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

Hi Cherry and Freddy,

I love you and thanks for your support and trust !!!!

ceremony: st. andrew ‘s church
reception: langham place hotel

so happy that freddy can fly … …

I said “happy bride, happy bride”

then I said, “beautiful bride, beautiful bride”

let ‘s go , baby !!!

before going to church, I had a one hour bridal portrait at the railway museum

that one is cool !!!

cherry ‘s ready, waiting for the start of the ceremony

the church was fully packed with friends

a view of the church from the back

listening to the choir … … remember to smile

I do, I do

Hey, how ‘re the rings ??

not only we had happy couple, but happy bridesmaids as well.

congratulations

the happy and funny bridesmaids

a few bridal portraits after the ceremony

the bouquet toss … …

cherry loves this dress, so we tried to shoot a few portrait with it, before guest coming

behind the scene – two off-camera flashes ‘re used for the above photo, one (CTO gel and held by canly) shoot through white umbrella on camera right, another one (CTB gel) held by Ken on camera left and shoot through a plant (sorry, couldn’t remember where ken got it) to create the blue pattern on ceiling

Did the love story start like this? … … probably not. Fiona didn’t give him a chance, walked away and left the poor Kevin in the dark.

After that night, Kevin couldn’t forget Fiona ’s face, he got help from his friends in HKU to find the contact of Fiona. And finally, he managed to get Fiona ’s ICQ no. To his surprise, she was studying Electronic Engineering degree (he graduated from the same department as well), so he kept contacting her and offered to teach her some of the courses.

I didn’t asked them the rest of the story … … May be Kevin can share the rest with you later … …

date: 29 June, 2008 (a rainy day)
ceremony and reception: Langham Hotel
makeup: nancy kim

We started shooting at Fiona ’s home in Tseung Kwan O in the morning, followed by location shooting at HKU, then back to Tseung Kwan O. Even though it took long time traveling and it rained so bad on Sunday, they really loved to take some photos at HKU.
Happy looking at the rain drops

another location at HKU

the hall behind is where they first met … …

Included the raindrops in this pic to tell you the weather of the day.
Thanks Vickie holding the umbrella for me

a lovely pairs of wedding shoes

after the location shooting, we returned to Tseung Kwan O and prepared for the games and tea ceremony

it ’s for the games

the socks are from all the groomsmen …. … you can imagine the smell on a rainy day

the exciting families !!!

ceremony at the Langham Hotel — Fiona and her father

kissing the bride

catch it !!!

fiona and her best friends !!

Let’s welcome Mr. and Mrs Lam

awesome!!!! Kevin didn’t know playing piano at all, but he learned one song before wedding and played it for Fiona

A big surprise to Fiona

congratulations !!!!

this is my 2nd time to have a wedding at the beautiful Bethanie Chapel. I love this location a lot, not only because of the beautiful architecture, and I love their booking system as well. When you book this venue, you have a 4 hour session, so you don’t need to rush before and after the ceremony.

date: feb 2, 2008
ceremony: Bethanie Chapel
reception: Langham Place Hotel

Even though we couldn’t go out because of the bad weather, there ‘re so many beautiful locations inside the chapel. I was trying a new concept, inspired by another wpja award winning photographer Dino Lara

getting ready — Christy ’s father

beautiful christy

the lovely flower girl helping Christy

The wedding party enjoyed the game session very much and I could take a lot of great shots

Wow !!!

ceremony at the Bethanie Chapel

Congratulations Mr and Mrs Lam !!!!!

a shot by my assistant  (Siu B)

Private photo session – a corner inside Bethanie

their wedding rings

We only had a few outdoor photos — this was one of them. taken at the swimming pool of the hotel. In fact, it was still raining, and they had to hide under the tent.

dancing inside the hotel

we walked around inside the hotel to find photo opportunities … ..

we even went to the car park for this photo

the reception

cake cutting !!!

thanks for your trust on me in your wedding. there is a little story. About 1 month before the wedding, we arranged a pre-meeting to discuss the rundown. However, I forgot to mark it in my personal calendar and made them wait for me in the coffee shop whole night. At that time, I guessed they must be very worry about me … …

On the contrary, they ‘re very nice on their wedding day and showed a lot of trust on me. Big big thanks to you !!!!!

date: 12 jan 2008
ceremony: Eden Marriage Registry, TST
reception: Langham Place Hotel

this is the fav of the day. location: the swimming pool at 42/F of the Langham Place Hotel. I decided to go there at around 5:30pm as the weather of the day was very good and we expected that there would be very good light at sunset, and I was right. The cool color reflection from the pool (lucky that we didn’t have other swimmer, the water was very quiet) made the photo even more interesting and gave more contrast.

the beautiful sunset. Not many hotel ballroom in Hong Kong have a sunset view.

agnes waiting for jim in the morning

amazing details

the happy bridesmaids preparing the game

amazing!!! they paid a lot of efforts in preparation

jim in the morning

the handsome jim

at jim ’s apartment, changed into wedding gown

did you see the veil above? I got a new idea suddenly and asked my assistant to hold the veil between agnes and my camera, this created a soft lens effect without using a soft lens or Photoshop

some portraits under jim ’s apartment

poor crying boy

kids always got a lot of attention in wedding

agnes waiting for the ceremony at the bridal room.
This is a high key image with cross process effect

ceremony at the Eden marriage registry. this is my second time taking photo there. I found it challenging as the area was always very crowed, the ceremony was very fast, and the worse was the quality of light (with a mix of purple curtain, yellow light and windows light). This ’s a situation that you can’t rely on the available light. To cope with it, I removed most of the ambient light this time (make it 1.5 stops dimmer) and used 3 lights to light up different parts of the area.

kissing the bride

everyone, let’ s have some fun together !!!

a bridal portrait at the Langham hotel

this pic was taken 15 min after the pool photo above, soon after the sunset, the color of the sky changed to blue very very fast. That ’s why all the photographers call this period of time — the magic hour

look at their friends ‘ expression, their wedding photo in Taiwan must be very gorgeous

jim was singing to agnes

(updated: 11 june) thanks for agnes and jim ’s comment, here are their two fav photos that I ‘d like to share with you

the is agnes ’s fav.

this is jim ’s fav — another version of the 1st photo above

thank you for taking the photos of us in the wedding of Valerie & Cypri, we love them a lot. I particularly love the follow two

simon.the.photo in action !!!!!

Esther & Ken must be very hot & hungry … …

Date — 28 July, 2007
Wedding – St. Andrew Church 
Reception – InterContinental Hong Kong hotel

the flower girl — Maggie. while Valerie & Cypri ‘re having the group shots, I walked around in the church and looked for something interesting. I found the flower girl was sitting at the back and watching other people. Wait for a good moment with dramatic lighting

lovely hair style, isn’t it?

Cypri and the groomsmen

Valerie ’s smiling whole day, it was not difficult to get this shot of her.

Hi Hi. After the tea ceremony, I gathered everyone for this shot

the bridesmaids ‘re helping Valerie putting on the necklace

I love this shot of Valerie, with all the hands of bridesmaids helping her. I was hiding behind the curtain

it ’s pretty !!!!

We ‘re ready !!!

the ceremony was at St. Andrew Church

Praise the Lord

I was touched at this moment when Cypri started to cry

after the ceremony, we got a few minutes portrait session inside Church

portrait session inside SPOON of InterContinental

having fun outside SPOON

the venue decoration was done by Wedding Garden

Eric of One Shot prepared the same day video edit for them

Eric ’s work ’s awesome !!! You never get disappointed

wedding shoes. the "double happiness" is a shadow from the windows

wedding dress & iris

iris & her three sisters

cool !!

the game session

this shot was taken at the corridor of the hotel. light is dark. Usually, photographer just used flash. Instead, I looked for good available light and waited until they stepped into this location. If flash is used, it definitely would kill the mood.

the wedding party

try to make a fun shot out of an ordinary scene

making up. the makeup artist is Maggie Li

another available light shot. the light is from an opening of the corridor

location shooting at the Peak

group shot after the ceremony at Langham Place Hotel

the rings and souvenir

They ‘re amazing in front of my camera

Just bought a new Lens Baby lens and trying it

toss of bouquet

Virginia was so pretty whole day. When my assistant (Mr Bean) was preparing the same day slideshow at the hotel, he helped me to select the photos to be included in the slideshow. He told me that there ‘re a lot of good shots of Virginia. When I previewed the slideshow he did, I found that he included over 10 photos of Virginia alone!! So finally, I told him that he had to redo the slideshow and should include more photos of Kingsley.

This shot was taken at a stair just outside the ballroom at the end of the banquet.
When they ‘re farewelling their guest, I noticed this view, and found the neon light on Portland Street  below very interesting.

Wedding shoes

Getting ready shot

I like this shot a lot. The left hand side is reflection on a cabinet.

A pretty bride !!!

The bridal party. They are all very nice and friendly

Kingsley arrived. Nice tie !!

When I showed this picture in the same day slideshow at night, everybody "wow" in the ballroom. And Kingsley is so outstanding in the pic, good choice of the color of his suit.

Tea ceremony

Kingsley ’s parent. Kingsley ’s father was very excited, and cried finally

Location shooting at the Peak

Congratulations!! Virginia & Kingsley

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