Last few weeks – as busy as usual, no need to mention again – don’t want to bore you … …

What I am going to let you know and surprise you is: Xandra and I are going to have our second daughter next month !!!!!!!!!!! We ‘re so happy and excited for the arrival of this baby. We planned for it long time ago – after we had the 1st baby (Shulin), both of us thought that it would be much much better to have another child so that the two children can  grow up together.

Before Shulin was born, I invited Lawrence to take our first pregnancy photo session. So to be fair to the younger baby, I arranged another photo session last week and we ‘re glad to have Ken Lam (the Kodak UK photographer of the year “2009”) to help us this time.

Even though the weather of the day was not good, we had lots of fun. It was so cold and wet outdoor that we finally decided to have the photo taken in a shopping mall and train station.

Here is a sneak peek. Ken, thanks for your great works, the photos are wonderful and you captured the happiness of my family.

Also great thanks to Canly, polly of faces hk and “Dai E” for all your great help on the day !!!!

More news of the baby coming very soon … …

Love this shot!!! we had this photo taken at the Shatin New Town Plaza shopping hall

babies, babies, babies … …

the working Ken Lam and big thanks to Canly and “Dai E” ‘s help on the day !!!!

our whole team of the day !!!!! Thanks everyone !!!!

This photo session was done last month and guess what? The new baby will arrive on this coming Friday! God bless Ruby, Simon and their family.

makeup artist: KK Chan

I ‘d like to share some photo techniques I used in this session. Everyone loves to have sunlight in their photo session, but unfortunately, it doesn’t always happen. In that case, I may use flash to create the feel of sunlight in some of the photos. Look at the photo below, ruby was walking under a “beautiful sunset light”, but, in fact, the day was very cloudy (with little rain), and the color temperature had a blue cast. Two off-camera flashes were used to create the light, you can click the link below to see the detailed set up.

ruby and baby walking under “beautiful sunset light” – created by flashes

the truth was: it was a cloudy day.

thanks KK for taking this behind the scene shot for me

Here is the lighting diagram
two off camera flashes ‘re set up. One was put in a 28” softbox at camera right. Another one was put behind ruby at camera left. I intentionally put the second one very close to the edge of the photo so that we could see some flare from it. Both flashes ‘re CTO gelled to give the warm look

Most of the other photos ‘re shot at home.

knew KK for years, but didn’t know she is also good at drawing

I love this one – very warm

both ruby and simon are football fans

another fav of the day

Ruby, 加油，加油，加油，加油，加油，加油 ！！！

The baby is expected to arrive in around 10 days — very excited !!! So glad that we can put this photo session into action before she arrives.

PS. I think I was too excited on the day, since then, I was very very sick for the last few days. Though I could still work on the backlogs, the fever and muscle pain really killed me.  It ’s getting better now, it may take 1–2 more days to recover completely.

We broke into took some photos in a lecture hall — this is one of the classroom I spent lots of time for my engineering degree long long time ago. The setting is still the same, but everything is renewed with much nicer AV equipments

this is a very nice location at the New Asia College — it ’s the first time Lawrence to be there.

an awesome idea from Lawrence !!!!

Xandra and her sister Chloe

I couldn’t stop myself taking a few photos as well

say "simon [the] pa pa"

I started to dance !!!

we could connect a laptop to internet and play music video from YouTube, amazing technology !!!!

BTW, Xandra do that to me everyday.

keep smiling, keep smiling !!!!

nice photos, Lawrence !!!

"百萬大道" @ CUHK

last photo of the day

(Updated : 11 May, 2008)
– I just got a few behind the scene photos from chloe, enjoy !!!

I am pleased to announce that I am going to be a father this month (around end of this month)!!!!!

That’s why I am taking a long long vacation from April to June, I don’t want to be away or working when the baby arrives. I was so busy last few months — non-stop shooting from last Oct to March, followed by all the post – processing and album work, then I started to relocate all the furnitures and rooms, not to mention, had a long list of baby things to buy. So happy that I made the decision to take this break and now I have more time for Xandra and prepare for the birth. Sorry to all nice couples whom I can’t help your wedding during this break

I am so glad and excited for the arrival of this little angel, this is a long – waited baby — a baby girl. I just took some photo with Xandra early this week at home — I was so worry that the baby would born earlier and I didn’t take any photo at all (what a shame for a photographer).  Here are some shots to share with you.

I am going to have an outdoor photo session next week with the help of a nice wedding photographer (guess who he is ?) , so looking forward to it !!!!