i got a wonderful surprise when canon (the little white fluffy friend) dashed into my office half estatic and excited and half trembling with fright haha. it rained that day so we had to hide under the shelter and shot along the corridor. it was definitely lots of fun and i thank velda & the family for engaging me to photograph their family portraits. especially when they take one every 10 years lol! 

one good thing about my neighbourhood at my office area, is that even though i was standing in the middle of the road, with an umbrella clenched in my neck and camera in one hand, the cars actually patiently stopped and waited for me to be done - can you believe it?! they didn’t even horn me :D wow, just amazing! i love tiong bahru even more ;)

# shot on film

waiting for the portrait session to start so i thought I’d just share these behind the scene pictures from the love bonito lookbook shoot. haha, i took a couple of shots too of our korean bbq dinner but almost everyone look rather drunk and weird (probably from being too tired), it was pretty hilarious. so i’ll show you the nicer looking pictures of us during the shoot while we still had some energy ;)

# my favourite photo is the last one that daphne took of me and vel haha. it’s pretty cool but on close observation i realize that i’m doing a awkward hand flailing gesture in an attempt to explain to zianna the kind of look i’m going for. lol

here are the outtakes from the love bonito spring lookbook shoot! wait…what are outtakes again? (An outtake is a portion of a work that is removed in the editing process and not included in the work’s final, publicly released version - wikipedia) 

yup, outtakes ;) 

so hungry to shoot film but not much opportunity within this impatient short span of like 2 days? haha so i dug up my old film photographs that well were never really published on the blog. why? i’m not sure i guess i thought since i already published the digital copies then what was the point of showing these again. i just love how they are just photographs, not digitally enhanced or altered pictures. i suppose this is even more me in a way - natural and organic.

here are some behind the scene pictures of the portrait session with wendy. many thanks to sel who took the photos <3 haha the last picture taken by sel are some portraits that were taken in chiangmai. would you buy them? would love to hear your thoughts :)

the boys were away, so we scheduled a shoot! this is part one of a series of shoots that wendy will be doing with me all the way till the little one arrives :D at this moment, when we were snapping away, we didn’t yet know if the little “lemon” (says the doctor) was a boy or a girl but we were all extremely excited anyway. truly, every child is a miracle!

i suggested to wendy to write a love letter to her baby before she found out the next day whether the little one was a boy or a girl and what were her wishes and words of love for him/her. i read about this idea on the internet and i feel like it’s something so special.

it seems so long to hold a life in one’s womb for 9 months or so and dealing with so much discomfort and what nots that this precious moments of photographing each phase and writing a letter would remind us of the incredibleness of it all and when this phase is over, you’d have all these photos and words to bring you back to that moment. 

oh and when wendy, all excited, showed her hubby the photographs - marcus clapped. haha now i know he’s one who has really high photography standards and i’m not trying to downplay my photography but i believe that the portraits of wendy and his little one encompassed all their hopes, faith, joy, love, struggles and bond as a couple and these are the photographs that have the most meaning and emotion and i aim to beautifully capture their journey…

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