WPJA 2008 Q4 Contest

I had a pleasant surprise on Sunday when i opened my mailbox on Sunday. 3 of the images which i submitted for the WPJA quarter 4 contest were awarded rankings and most amazingly, Lincoln's door bargaining image came in first in the humor category.

This caps off a great year at WPJA contests with 2 first placings amongst the 7 ranked images for all contests of the year.

Here are the images.

Eng Hong

I didn't manage to blog about Lincoln and Zhimin's wedding but they had one of the most happening door bargaining session i have ever shot with visually disgusting food tasting (for those who are going to pop by our office, you will get to see it) and even a fake bride (above). One of the judges mentioned wanting to see the after moment, well here's what happened.

Coming in 5th in creative portraits from Colin and Josephine's wedding. Colin was playing with the polaroid camera and even took a picture of me with it and i decided to take a quirky picture with the both of them using the polaroid.

And finally, coming in 6th in the Action category is an image from Samuel and Yih Yin's wedding. I just love the reaction from the "audience" when Samuel kissed his bride.

X'mas came early

Some test shots from the new cam. Am so excited with the video function. 

Ryan + Grace

It was my first time shooting at the Jurong Bird Park, so much so that i almost missed the ring bearer (the parrot). I got to catch up with Amy, Grace's cousin, who was one of the first few couples i shot 5 years ago. I went on to shoot her brother's wedding and now her cousin's.

Simple

is always good. :)

Samuel+YihYin

Its been a great week for us at Haji Lane, clearing weddings and albums but the best part was having Jose Villa and Joel Serrato dropping by our office. They are here in sunny Singapore to shoot a wedding.

Anyways, onto blogging about weddings. Samuel and YihYin got hitched in the Blessed Sacrament Church, the very church Aloysius got married in. I just loved the architecture of the building and the way the light flowed into the church.

WPJA/Brides Contest 2008

I finally managed to get my hands on the Nov/Dec issue of Brides Magazine. Its been 6 months since the contest was held and my image from Arvid and Pare's wedding is finally published. Its always exciting to have our work published, especially so when its in an international magazine.

What amazed me more is that another of my image from Jene's pre-wedding is also ranked 7th in the Brides category. The rest of the winning images are available here.

Bumper Crop

I have been wanting to put up a post with more images from a single wedding so that blog readers can have a better idea of how i shoot a whole wedding. Eugene and Mabel tied the knot with a simple church ceremony and luncheon at the Regent and i thought it would be nice to share the images from that day.

(just to show me at work)