Being a wedding photographer is really an interesting occupation as I get to know everyone’s love story whether they like it or not. lol. Seriously, not for any other purposes but just in hoping that I get to know more about them in the shortest time possible while producing photographs that tags nearest to the couple’s real self.

Something worth mentioning is that Wee Han is an awesome hubby many girls dreamt of cause he loves to cook! He even made me and Joan some nice sandwiches when we were there for the makeover early in the morning. Now here’s my favorite picks for their Love Diary session done wholly in Penang and with Sol Cover‘s dinner gown. Have a great great weekend ahead everyone!

&.b.t.w. – The first shot was not a sunrise but a ‘Flash Rise’ with Joan’s help. Cause when we start to shoot, the sky was actually gloomy and rained a bit too, that explains where the rainbow comes from.

&.&.b.t.w. – I am inspired by Wee Han’s new Honda Insight’s huge rear boot space. Thus tried to create the last shot. They looked very happy but the fact is, we trial and error for a couple of minutes to squeeze them in + having the head angled right + triggering my flash on their hands + keeping them happy in the boot. Applause to the couple!!!

&.&.&.b.t.w. – We did an online contest namely All About U + U recently. Today is the last day of voting(with Likes), hope that some of you could help these participants to win a prize from us. Simply go here and vote for your favorite contestants. Thanks!

Cubic Platforms is actually a Lifestyle Concept Store with principal brands such as HTC, DiGi and The Coffee Chemistry Cafe. Not only that you could buy the latest gadgets of HTC, you can also have some nice coffee and food from The Coffee Chemistry Cafe inside the same outlet too.

In another way of saying, you can accompany your IT savvy partner to shop his HTC gadgets here while enjoy the nice food waiting for him and maybe, you can even get your hand on their training program to learn how to use your HTC device better.

I do the talking better via photographs, enjoy the shots and find out more about Cubic Platforms from their page

&.b.t.w. – I really love Sunway Giza Mall, the shops that were made to emulate a lifestyle experience is just great!

&.&.b.t.w. – If you are couple, married or not, we have a contest for you that could win a full day shoot from us, learn more here.

&.&.&.b.t.w. – More and more friends are getting married recently. Nailed this shot in a restaurant this noon while having lunch with the newly wedded friends. The window just opposite me is way too beautiful for me to neglect!

&.&.&.&.b.t.w. – Do you know we have a Facebook page that you can simply follow from the very bottom of this page? Just click on the LIKE!

Mi

Apparently we encountered a bit of hiccup with the submission page after being told by some participants yesterday. Therefore, we decided to prolong the contest period to ensure everyone intended to join get to send their entries to us.

If you are still wondering, the grand prize gets a free full day photo & video session by us and Motion In Style! Not just that, your girlfriend or wife’s makeover will be done by our very own professional makeup artist, Joan. Yes, married or not, this contest is open to couples! We have 5 attractive prizes to be won too.

&.b.t.w. – This series of photos was a couple portrait I shot earlier when preparing for the Penang Has It All blog entry. If you’d like to have a beautiful and memorable photo session with us for free, join our contest!

&.&.b.t.w. – It’s my birthday on 8th September! Bought myself a new logo, will share with everyone soon when I’m releasing : )

&.&.&.b.t.w. – Stole some time from my hectic work to watch Nasi Lemak 2.0, a local film that I’d say it’s my favorite now. It’s a movie that belongs to all Malaysian. Lots of Malaysian culture and true happening depicted cleverly inside. Just watch and you’ll know what I mean.

Mi

Furthermore, we have served a number of couples from overseas coming to Penang just to have their wedding reception because of the weather, food, people, environment and scenery here. And thus, this inspires me to come up with the idea of showing people the beautiful places in Penang. Believe it or not, some Penangites might not even know the existence of certain places I have shot!

Penang is a great spot for vacation, to live in and an ideal destination wedding location of your choice. This round, I’m privileged to have Motion In Style to collaborate with us to produce a short video just for this purpose. Not just that, both of us from Penang wanted to invite you to experience Penang with us. Watch this video first.

In conjunction of showing you the beautiful Penang, we’re having a photo competition. The grand prize winner gets to experience beautiful Penang with us having exclusive couple video filming session by Motion In Style and getting yourself beautiful portraits by us! Details are below:

Wait no more. Take a photo of your partner this week and JOIN NOW! We’re calling for submissions until 15th September 2011.

&.b.t.w. – We used many weeks of time to plan, shoot, then produce the video above. There are actually a lot more places we have went & shot but we’ve squeezed as much as we could to be featured in the video!

&.&.b.t.w. – There were more than 250likes in my sister’s engagement portrait. Which is the highest in my blog so far, 50likes is the second high. I’m actually a little worried + pressured about this cause I don’t know how the 250 came and how I could ‘reproduce’ or surpass this benchmark. But I’ll try my best!

&.&.&.b.t.w. – Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri in advanced to all my Muslim readers out there! Hope you guys have a great great celebration and safe travels.

Mi

My sister just had her wedding day last weekend over Penang. I’m the official photographer for her couple portrait as well as her wedding day coverage. She told my brother in law that, “You can decide whatever you like for the wedding but the photographer must be my brother. I only trust him to treasure this important occasion.”

And wow, those words are extreme heavy responsibility I tell you. hehe.. This post is mainly about their couple portrait or some of you at western countries called it Engagement Portraiture or known as Pre-Wedding Photo here in Malaysia or LOVE DIARY in Milan Teh Studio’s term. Joan did my sister’s makeup & hairdo and we’ve shot all of them in Penang, over the beach, nice sanctuary, mansion, and roadside.

Joseph is a huge fan for cycling and this has largely influenced my sister to follow him cycling around here and there. This explains why there are bicycle in the shots. The shooting process is real challenging cause both of them especially my sister is so mischievous, you’ll see why :p Enjoy the series!

&.b.t.w. – I am deeply inspired by Tofurious & love his way of ending a blogpost with personal happenings. I’ll do it more often as I think it sounds more humanly. And hey, my packages are named “Something Diary”! Suits my ‘theme’ perfectly. Hope I’m not tagged as a copy dog ;p

&.&.b.t.w. – My brother in law created his own battery-powered-leaning-mountain-bike using 6 months time and went fetching the bride with 11 mountain bikes last weekend. It attracted our local news from channel NTV7. If you wanna see the 2 minutes news, it’s available at Facebook or Youtube.

&.&.&.b.t.w. – We’re working together with Motion In Style, a group of awesome wedding cinematographer that many couples sought after to roll out something interesting on August. Please follow us for updates when the time has come (Hint: our Facebook Page is just at the bottom!)

Mi

The wedding dinner of Jenny & Juan was held at Mansion 32 in Penang. This is a restaurant I always wanted to shoot since last year cause I really love the ambient, the building, and the lighting there through other fellow photographer’s work. I’m very grateful that both of them entrusted me and my second shooter in documenting this important date of theirs.

When we first met face to face for discussion, I immediately know that I would have a lot of photo opportunities based on how out going and friendly both Jenny & Juan are. The photos turned out to be exactly how I visualized. This is the wedding with the most laughter and tears I have covered till date. Not just the couple and family members cried & laughed, they even resonated me and my second shooter’s heart despite us being the ‘observer’ of the process only.

Some highlights about this wedding would be Jenny’s 9 elder sisters. They are all real fun to photograph! I encountered the most ‘unusual’ tea ceremony ever, with some of the sisters hiding in cupboard and behind curtain. Not just that, drinking of the tea with straw too! Looking back at the series of photos and slideshow kept making me laughing non-stop. If you missed their sameday slideshow, click this. Enjoy the rest of the series and have a great week peeps!

Mi

The mother and the 10 daughters, I’m real lucky to be able to capture the family of Jenny’s!

Flowers and decos are done by Floral Sense Creation, they are real beauty.

One of the real heart moving moments when both Juan & Jenny exchange their wedding vows..

They have a ‘signature jump’ for wherever they go.

Next, we have some extra time, so I did a short portrait session with them.

Please bear with me a bit, I’m not sure why but I seemed to have a sort of ‘mental block’ from writing English properly in the blog for the recent months. This explains why last few blog posts was relatively short than the norm. I think I need some proper English education again!

Back to this shoot, we wanted to do something youthful and glamorous so we started shooting from noon time at the botanical garden then Georgetown area. It’s indeed a challenge to shoot under harsh sun as I’m more of a natural light guy. Gotta make full use any kind of light given to me at the shooting session to get the outcome I need.

I think all this while, color for my photos are of ‘good-boy-color’ which are quite close to the original shot. I decided to experiment a little differently playing with color for this series hoping to get some breakthrough adding more interestingness to my work. Thanks for dropping by and hope you guys enjoy some ‘new color’ in the photos.

Mi

Viyen’s makeup and hair was done by Joan, we had a fun session. One thing worth mentioning is that when we are shooting the last theme, which is more of sensual. Rain starts to pour and our plan to shoot somewhere outdoor has to be canceled. I get an idea in a sudden, which is to shoot in my room like a studio environment. The last theme was shot all with one flash gelled warm, placed outside the window of my room inspired by Joe McNally. Hope you guys enjoy the series.

Mi

Back to this post, it’s about Sunny & Chao Ran. Chao Ran was a friend I knew him from school band since high school. That time, he shows off the little picture in his wallet of a girl whom he told us the name is SunSun. They both have been together for 9 amazing years now since high school. The feeling is just unique, when a friend that I knew from high school hire me to do their couple portrait.

Anyhow, I’d like to wish every couple a Happy Valentines Day! Have a great celebration with the one you love and enjoy the series I did for Sunny & Chao Ran. Have a nice day!

Mi

This post, I’m sharing some of my favorite shots. Hope that all of you had a great family reunion during Chinese New Year.

Mi

Joshua is a photographer too, who has very nice aesthetic sense that really I admire and good taste on fine music. He’s a multi-talented individual who could play guitar, sing, and shoot nice photographs. He emailed me last year and I can’t believe he’s the Joshua Teoh I know somewhere on the online world.

I start shooting from Wendy’s house and Wendy’s shoe has these “I do” blings at the bottom. I’m very lucky to find suitable rack to use and the Christmas tree as background to execute the shot below. I’m proud of this shot cause it’s something fresh to me and I’m delighted with the out of camera shot below.

Joshua’s intention to give Wendy a surprise by singing “Stand by me” when he’s at the bride’s house gave me an inspiration to do something different for their sameday slideshow at the morning I woke up. This slideshow mark my first time to shoot video(ok, I’m learning!), and to do a sameday slideshow with a very different approach from my norm of doing. Both Wendy and Joshua were very pleased with this video I’ve created for them, hope all of you would enjoy too. Have a great Sunday!

Mi