Chee Haw & Mei Lai, 1 March 2008 (Malacca) - UPDATE

Dear all... I missed these pictures out. Hope you all will like it!

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Kok Juinn & Stephanie, 19 January 2008 (Kuala Lumpur)

There's a few clients who asked me if I worked for De Casamia Bridal Gallery @ SS2, Petaling Jaya. I said "no". I'm an independent wedding day photographer whereby we have a team of photographers & videographers who work together to capture the memorable day for the couples.

As of to date, I have got 40 clients for this year! Amazing feat when this month (March) hasn't over yet and I have 40 clients for this year. Of course, this is through word-of-mouth and making sure my blog always constantly updated with new pictures. Some prospective clients look for a photographer who can take photographs but all my clients look for the expert :- professionals who take actual day wedding photography and I have done this for the past 13 years. All started when I was studying in the United States. Having shooting the first American wedding in De Moines, Iowa, this gave the edge over many photographers in Malaysia as I started with color films and B&W photography. Right now, eventhough we are in the era of digital photography, skills always comes into place. Without the skills of wedding photojournalism, the final work will not be like what you see in my blog today.

I stopped by Penang last Sunday after my trip to Langkawi and I went to this new mall in Penang. They had this bridal gallery exhibition at the concourse area. I stopped by two of the booths and did saw some of the actual wedding photographer's work. Frankly speaking, the work done wasn't that good as I thought as I do know that there are a few actual wedding day professionals in Penang but I didn't expect that the bridal gallery engaged freelancers who doesn't take good pictures at all. You can see dark shadows casting over the bride & the bridegroom faces and some of the albums shown were taken with "direct" flash. Those are like "point & shoot" pictures. End result is that you get oily faces.

Therefore, I'm glad that all my clients like my work as much as I do and hope all of you would enjoy and continue supporting me. Thank you!

Below are Kok Juinn & Stephanie's wedding day in January. I forgot to post this up to share with all of you. Too many work lately and I will face a huge crisis in September this year as there were like 7 couples that month. Holy moly! :o)

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Chee Haw & Mei Lai - 1 March 2008 (Malacca)

This is Chee Haw & Mei Lai's wedding in Malacca. Both of them working in Singapore where they met and now, husband & wife! I work kinda of late the previous nite on the 29th and by 5.30am, I reached Malacca the next day (which is 1st of March). I've been to Malacca once a while and I think this is the 3rd time for a wedding.

I've always wanted to stay on Malacca to shoot interesting places for the client. Maybe next round of wedding, I think in November this year, I will be back to Malacca and most likely stopping by A Famosa for a wedding shoot. Couldn't wait to have this part of my portfolio.

This year is going to be interesting. I am short of another 11 clients to hit my 50 couple target for Year 2008. I may be busy but still able to take great pics! Hope everyone like the pics that I took for Chee Haw & Mei Lai. Wishing them a great & blissful wedding. It's great to have another Singapore client but I would love to have a wedding down in Singapore for me to take. Being in different places, it's a different feeling and making your pics a different outlook as well.

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Guan Chu & Lai Yee's Wedding Day - 9 March 2008 (Kota Baru, Kelantan)

It was a day of joy for me when I went to Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Megah at SS23 to vote for the state & parlimentary seat on the 8th of March. I was the first few to cast my vote that morning before I took at 3.50PM flight from LCCT to Kota Baru. I arrived there at 5PM sharp! Interestingly, Air Asia flight timing right now are very sharp! The arrive on time and leave ON time too!

I stayed over at Suria Hotel, at the heart of Kota Baru, which is just 10 minutes walk to Grand RiverView Hotel, which is next to the bank of Sungai Kelantan. It's the election today on the 8th and I can see the flags of PAS and BN flying above my head. Frankly speaking, Kota Baru wasn't that bad at all.

I woke up at 5.30AM the next day and had a morning walk to the hotel where Lai Yee lived for the night before her "chut mun" day. It wasn't a bad hotel though... Quite nice interior. Anyhow, I managed to take her doing her hair by her hairstyles before her make-up artist start her work. Yeah! It was a great day too when all of us stayed up late at night to hear the good news of the opposition coalition taking over Perak, Kedah, Penang state government and monopolize the parlimentary seat for the Federal Territory (Kuala Lumpur).

Ah! yes! we had a great day to start with. The bride and bridegroom went through a chinese-thai custom. First time I'm going through such customs. NOTE that these are some of my favourite shots that I would like to share with everyone.

The wedding dinner, which was held 2 weeks earlier in Equatorial Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, can be viewed here with our ONLINE slideshow.

Go to http://www.my-weddingphotographer.com/wedding240208/index.html

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