A hungry bride is an angry bride, and certainly won't be a happy bride. Anywhere, anytime, will do.

To me, it's rather rare to see a bride dressed in Vera Wang and not hesitate to step into the water.....


....for the sake of this picture. Sporting bride and bridesmaids.

I like the way the faces of Trish's and Thomas' faces get lit by the sunlight yet amongst the shadows. They look serious but in actual fact they are one of the wackiest and fun-loving persons around.

I was there to cover a wedding banquet, but met up with a group of juvenile daredevils with a taste for extreme sport.

Either she is a nurse/doctor who can't kick her habit after many many years or a vigilant citizen on constant lookout for a relapse of the dreaded SARS, I thought that was an unusual way to greet the bride. :)

Sometimes, an unintentional picture can cause the more imaginative viewer some embarassment. in retrospect, I think this picture is pretty nice.....albeit a bit...eerr....you know.....

well, other than wedding photoshoot, the botanic gardens is a nice place to bring family to, especially on a sunday when the setting sun emits a very warm golden hue.
it's my 1st time there with my family, and hopefully there will be many more. (it's a dilemma really. if i can afford to go there with my family regularly on a sunday, it means that i don't have shoots on those days, and that certainly doesn't augur well for my family, financially. Hmm...)

 

 

i'm sure many of you (especially photographers) who have been to The China Club, atop Capital Tower, agree with me that it's a very photogenic place, in the day. great daylight, and colourful decor. and if you have matching outfit to boot, man, it's a dream place to shoot.

the thing about being cute is that on some days, you wish the adults would just stop rummaging their hands through your hair and pinch your cheeks. "sigh!" the perils of being cute...

One thing happened a couple of weeks ago at a wedding that made me very happy.
It's this picture of 3 kids running downstairs to open the car door for the groom.
From what i observed, these three are the bride's nephews and grand-nephews and she dotes on them very much.

this particular picture was shot on our way down, everything happened very fast as I had to run to catch up with them. one of the younger ones had his shoe slipped off his foot. objectively, it is an ok picture that shows the innocence, and "clumsiness" of children. however, when i showed it to the bride, she practically cracked up and laughed out loudly. "He's so cute!" that's what i remembered her saying.

actually, was i surprised by her reaction? well, no, really. but her more than zealous reaction encouraged me. it just reinforced my conviction that every wedding is different, and i have to shoot each wedding as unique as i can, and i can only do that when i have a certain level of understanding of the mechanics inside the couple's family and social circle, through sheer observation.

a picture might mean nothing to person A, but if it means something to the bride/groom, it means the whole world to me.

All eyes on you Eugene!


How could something that started so brightly end up so messy? Keep it up, Boon! You are doing fine.

Just trying out some panoramic cropping from a recent wedding.

I quite like the feel, and perhaps will try out more in future.

At a recent pre-wedding shoot, I brought Thomas and Tricia to a railway track near my studio. I was in the mood already and busy clicking away when Thomas shouted to me that he thought he heard something.

Within seconds, a train came roaring by (still a distance from us lah), sounding the horn. We quickly jumped off the track to give way, obviously.

Although it was no close shave, I think Thomas and Tricia have never been so close to a running train in their lives. (I have, incidentally, at Manila).

But luckily, they could still smile about it. Phew!

Familiarity breeds contempt.

One potential problem for wedding photographers in Singapore is we are so familiar with some of the places we photography week in week out that we sometimes go for the tried and tested.

However, I always remind myself: no matter how mundane, how straight forward or how familiar I am with the event/place, there is always new things to be discovered at every corner.

True enough, at St Teresa's church (one which I have shot at numerous times), when I was there one day at an unusual hour, I saw the light streaming in from a different angle and casting shadows in a new places I have never seen before.

You might think it's nothing much, but deep in my heart, I am quietly happy that I have outdone myself in a small way.