Blog of a Hong Kong Wedding Photographer

something different in central – clara and thomas – day 2

this is the 2nd day of the wedding of clara and thomas. All bridal pickup game, Chinese rituals, and the wedding ceremony were done on day 1, so the 2nd was pretty relaxing. We didn’t start shooting until 11:00 pm, thanks for that, lots of good sleep the night before. We started shooting at Central, [...]

wedding of ron and albert

Remember I mentioned before that there is no perfect wedding but surprises.

enjoyed a lot to be the wedding photographer of ron and albert. such a nice and happy couple, no matter what happened … …

Just 5 min before the wedding ceremony to be started, they suddenly found that they left the wedding rings in hotel, [...]

anniversary session – hazel and derek

a very happy photo session.

I did several anniversary sessions every year, and I always love doing it. Why ??? It is not uncommon that most grooms are not interested in wedding photos, so if a man love to do another photo session with his wife after wedding, the session usually turns out very very sweet [...]

wedding of clara and thomas – day 1

No matter how much you have planned, there are always surprises on a wedding day. I ‘ve seen lots of bride got upset and ruin the mood and her own wedding.

Recently I got an email from a bride, she said she got upset on the day because of all the hassles – not enough sleep, [...]

a box of love – part two

remember the story of “a box of love“ of charis and tsui kit?

a touching summary video prepared by ken of simon.the.photo. Great works!! it may takes 1-2 minutes to buffer before it plays

*Video: charis and kit summary video edit

if you can ‘t watch the video above in IE, you can try the following one

BTW, I asked you to guess [...]

macau hotel tour – esession of janice and anson

Happy Chinese New Year. This is my 1st post after CNY.

After the birth of mui mui, these few days are very very tired. Not enough sleep, lots of home/baby tasks, non-stop photo editing … … Lucky that mui mui was born during the wedding low season (of course, it ’s planned), or I don’t know [...]

shulin ’s mui mui

Thanks God.

Thanks for everyone ’s blessing.

shulin ’s mui mui was born this morning with a weight of 2.4kg. Xandra ’s safe though has pain at the wound at the moment

it ’s my second time watching the birth of a baby, yet it’s still very amazing for me. The baby is so small and fragile, have [...]

wedding of valerie and andrew at Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

Which church is the most popular among simon ’s client? I ‘d definitely say the St. Margaret church and the Bethanie Chapel (though Bethanie is not an church officially). I can go to these two places almost once every 1-2 weeks during the peak season.

The Catholic Cathedral is not very popular for me, only have [...]

two more days to go !!! – shulin ’s mui mui

we are ready for shulin ’s mui mui.

bed. Ready !!

formula milk. Ready !!

diapers. Ready !!

clothing. Ready !!

Camera. Ready !!

Mama. Ready !!!

PaPa. Ready !!

Shulin. Ready !!

Exciting !!! Our original planned delivery day is Feb 20 (人日), but after the routine check last week, we need to move the date earlier to this coming thusday. Yes !!! Two [...]

happy wedding – lydia and wales

one of the most commonly asked question during client meeting is what kind of wedding I like most.

Happy wedding is definitely my answer.

lydia and wales ‘ wedding is one of the happiest wedding in last wedding season. Not only we have happy couple, but we have happy wedding party and families as well. I was very [...]

ALERT ALERT !! it ’s raining again – donna and tony

yes, it ’s raining again during the e-session of donna and tony. After several raining e-sessions in last season, I found that there are so many photo opportunities during raining. Of course, I couldn’t make it without a client willing to take photo under rain. Special thanks to donna and tony, especially it rained so [...]

I love this same day edit – wedding of rachel and stephen

recently, a few of my photographer friends talked about same day edit on their blog or facebook, talking about they got very upset because they didnt’ get respect from their clients. Things like, playing the slideshow during toasting time, when the bride is changing, or even not played without having the photographer being notified.

I think [...]

Top Gun e session michelle and joe

“A story of a Teacher and a pilot” – that ’s how Michelle describes themselves on her blog.

I took this pre-wedding session early Jan. Taking pictures of them just likes having a picnic – . Both Joe and I drove our own car on the day, and Joe brought me to lots of interesting locations [...]

wedding of jennifer and fan – nice couple from Shanghai

I believe I am a lucky wedding photographer – always have very nice client, friendly wedding parties and families, beautiful and gorgeous brides at beautiful locations

As you know, in Hong Kong, we have two big fireworks show over the Victoria harbour every year (one is on the 2nd day of Chinese new year, the other [...]

simon is going to be a father oftwo daughters next month

Time is fast, it is already Jan 20th of 2010 and this is my 1st post in 2010.

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 [...]

happy new year – wedding of jennifer and chiu

can’t imagine that 2009 finishes so fast.

I just had the last weddings yesterday, and will have a few days’ break before the 1st wedding in 2010.

Another beautiful wedding I did on Monday – jennifer and chiu, I did the same day photo slideshow myself. There ‘re so many great images that I had no difficulty [...]

wedding of yuki and roni

merry Christmas and happy new year.

Just a few days left for 2009 and I have 3 more weddings to go before finishing the awesome and wonderful 2009.

The happy thing is - I don’t have wedding on the new year eve and Christmas eve this year, so finally I can have “count down” with my love [...]

happy wedding of janet and edmond

when I met client, one of the most common request of the style of wedding day photo is “happy and natural”

“natural” – to be natural, I tried to be as little intrusive as possible on the wedding day, just capture the moment (of course, in a beautiful way)

“happy” – that ‘s difficult, I can only [...]

wedding of mimi and ramsy

firstly, let ‘s have a quick update of myself.

From my experience, after the very busy season from Sept – Dec, I will start to get sick in Jan. This was the case in last two years. But it happened earlier this year, both Canly and I got sick since early dec. It was really tough [...]

a special requeste-session of cordelia and fred

In my first meeting with cordelia and fred, cordelia had a very special request for me in their engagement photo session.

“Hi Simon, I have a special request … … “ asked cordelia.

“ yep, what ‘s that ?”

“I ‘d like to wear glasses in front of the camera, I just can’t get used to my look [...]