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Just checked the receipt. The 400D was bought in 24th June 2007. That makes a two-year (and 3-day) anniversary. Great time for recap.

Took a brief glance over the flickr sets. Quite a collection, especially the travel trips. After all, that’s what the camera was for in the first place.

Been to Vietnam twice, almost covered the whole country from south to north. Perhaps the most unforgettable trip to date ever since they ditched guided tours. Sadly, also the furthest he has traveled since he got hold of the dude. Traveled to several cities in Malaysia too - Melaka, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang - all in the name of sight-seeings and friends’ weddings. On the other hand,  jalan-jalan around Singapore sometimes were not as bad as some assumed.

Speaking of weddings, he had unexpectedly received more requests than what he had asked for. Taking this whole wedding photography stuff to the next level has not crossed his mind yet (lest his bosses reading this decided to invite him to chat over a cup of coffee).  But it’s good to have some extra income (as opposed to, donation, if ya know what he means) to fund the hobby, while knowing that there are people actually appreciating his works.

Kai Yu is one of the most important series of photos during this period and it’s still ongoing. It’s fascinating to watch your niece growing up day by day, not to mention, the ability to rewind and watch it over and over again!. Recently she has gotten a little brother, but her dad too has gotten a DSLR.

Missus switched her career path from teaching to makeup artist early this year <insert tyre screeching sound here>. Opened up plenty of options for him - fashion, portraits and off-camera flash lighting techniques (which means more toys/junks).  Perhaps it’s about time to start include more of these in the upcoming posts.

All in all, it has been a great ride as far as his photography journey is concerned. Who knows what the future holds? Que sera sera…

A simple and brief solemnization dinner in Spring Court Restaurant in Chinatown, it was the final photography session for the busy month of May. Including the photographer and the makeup artist, all of them shared the same hall back in NUS. So it wasn’t surprise to see many familiar faces among the guests.

Slideshow.

Despite having the morning venue changed at the eleventh hour, everything still turned up well on the wedding day Andy and Siew Yuen, which also happened to be Mother’s Day.  The morning session was a fun-filled fetch-the-bride session ensued by challenging logistics (under heavy rain for a while) between Yishun, Tampines and Sengkang. Dinner was held in The Legends Fort Canning Park.

It’s been a pleasure covering the event. Congratulations to Andy and Siew Yuen.

As usual, will let the pictures do the talking. More at the slideshow page.

The caption on the poster. Above the oil rig, in the middle of nowhere. Far across his cubicle, it challenges him with the same question every weekday.

“Is your platform ready for the future?”

He rarely gave it a thought, until today.

If the answer is yes, he wouldn’t be there.

If the answer is no, he shouldn’t be there either.

To say that Shang Ping is one of the nicest person he has ever worked with does not seem to do much justice to the guy. Anyway, when Mr Nice Guy approached him to shoot his solemnization lunch, he accepted without a second thought.

Shang Ping and him were colleagues back in NUS lab doing crazy (silly) stuff that makes no sense and out of touch with reality. Didn’t really matter, cause at the end of the day, it’s the attention caught that was important, or so he learned.

But, he digresses.

The lunch took place  in Peony Jade Restaurant in Clarke Quay. It was a casual and relaxing afternoon affair with close friends and relatives.

It was also probably the most fun photo shoot he has taken so far, because there were so many adorable kids around.

After the lunch, they proceeded to the nearby Fort Canning Park for some extra photo taking. The day ended with a tea-break in Park Mall’s Dome.

More pictures available in the slideshow.