More shots from my 3rd quarter WPJA entry.
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Last week I was preparing some of my photos for the WPJA 3rd quarter competition. Here are some of my selections for the ceremony and humorous pictures of the day.
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After 2 years with Herman, I found him a partner… Meda just moved in with us tonight.
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A picture of Herman with Meda getting to know each other.
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There’s a ulterior motive when I volunteered to assist Rueyloon is his pre-wedding shoot with Jared and Tina. I need to expend my films in my vintage cameras which I have recently obsessed with. But I did really assist him; in some ways or rather.
Other than stealing shots here and there with my film cameras, I took some video footage of behind the scenes during the shoot. It’s definitely not pro filming. You will get the picture when you see it. Oh yeah! Don’t forget to take the motion sickness pills before watching it. Haha!
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Catching up with the images from the wedding of Billy and Dawn.
Dawn is one half of the duo (Emmeline is the other half) that set up Objectives, the school for photography and videography. I was there in the early days when Kaychin announced that 2 young girls will be setting up a photography school. They were in New York working in the financial industry before deciding it was time to come back to Singapore and setting up the school is their first mission upon their return. I have taught at Objectives many times before, and I also have the recipient an artist grant from them. Hey I even met Eileen my videographer through Objectives.
Dawn and Emmeline are good friends of Suanjin, and they go way back. Suanjin got married this year and I did his prewedding and wedding day photography.
Just last week I heard the Emmeline is expecting a baby.
So, a very good place to be for all these 3 friends.
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I found out about this video from a forum talking about lean times. Certain parts of it just POPS out at me ! HAHHA Guess must have been too familiar for me.
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Since Rueyloon is leaving for Vietnam today for some pro bono charity work, he will be too busy to post up this series of beautiful images. I will do it on his behalf.
It’s so nice having kids to grace the wedding, especially they are your own kids. Two pretty little angels all dolled up for the ceremony and shooting them was a breeze when they are excited over their mum’s wedding. The youngest has this pair of ravishing translucent blue eyes that really just captures our attention. Enough words, lets just enjoy the pictures.
More photos can be viewed here in Facebook.
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There are not too many weddings that I’ll end up having a whisky with the couple at the end of the night. Chilling out and having a party… I do that at most wedding, but to have a whisky and just lie back and relax, I only do so at the special ones. These are weddings where every element comes together. I don’t read the stars, but I’m sure somewhere out in the mysteries of space the stars are aligned. Of course, it has to be a wedding where I’m very confidant of what I’ve achieved as well to kick back in this way.
This is the wedding of Suan Jin and Rachel, we went to Beijing earlier this year to have their pre-wedding photos taken. Now it’s back to Singapore for their wedding day. They are 2 seemingly different people, as Suan Jin said himself, they even have different accents. Suan Jin is in banking and finance while Rachel works with NGO. (teaching forest tribes how to find alternative source of income, working with governments on policies of birth controls…… you know, that kind of stuff)
Rachel’s wacky aunty, and her wackier friend are memories I take with me from this wedding. There are not too many weddings that the official photographer gets told “excuse me, you are blocking me !” :p
So at the end of the shoot, with just 7 hours in between before I need to catch my early flight to Japan, I went over to Alley Bar to have my whisky with Suan Jin and Rachel. Like I said…… only for the special ones
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When I started doing photography full time, I worked from home, then around 3 years into it pretty much on a wimp I decided to get a studio. With just 1 month’s rental money in my bank as back up, I set up shop along Selegie Road.
We had grand ideas during that time. Let’s have a studio cum art gallery we would say, a cool place for friends to hang out. Let’s host exhibitions (which we did 2 with the Goethe Institute), let it be a meeting point for artists and photographers (which we did by the setting up the Radius art group).
5 years later, the lofty art photography dreams has taken a back seat, although I still manages to keep up with at least 1 exhibition a year, my baby now is 36frames. Having started my business by doing meeting at Starbucks, McDonalds and Burger Kings (I had my first signup at BurgerKing Raffles City), today I’m very proud of having my own comfy meeting area, with leather seats, huge LCD TV and of course an imitation arc lamp. The team has grown too, Lawrence is now very well known for his photography in his own right, and Eileen is sought after for our signature style of videography.
So what’s next ? I feel the wind of change blowing. I think a change of environment might be in store. Being at the edge of Little India has its charm, but it might be time to mix it up. To challenge ourselves again lest we get too set in our ways, lest we get too comfy.
We are pretty close to getting the new place, I’ve had many sleepless night thinking about it. I guess that must be a sign that I’m much older now. When I got my current office I decided on it within days and it was the only place I checked out. The devil may care spirit was much alive then, I was young and irrational.
So Let’s COOK IT UP ! Let’s STIR UP A NEW POT !
stay tuned..
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