day and night – lina and raymond

day and night, how time flies  … …. I have been expecting to be the wedding photographer of lina for a long long time … … In fact, it is over xx years !!!!!! (Oh, I can’t tell how many years exactly)

I knew lina when she was a secondary school student and I was her bible teacher in church at that time. How time flies and she is going to marry next year !!!!

Hi Lina, hope you like this set of photos – a special gift for your wedding.

makeup artist: polly of faces hk
photo location: HKU, Shek O, Central (night)

one of my fav. Look at the dress, can you believe that we had a natural wind in the pic ??

our 1st location: HKU

wedding of karen and wanson

a beautiful wedding – simple but full of touching moments.

ceremony: St. Margaret ‘s Church

reception: four seasons hotel hong kong

video: tomoko of simon.the.photo

on arrival at the church. Karen was still in the limo, with the reflection of the bridesmaids on the window. My fav photo of the day

the whole day summary prepared by tomoko. A brief introduction of tomoko: she joined my team since last year. Prior to joining us, she has been working with NHK for years and with experience producing over hundred documentary films before. I really love her style – documenting a wedding, with lots emotions and details.

e-session of fiona and ben

Though fiona loves the location of Student Hall of HKU so much, neither ben nor she studied in HKU before. you can imagine it is very difficult for them to go inside to take wedding photo
However, with her strong determination and lots of preparation works, we finally get a permission to go inside.

location: HKU and the U-hall, Stanley Market, Central
makeup artist: Man Chan of Miracle (her recent interview by esdlife)

the winding stair that she loves a lot

BTW, Canly helped me to take some behind the scene videos on the day, I have put them onto my facebook fans page, Don’t forget to become my fans if you haven’t joined yet.

my dear photo assistant – Canly
e-session of susan and wilson

I seldom talk about my team members in this blog, but I ‘d like to start to introduce them to you one by one this month. The first member of this series: Canly.
Canly joined my team since last Sept as a contracted lighting assistant.

I started to recruit this position for the peak season last year, and when I received Canly ‘s application, I already thought she ‘s the right person!!! when I met her at the coffee shop, she was such a cheerful and happy person that I think there is no another person better than her. And my decision ‘s right !!! Without her help, I couldn’t create so many beautiful photos in last few months. Not only she has a very pleasant character, but she is very dedicated to in all weddings as well.

How dedicated is she? Take a look at following pics at the e-session of susan [......]

Continue reading … … my dear photo assistant – Canly
e-session of susan and wilson

wedding of janice and leo

love this wedding, especially the ceremony. Lots of sharing from the friends of janice and leo.

And so happy to see joyce & wilson and ringo again

Also thanks for inviting me to the after party, lots of fun !!!!!

date: 25 oct 2008 ceremony and lunch reception: repulse bay after party: shelter video: ken of simon.the.photo

Congratulations !!! Mr. and Mrs. Lee !!!!!

We didn’t do much portrait on the day. Thanks for giving me “5 min” for bridal portrait before the lunch reception.

a detail shot at the after party – Leo and Janice. click here to see how Canly and Ken helped me to setup this shot (and other crazy photos of us)

 

e-session of vivian and roger

date: oct 27, 2008
location: home, central, shek O, peak (night shot)
makeup artist: Gracy of JustGracy

this is an very interesting session, why?

if you had followed my blog for a long time, you may know I am a bride (or woman) photographer, over 70% of my photos on a wedding day are focused on the bride, and I never put a groom “solo photo” as the 1st photo on my blog.

Here is the exception, Roger ‘s such a cool guy that he gave me a lot of inspiration (and flexibility) in their e-session.

When we walked around in Central, we started to discussed what sports roger plays. “football and basketball,” answered Roger. When I saw this wall, I suddenly had a strange idea in my mind and I asked, “can you walk and run like Spiderman on this wall ?”
That’s how I got this stunning photo of Roger !!!!

Hey, wait !! Vivian [......]

Continue reading … … e-session of vivian and roger

wedding of irene and alexis (day one)

So busy in last two months … … I tried to update the blog with every wedding and e-sessions I had, but I found it very difficult with the busy schedule … … Other than shooting, I spend most of the time on retouching works and hope to finish the work on time for each client.

Just a few updates:

1) because of the busy schedule, I can’t meet any new client before Dec, I am giving priority to my existing client first

2) Shulin is growing very fast, I even found that she can be looked and behaved a little different  if I didn’t see her much after having2-3 days’ shooting. I have already scheduled a photo session with Claudia (playground photography) end of Nov to take photo of Shulin and me. So looking forward to it.

3) there are so many interesting shootings in last few weeks, a lot of new concept [......]

Continue reading … … wedding of irene and alexis (day one)

simonthephoto ranked top 4th artistic wedding photojournalist in the 08 Q2 [AG]WPJA Contest

I am so excited to share the good news with you. The Artistic Guild of Wedding Photojournalist Association [AG]WPJA just announced their Q2 wedding photo contest last Saturday, when I read their web site, I couldn’t believe that I was ranked as the top 4th artistic wedding photojournalist in this contest !!! And I am the only photographer from Asia in the Top 10 !!!!

 I had 3 photos ranked top 10 in the contest — 2nd and 3rd place in the "get ready" category and 10th place in "sense of place" category. Here are the winning photos

2nd place in the "get ready" category – you can click here to see the judges’ comment. this is from Winnie and Ivan ’s wedding on March 8 (sorry, I haven’t written up their wedding on the blog yet). I love the lighting of this photo so much — I had done a [......]

Continue reading … … simonthephoto ranked top 4th artistic wedding photojournalist in the 08 Q2 [AG]WPJA Contest