Ping + Steven Engagement Session @ Vancouver Coal Harbor

This photo shoot was in a windy afternoon. Ping didn't put on any extra clothes on top of her dress until night time. Brian and I worried a lot about her because she needed to catch a plane to Las Vegas on next day. As you can see, she had very beautiful smile on that day. Amazing! I must mention one thing... I really like the first photo (above) and the second photo (below) from Brian.

My baby just arrived yesterday. I'm extremely busy now. E-mails may not be replied in a short time. Sorry about that.

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I love this photo! (Taken by Brian)

The Precious Moment

Ethan, the baby of Jessie and me, arrived a bit earlier than his expected due day. When our clients worried about our baby might come on their wedding days, Ethan came in between photo shoots. Good boy!

Jessie's labour was very smooth. We arrived at the hospital around 6:30 in the morning, and Ethan was born at 10:20. Even though Jessie screamed during her contractions and kept yelling for epidural while she was being assessed, she was totally fine after having epidural. I was very amazed that Jessie was so tough. She worked very hard in pushing, and it took her only 40 something minutes to push the baby out. Good job Jessie! I love you!

I couldn't believe that I could be so calm to take photos at the moment when I first saw my baby. It was hard to explain my feeling at that time. I thought that the moment for the baby's birth would be very important and I must capture these shots... just like hearing "You may kiss the bride" at work. Press press press...

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The moment of my first time holding Ethan




Our first official family photo!

Michelle & Andrew Pre-Wedding Session: Spring + Traditional Red Wedding Dress

This is just a part of the whole pre-wedding project for Michelle and Andrew. We will complete the Summer and Fall sessions after Jessie is back to the team. In North America, very few people have a set of photos with Chinese traditional red wedding dress. Usually, brides only wear red dress in tea ceremony or reception. I think the bright red color is a good match of the flowers in Spring time.

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In the Winter session, Brian and I shot in heavy snow with Michelle & Andrew at Burnaby Mountain... (Freezing cold)

Terry & Jeff Engagement Session @ Vancouver Olympic Village

Rain Rain Rain... Raincouver gave us a lot of headache. However, we had a dry afternoon to shoot photos with Terry & Jeff at the Vancouver Olympic Village. Right after Brian and I left the Roundhouse at Yale Town, rain came again.

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Getting Closer

The day is closer and closer. Our baby will be here in a few weeks. I needed to take another photo for Jessie during her third trimester. I thought of many complicated lighting. However, simplicity won. This photo was taken at a corner of our living room. The setup was very simple. Fast and easy.



Vancouver Raincouver is still raining almost non-stop in April. The rare sunny days were the days between our photo shoots. I hope weather will be better later. Right after I took the above photo, flowers fell and dark leaves came out.

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Feature Wedding in Chinese Magazine

The article about us


We submitted the very special wedding of Fariba & Laolu to SingTao's Annual Wedding Magazine. They used as one of three feature weddings in 2011 edition. At the same time, they picked some photos for our studio introduction.

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WPJA 2010 Q4 Result

The judge totally understood what I wanted to show :-)
This scene happened in Chinese wedding very often but this one was the best of the best in 2010. Zero movement!

See the WPJA Link

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Pray For Japan

Just about a year ago, Jessie and I sat at Mori Tower in Roppongi for an hour to take the above photo. We waited for the right light at the right time. It was one of the best memories in my life. (See Tokyo Trip Photos) The earthquake of Japan destroyed a lot of places that we just visited about a year ago. It's not just another international news to me. There are some people we actually met and they are having tough time now. Let's pray for Japan.

A few tech stuff...


Recently, I bought an interesting radio flash trigger. It acts like a Canon E-TTL extension cord but it's wireless. Tonight, I tested High Speed Sync (1/1000s) and it worked very well. I think it works better than PW FlexTT5. Price? About USD$140 a pair. It should be interesting to make it works with PW Plus II.

Some people asked me how many lights we have. My count was 9 working flashes and a video light. I guess Joe McNally has 3 times more.

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