The Traditional Way - Jerry & Carmen Wedding Day

One of the greatest and funniest couple that I have ever encountered. I guess this is the last one, after capturing their pre-wedding in Kyoto, couple portrait in their high school, and ROM in Carcosa Sri Negara, this day, they want to make it big. Both Jerry and Carmen had being together for many many years, I mean it, many many years since high school, both of them used to exchange lunch box in school, yes we did that reviving session few months back. After witnessed their long wedding arrangements, we have been so close together, I really believe that Jerry is really the one who is suitable for her, Jerry has a very big heart which can accept her in any ways, no matter what she did or how clumsy she is, Jerry is always the one who provide her comfort and love, that made Carmen the most fortunate one. How I know Carmen, had to recall back old memories while I was shooting her best friends ROM in Singapore, and this girl Carmen is always the noisiest in the gang, that caught my attention and she kept on asking me to capture her moments. And soon later Carmen attended few of my workshops and began to love photography, before Carmen was a super busy lady working in a corporate world doing forex stuffs and got inspired by me and began to venture something that she really love to do, she quit her job and venture into wedding planning. I did not know I had such powerful skills. Haha... and what she does had really made me believe on what I am doing, to do something we all love to do and feel meaningful about it. 

I really feel very happy during that day as we all laughed like a good friends, well after so many assignments they have engaged, I guess we sort of really able to blend in like a best friend, it is easier for me to be able to enhance those experience for them, according to their own personality. However, behind many laughters, of course there are many tears, understood those background of them, really made me appreciate this happy day of them. Are you able to relate how I feel? I guess only the person who knows them will be able to relate it. 

Happy for you Jerry & Carmen, I know we will still stay in touch and I am sure there will be many opportunities to come soon!

The Sentimental Part of Love - Andrew & Chen Chin Wedding Day in Crown Plaza Changi Airport

Finally after a year I manage to start blogging about my wedding assignments again, I really love to look back those pictures again and recalling those essential feelings on mine during their big day. For those audience that reading this, I am actually blogging this on the day of 2014 July 20th. Yes, if I have missed it, happy anniversary to you Andrew & Chen Chin. I had been recalling those days we had while we in Bali shooting both of you in the water fall, while I was dipping myself on the river, yes, those challenging moments. And this day, we are all well dressed. It was a sweet feeling. Maybe I have not told you that, Andrew, you are one of the most sentimental guy that I have met, soft spoken and I can see that you really love Chen Chin very much. During the ROM, I just wish that it can be longer and the solemnised can talk a little more haha, reason because I really want to see Chen Chin in tears hehe. And yes she did, a little later during the dinner. I wonder what you have told her that touched her. Wish both of you happy, always. From the deepest part of me.

Bearers of Love - CK & Irene Pre-Wedding

CK and Irene, I always smile when I think about them, this sweet couple bears a lot of inner content within them, the one who has the most inner content is always the bride of course hehe. When we first spoke about the location for the shoot, we gone through several and finally we decided to use Troika for her gown shot, to create something simple and nice and focus more about their emotions. I was quite amazed on how the pictures had turned out to be, as Irene is a property negotiator, choosing a location like this is really easy and that well matches their profession. In order to make their pictures filled with inner content, I have personally crunched the idea several times due to Irene's deep personality, for CK he is pretty much simple and easy going, both reflected a good contrast for each other and both emotionally supportive in nature; CK provides Irene the love she wanted, and Irene provides the understanding that CK needs. I had once trying to crunch about how this couple mingle with each other many years before as they have been together for many years, I guess "TIME", is a major content in this series. So we travel through several periods of time, the past and the future, in order to create this series, where the subconscious play a major role within the picture. It may have seen that from the outward expression that Irene is being easy, but the most valuable thing is whats on her mind when she look at it, and how valuable she felt about the session. Happy for you both CK and Irene, happy forever~

The Grey Area - Boudoir Photography

Do I do any Boudoir Photography? Yes I do, just only that they are not published. Recalling back those series that I have done, they are all different in order to meet different expectations of the individual. For this time I am given a limited permission to post some samples to collect some memories. I believe the perspective off from a male photographer is rather different, though female can produce another form of perspectives but I do believe that a male are more sensitive towards these kind of shots, in a specific way. As for this individual, the reason she approached me was because she does not want to have those Japanese AV looking style that most people shoot, thats right, I totally agree with her and what we did was rather a more mature style that able to expresses her in total, bringing out her inner beauty together with the outer, so that she can remember her own beauty after many years later. I know that many would like to have a personal series of their own but those that have the courage to ask definitely seeking for something important about her. I can still recall my very first Boudoir assignment many years back, where I was surprised with the profession as a photographer, we are actually given that great amount of trust in order to produce the outcome that the individual expected. That made me thinking for a while, and those are the great responsibilities we hold, for creation.

A Little More About Us - Jake & Yu Hwan Pre-Wedding in Bali, Indonesia

Had lots of fun with Jake and Yu Hwan, they are the ones that are so truthful and real and they are very sincere kind of individual. Both of them really enjoy life together, even though it has been many years but they still find their time to travel around the world. I can see from Yu Hwan eye's that she is indeed found the man she wanted to spend her rest of her life with. There simply no stress to mingle with this two people. And we felt very thankful, finally our Bali assignment has come to an end and me and Remy are ready to pack our stuff to fly back home, Malaysia. Like I said, on every Bali trip I will hurt myself in some ways, for this time, I stepped on a sea urchin and it hurts so bad! Yea, the pictures were beautiful, but I have to watch my step all the way in order to approach my shots, and especially most of the shots were candid, acting fast is an issue hehe. Oh it was a tiring trip, wake up everyday before sun rise and reach home at night, and finally we will get some rest. Good bye Bali, I will see you again very soon after a few months time. And thanks to all our couple that trusted us along the way in this trip, you guys are really awesome. Had plenty of pork ribs and fried ducks, got to loose some weight now.

Summer Kind of Love - Hwee & Jenna Pre-Wedding in Bali, Indonesia

If you ask me what kind of couple most loving, I can say in general Christians are. Though they are many loving couples out there but Christians kind of love have added the spiritual part in their love, that allow them to see things inside of the individual. For Hwee and Jenna's case, the most memorable shots was the praying part. I did not asked them what they pray together but I am sure it is something important. Though not to forget human beings love beautiful things and so Jenna is a kind of unique lady that would love her to look like an angel, and she love my sunlight shots, because she love it so much, I made the theme Summer Kind of Love in order to express her love for the Light. It was a long journey for the first day, we travelled to several places, got ourselves splashed with sea water during the early part of the shoot, that was interesting LOL, and Remy was screaming about her hair being wet heheh... If you see the 3rd picture on top, that was 1 second we all got splashed, well that was exciting, and to get all the nice shots we really need a fearless heart, at least for me, not sure about the couple hehe... as long I did not drop my camera body thats fine. Bali is something unique for me, every time I go to this place I get myself hurt somewhere, and for this time I was not sure what will I go through. Simply because of this Bali assignment trip, I got to make myself walk cross a river with my half body wet, climb through trees, hike up rocks, and maybe got bitten by some kind of species or animal, and thats only happen for the shooter because we need to do that in order to capture all these nice shots LOL. So Bali is in fact my top list of most tiring trip. For Jenna's case right after we shot the next couple a day after, I bumped up with them in Tanah Lot, and Jenna grabbed me and ask if I have the energy to do another half day shoot here in Tanah Lot, at first I was thinking "what can I shoot in tanah lot?" its all dark but they ended up confirming the shoot and so we went here during the early morning, and guess what, WOW, I did not know that the beam that came from the other side was so amazingly awesome! Its like... its like.... the light of God LOL. Well thats what I called it that day. I said, "hey look! Its the light of God, lets start praying~" we all got so excited and laughed, and we kept on looking those pictures from the camera screen and like WOW all the way back home. Well that series indeed had finally satisfied Jenna that day, where she needs the Light out from me. 

Signature Weddings - Wedding Fair in Setia City Convention Center

Love . This Time - Yan Yang & Li Yuan Pre-Wedding in Bali, Indonesia

Maybe you agree with me if I say that, it is easy for an usual person to love but it is harder to love when ones gets smarter, that is why many smart professionals took a very long journey to understand the meaning of love. Yan Yang and Li Yuan is an exceptional case, where Li Yuan is actually a very smart girl in school, she is actually a legendary smart girl when she was young, and Yan Yang is a very smart professional too, both of them live in Singapore. When they engaged me for a pre-wedding shot, one of the special thing about them was they were very procedural, list down what they want and what they do not want and etc. The moment I saw I got a little worry because this might stop them for being real. So when I spoke to them about the priceless of being real, at first it is difficult for them to receive my idea, but over time i guess under my laughable charm I managed to persuade them a little hehe. So this very day in their pre-wedding, everything was a mixture of real and poses. But I was very touched that in the end of the day during the sunset, where Li Yuan hand over a small little gift to Yan Yang, we hide the gift until the very last moment, on top of the gift it wrote "love is giving", for that moment, filled with beautiful sunset, with all real emotions, I can say that, in life, we do not have that many chances to experience such moment especially in a very nice set ups. And the last 2 hours, it all went so well, Li Yuan cried with happy tears, and Yan Yang gave her a deep hug. Though in life, we are unable to be free in many things, but all I seek is at the possible last moment, something that can even change ones life, for a very long time. That's the hidden love from us.

A New Venture - Weng Wai & Lisa Pre-Wedding in Bali, Indonesia

Love Bali! Weng Wai & Lisa, my first couple to be shot for this trip. Both Weng Wai & Lisa are just very cute couple, where Lisa seemed very brave but she is in fact a girl that requires protection, noticed that while she hop on the camel ride LOL. It was nice to shoot something different for this day, some camels as requested by the couple, the lake which is very far away and we finished off with some nice sun beams~. Both Weng Wai and Lisa are very careful person where they tailored the session nicely and note down their attires one by one, I can see that they really appreciate the session because it is the day they would like to have something they would not want to be forgotten. If you have found me through wedresearch blog, the blog that spoke a lot of about weddings and such, she is the one who gave me a very positive comment. Took a very long time to complete their wedding album, reason being that their wedding had been delayed to end of 2014 so they are very relaxed about it. Hehe. Wish to see them again some day. 

The Sky is Blue Photography Workshop completed!