they knew how to smile - winnie and jacky

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OK, after having stopped updating the blog for over 1 month, I decided to work hard updating it this week !!!!

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?

something different in central - clara and thomas - day 2

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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, thought I have done uncounted no. of shooting here, this is my 1st time to have shooting here on a Sunday morning.

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 [......]

Continue reading … … something different in central – clara and thomas – day 2

wedding of ron and albert

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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, 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 [......]

Continue reading … … wedding of ron and albert

anniversary session - hazel and derek

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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 !!!!

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.

back to school – emmy and keith

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I was always asked by client what kind of wedding I like the most.

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 [......]

Continue reading … … back to school – emmy and keith

wedding of christy and plato

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Just finished the wedding marathon and finally got some time to update the blog. Almost non-stop shooting since mid Sept. and glad to have a 3 days’ break before resume shooting on Sunday.

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.

better not to have a plan sometime,
e-session of karen and wanson

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this is a very special e-session I took last year.

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 [......]

Continue reading … … better not to have a plan sometime,
e-session of karen and wanson

e-session of kathy and michael

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a quick update: I was very sick and the cough was very bad these two days. I got 5 clients meeting yesterday, and felt very sorry that I kept coughing most of the time, and really couldn’t speak too much. Thanks for all the clients’ forgiveness (Verena, Katherine, Eva, Michelle, Bosco). One more shooting on coming Friday before the Chinese New Year holiday, hope can get well soon.

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: [......]

Continue reading … … e-session of kathy and michael