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It’s been a hectic few weeks and haven’t been able to update the blogs with our shooting and traveling schedules. Just came back from LA/Las Vegas and didn’t have a chance to spend a night in Singapore before having to fly to Sydney for a wedding. Tiring, but the trip was well worth it. I had such a great time shooting Andrea & David that I didn’t feel the fatigue or hunger till the day after.

The hotel we were staying in is the Sebel @ Pier One, just under the Sydney Harbour Bridge. You couldn’t ask for a better location. Sydney is also one of the more picturesque cities for photography and not too far away from Singapore.

Being at the pier, they decided to do the makeup just outside their suite right at the pier, you could see the reflections of pier 2 in the sliding door.

The whole atmosphere was full of laughter right from the start. Just for the preparation alone, I took almost 900 shots… I usually have time to filter and remove the duplicate shots but everyone was so energised that I couldn’t stop shooting.

One of the nephews of the couple, Matthew was looking at the bride doing the makeup through the glass, I went up and captured him smiling.

The groom surprised the bride with 2 rolls royce to fetch her to the chinese gardens.

The convertible gave us some fun photoshoot opportunities.

The bridal party had lots of fun participating in the shoot as well.

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I flew from Los Angeles to Las Vegas was joined by my LiveStudios team to cover the massive convention for AIA Hong Kong. This was held at the famous Venetian Las Vegas.

The Palazzo is the Venetian’s brand new sister property and together with 700+ rooms, they are the largest hotel in room capacity. It’s situated right on the main strip (it’s the 2 buildings in the background, left yellow-lighted one is the Palazzo and the one on the right of it is the Venetian)

The rooms are all suites and are fabulous

Our day trip was to the Grand Canyon and on they way, we passed by Hoover Dam, where a lot of movies have been filmed, including X-Men & Transformers.

Some took the helicopter rides for a breathtaking aerial view of the canyon.

While the bus ride there took about 3 hrs, the ride there was well worth it. The view is spectacular and most took out their cameras happily clicking away while others took some quiet time for some inspirations.

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We had the pleasure of being the photographer for the incentive trips for the top performers for AIA Hong Kong. About 200 star performers stayed at the Hyatt Century Plaza hotel in LA and had to tour around some of the highlights of the city.

We took a visit to the Hollywood Walk of the Stars where everyone took photos with the stars on the floors and the costume characters on the street.

We then visited Universal Studios where the main highlight was the tour where we were shown how some of the hollywood special effects were done.

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It’s great to join the WORLDHOTELS family again for their annual conference. Last year we were with them in Hamburg and this year, it’s the charming city of Madrid. A few hundred hoteliers from the member hotels of WORLDHOTELS attended and it was like a huge reunion seeing many familiar faces and catching up with old friends.

Michael Ball started the conference off followed by a host of speakers

Some of them signed our digital guestbook

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Our LiveStudios team drove up to Kuala Lumpur to cover the asian leg of the WORLDHOTELS conference. Last year was held in Shanghai. This year, the One World Hotel at One Utama in Petaling Jaya played the graceful host for the conference.

Some of the participants penned down their messages to share with the others.

The hotel did a great job in creating some fantastic settings which shared some of the local customs to the participants. The hotel ballroom and foyer area was very nice and great for photography.

We printed photocards with a semi translucent base. It turned out really nice and the guests had a great time posing and collecting the photocards.

The dinner on the 2nd night was held at the Palace of the Golden Horses.. a really grand place. They ended up the night with a nice fireworks treat

We had to drive overnight back to singapore as we had an early shoot the next morning. It was a really tiring but nevertheless fun 2 days.

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Went up to Beijing with David to cover a wedding with Live Printing. They had designed a nice heart shaped monogram which we incorporated into our photocard print.

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Mike just returned from Bali from a wedding shoot at a really lovely chapel in Conrad Bali..
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