by reading my blog, they love the photos at wetland park a lot. it is almost one year since I took photo there last time. I love this place a lot, but it can be tough for clients as it takes almost 20 min walk going to the wooden bridge and it can get very very hot during the summer times.

this photo session was done in sept when the weather was still very hot. I can still remember rene got completed exhausted after taking photos at the bridge. who says it is easy to get good photo ???

anyway, thanks for coming, and hope you did enjoy the photo session and the shopping in Hong Kong

locations: wetland park, inspiration lake, university of hong kong, central, tsim sha tsui
make up artist: polly of faces hk

we found lots of new shooting locations at wetland park this time. 

finally, we arrived at the bridge !!!!

2nd location: inspiration lake

3rd location: university of hong kong. 

night shoot: central pier

tsim sha tsui

star ferry 

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

Look at the first photo below – thanks everyone the effort to make this photo happened. We took this photo at the waterfall Mirror Pool near the Bride ‘s Pool “新娘潭”. It took us 15 min to walk (up and down) to get there. I ‘ll never do that for other bride, but Mel is an exception. She lives in the very northern part of new territories, in fact,  her house can see Shenzhen and she walks to the Lo Wo train station every day. You can imagine that she is so used to walking around in the country side, and most of the locations that we picked are in the country side.

you can click here to see a behind the scene shot of the mirror pool.

What I like to to share with you is the second story. This is about the 2nd shot below. I asked them to run and jump in front of a small temple, it took 7-8 times before they had the action in sync. During one of the jump, Dickson fell onto the ground, and I thought it must be very hurt as I saw his arm hit the ground first. Out of my surprise, he said “Don’t worry, it doesn’t hurt at all and let ‘s jump again !!!”

After we finished the morning session, we went back home … … When Mel was having make up upstairs, Dickson immediately grab a bottle of 跌打酒 (a kind of Chinese medicine) to rub on his arms. Then I knew the fall really hurt, but he didn’t mention about it so that we could go on to take more beautiful photos of Mel !!!!

Love to see a groom with such a beautiful heart in very wedding/pre-wedding session !!!!

date: 29 oct, 2008
locations: somewhere very northern part of new territories, Luk Keng, TST
makeup artists: Florence of SaySo

After see this shot, the 15 min walk ‘s definitely worth it

the jump

the fall

mel has a very beautiful face no matter what angle I took the shot of her

beautiful face!!!

For the whole morning session, we just walked around all the location near mel ‘s house

a few romantic shots

a few fun shots

2nd location: Luk Keng

Again, no fixed location, we just walked around in Luk keng

a very nice and quiet location

3 rd location: night shot @ Star Ferry and TST

date: 29 Aug
location: Shek O, Home, Pak Nai, Central (night shoot)
make-up artist: Louisa (tel: 91941261)

my fav of the day — catching the last minute sunset magic light

In the morning – Shek O -  I tried to “drag the shutter” to create feeling of motion in the following two photos

Not easy to shoot directly into the sun

love this moment

sun bath !!!!

beautiful dress

Love this high key image

our 2nd stop: home at Pok Fu Lam

3rd stop: Pak Nai

Fiona ’s parents. They ‘re with us the whole day. Look at them,  they enjoyed the time at Pak Nai very much.

night shoot on Star Ferry

Anyone know where is it?

this is going to be a very difficult guess. Where is it in Central ??

Peak season is coming:
Sept is here, and the peak season begins …. …  I ‘ll try to update every single shootings in next months, let’s see if I can achieve it !!!! Remember to become a fan of
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Here are the final photos I ‘d like to share with you

date: April 2008
Locations: Nam Sang Wai, Shek O, Central
make up artist: KK Chan

our first stop – Nam Sang Wai — Black gave us a big surprise !!! Esther, are you OK?

last stop of the session- my fav of the day: “catch me if you can”

I love the post-procession of this shot — texture and brown tone are added

pretty

beautiful esther

let ’s have some fun

naughty couple

love this shot!!!

KK Chan in action

“follow me, Black”

another nice location at Shek O

love that shot !!

another fav of the day

on the beach

OK – here are the final series of photos of the awesome jump !!!

Oh! My camera …. …

after the jump – we got completely wet — so they ‘re ready for anything … …

lovely couple, lovely photo

night shot on the star ferry

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date: 15 April, 2008
locations: Shing Mum Reservoir, Tai Tam Reservoir, Shek O, Star Ferry, IFC Mall, Legislative council
make up artist: Amy of Ballroom (TST)

at the pier — I used a very slow shutter to capture the motion of the passers-by. As I didn’t bring a tripod, I was lying on the ground with my camera to get a sharp picture

wow !!! on the star ferry, a very different experience for me

In the morning, we went to the the Shing Mum Reservoir – So happy that they chose this nice location, the last time I was there was almost 1 year ago

one of my fav photo of the day

wow !!

the happy irene

another fav of the day

behind the scene — some of the locations ‘re not easy to access. Thanks Irene and Peter for working with me

the pretty Irene. We went to Tai Tam reservoir in the afternoon

what a couple !!!!

my fav location at Shek O

the dancing Irene

When we arrived at the beach, there ‘re so many people. When I was trying to get rid of the other people from the frame, I found this new angle.

the engagement rings

naughty irene and peter — they suggested to have some night photos inside the IFC shopping mall. Of course, it ’s not allowed to take any photos inside, so we had to run around to avoid the security

the gorgeous irene

another shot of the engagement ring