I always find that the less crew member there is, the more natural the people  look in front of my camera. Of course, being working alone doesn’t guarantee you good candid photos, you also need other techniques and experience to get it …. ….. still lots to learn.

gisa and chris, one of my fav wedding in last season. a small but very warm wedding. I didn’t start shooting before 4:00pm, and as a winter wedding, you can expect the light is on the low side after 4:00pm, so i had to work in a very low ambient light level for the whole evening. It was even more challenging that the wedding ceremony was held at the bar area inside the fine dining French restaurant Capise  inside four seasons at 7:00pm. what light level can you expect at a bar area after 7:00pm ??? It ’s so dark that I could only see shadow moving around  inside  the viewfinder of my camera … … very challenging !!!!

ceremony and dinner: caprice, four seasons hotel
make up artist: eva of faces make-up studio

my fav shot of the day
love the way they kiss each other, Oh …. ….  so much love inside !!!!
the bar area ’s very small, with all the guests, there ’s not much room I could move around. Before the ceremony, I already planned to take the most important moment at this location,  and hoped to include the  guests in the photo so that you can have a sense of the atmosphere of the ceremony. There is not much light, even I pushed the ISO to over 2,000. flash had to be used, the tricky part is how to balance the flash and ambient light while controlling the light quality of the flash, and didn’t let the flash to kill the atmosphere.  

some of the getting ready shots

what a happy, cheerful bride gisa is

we did a very fast 30min portrait just before the ceremony

other ceremony shots

what a nice and fine dinner location, isn’t it?

just the day before the shooting, the weather forecast was bad, thunderstorm was expected. I thought the session would be postponed, but out of my expectation, queenie told me they would keep going no matter what.

So what happened? The very second we got on the 7-seater van, it started pouring, and it ’s so bad that we couldn’t even get off the van any more. six persons in car, we kept  discussing where we could go. They liked going to the peak, but I said there ’s no way I could take photo at the peak under the thunderstorm.  Then Gracy suggested the Central pier, at least, we could  hide under the pier ceiling … .. That ’s how we started the day …. ….

finally, I learned that the day  was their 8th anniversary of dating …. …. wow !!!! No wonder not going to postpone. And that ’s why I felt so romantic in the photos.

and this is real  special for simon — never shoot in rain for such a long long time, again, I like challenges and these push my focus, ability and creativity further. And also thanks Canly for hold the umbrella for my camera and lens and got wet outside.

and also special thanks for gracy for buying such a beautiful umbrella for them, it gave a very nice color touch to all photos.

locations: central pier, the peak, HKU, the elements shopping mall
make up artist: gracy of JustGracy

like this photo, showing something unique in Hong Kong, but doesn’t look cheesy.

the photos will not look good without their smile and happiness

wow!!!! Gracy ’s using her secret iPhone hair spray !!!!

seldom take such a wide angle shot, this is an exception for me

really love this one, a very special background

when the thunderstorm stopped, we went to the peak. know what?? It ’s so romantic there with all the mist and drizzle surrounding us.

finally, with the non-stop raining, we didn’t  have any other place to go but HKU. we didn’t apply a permission this time, but lucky that we didn’t get stopped.

finally stop: the elements shopping mall. never thought we can take night photos there. good experience for me.

all the following photos ‘re taken outside a very nice dining location.

love this shot so much. did something new this time. you can see the behind the scene below to find out how I got this shot

another dining place, I used a flash to throw light throught two windows and curtains at the corner.

ceremony and reception: Intercontinental Hotel Hong Kong
makeup artist: Man Chan of Miracle (tel:27391988)
music and band: unison production
video: ken of simon.the.photo

my fav bridal portrait of the day, taken at spoon of intercontinental

getting ready shots

the happy wedding party !!!

wow!!!

love all the games of the day, everyone was so involved

the poor groomsman

beautiful words from charles

and the happy tears from rachel

don’t miss to watch the summary video below prepared by ken

split second moment, just have to make sure 100% focus to take this shot !!!

rachel ’s father @ tea ceremony

charles ’s family @ tea ceremony

LOVE this shot – four layers in composition.

the happy charles  family

get ready before the ceremony

after learning that they got to know each other at a wine tasting gathering, then I thoughtwe should take some photos at the wine shelf at the spoon

the ceremony

nice decoration

“my love for you ….. …… ”

I feel so happy and relax now that I am going to have a break in next three weeks, no more photo shoot in next three weeks. finally, have time to relax, can spend more time with shulin (shulin is about to go to  school, and I ‘ll accompany her in the 1st two weeks ‘ school time, so exciting !!!! after that, she has to attend class on her own)

To my surprise, my schedule was fully packed in last three months, the number of weddings and pre-weddings reached a record high during that time. I never expect there ‘re so many bookings as it was a low season during this period of time because of the hot and rainy weather and oversea pre-wedding shoot is so popular nowadays.

I ‘d like to express my thanks to all the clients that love my photo style, love taking pre-wedding in hong kong, and their love of the summer heat !!!

I also feel so lucky that all my clients are so unique, and have all the trust on me. here is the sneak preview of mr. and miss bunny ’s prewedding session.

locations: polytechnic university, Wan Yan College, shek O, central
makeup artist: amy ng from allure make up

my fav of the day !!!! I have this image in my mind for a long long time, I even drafted lighting diagram on paper. But I have to wait ….. wait for good timing, wait for great color of the sky, and  the sea cannot be too rough …. …. and most important, have to wait for a suitable couple, trust me, I would not ask clients to do something that are not suitable for them. thank bunnies for helping me in this shot. And also special thanks for canly, you can’t imagine how difficult to set the light in water !!!

our 1st stop – hong kong poly university. We didn’t stay long, just 30 min for a few photos.

our 2nd stop: Wan Yan College. we started in a very beautiful chapel

after photo taking in the chapel, bunnies changed into their high school look – it ’s such a good idea that they could get more relaxed and we got photos with very different style and showing funny  side of their characters

really impressed by miss bunny – lots of preparation for this style. even the hair style – she tried to make it a little messy !!!!

3nd stop: shek O, so many people there …. …

wow!!!!!! 2nd fav of the day. don’t miss to see the preparation video of this shot on my facebook page

what a beautiful sunset at Shek O !!!!

last stop: central

what a funny couple – 真係估你唔到 !!!

thank you so much for the happy time. bunnies, see you later !!!!

Nothing easier than having a gorgeous and pretty bride, cheerful personality, beautiful locations, all in one single engagement photo session.

locations: Hullett House Hotel @ 1881 Heritage, Shek O, Central
make up artist: elaw wong @ The Look studio

Our 1st stop: 1881 Heritage
it ’s easy taking photo of jasmine, isn’t it?
and the Qi Pao ’s very very pretty !!!

the beautiful location at 1881 Heritage

bathing together????

shots done inside the beautiful bathroom

our 2nd stop. Wow!!!! What a different look of jasmine and johnson !!!!

Oh … …. jasmine couldn’t stop laughing … … because of all the sweat and oil … … on johnson ’s  forehead

the beach was crowded that day, but we could try to include them to create interesting picture

a happy day!!!

last stop: central
wow!!!!!!!! so tall

beautiful picture. BTW, I think Johnson forgot to take out his mobile from his pocket, hahaha, need to work on it in the post-processing

last photo of the day. I was trying (and experimenting) something new. Still trying … …  More on that later … …

With such beautiful weather, most of the photos ‘re shot using available light only this time.

location:  Stanley Market, Tai Tam reservoir, Shek O, Central

one of my fav of the day – taken at the Tai Tam reservoir

love this shot so much, very beautiful sunlight from the back

at the top of the world !!!

1st location: stanley market

2nd location: Tai Tam reservoir

3rd location: shek O

beautiful light !!!!

last stop: central

tired … … time to say good bye :-p

everything was in a rush this time, when jojo and afred confirmed their booking, it was only three months left before their wedding day in early July next month. And we just did the engagment shoot last month. As we didn’t have much time left, we couldn’t postpone the shooting even though the weather forecast was very very bad (with thunderstorm ).

It was good that it didn’t rain at all when we started soho central in the morning. Our original 2nd location was Shek O. When we arrived, the weather was still looking good. However, the very second we finished our lunch, jojo had her costum change and I pressed the camera shutter, it started pouring !!!!! And we had to wait and wait in car, yet it didn’t look like the weather ‘d get better.

Finally, we only got three photos in Shek O (YES, only three photos), and decided to continue the shooting in afred ’s home then. So lots of time was wasted on the travelling and waiting in the afternoon. When we arrived at alfred ’s home, it was already 5:00pm, time is running out, we didn’t have much available light left, location was new to me.

It was blessing that, I had an awesome couple and still got lots of great photos, even with so much limitation and constraint. I had to give big thank you to jojo and alfred for their trust.

With such a short time, we couldn’t get all photos edited to produce the album. But a few photos will be selected for canvas and montage production.

JoJo and alfred, see you again in July.

locations: soho central, alfred ’s home, club house of Leighton Hill
makeup artist: Zi Wan

nice photo at alfred ’s home

the rain didn’t stop, yet we finally decided got to the roof and stay under the rain for two minutes to get this shot. Thanks jojo and alfred for making this shot!!!

1st location: SoHo, central

2nd location: alfred ’s home

last location: club house of Leighton Hill

this post is going to tell you the works involved in this photo. It took me  a total of  10 min to shoot it and lots of processing works are required.

this is the photo that was shoot without lighting and post processing. very nice decoration, but it looks very flat and boring in terms of lighting in the photo. 

Go ahead to see what works are involved to make it look more interesting

to make the photo look more dramatic, I did add some lighting to the flower poles. But how could I add lighting to all 10 flower poles at the same time??? No, I didn’t add light to them all at the same time, instead,  I set the camera on tripod and have my assistant Canly to hold the “off camera flash” to illuminate different parts at different exposures.  During the post processing works, I overlap all 21 photos , “extract” different parts of each photo and “combine” them into one photo. Some buring, dodging and sharpening are done in post processing.

Canly, thanks for your great help !!! Without your great works, I ‘ll never get so many great photos for my clients.

IF YOU LIKE THIS PHOTO, DON’T FORGET TO LEAVE COMMENT BELOW AND SAY HI TO CANLY. THANK YOU.

Winnie and Jacky – nothing happier than having such a super nice and happy couple in a pre-wedding photo session.

Winnie – a beautiful girl that really knew how to smile in front of the camera. she made my works  a lot easier on the day.

Jacky – an awesome guy !!! Enjoyed and very involved on the day.

location: University of Hong Kong, Sunny Bay, Central

love this set of photos as it has a large variety of shots – stunning bridal shot , funny moment, beautiful landscape and cool shots .. …

my fav shot of winnie !!!

the funny moment !!!! Yeah !!!!

beautiful landscape at sunny bay

it is cool, isn’t it?

the happy winnie

the staircase has been closed for renovation for last few months, it finally reopened in april

funny face, funny face.

another fav shot of winnie.

our second stop at sunny bay. As the name of the location, we had a very beautiful sunny day.

love the sun light reflection on the sea — it ’s not easy to take this shot as the reflection was much brighter that the light on their face. it really took me a while to figure out how to make this shot.

a very special location at the sunny bay

are you bored???

last stop: Central — wow !!!!

wow ~~~~ 好型呀！

thanks everyone, it was a happy day !!!

Central on sunday morning is very very different. It ’s  so quiet, not many people and traffic.  Though it ’s almost middle of the day, but we could still find beautiful directional sunlight through the gaps of the buildings.

I had mentioned in my previous blog post that both clara and thomas ‘re very nice couple. Working with them is such a joyful experience. Not only are they nice to us, but they are nice to each other as well – always heard “辛苦晒你啊，老公”  from Clara throughout the whole day.  Canly told me that she really felt the words “相敬如賓” from them. very impressed.

reception: four seasons hotel hong kong

a break – having fun at a noodle shop

very very beautiful light at various locations . All photos shot by available light only

never imagine we could find such a beautiful location in Central

reception at four seasons hotel

ready to march in

thomas ’s mother

clara ’s mother

their families

toasting time. some photographers may find the toasting time very boring. For me, I ‘ll take the time to try something new in lighting, as you have time to try it over 30-40 tables, there is no harm you messed it up sometimes – good for trying something new.

lots of great moments

congratulations !!!!

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, and no way they could manage to get it back on time … ….

At that time, I was really worrying myself and thought they ‘re going to be very very upset and might start to blame others. Didn’t dare to say anything but keep silence (BTW, should I keep on shooting photos if they start arguing, look very upset … …  wedding photojournalism ??? )   To my surprise, just within 1 min, they smiled again and forgot about it completely, looked like nothing happened. If I don’t tell you this here, you would not notice at all in the photos below.

I was really impressed by this couple, even though I have been to uncounted number of weddings before. I couldn’t stop myself asking albert at night “How can you be such a happy guy?”

Wish I can have such a happy and nice couple in all my wedding works.

ceremony: club house of Leighton Hill
reception: island shangri la
video: ken of simon.the.photo

some of my fav bridal shots of ron. all taken at the club house
I think I am very lucky, how come all my clients are so beautiful.  this photo was shot under available light, we had very beautiful and directional sun light from the window. straight from camera, just a little bit burn and dodge. BTW, love her dress, lots of  details, and she looks very very slim !!!

like this iron/glass gate a lot. by  putting a flash behind, the glass could already give  a very beautiful  diffused light.

the ceremony location. very nice, isn’t it?
it was challenging as the ceremony started at 1200pm, we had a sunny day with harsh light coming almost overhead.

below are my fav “get ready” shots in the morning

ron and her mother

it ’s ready !!!!

the girls

and the boys

Yeah!!! 開門利事 in cash … ..

love this shot, “the waiting bride”

look at that, everyone is so looking forward to seeing the bride !!!!

Oh … … what ?

the tea ceremony

on the way to albert ’s family

the ceremony ’s about to start. ron and her brother

gorgerous !!!!

another side of the ceremony venue.

BTW, guess how could they get a “replacement ring” for the ceremony?

albert, you may kiss the bride … ..

after the ceremony, we had 30 min for some portraits inside the club house. same iron/glass gate, different photos.

reception at Island Shangri La.  nice decoration at the welcoming corridor

about to march in  — — the naughty couple

same day video edit by ken of simon.the.photo

the farewell time – I was hiding behind a door and shooting through the glass. But they could still find me.

lovely !!!! Congratulations !!!!!

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 !!!!

look forward to this session for a long long time, as they booked it almost 1 year before their wedding (even though I was  not their wedding day photographer), so it was booked almost two years before. Thank hazel and derek for having me as your anniversary photographer, really enjoyed a lot on the day.

locations: home, central, Pak Nai, Gold Coast (night shoot)

both hazel and derek love taking photo and they took their DSLR on the day.

we started the day at home with wii  !!!!! yeah !!!!!

2nd location: central. beautiful smile

smile, baby … …

a how we created this beam of light ???

awesome !!!!

3rd location. Pak Nai.  we had beautiful sunset light on the day

gorgeous

one of my fav shot of the day. The background is a small river, love the pattern and love the color.

“behind the scene” of the above shot. One light (with shoot through umbrella), an additional reflector was used as fill light

big big wedding ?? six – stars hotel ?? oversea wedding ?? magnificent decoration??

after shooting hundreds of weddings in the last four years, I ‘d say these are not important to me any more. Instead,  I just love to see my clients love my works, love my style of wedding photography. Nothing happier than seeing your clients loving you, right?

emmy and keith are definitely one of my favorite couple. Since the 1st meeting with emmy, I already know they are  super fans of simon.the.photo, I am so looking forward to their photo session and can’t wait to share their photos on this blog.

So, how super fans they are ?? May be emmy can share it here … … I am too shy to say about it … ..

locations: 保良局李兆忠百周年中學 ，central
mua: rainbow (tel: 92586602)

thanks for getting me to your secondary school
at where they met and fell in love !!!

this is emmy

this is keith

a colorful corner inside the school

naughty students … …

examination time ??

hey kids, it ‘s very late, time to go home !!!!

2nd stop: the little fast food shop that grew up with them
『大興賓墟快食店』 – 凍奶茶，小甜

the real boss ‘re too shy to be in front of the camera, so we got emmy ‘s friend (Leo) to be a temp staff. He is good, isn’t he?

last stop: central

with such a happy couple, we can easily take good photos anywhere on the street

night shot at central.
Thanks for everyone for help me to get this shot. We need two persons to keep holding and waiving the veil, then another one to hold the light up above. This was difficult to make everything works at the same time(emmy ‘s expression and pose, the veil, the light – canly was the human light stand holding the light). After a few shots, I still couldn’t get a good shot, and I was going to give up. Thanks everyone for asking to keep trying and finally we get this great shot.

love this shot. beautiful and seeing the details of the dress

thanks thanks.

btw, don’t miss to see the “making of” video (prepared by leo)
LOTS OF FUNNNNNNNN!!!!

Emmy and 珠寶 from lamour on Vimeo.

Even it could be very tired sometimes, I feel blessed as we had lots of beautiful weddings and people in last few weeks.

The beautiful wedding of Christy and Plato in early Oct.

ceremony: the bethanie chapel
makeup artist: Eva of faces hk
reception: Langham Hotel

the two photos below are my fav of the day – both taken at University of Hong Kong (after the ceremony)

Beautiful light and perfect timing of the flying veil !!!

Really love this photo – A corner at HKU that I never thought we could take good photo before.

father and daughter

the bride pick up game session

yes, I make it !!!

happy moment

I love shooing tea ceremony, always lots of touching moments

nice available light

gorgeous !!!!

ceremony at Bethanie

happy bridesmaids

a long long match – in line

who’ s the lucky bridesmaid ??

congratulations !!!

I love this pic !!!

another pic at HKU

reception: Langham Hotel -  love this backdrop

happy parents

touching moment

First, when I have meeting with clients discussing the rundown of e-session, the most common topic is the choice of location. I always tell them that locations is the least important for my style of photography and make joke that we can even decide the location on the day of photo taking. Of course, it never happen until the session of karen and wanson. When we met in the morning and got onto the car, we ‘re still discussing where we should go. As they lived in NT, I finally suggested going to Luk Keng, Nam Sang Wai, and to Shek O (the most popular location for my clients) in the afternoon.

When we finished shooting at Nam Sang Wai and on our way to Shek O, I found that we didn’t have enough time and might not have any sunlight when we arrived.

So I asked, “Is Shek O, this location, important to you?”

"No”, they answered.

“Is it OK to go to other beach”, I asked.

“Sure!! No problem”

That ‘s why we changed the location from Shek O to the unplanned Lung Kwu Tan (龍鼓灘) in Yuen Long. I have heard of this place , but none of us had been there before. But it turned out that we had the most beautiful sun set I had ever seen in Hong Kong. I almost thought I was in Bali or Phuket when I looked at the photos below !!! it ’s better not to have a plan sometime, isn’t it?

BTW, my facebook fans page exceeds 900 fans today, are you one of them?

Karen, Dau Si (豆豉), MO Chai (毛仔), and Wanson (from left to right)

look at that !!

Karen and Wanson is a very special couple, they told me that they don’t like too many kissing, romantic, hugging shots, instead, they like something look cool and special. So, you may see some photos below very different from my normal style

1st location: Luk Keng. We got some very interesting photos in a container yard.

Can you find MO Chai (毛仔) in this shot?

We had very beautiful light everywhere on the day.

2nd location: Nam Sung Wai. Love the color of the grass

the happy bride !!!

the unplanned location: Lung Kwu Tan (龍鼓灘)

we found this white chair on the road and grabbed it for this nice shot !!

the dancing bride

love this shot!!!

we had dinner at IFC and took a few shots at the podium there

Hi Karen and Wanson,

already so looking forward to your wedding next month!!!! See you in March !!!!

Another nice session in Oct that I ‘d like to share with you. Beautiful bride, nice couple – nothing can be better. We started the day at Park Island, this is my 2nd time to have shooting here. A very nice place, but too difficult to get there as we could only go there by  their shuttle bus or ferry (remember, we had a lot of photo and lighting equipments to carry)

date: Oct 14, 2008
locations: Park Island, Stanley Market, Central (night shot)
make-up artist: polly of faces hk

thanks for treating me a very nice dinner at Tivo – a dining bar that they visit very often. Both Canly and I loved the food very much

we started the day at their home at park island

we just walked around inside the park island

love this shot

the running bride @ park island

here is a tunnel at the swimming pool

beautiful light

2nd stop: stanley market.

they got a big group of fans here !!!

lots of cafes at stanley market

so happy that they ‘re willing to have photos taken at the Stanley Military Cemetery !!!!

I loved this place a lot.

a great jump by Michael

another fav of the day

another shot at Tivo

have been there a lot of time, but first time to take photo here at night time.

love the following two shots – simple but beautiful

date: 13 sept 2008
ceremony: Bethanie Chapel
reception: Intercontinental Hotel Hong Kong
makeup artist: Maggie Li

love this moment. Joyce has a big group of cousins, they ‘re singing a lovely song  (and dancing) to Joyce. You can imagine that Joyce couldn’t stop crying  …  …

same day video edit
filming and editing by Ken of Simon.The.Photo
We had a little problem playing the video that night, there was some hang up at the last 30 sec. We believe it ‘s caused by the bad burning of the DVD media. I talked about it here because, first, I ‘d like to thank Joyce and Wilson for their forgiveness of our mistake, second, I don’t like to hide my mistake, and just let everyone know, Simon and my team made mistake, we are not perfect, but we ‘ll learn from it and keep on improving ourselves, trust me !!
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nice bouquet

wilson getting ready, like the wedding photos of their parents behind

preparation of the games, can you read the eight Chinese characters

no doubt wilson ‘s enjoying the game very much

waiting for Wilson

a private time of Joyce and Wilson

a big wedding party – 30 bridesmaids and groomsmen in total

Joyce has a very long and beautiful veil, and everyone loves it

Hi, I need some ironing as well.

Wilson … … ready for the ceremony, are you nervous?

Joyce … … ready for the ceremony

adorable – six months old baby – made me think of my daughter at that time

Let ‘s go

ceremony at the Bethanie Chapel

tiny detail, but lovely moment

Let ‘s start, shall we!!!!

beautiful veil, isn’t it?

congratulations !!! Mr. and Mrs. Fok

love this shot, so romantic

I know, I know … … joyce ‘s face was blocked, but this is the only one photo I got. It was so surprising that Wilson carried her suddenly and ran towards the stage.

I went to the 2nd floor to take this shot while they ‘re having the formals

beautiful light, beautiful light !!!!

They mainly used lighting as the decoration of the reception venue, love this concept, beautiful, unique and environmental friendly

the beautiful light pattern of the stage was changed from time to time

nice live music

KISS on stage

gift to parents

the wedding party prepared a very funny video for the newly wed

that made everyone laugh !!!!

thanks anissa and peter for inviting me as your wedding photographer.

date: 29 dec, 2007
ceremony: Yan Fook Church
reception: Eaton Hotel

my fav photo of the day – at anissa parent ’s apartment
- an ordinary location with extraordinary sunlight
 

get ready in Eaton Hotel — Anissa and her best friends Holy (the maid of honor)

the wedding gown has very pretty details

what a beautiful  bride

We ‘re leaving for Anissa ’s family, when the door of the elevator opened, I found there was very beautiful light from outside and captured this moment

so pretty

when Peter met Anissa

details of the Chinese dress

the train of the dress was stunning !!!

Did I mention that Peter loves singing a lot — he was singing to Anissa. I remembered it was a song from Jacky Cheung

changed into wedding gown

before the ceremony, we had 45 min free time and we had a photo session on the Kadoorie Road

ceremony. Peter was singing to welcome the arrival of the bride

Yan Fook Church at Cheung Shan Wan

kissing the bride. I love the way Peter kissing — a very very gentle kiss

Let ’s welcome Mr. and Mrs. Wong

the church ’s full of their friends and families

another pair of bride and groom?

the childhood slideshow. Love the expression of the grand parents

waiting for the march in

another fav of the day — the long staircase is very unique for ballroom of Eaton Hotel, I took the risk to take the photo at their back and tried to include as many guests as possible. You can click on the photo to see my thinking process

Peter was making Anissa cry again

This table was their special friends from the "hong kong outstanding students’ association". They prepared an album for anissa and peter, with photos from them

the peter ’s way of kissing anissa

the farewell time

Mei and Allen,  like all of my couples are friendly, and very fun to work with (as you can see from the photos !!!)

Date: 11 Nov 2007
Reception and Ceremony: Island Shangri-la

Though I had taken photos in Central a lot of times, this ’s my first time to be at this gate. Like this place a lot. A brown tone was added to enhance the mood. It became one of my fav place for location shooting of weddings in Nov & Dec 2007

Allen looks very handsome !!!!!

the game in the morning. "Hey Mei, I am coming … …"

Leaving for Allen’s family

the groomsmen … Guess what they ‘re looking at … (not me)

the beautiful bride !!!!!

After returning to the hotel, Mei changed into the wedding dress and ready for the location shooting in Central

Mei and her friends

A very quiet & beautiful moment

Guess where we took this photo. This is the door of the restroom on the right, beautiful light coming out from inside.

It is a pleasure to take photos of them. Look at Mei, she ’s dancing !!!!

kiss me, no way !!!! What a funny couple !!!

Mei running on the street

the ceremony was at the library of Island Shangri-la. This photo was taken just before the sunset.

A moment just before the ceremony

So much love

There ‘re a lot of these sweet moments in the reception … …

We prepared the same day photo slideshow for them.

Mei ’s parents

Allen ’s mother

Allen ’s best friends

Mei ’s best friends catching the bouquet

thanks for all the wonderful time !!!

Ceremony: Bethanie Chapel
Reception: Aberdeen Marina Club (AMC)

My fav of the day. I love taking picture of putting on the veil. Not only it looks beautiful, it also marks the change of a lady into a bride

Gwen ’s sister and the bridesmaids ‘re helping her

Looks gorgeous, doesn’t she?

I love this picture — a nice curtain at the back and nice windows light from the left

a happy moments between Gwen and the bridesmaids

Before the ceremony, we had 15 min portrait time at the Bethanie.

A long waited moment

A top shot by my assistant "Siu B"

the father ’s giving away the bride

a very nice chapel

the paper signing. I shot this pic at the back of the chapel

another nice shot by "Siu B"

Hi Hi !!!

They kept talking and laughing all the time, it ’s not difficult to take picture of them

We got 30 min to take some portrait before we went to AMC. I really love this location, we got a lot of colored window light and look at the window pattern at the top right corner, it is just beautiful

Another nice location with beautiful light from the door outside. and there are lots of details on the door — something we can’t fine in other locations.

dancing with the bride

Thanks Gwen and Ian waiting for this moment. Instead of going to AMC, we waited for the sunset and went to the top floor of the Bethanie to take this shot

Another sunset shot

Congratulations. I believe we broke the record again, can you count how many of us in the pic?