Our latest collaboration with Elegante Wedding

It is very rare for us to offer discounts as always we offer services exceeded the value of the package. One day we have Elegante Wedding came over and spoke about their wedding secretary services and we just agreed on the spot to offer 8% for their clients as we see that numerous effort and time both the clients and us can saved from here. Elegante Wedding is no stranger to us and we feel that together with them, we can accomplish greater results, thats is where the discount came into the picture. Do provide them your great support. :)

The Story - Albert & Sharon Pre-Wedding in Melbourne

Melbourne is a very unique city, I had lots of couple who wanted to have their shot in Melbourne simply because of one thing, to recall old memories. I found that many couple were actually started their relationship in school times and went a long journey back in Malaysia and had a successful marriage. Melbourne to me, is indeed a good place to fall in love. Albert & Sharon's does not have a lot of deep emotions, all they love to do is to be the soulmate of one another, Albert does a lot of words in his heart that would love to express. So we went to many places around town for some fun shots, expressing happiness, the best part they like to do is to drink beer together lol, had some fun time with them and there simply many funny shots to be taken around. So the gown shot we had were to express something in the future and the casual ones to express their present lives together. This time of the year was much better, with less freezing wind and weather has turned a little mild than last month. Both of them are indeed a good match, with two different personalities fine tuning each other. I still remember the first time I met this couple, Sharon wants to cover many places in Melbourne because its a very memorable place for her as she has been there a while ago, and soon with Albert's soft spoken skills, it made Sharon narrowed down to a few places. And I know they wanted my sunlight effect, the emotions, the candid, and its all there. Now awaiting to get their pictures ready to cover their wedding day very soon. 

The Magnificent Journey - Jimmy & Kaiyean Pre-Wedding in Melbourne

这一次的couple我打算用中文来表达，心里在回忆着自己在拍摄里渡过的日子，也少遇见一个心有灵犀的情侣，每当我把照片放上网，她就是会慢慢把我心里所想要表达的挖出来。在之前拍摄过她的朋友佩佩之后就认识了他们，过后我又拍摄了他的朋友Mei Yee，那时Kaiyean就在面子书里跟聊天，她说我的照片有一种特别的意境，就问我那是不是属于沧桑与凄美，我回答说，那是一种生活，经过时间的消耗，把爱情提升的一个境界。那时我跟Kaiyean解释了Mei Yee照片背后的故事，Kaiyean发现原来每一张照片背后，是有着那么多的理由与故事，有时可能是生活的体会，也有可能是生命里的执着。就一个那么特别的问题，我们就开始谈起话来，就发现更多Jimmy与Kaiyean的一些故事，一些内在的心情。

Kaiyean外在可能是开朗的，但内心可是细腻敏感的，Jimmy外在可能是镇定的，但内在可是执着与热诚的。Jimmy用了好多的感动把Kaiyean带进他的世界里，心里必定是有许多的感触，而那双戒指，在里头代表着许多的含义 ，在Kaiyean的心思里也是如此。

在kaiyean的心里，爱情不只是内在与外在的融合，连周边的环境，家人的祝福，一些的变换，也成为了他们肯定对方的因素，所以拍摄他们是不容易的，尤其是让Jimmy的内心打开，把心里最原始，最真实的自己表现在照片里头。 

在整个拍摄的过程，我们整整用了两天的时间来拍摄，如果问我哪一个情景我最满意，反而是在公园里那刻，Jimmy表现了自己的认真，Kaiyean向Jimmy表达了他的幸福，那时他们在拥抱着，连自己也想流泪了，毕竟那时我自己就好像一个认识多年的朋友一般，深深的感受到他们彼此的心情。 

在拍摄完毕后，把照片交上，Kaiyean问我为何我懂得选择用Magnificent Journey做主题，就恰好配合到他们的心情。Kaiyean的心情可以说是小女人，个人可能不是，但在爱情里面选择了小女人的角色，好的是可以把小小的事情看成是伟大，在繁忙的都市里算是稀有的。人生就像拍摄一般，我们把重要的时刻捕捉起来，让重要的时刻不被遗失或遗忘，甚至有时候他们的得着与遗失，也使我心情更加执着。回到家里想了一阵子，我总是帮别人得着，所以也许有一天我会写一本书，关于我自己用遗失的时间帮别人得着的故事。

还是一句，谢谢你们，我会记得一切。 

Sunny Day - David & Lisa Garden Wedding

A wonderful garden wedding as proposed by Kam and her team, a wonderful wedding planner in Elegante Wedding. David actually met Lisa while working in Shanghai and this time they wanted something different, a morning gate crash, garden ceremony and a sunset dinner with fireworks end of the day. Really tight schedule but it all worked out pretty interesting especially the sunset dinner. David and Lisa engaged 2 clowns to entertain the kids and people just enjoyed taking pictures during the sunset session. Its like an all in one thing which Kam and her team had planned. Sent over the slideshow to David to displayed during their wedding ceremony in Shanghai and receive lots of good comments. 

We now having something on with Elegante Wedding, if all wish to engage them, we will provide a token to those couple that does not serve shark fins soup during dinner. Do check them out. :) 

The Divine Light - Jwen Hxen & Linda Church Wedding

One day I was called up by my old friend Lane, a wedding planner from My Wedding Planner and got assigned to cover the wedding of Jwen Hxen & Linda, both of them are actually civil engineers, to me Jwen is the all loving one in the heart, hardly expressed through actions and Linda is the one who is knowledgeable in many things. Thanks to My Wedding Planner, the wedding had turned out to be a very steady one, meaning that everything was very smooth with not many distractions. The decorations went very well, the church was great, just only the emotions were a little reserved from Jwen hehe. At the end of the dinner, during the toasting session, Jwen and Linda were asked to kiss and they did, for a very long time and I was observing Jwen's hand and he was not holding her while he is kissing, I figured that the pictures might turned out to be awkward and started to think if I need to make some minor corrections on this beautiful shot. And guess what, I did! For the first time. And I heard a number of laughters, in a humorous way. Sometimes I realised that it is quite tough to be a photographer, hehe, its not all about photography actually, many things I did was just to guide people on how to love, and many of my sessions seemed to turned out to be an enlightening one. That mainly because in school we hardly learned about love and in real life, the word LOVE became an important thing in our lives, which I constantly educate, so that pictures can turned out to be great. During the exchange of rings, it reminded me a very important homework about love, 

"When you put on her ring on her finger, she will put on your ring on yours, love has a lot to do about the cycle..."

Many thanks to Jwen and Linda, in life, the journey of love never ends, we continue to learn new things in life. :) Also thanks for having me.

Delightful Night - Kok Siong & Sammi Wedding Dinner

It was my first time to meet Kok Siong and Sammi during the wedding dinner where this time I am shooting in Noble House, a small little chinese restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. When Sammi told me that both of them are actually working for the ministers office and seemed to looked a little shy, I was thinking, there is indeed nothing wrong to work for the ministers office even though most people does not like the big man behind the scene, hehe. My most challenging task was to make this simple wedding dinner look awesome without the help of beautiful decorations and any extraordinary stuffs around. Thanks to the lovely couple and funny crowd, I was quite enjoying the night, shooting candid's all day, where Sammi's friends were observing me how to capture the night, a few guys came over to me asking me about photography stuffs and we had a little discussions over. Both Kok Siong and Sammi are very nice couple, they just treated me like a friend whom they know for many years. At the end of the wedding dinner, Sammi came to me and said that she was thankful that I am around and was glad that she is able to engage me. At that moment, I felt like I have done something extraordinary for them.

Without Words - Howard & Angeline Pre-Wedding

It was after a year that Howard and Angeline had finally got the chance to have their pre-wedding portrait taken, due to the death of her mom a week before her wedding day, they have to choice but to push forward her wedding arrangements a year after. It was a sad news for me while I remember Angeline were crying through the phone telling me the sad news. But this day, both of them revived the feeling today and we had lots of candids taken on this special day.

Both Howard and Angeline work as a flight crew in Etihad Airline and they wanted to take a chance to snap the picture with the aircraft so we went nearby KLIA for some shots and we had a wonderful time collecting memories in our new studio (Le Petit Studio) in Empire Gallery. Though they look very happy but I know that those words were kept within them, which recall the sad news happened a year ago. Therefore I delightedly created something for them, a theme called Without Words were created for Howard and Angeline, reflecting beautiful memories were not so much about words but through actions, and they both did great. And now waiting to cover their wedding day very soon.  

Angeline is one of the bride that I could not forget, because we had gone through many incident together and that had made our bond strong, and always hope that my pictures could cure those hard memories that had gone by. 

Wedding de Fluer - Eu Wing & Bee Fong Garden Wedding

Eu Wing & Bee Fong live in UK. Both of them are in the medical line. For one time I recalled, I did received a lot of assignments from doctors, dentist, lawyers, and hardly an accountant which I do not know why hehe... but to be honest, doctors and dentist are the nicest couple to work with, and also couples from the United Kingdom, I will need to think how my pictures attracted them, or maybe its the intuitive part of my pictures? This remains a mystery. The first time I met with Bee Fong, she reminded me of those cool looking bride that comes by once in a while but Bee Fong is actually warm in her heart, a little hotter than lukewarm, its deep isn't it. Bee Fong flew over a few of her colleagues and best friends over, and from the dinner's speech I get to know that Eu Wing is actually a very smart guy. But anyways, it is one of the loveliest wedding, handled by Peak Xperience, a wedding planning company run by 2 amazing and pretty individuals, they can be very "on the ball" sometimes but they do deliver. 

It is Bee Fong's sister that handles her logistic part in Malaysia and right after the wedding, I am glad that the pictures had made mass chain effect and now I am shooting another 2 of their friends very soon. Though we have not spoke much right after the wedding, but I have heard a lot of Bee Fong's name from many references, many thanks for Bee Fong and Eu Wing that loved my work, your wedding will stay in my memory in a very special spot.  

We have a new home!

We are proud to announce our new home - Le Petit Studio. A place where everything begins and operates, please do not confused as Le Petit Studio is just a name for the location, where our name Dennis Yap Photography* still remain as our brand. :) Well, there are some changes to our new operation where by Dennis Yap Photography* is no longer just a product of a person but a team effort. I am proud to invite Kevin Tan and Cliff Choong over, together with Su Li, Brenda and Ivan in the team. Thank you very much, sometimes things just happened like miracle, where it all started just from a conversation. 

One day Jeff asked for a coffee and I said yes, and we spoke about the issues of getting the right partner and the topic just evolved to something great. Now Le Petit Studio is host by me and Jeff, if you do not know Jeff, he is a great person and a great wedding planner. We both see similar visions and together just coincident we have Remy Ngan in the house as well. Remy is a make up artist, she can really enhance a person's personality. In the house we have all the emotional ingredient to offer you something greater than you can imagine.

Over the years when I shoot alone as a photographer, I always wish that I could offer more to my clients, and sad to see some bride did not get the chance to hire me because of date clash. Well now you can at least see my souls in a more possible way, with Kevin and Cliff in the team as partners, we offer you the same vision and art so that more couples are able to enjoy our souls. We work consistantly in cheerful manner, striving to inspire many happy hearts, and melt even more souls. We now offer vareity of packages to meet the needs of many people. We did this just because of you, we love everyone of our couples and it is always happy to see them smile.

Many people had asked why I do not hire 10 photographers and grow a big team, well personality I do not like to be big. There is always negative things on bigger things, one of it is commercialized, and seldom last. What I would like to create is a small business like some well known food stores, where everyone knew about that store and over many years the taste never fades, it can recall your childhood memories. I feel that Malaysia is lacking of such business and therefore I plan to start something like this. Please continue to provide your support, and we will always strive to offer you something original. :)

Le Petit Studio will start its operation from 17th September onwards, as told by my mom, its a good date. :)

Love,

Dennis Yap, founder of Dennis Yap Photography*

Growing Up - Wilson Family Portrait

Had a wonderful day today with a team of happy family. Wilson contacted me that it was a day where all family members finally gathered together and thought of engaging me for a family portrait session. Thanks for the great mercy that it only rains after we finished the whole session. Everyone were so happy with the only child that all focus were towards the little boy of Wilson lol. We took a walk around the park, took some portrait of Wilson's sister, and had lots of fun in the park.