Darren & Tracy Family Portrait in Le Petit Studio

Darren and I had been friends for quite some time since the AirAsia days, had seen him and Tracy together for many years and finally decided to tie the knot and now with 2 beautiful kids, time flies. Darren has a few nice looking sisters they are were very smart and bright, if I remember correctly, one or two is working in Singapore, I guess its a special day where they finally had the chance to get together and this shot was taken for them in our Le Petit Studio. I did a 2 hours session for them with a hundred of pictures. 

Actually come to think of it, even though I'm a photographer but my home is still missing some nice family pictures, I need to get some help to snap a few too. Thats life, the ones we shoot has many pictures at home, while the ones shooting have none. lol...

Tieng Wei Graduation in UPM

I have several enquiries for graduation portrait and finally I got this one from Tieng Wei, when Tieng Wei enquire me about the session, I asked her if she available to come for a discussion and she was curious about what I going to ask, she was surprised about the little things that I wanted to know before the shoot and suggested a theme for them, its like a pre-wedding session lol. Tieng Wei was very young and cheerful, she loves her family a lot and her 2 brothers that are still in school, since she graduated in the school of architecture so we went to her faculty for some shots and later in famous UPM farmfor some family portraitures, then I followed them to their house for some shots later on, the session ended not so short after all but as long they are happy I am fine, I wish that I could contribute some good memories for people, the process is almost like shooting a bride hehe. Tieng Wei is a unique girl with amazing personality, though her family is quite wealthy but she did not went overseas and instead she did her degree in local University, to her its no different, I hardly sense anything sad from her personality, she is just a pure hearted girl with a good family education, if you ask me, she is like the Cinderella in the movie, kind and brilliant.

Recalling Love - Andrew & Kathy Pre-Wedding

Funny couple meets funny photographer, young, energetic and lovely Kathy, filled with hope and pure soul, love is something she longing for, thats a good thing about being young. And Andrew is one funny guy, who is very straight forward and cheerful, he let Kathy does all the decision. From the outlook it looks like a normal pre-wedding session but this series serves a higher intention for the couple, before the pre-wedding Kathy and I had became good friends and she used to shared a lot to me about Andrew lol, thats the life go a photographer, we are always the sand bag hehe... anyway, we finally decided to use Andrew's house for the session, I just love their tiffany coloured wall, so we had an awesome funny session together with Gary too who was there to capture some of Andrew and Kathy footage. The beginning of the session we covered a little of light weighted theme with our magic to revive the feeling again, and later with something connected to their future during the gown session, I can feel that after the session, all confusion that Kathy had had been diminished right after and both person can see life in a newly discovered feeling of joy and positive thinking. :) We are looking forward to cover their wedding very soon.

The Equal Horizon - Keith & Suet May Pre-Wedding in Jeju Island, Korea

Quite an awesome experience for a virgin visit to Jeju Island, having a pre-wedding photo session here is always part of my list, however I am sure there are places that are far more better, just need to do a little bit more exploration because Jeju Island is really big. Both Suet May & Keith are colleagues, Keith is her boss and their relationship started on a business trip together, this couple has a very unique relationship where Suei May love to talk privately with Keith and provide her comments to him, due to the profession as an accountant, I guess she is a good helpful person that able to help Keith save lots of money for him. It is a little difficult to find out the deepest side of Keith and Suet May but the deepest side is where I love to find out on most emotional sessions but I always respect couples that wanted to keep the deepest side aside and express only the positive sides. We did a 1.5 day session in Jeju as there are simply too many things they wanted to cover and she does her own make up on the second day session. Actually our initial intention was to go New Zealand for the shoot but some how they changed the destination to Jeju, there goes my NZ trip. A day before the shoot we went for a day trip travelling around the island with our english speaking driver, good job done, we managed to found a few places without many tourist around and with nice views hehe. Finally we made it to the wind turbine, they are everywhere but to find a nice spot is difficult, we managed to found one at the road side and just love the series we got here. Often times couple looking for iconic places but they did not realise there will be many tourist and crowd that will make the photo session difficult to manage, sometimes taking away expectations, and venture into the unknowns, travel spontaneously, one might able to find something greater than expectation, that is not because of the photographer himself, it was because behind all greatness, there is this great thing call the memory, when both person able to be comfortable and given the time to love and discover one another, given the time to use their heart to speak, these photos are far more valuable than those you expected to be, because expectations is driven from FEAR, and FEAR is the greatest enemy for that personal reward. 

Alfred & Aenon Garden Solemnisation in ROMemories, Johor Bharu

After accomplished Alfred and Aenon beloved session few months ago in Sepang Gold Coast, this day they invited me over to cover their small little garden solemnisation in ROMemories in Johor Bharu. It is a small intimate event with not more than 100 people, thanks to the nice and cozy weather that day, seeing people laugh and cry that day, I guess this is what both Alfred and Aenon is looking for, they just wanted a simple ceremony for their wedding, both of this couple are quite fluent in Japanese language so a japanese song was used on their portrait session and I guess that was the only slideshow presented during the ceremony, yea a simple one. The wedding dinner was similar to the Japanese way which is buffet style so it was not a very long event. 

Hao & Ching Wedding Day in Kota Kinabalu

Everyone going to get married some day and Chun Hao and Ching are one of my good friend that I met few years ago during a wedding assignment in Kota Kinabalu, they were still a very young team of energetic people that does mainly wedding videography mostly in Kota Kinabalu. Now they are one of the famous videography team in Sabah and Sarawak, if you have heard the name D-Capture Studio you must be familiar with Hao or Keat (his brother). In some ways my photos presented during the wedding ceremony had caught their eyes and said that I do capture many moments that were not noticed by them and to them they felt my pictures are natural, candid and heart warming. I did not know that my photos had given such a strong impression for them and some people in Kota Kinabalu. Over time, for some reason my assignment in Kota Kinabalu kept coming in and always bumped into them and had worked with them in couple of assignments and we did had a wonderful time together, KK people are just great, I had almost wanted to move to this beautiful cozy place, or even venture into this territory. 

When Chun Hao contact me if I am available to capture their wedding day I was thrilled and felt the honour to be asked from someone in the industry. Though I did not have the chance to cover their pre-wedding, it was another memorable moment for everyone during this special day. Though I was hoping that Chun Hao stay out of focus on his actions and his video team performance during the day and able to fully enjoy this special moment, seeing him concerning about video shots has led me a little worry about his beautiful memories, but after all, the day ended with lots of fun. After the wedding day, we had a awesome day trip to Bunga Raya Island Resort. Thanks Hao and everyone for the good friendship, it is not easy to bum into friends like this, and it is not common to have several tea time session in a day if I am in Kuala Lumpur, only in Kota Kinabalu can find such relaxing moment purely mingling with friends. It is still my hope to be able to shift my focus to this beautiful place some day, maybe another branch studio or something, that remains as my hope.

10월6일 - Kok Hoo & 혜지 결혼식날

축하합니다 Hye Ji and Kok Hoo for this special day, when I first met up with this couple during a wedding fair this bride really caught my attention, she is very open to what she want and really hope that I can offer her something for her wedding day, not everyone has the magic like her and so in a very fast decision she decided to go ahead with me. Before the wedding day we tend to joke around and her family, especially her sister love Korean language very much, even her fridge was written "I love you mommy and daddy" in Korean. At the same time I was also studying Korean language and we did communicated a lot with Korean. Kok Hoo and Hye Ji wedding day not nothing fancy but filled with bunch of noisy bridesmaids who are a bunch of high school gang in Kuen Cheng Chinese Independent High School. We had a very long gate crash session and they made Kok Hoo to ride a bicycle around asking for signature, and I was the one running around chasing everyone, it was indeed a tired one but it was quite fun. And so I used a Korean song for her slideshow and written in Korean language, it was the only time that I could express something for what I have studied in my class lol. 

Le Petit Studio has turned 1 year old...

Thanks all for your support, our small little Le Petit Studio has turned 1 year old last month. Here is a small little collage from the beginning until to date for your pleasure...  We had many ideas before creating Le Petit Studio, initially we wanted to have a rusty dark setting but personally we wanted white, a place as comfy as possible because photography is a stressful job. We made it comfy so our pictures can turn out happy, and also to maintain our happy go lucky personality. There are many good possibilities here, we just love our rainbow colors around. A sweet place for many happy creations.... have you imagine working while listening to music, and take a nap whenever required, make a fresh cup of coffee when we need it, and play some musics when we feel bored, or have a movie night, yes we made this place for that, work hard and enjoy hard.

Ajie & Pei San Wedding Day and Dinner in Suburbia Restaurant Sentosa, Singapore

Met up Ajie and Pei San over FaceTime and I remember we spoke a lot about the wedding and pre-wedding but they end up signing our wedding day package. Ajie is a cool guy from Indonesia but both of them are working in Singapore now, Ajie has a high sense of taste not only on how he dress but also on coffee, he owns a restaurant in Singapore and he is also a barista hehe, thanks to my elephant like memory I am glad I am still able to remember all these tiny bits of things that the couple told me. It was a busy day with morning gate crash, church ceremony and dinner at Suburbia restaurant in Sentosa Singapore, this is such a cool place where only this place has to offer, they had a tea ceremony in open air garden and many awesome intimate sharing session throughout the dinner, and also found out that Ajie has another talent, he has a voice that able to melt Pei San's heart. Friendly couple and one bridesmaids was also a friend of one of a nice bride that I have shot in Singapore earlier. However, with all the hard work there was this incident that I can never forget which is a comment from one of the groomsman, he came to approach us before the dinner ceremony commented that we were not snapping enough, I got a little turned down at first because we really work our best, well I guess maybe because of the Singaporean habit of being dictative, sometimes we can never avoid it, I should have told him to try enjoy the wedding as much, just leave the good works from us and trust the photographer, our shooting styles are hand picked by the couple instead from the groomsman. It took me a few to overcome that feeling and after some refreshments we became the ninja's again, and my fellow assistant shooter was so nice to capture that tired look of mine at the end of the wedding dinner LOL. Thats one of the life of being a photographer after 16 hours of work.

Choon Wae & Irina Wedding Day in Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur

Its an awesome morning where Choon Wae and Irina is had their red hot Chinese traditional tea ceremony dressing in red all the way. Irina is originated from Indonesia so she had not many relatives here for the tea ceremony but she did look very happy that day, both of them are very lovely and Choon Wae's side was very happening and emotional where his mom cried during the tea ceremony. Love the casual and simple style during the day, nothing very hectic where everyone are able to enjoy the cozy afternoon and lots of smiles and tears, after this special day both Choon Wae and Irina will be flying back to Melbourne, I can felt that his mom will miss him a lot.