Thanks to my friends from Wedding Story, my wife and I were invited to an all-expense paid retreat in Langkawi together with the Wedding Story team. Haha, well, it was not entirely “all-expense” but I it sounded nice when I typed it .  That said, Wedding Story chipped in on the accommodation for us and that was truly awesome! It is my first time to Langkawi, so thanks guys for being such a great sport and for inviting me and making it a reality. Now I can say, “Hey, I’ve been to Langkawi you know!”.

I can’t say enough but the people at Wedding Story and Integricity are a bunch of awesome people. They are professional, friendly, fun and most importantly, they are fantabulously crazy and fun, just like me! I always believe in teamwork, and as a professional photographer, I can’t work alone and it helps to have close friends in the industry that can support you and be a constant encouragement to you. It pays to have strong relationships with the people you work with and I got to say, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves there.

From the moment we landed, we basically had a fun time hanging out around the hotel, went shopping, played some water sports, took “professional” photos for each other for FREE (yes, it pays to have photographer friends!), went for a full body massage together. It was a time of relaxation and at the same time, we got to catch up with everyone. Since I’m based in Singapore, I hardly have time to meet up with anyone whenever I am in Malaysia.

If you have colleagues, partners or just buddies that are like-minded, do spend time together, I highly recommend that you either go on a road trip or a short vacation together.

Oh, one very important thing that happened in Langkawi that I have to share… I got a brand new spanking camera! Thanks to Joseph Siew and Grace for helping me out. I was so excited, because I finally got my hands on a compact camera, the Canon G10. Well, it’s not soooo compact but hey, it’s a great camera that produces great images!

All the shots taken in this post were from my new compact camera, the Canon G10. I’ll blog more about it later.

One of the many famous Sawah Padi fields in Langkawi during sunset.

The beautiful sunset by the beach, right outside our hotel.

Lastly, enjoy the clip below by Kee Sitt from Wedding Story. He did a great job compiling our activities in it. Best of all, he did not use a professional video camera, but a consumer camera, the Panasonic TZ7. After watching the video, I feel like giving up my Canon G10 and go out and buy myself one of them Panasonics.

Disclaimer: OK, after being “ratted out” by Mark Leo, I have to say that the Canon G10 is not mine! It belongs to my wife. Yes, my wife had a long discussion about it, as she wanted something small that could fit into her bag. But I reasoned with her that the Canon G10 is a GREAT camera! Yada yada… anyways, long story short, after much persuasion (and pestering) from me, she caved, and gave in to my request. Hehe… so, the Canon G10 belongs to my wife since she paid for it… (which will be in my ThinkTank Airport AirStream bag most of the time.. hehehehe).

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I should be on my way to Langkawi by the time you read this. I’ll be having a helluva time with the Wedding Story team. They’ve been a great sport by inviting my wife and I on a retreat with them. I’m sure I’ll be enjoying myself there, soaking my feet in the pool and enjoying the beautiful landscapes of Langkawi. Honestly, I’ve never been there before, so I’ve no idea how it looks like.

For today, I’ll be posting a FAQ video post. I thought I’d just share a few things I’ve picked up from various photographers. Thanks guys for sharing all these knowledge with me and I plan to impart to others as and when I can. So, the question is how do I store my CF Cards and my batteries? Enjoy!

Ok, since I’m not a pro in Nikon gear, I must have mistaken it with some other battery pack that Nikon uses. Anyways, the SB900s uses 4 batteries like the Canon flashes. Good to know when and if I switch to Nikon. I know some people would be delighted if I do.

Thanks to Jon Low who RT’ed this from someone else wee early in the morning. I was still dreaming about it when I woke up this morning. I guess it’s all over the twittersphere now but I thought I’d just add it here. This has got to be the coolest wedding couple ever! I went to the link from the tweet and it says, “Watch it. You might cry. You may get up and dance. You may break into instantaneous giggle fits. You may even be slightly horrified.” What about you, would you laugh, dance or cry? Watch the video.

I teared a little at the end. This has got to be the coolest wedding video I’ve seen for a long long time. How I wished all weddings are like this, but I know everyone has their own preference and being the wacky me, I love the unexpected. That’s my code. My motto. My life. I love it! Well, if you have ideas that is out of this world, some dying fantasy (wedding related only, puh-lease!), or an unrealised dream that you would want to on your wedding day, feel free to contact me and we can cook up something unexpected. It’ll be fun, it’ll be exciting and most importantly memorable.

Would you laugh, dance or cry?

That’s entirely up to you.

Waiting for the Groom’s Party to arrive.

Apparently, these Tong Sui (Chinese dessert) was filled with wasabi!

Jason required to write down 10 things that he loves about Doris and at the end, sign a contract to abide by the “rules” set by Doris.

Jason had to read out loud the “contract” that he just signed.

What Jason didn’t know was that there was a surprise waiting for him.

Gotcha!

Doris confronted him and asked him to explain why he went to the wrong room.

Jason affirms Doris and everything was perfect!

Doris looks so cute here drinking the “Tong Sui” dessert. Love this pic.

I’ve gotta end my entry with this last photo. Why? Because all those lovely ladies were holding on to my Moo Cards!

Ok, it’s time to sleep. I’m gonna start on my next series of photos soon. Yawn!

I met Jason & Doris at Andy & Kelly’s Wedding. Jason is Andy’s younger brother who was also getting married. It was sweet of Andy and his family to hire me as the wedding photographer to cover Jason & Doris’ Wedding in Malacca as a gift for the both of them.

Gotta be my favourite shot for the day.

Doris has a nice smile. I made sure that I took a photo of that smile of hers.

The “Chee Muis”, note the quotes… ahem..

…and the Heng Tais.

Let me know what you think of the black borders, love it, hate it, please comment!

Once again, I have the opportunity to photograph a bunch of talented youths. I’m so excited about this that I can’t help but to finish editing them as soon as I can. My friends from Vertical Care Services (VCS) invited me to help photograph some of the band shots for Zero2Hero Season 6. If you have read my blog entry back in February, I posted some photos from Season 5. This time round, I was in charge of taking some individual shots for each of the band members.

Joseph

Joel

Jerrer

Vonnes

Fiona

Thanks Fiona for being a sport, I know you only know how to smile when you are photographed by the way. Love the head banging shots!

Qi Guang

Amanda

Brandon

Zhi Ming

Sean

I didn’t know that shooting by the beach can be such hard work. Look at my Crocs slippers! I think I have to get a new pair after this.

Thanks to James and Gerald for inviting me. Here is a photo of James from 14-85. (Sorry Gerald, didn’t get to take a photo of you earlier!)

Thanks to my lovely assistant, Eunice, for helping out. She’s a star and I can’t say enough to thank her for helping me hold the light throughout the shoot. Thanks for enduring my many requests and not complaining a single bit!

Here is a photo of Eunice hard at work.

Here are some group shots from James’ camera.

Here are more pictures from Ban Yew and ESther’s Wedding! It’s almost 2AM and I’m too tired to think of words, so I’ll let the photos do the talking. Enjoy!

My schoolmates. All grown up. All matured.

This is a pretty funny photo that is worth a mention. Ban Yew popped the champagne and the cork didn’t get very far. It hit the stage ceiling and fell back to the ground. Thus the reaction of the next photo.

A message from a friend.

The lovely Esther, watching the Same Day Slideshow from the morning session.

Ban Yew and his brothers.

After party event.

Ok, I seriously can’t think anymore. I’ve gotta stop writing and start to get ready for bed. Yawnz! Good night folks, see you in the morning! Oh, wait, it IS the morning!

Coming soon….

eeyern photography is going international! If you are getting married or just love to have your photograph taken, just drop us an email for enquiries and booking.

We’ll be adding more places to the World Tour for 2010 but if you have other suggestions or places that you would love to visit, do let us know.

If you have seen our “Our Recent Trip to Ipoh” video, you would know that we were there to shoot a wedding. The couple, Ban Yew & Esther also did a pre-wedding with us back in March. You can read all about the fun we had shooting the pre-wedding in Singapore, here and here. Ban Yew and I attend the same school back in Ipoh. Although we were from different streams, we still kept in contact. It’s also great to see so many of my schoolmates present during the wedding. Seeing that everyone is all grown up, have a successful career and getting married and all, it really filled my heart with joy, partly because it’s a friend’s wedding and partly because there’s a certain something about the atmosphere during a wedding. Everybody is happy and everybody is feeling the love in the air. Ah, absolute bliss.

As promised, here is the first installment of Ban Yew and Esther’s wedding photos from the morning session. And if you haven’t noticed, Esther is quite a looker and I guess I’ll start with a few of my favourite photos of her from the morning session.

Esther getting ready in the morning. Tried a high key shot of her getting ready.

One of my favourite photos from the morning. It looks like a photo taken out from a children’s fairy tale story.

Chen Lei took this shot and I absolutely love it.

Decided to take the wedding shoe out for a walk. This was taken in the morning when the sun was just peeking through and I left the shoe on top of a MyVi roof.

The Heng Tais had their silver ties ready.

Ban Yew and the Heng Tais. It’s really a huge entourage I must add. Great to see so many brothers attending the morning session.

Another one of my favourites.

After the tea ceremony, we had the chance to take a few shots at an abandoned shop lot just opposite Ban Yew’s house.

Ok, I need to start editing the rest of the photos and hopefully get to post them up soon. But only if you ask, nicely