar but also different when it matters. That is the key to a long lasting relationship.

  • The Fig.

  • Interiors of Lake Norman

    Bright Airy and Inviting. Just the way I like it. Shot on a Nikon Z8.

  • DC Cherry Blossoms – Peak Bloom

    Shot on a Bronica SQA, Ektar 100 film.

  • Creed x Neiman Marcus Charlotte, NC

    Randomly got asked to photograph a newly built beauty counter at a Dept store.

  • Sick Internet People

    People no longer have civil discussion nor can they take an insult without being absolutely violated to the point where they have to start digging up people’s information just to have the upper hand. The kind of car you drive, how wealthy you are, how attractive or unattractive your partner is. As if any of that has any bearing on my opinion. A pseudo Internet personality was recently calling out an alleged scammer. That’s fine, that’s great. And then suddenly, others jumped in sayin this scammer was allegedly a rapist and sexual abuser. It suddenly ballooned into something insanely serious, without any discourse on either side, all while the internet watched and dragged both people in the comments. No checks or research on the sexual abuse allegations, just hearsay and DMs. What has the world come to, if someone is a sexual abuser, this is a very high standard of crim and accusation, that needs a very high standard of scrutiny. Even mentioning that, you’re liable to be labeled a sexual abuser yourself. The internet has truly become a sea of homogenous thinking, mob mentality gangsters.

  • Spill Proof Beverages!

    Shot something really cool last month. A beverage holder utilizing a gimbal attachment. It attaches onto your golf bag and prevents it from spilling. Shot on a Nikon Z8 with Canon 35mm f1.4Lii and Nikon 50mm f1.8S lenses.

  • 540iT in Snow

    540iT in Snow

    Designed an era appropriate BMW ad with Nano Banana. Image was all original by me baby. Took up to the local parking deck on a blue bird snow day and got and image of the wagon in the snow. What a beautiful car.

  • Carolina Watch Club x Queen City Mag

    Shot for Queen City Mag. The gents behind Carolina Watch Club. An avid member 5 years ago, but my ADHD brain and wallet only has room for so many hobbies.

  • Bianchi San Jose – Return of the Prodigal Son

    Bianchi San Jose – Return of the Prodigal Son

    A version of this bike was stolen from me 2 years ago. I didn’t recognize that I had a good thing and just left it on the porch of my house unlocked one evening. The next morning, it was gone. It took me a long time to find another Bianchi San Jose with this color way. Celeste Blue. Every month, I’d do a search on Facebook marketplace for a San Jose and to my luck, 2 years in, I saw one in Orlando a few months ago. It was perfect because I would be passing through there on my home from work in Palm Beach.

    All I wanted was the frame of the bike, but the guy didn’t know how to take apart the bike so I just took the whole thing back with me in the trunk with all my camera gear. 8 hours later, I’m back in Charlotte and I stripped the bike down to just the frame and took it to the bike shop, Charlotte Cycles, to get all the new parts put in.

    I decided to go for the Michelin Power Cups instead of Continental to keep the price of the new build a little lower, but ended up loving the tires and can hardly tell the difference between the GP5000s. Overall, I changed out the bottom bracket, front and rear brakes, crankset, wheels, headset, stem, seat post, seat, handlebars….everything. This ended up being one expensive single speed bike!

    I love me a good 0 degree offset seat post. The bike is nimble, relatively fast and most importantly, smooth and easy to ride. It’s the perfect around town bike and I’m happy that it’s finally in my possession again. I really missed it.