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Thanks to Peter and the team, I am proud to be one of the featured guest in Behind The Lens. It is my honor to be able to share many of my essentials to everyone that will be attending the talk. It is so important to share ideas to anyone you know, regardless he is a new or an old friend, there was one time that I finally bumped with Peter and we did spoke a little about photography. And right on the spot he asked if I am interested on this, well without hesitation I responded an immediate YES. Well we do tried to adjust the schedules and finally I am available on the 1st November. hahah... yes, can you feel that it's coming? Hope to see you there! I have nothing to keep, if you know how to ask the right question hehe....
Ming Kai and Amlyn are one of the nicest couple, just love to cover weddings in East Malaysia simply because the people in general are so nice. I still remember the day I went to cover Amlyn, she was sitting on the small little chair and her mom, she was so happy and excited for her wedding. Love her cheerful bridesmaids as well, they all were very cooperative. I realised that the wedding were also covered with many witnesses, especially it is an important element in a church culture. The meaning of witness is indeed an important element in Christian teachings, and I convert the meaning of witnesses to her family cultures, church, plus some hidden ones like the greatgrands and such. It was quite interesting, not sure if Amlyn able to relate to that, will just allow herself to find out, hehe.
Sibu is an interesting town, the first thing I heard about Sibu is the floods, Ming Kai was sending us to the dinner venue and the roads was so bumpy and we drove through many roads which are extruded upwards, and Ming Kai said that was the effect of many flood incident, which made the road to extrude with this funny looking bumps. I found that was so funny and laughed.
Another thing I further realise was the cost to married a Foo Chew is quite high, as explained by Ming Kai, hehe. And at that moment I thought of our shooter Kevin Tan, who is going to married a Foo Chew as well.
Thanks Ming Kai and Amlyn for the wonderful trip. Hope to see you both again someday.
This is one of the amazing love stories that I have ever heard. Tsen and Angel knew each other since high school and have never in touch since then, and God made a way for them and when they met again and spoke with each other again, love just kept pouring and in less than 3 months Tsen and Angel decided to get married. Angel is going to settle down in Perth with Tsen. Angel is an affectionate girl and she can just look at her man and express how handsome he is. While Tsen is a guy with numbers and can be quite cool sometimes but I can feel that he loves Angel so much. When we met up in Perth and heard about their love stories, I responded that I will do something different this time. I told Tsen and Angel that they are very fortunate to have each other but lack of the time to brew further. Those time in between that they have missed which I see as a valuable essence in their relationship and I said that I will create that element for them, to mature over time, so those pictures that they will see, are meant for the future, not the present. They were surprise and I guess Angel able to capture what I have to say that day, and I hope that her life can be continue to brew with Tsen, everyday.
Knew Jeremy since he joined our workshop a while ago, out of sudden he message my friend and asked about my vision and wanted to know if its for real. And Jeremy called me up and ask if I can do his pre-wedding. So went to meet up with him and Debbie and my first impression with Debbie was she is a direct opposite with Jeremy and began to listen about their stories. Both of them met each other a very long time ago in a Tekwondo class. While Debbie being the very outspoken one and emotional and sentimental, Jeremy being the one who is intrinsic and hidden. Its hard to grab what Jeremy is thinking because he kept many things within him, but he said that Debbie are able to understand him, without words. I was like "hmmm...". So we spoke about the location and finally decided on Perth because Debbie simply love the nature and I manage to persuade them to go further up to the north, to the pinnacles. Yey~ finally, after so many times I have shot in Perth I have finally able to visit Lancelin, the great white dune. The whole trip was quite fun, we had gone through some funny moments. I still remember the town that we settled down near pinnacles, Jeremy suggested lobster and we were so happy right after the shoot, but when we got home, the whole town was asleep, in total darkness and we have no where to eat, and ended up with chips and coffee. We tried our best to find but nil joy. I found that the town was quite interesting. And love to see so many Kangaroos at night. They were so cute~
It was very easy to make Debbie cry, she was the sentimental one on that day and Jeremy being the one who will provide protection for her. So we finished off with plenty of breathtaking ones and also many emotional ones.
I remember this day, where me and Zan Feng & Shibi first met, went to capture Shibi's make up session, and while I was capturing Shibi's personal shot, a strong wind blow towards Shibi, and we looked at each other and laughed, yes the strong wind does provide some good effect with the veil hehe. Both of them are actually funny couple, with a handsome dog. They really love the picture that I have captured with their dog, and the lovely tea ceremony that day, love the old folks, they always being very nice. Shibi's family is a shy type, they love to keep things in their heart. Being a wedding photographer, one of our biggest reward is to witness many essential values in every families, every one of them are different in certain ways and all have different doctrines, values and way of communication. It made me think of what kind of dad I should become sometimes, struggle with so many values but above all I love those emotional type of family hehe...
Yes Le Petit Studio is our meeting spot now. If you may wonder what is Le Petit Studio or are we changing our name to Le Petit Studio, no, Le Petit Studio is a place we created, a studio with 2 main person in charge. Dennis Yap Photography which is us, will be utilising most of Le Petit Studio, and Jeff Leong, this awesome guy that have known a while, both of us started Le Petit Studio and Jeff Leong will be using this place mainly as a hub for his business. Jeff Leong is an awesome Wedding Planner, he does wedding planning services specialise in many high end wedding themes and coordinations. If you would like to find out about his services you can certainly contact him via his email here: jeff_weddings@live.com, yes free promotion for him. :) and Remy Ngan, she does not hold a share in investing in Le Petit simply because my mom said that it was not good to have 3 major investor in a team. So we rented out a space for Remy Ngan for her make up trials and such. Again, Remy Ngan is quite famous, I can simply say that she can be the best. Remy Ngan is our main make up artist we using now for many pre-wedding assignments and most of the jobs with her around will surely back with higher successful pictures. Believe me or not, some brides does not want to remove their make up after they have been done by Remy Ngan, that sound a little exaggerated but its true. :) if you would like to enquire about her services here is the email: remyngan@yahoo.com. So this are the main guy. Lets hope Le Petit Studio be a successful hub for us.
Had too much flight to Singapore so this time we drove all the way there for a pre-wedding shoot with Jason & Raina. It was a fun day with them. A day before the shoot we had a short meet up and that was our first meeting and we spoke about the shoot and surprisingly they were up with the shoot. Jason love photography and Raina is in love with artistic stuffs. Both of them have a very intriguing personality and so got some help with their friends. Jason's friend got them a ride, and a good friend of Raina followed them as assistant. We had a short session in Lasalle college of arts, and the recent becoming to be a very popular place - gardens by the bay. Bumped up with a few photographers there along the way but I still feel that Haji Lane was still a good spot, not only can do some shopping along the way and love the colorful theme there. There are many nice people in Singapore, these people are really an awesome company. Some people may think that there is not much things to shoot in Singapore but I think it depends hehe, we added a few interesting ingredients here, like we added the guy reading newspaper in Lasalle, the guy just never willing to walk away, which is good I guess. We also found a few monks having a cup of coffee and we added them in the shoot, Jason and Raina was like WOW. Post it in facebook, I guess the shot had many people wonder and the shot had became a sensitive topic for many people. Well, in a positive way, I guess that shot does bring harmony of both worlds, depend on how you look at it.
To be honest, this is one of the good hotel for a wedding dinner event, the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur. One of my favorite was the downlight and the LED bright light, though I don't really like the LED concept but I do love it when everything goes dark, just add a little of spices and there you go, what a nice venue. If you ask me if I got any issues with dark venues, just leave the problem to us and we make something extraordinary for you.
I actually met Kuok Peng two years ago in another wedding of my good friend Jeamie, where Gregg and Jeamie had her wedding day in KL Convention Center, the place was nice too but the Grand Hyatt is much better. That night Kuok Peng sing a song during Jeamie's dinner so I know this guy is a good singer. Love this gang of nice people, they all knew each other from Jeamie's salsa classes, very outgoing people where they built their good friendship from salsa classes. This time Kuok Peng is marrying a Japanese, I am sure it will be a very long journey ahead because Kuok Peng will need to know Japanese, which should not pose any issues because both of them are working in Japan now. I still remember Kuok Peng said that Ayumi's parents mistakenly thought that he is a japanese, because Kuok Peng does look like one. The wedding dinner is a rather formal ones with some formal looking friends and of course with lots of crazy and fun ones as well. I can feel Kuok Peng's heart that it is not easy to come this far. Hope to meet up with him soon in Osaka.
Jerry and Sheryl is no stranger since we had a session back in Korea since April. Right after their wedding day in Kota Kinabalu, they had a small little wedding dinner in Berjaya Hotel Kuala Lumpur. The hotel is one of the unique one where it is quite hard to find where the ballroom is. I was amazed that they actually printed 2 pieces of my pre-wedding pictures with them in Seoul. It was quite a simple but sweet wedding dinner. Even though they are having the second wedding dinner since they have done on in Kota Kinabalu a few days ago, tears still able to fall and people are still emotional about it. I do admit that the blessing to family session was sweet. I kept on looking at the pictures I took during our trip in Seoul, and the security guard is looking at it, which was quite funny and I snap a picture with it. Hehe. Tiring night as I need to cover their wedding dinner right after I touched down from Melbourne. Both Jerry & Sheryl are lawyers in profession working in Singapore, though the assignment was quite simple but I am sure there are things to cover here. And I remember that Sheryl's brother and elder sister actually engaged my photographer friends for their shot before, which is quite cool actually to have different guy covering different weddings in a family. And now waiting for her younger sister's turn. I am curious to see who she will engage for the next round hehe.