Blog of a HK Wedding Photographer

This was a very exciting photo session — vivian and km brought me to some of the places that I never been to before, so you ‘re going to see some pre-wedding photos very different from what I ‘ve shown you before.

hand in hand, walked in the countryside under the warm sunlight … … what a beautiful day. sometime they whispered, sometime they played and laughed. Really enjoy following two lovers walking around.

Date: Dec 13, 07

yes, as there is a new place, let’s have a quiz and guess where the locations are — if you know the answer, please leave your guess in the comment section

When we arrived there, I found it quite difficult for photos at first. It ’s in the middle of the day, we had direct sunlight overhead, not many area in shade. Need to adapt a little to change the way I shoot

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one of my fav wedding in dec. the love, the vow they exchanged, the song they sang … ‘re all very touching — that made all of us cry in the ceremony. Eunice is such a nice and lovly girl … Dickson, you ‘re a lucky man !!!!!!

date: dec 9, 2007
ceremony: Shatin Baptist Church
reception: diamond hill 聯邦大酒樓

love this photo. It was taken in the park of Hin Keng Estate "顯徑邨" 

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Last Friday I just shot my last e-session before my long vacation (May - June).  Esther and Black was such a great couple that they always had something amazing to show in front of my camera.

pls click the following link to see the video

As a master of karate, he ’s demostrating it on the beach.
thanks KK and Mandy taking this video for me.

sorry, only video at the moment, more photos to be uploaded very soon

I promised to upload the day 2 of fiona and sing fung today. As we already had all the Chinese rituals on the 1st day, the rundown on dec 8 was not very tight. we didn’t start taking photo until 1000 in the morning. Then we went to the Stanley market for 1 hour photo session, followed by the wedding ceremony at the St. Anne’s church.

Fiona had two teams of photographers on her wedding day — simonthephoto and kit faye. It was so nice to work with and meet other photographer in a wedding. Kit Faye ’s team was really awesome and I was also so amazed to see how he worked !!! Totally inspired !!!!

date: 8 dec, 2007
ceremony: St. Anne’s church, Stanley market
reception: mandarin oriental hong kong

Fiona waiting inside the bridal room before the ceremony.

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this is day 1 of the wedding of fiona and sing fung. the rundown is simple: we had bridal pickup game, tea ceremony, then the whole wedding party went to the Central for photos session. After two days of engagement session, Sing Fung was so good in front of the camera now !!!!

wedding date: dec 2, 2007

make sure come back tomorrow, I ‘ll upload photos of their wedding ceremony (day 2) very soon.

this is magic. The photo was taken after the tea ceremony at Sing Fung ’s family, I asked them to stay at the tram station. While I was taking the photo, a bus (with wonderful color and graphics) passed very fast behind them that I could only had time to take just two photos.

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Hi, I keep the promise to upload the "post wedding" photos of minako and sam today. Before the wedding, we planned to have an e-session, but it turned out that both mina and sam ’s schedule ‘re too tight that we couldn’t make it finally. Instead, just 4 days after their wedding, we had a "post wedding" session.

Can you feel the happiness of the newly wed?

date: 28 nov 2008
make up: polly of faces hk

my fav of the day - it ’s in the middle of the day, so we had a very harsh overhead sunlight. I asked mina to wave the veil and the sunlight made it very beautiful

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Just met minako again last week to discuss her album, her wedding and (and the photos as well ) is so beautiful that she decided to upgrade to a 80 pages album and one additional big big hand-made album.

And got a great news from her, she is going to have a new member in her family later this year !!!!! Congratulations !!!!!!!

date: 24 Nov 2007
ceremony and reception: repulse bay hotel
make up: Eva of faces HK

And please visit this blog again tomorrow, I ‘ll upload their "post wedding" picture very soon. BTW, minako is a very special japanese girl who doesn’t eat sushi … …

beautiful bride — it ’s pity that we only got less than 15min for the portrait session

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Wow !!!! I believe this blog will hit the 200,000th mark tonight !!! When you see this post, please take a look at the counter at the bottom left and see if you ‘re the 200,000th visitor. Please drop a message to me so that I know who hit the mark.

simon.the.photo

Another fav wedding in dec. I not only had a great time with tiffany and clement, but also with their wedding party and parents as well.

BTW, Clement, your honeymoon photos at the "South Pole" are awesome !!!!

date: dec 12, 2007
ceremony and reception: peninsula hong kong, garden suite

my fav of the day. So unique for hong kong, you can’t find it elsewhere in the world. This was taken when we went to clement ’s family. Some effect was added, you can click the image to see my explaination

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I have shared with you some photos of the amazing wedding of wendy and gordon two weeks ago. We just finished their summary video.

This video was produced and edited by our new 2nd video team which was formed early this year.

Filming and editing: Tomoko of Simon.The.Photo

both isabella and richard came from shanghai and had their wedding at Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong. Before the wedding day, I only had the chance to meet richard, but I couldn’t meet Isabella until the wedding day.

As a girl from Shanghai, I found Isabella very special compared to other brides here in Hong Kong. Most of the time, she ’s very quiet and look very elegant on the day, but sometime, she can be very very hot, especially when we had the night shooting in Central

Date: Nov 25, 2007
Ceremony and reception: Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong

Isabella looked perfect in Qi Pao. It ’s around 2300 in Central.

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what a great party !!! I always love taking photo of of bar mitzvah party, there is always something new and interesting. This ’s not an exception for Jeremy ’s party. The theme of the party is "Jeremy Resort and Casino", of course, we had a lot of gambling games and dancing !!!!

date: 16 march, 2008
venue: JCC HK
event management: click marketing

the jeremy notes !!

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Hi All,

(this is a sticky post - stayed at the top of the blog for a while) We just finished the busy season from Jan - Mar and I am going to take a long, long vacation from April - June (more on this vacation later). This vacation is planned for a long time and I stopped taking any wedding job between april and june since 9 months ago. There will be only a few shootings which were confirmed long time ago. And I will try to clear all the backlogs in next few weeks.

Outlook of 2008 is very very strong, with over 90 shootings booked !!!! And most of the Chinese "good days" are engaged. If you are looking for wedding photography in Oct, Nov and Dec 2008 , please be informed that all weekends (except Oct 4,  Oct 12.  Nov 23, Dec 13 & 14) are already booked.

(updated: 29 April) I am sorry that I ‘ll stop meeting new client during my vacation in May (except those that had confirmed before), you can still contact and book me via email and telephone.

(updated: 15 May) thanks for all your support, booking for Nov 2008 is completely full, and I am sorry that I can’t take any new order for wedding and engagement shooing in Nov 2008.

(updated: 4 June) booking for Oct and Dec is 95% full now, if you have booked me an engagement session and plan to have the shooting later this year, I highly suggest you to confirm the shooting date as soon as possible.

(updated: 10 June) client meeting resumes after mid June, here is my meeting schedule

your friendly wedding photographer — simon.the.photo

 Still very tired … … Yesterday I shot the wedding of Winnie and Raymond. this is one of the most entertaining wedding I ‘ve ever attended. Will post some photos later this week.

Wake up very early this morning. Wow !!! just make it to see the beautiful sunrise!!!

When I thought it is going to be a beautiful day, I found my mobile phone got hang up, and I had to "hard reset" it. Oh, it took me two hours to recover everything from it.

the mobile just hang up at this screen, no matter what I did — remove battery, soft reset, it didn’t help

I love Jeff ’s works a lot. As he is one of the top ten wedding photographer in the world, I am always amazed at his Black & White works. If you love Black & White wedding photos, you can’t miss looking at his works

He was recently featured in the Canon Professional Network (the first wedding photographer to be featured), a must read article.

click the below image for the full article