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Wedding | Best of 2009 Series | Ceremony

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:45:32 +0000

The fourth part of the Best of 2009 series is going to focus on some ceremony photos. During 2009, I went to a lot of new churches, venues, and other event centers. As a photographer, it’s always fun and exciting to explore new places to photograph in. Whatever we do, we try to capture the most romantic photo for the couple. During ceremony, I never use flashes (although I’ve recently fell in love with off camera flashes), all ambient light. Here are some of my favourite shots from 2009.

Bride entering

Father of Bride unveiling Bride

During Ceremony

Kisses after ring exchange

Wedding | Best of 2009 Series | Details

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:46:01 +0000

Here comes the third part of the Best of 2009 series. What is interesting is that the first two years of documenting weddings, I was not spending as much much attention to details as I should. This past year, I changed my mind and started paying more attention to such things such as the Chinese qua, dress, the shoes, the bouquet and all the things the bride and groom spent so much time and heart on.

Here are a few of my favourite detail shots from 2009.

Traditional Chinese Qua for weddings

Wedding Gown

Bouquet

Traditional Chinese wedding shoes

Wedding High Heel

Wedding Ring

Wedding Cake

Wedding | Best of 2009 Series | Tea Ceremony

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:08:54 +0000

Tea Ceremony is a very common and important Chinese ceremony where the bride and groom has to hand a cup of tea to the parents and elder relatives. The ingredients in these tea are usually lotus seed and dates, which implies “Together for a hundred years” and “Having many children”. Parents and elderly usually (although not set in stone) to give red pocket and gifts to the new couple.

Here are a few of my favourite photos from the past year

Tea Ceremony

Wedding | Best of 2009 Series | Getting Ready

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:27:14 +0000

Belated Happy New Year. New Year, new blog theme change and a new series of the old.

It has been a while since I posted on here. Just to quickly update everyone, during the past few weeks, I’ve been keeping myself busy taking family, baby and infant photos, take a look here as well as some product shoots. It has been a fun few weeks I’ve got a few more shoots lined up.

On reflecting 2009, instead of posting a one off best of 2009, I’ve decided to take this one step further and make it into a series. In the following weeks, I will post more and more photos. To kick off, I’d like to share some of my favourite getting ready photographs.

Getting Ready