Saying Yes - Jone & Ferng ROM in JPN Ipoh

Jone and Ferng is not stranger, if you have read the blog, they were our couple in the recent Bali Pre-Wedding. Right after the pre-wedding session we have been chatting since and they had also enquire about my other pre-wedding destinations, I guess they are addicted to being shoot. And we found this little opportunity where they are having a small ROM in JPN Ipoh, they asked if there are anything to be shot there and I said there must be something that I can shoot LOL. And so I travelled all the way to ipoh, my hometown, to cover their small little ROM session and going back home on the same day. 

Jone's mom is a unique mom where she kept her beauty pretty well, and there was one time Ferng was telling me that she feel stressful because his mom was the miss Ipoh a while ago. And finally get to see his mom and she just looked like a 30 year old lady. Did a few shots right after the ROM, I did not mind much as I go there just to kill some time and have some fun with them, so we went to this cool little cafe for some shots again, and they were all very energetic, I was almost collapsed LOL from the alcohol consumed that afternoon. They were such a good drinker, well so am I but I don't drink much. I intentionally post a picture where we were drinking to show how funny these people were. Thanks to Jone and Ferng for everything, I am able to recall back our old memories back in Bali that day, where we all had 40 bottles of beer a day before the shooting day and we forgot to pay the bills. Yeah, what an experience. 

A Long Journey - Eddie & Joanne Wedding Day

This is another wedding handled by a friend of mine Agnes from Favors Essence. We met up in Le Petit Studio before the wedding day together with Agnes and Eddie is such a funny guy and it ended with many laughters. Both of them had actually gone through a very long relationship together, yes and we did many couples with long term relationships. Usually couples with long term relationships are outwardly cool but inertly warm. During the wedding day, Joanne had her make up done in Cyberlodge, a wonderful occasion and found out that one of my old friend was in the wedding, and she was pregnant hehe. It was a typical gate crash with bunch of angry girls with ambitious guys. But one of the moments I am able to recall was when Eddie was made to sing to Joanne outside the door, and the way he sing the song was very comforting, it was a funny song but I guess there was a lot of sweetness in there. Joanne heard the song and she cried. And Eddie was made to eat a piece of durian which he never willing to stuck a piece in his mouth in real life, and he did. In the end of the wedding, there comes the wedding dinner, nicely set up by Agnes, this time it is a sakura theme. And I kind of like the Sakura theme because its all in cold colours. The whole set up was filled with blue and the pictures turned out pretty rejoicing, something different. Many thanks to Agnes and the team, and Eddie and Joanne as well. Before I end this blog post, Eddie, if you see this, your cup that you purchased in Empire is still in my studio, please come to pick it up. Hehe.

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Looking for a beautiful sunrise - Rob & Chuen Pre-Wedding

Rob and Chuen met each other in the States, this is really a handsome and pretty match where Rob is a American born taiwanese and Chuen is from Malaysia. Though I know Chuen speaks manderine but she seldom use it, you know what I mean hehe. There are many romance within Rob and Chuen and whenever I see Chuen, I just love the way she smiles, it reminds me of a famous cartoon character Mashimaro, her eyes smile  together. Rob loves the shape of the mosque and Chuen loves the sunrise I created and so we went for the combination. We did not do the traditional type of pre-wedding but instead we did a beloved session with them and the emotions just flow all the way. There are tiny little actions from Rob which is so sweet to be captured and love to see the softer part of Chuen, summiting towards Rob. And thats about it, a wonderful morning in Putrajaya.

Sweet Companion - Adrian & Debbie Wedding Day

Met up with Adrian and Debbie a couple of times before the wedding day, they were two very excited couple. I always gave them a smile when I see them, simply because Debbie is simply too cute! I guess any friend that knew Debbie will be able to know that, as a single child, lovely family, and the way and the tone that she speaks sounds like a small little girl talking to you. Both Adrian and Debbie had been together for many years. Debbie's dad love her so much which is so sinful without asking them to have a family photo with them hugging Debbie together. And I can still recall Adrian's dad, who is a body builder and young looking. There are simply many love ad built into the slideshow for that night, which celebrates the love for Adrian and Debbie. Which is just one word, lovely. 

Natural Caused - Jin Wei & Ai Ting Wedding Day

Jin Wei & Ai Ting are both working in the UK, when we met up before the wedding day, Jin Wei and Ai Ting wanted all shots to be candid without any poses and such, and I agreed which I normally does but this time is all candid, so all I did was shooting behind the scene and let the flow goes naturally. I fully understand what they expect because we cherish what is going to happen during the wedding day and those natural caused is to be captured so that memories can be eternal. I surely do not like to ask people to repeat what they do and to act upon what they do, and also, to relocate the location and redoing what was happening for better shots. To me, there are values for where the incident is happening, the time, the person, the gesture, and the action. Yes it is harder to shoot candid than posed moments, hard things always have a challenge and always have to compensate to beauty, but the value is there. Thanks Jin Wei and Ai Ting, hope to meet you both again someday in UK. 

An Emotional Journey - Keen & Lydia Wedding Reception in Saufiville Janda Baik

Keen and Lydia are one of the nice couples too! I told my friends that I am very fortunate to meet many nice couples in town, at least they made my job so meaningful and priceless. When I met Lydia on her wedding reception, she sincerely thank me for able to be her wedding photographer and she felt very fortunate to have me. Guess what, I felt the pressure immense within me right at the moment lol. And her friends seemed to know about me and came over to discuss about photography by saying "Dennis, I know you take nice pictures." and again, I felt that pressure again lol. Both of them are actually from Singapore and decided to have their special moment celebrated in this rare occasion in Saufiville Janda Baik. This is indeed a unique location, before you reach this place, you hardly know that there is such place in here, which I have to go through a narrow rocky road, unpaved, some bumpy ride in order to reach here. Both of them enjoyed the mountain view here. While parents were arranging their decorations they asked why would they want to have their special day here, I gave them a smile and told them because it is special. I really love to cover rare location like this one, small group, with close friends and families, simply many moments to share and at least able to mingle around and enjoy together with them. It was a blessed day with nice weather. Really wish to meet up with them again someday. 

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Behind The Lens with Dennis Yap, hosted by Peter Tan

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.... 

The Witness - Ming Kai & Amlyn Wedding day in Sibu

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.