One of my favorite frames, which I found about an hour ago while I was sorting out my old hard drive. This portrait was made sometimes ago for Cendana and Ireny, a great couple who now become a good friend of mine. It reminds me how I love making pictures, to get that perfect frame. Priceless stuff!
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Before we started the photo shoot, I just learned that none of Mr. & Mrs. Tumewa’s children live with them in Jakarta. So this was rather a special family occasion for them as the children only stayed in Jakarta for two weeks. It’s interesting for me to watch the different personalities among them, but what I like the most is the Tumewa’s are like best friends to each other. I quote this from Anthony Brandt ‘ Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.’ I always think a family is the best thing we all could have in this world. Nothing else is more important.
After all these years, perhaps there are few or many of you who haven’t met Lia in person. She’s been working in a bank for the last three years, so that’s the reason when people meet me at work, they rarely meet Lia. After 7 years of relationship, we will finally tie the knot this weekend, and I have to say that I’ve been looking forward to this day for sometime. By this time next week, we will already become a married couple and get away for our honeymoon. So we hope God bless our future family and be with us till death do us part.
No one knew how the future is like. My short story with Stephen and Yuli perhaps can be an example of it. I met Yuli during my exchange period to Brisbane in 2003. We hang out once in a while and got on pretty well. I always remembered Yuli as an honest and straight forward person, but she’s also caring and full of fun. A few years later, I accidentally met Yuli again in Jakarta with this dude, Stephen. I didn’t even knew they had a relationship as she didn’t really say much at the time. It was only a brief introduction and few minutes chats until we said goodbye. It never crossed my mind I would have Stephen as one of my close friends since we pretty much enjoy different things in life. Starting from different foods, different lifestyles, different fashion etc. But we’re both crazy about football. That’s one thing in common I can think of right now. However as time went by, Stephen and Yuli became such a unique couple for me. I feel they’re similar almost in every way. When we talk, there’s no boys matter only or girls matter only. Our conversation were frank and honest. I guess the ups and downs that we shared for the last few years helped us to grow better as a person. Now, they’ve been happily married for almost 3 years and were blessed with a baby, named Sophia. Although we often chat on Blackberry, I sort of missed our ‘coffee table’ conversation and that little city they live in : )
It’s the second time we participate in Bazaar Wedding Exhibition and we had an idea of having two booths at different spots, one for photography works and one for the short films. Mini gallery and mini theatre. So naturally, we give away postcards and popcorns to our guest and fellow vendors. Last year which happened to be our first ever exhibition felt very special, but this time felt even more special because it was tougher. I really need to thank everyone who involved in the process, who helped us in emergency, who put their mind, effort and heart for this. After weeks of hard work and sleepless night, I’m extremely glad it’s over. We definitely pulled it off! You can find more pictures on the exhibition here
I knew Melisa since I did the wedding pictures of her twin sister, Melina few years ago. Never heard a story that she had a relationship in the last couple of years, but one day the news came out from her, she’s getting married. if I remember correctly this was how the news came out from her, ‘How much does it cost for you to do the wedding pictures now?” ; p Anyway, the lucky man is Steven. I call them Mr. & Mrs. Banker, as Melisa often call me Mr. Photo. They both are cool guys to chat, who often share some of their investment & business tips when we met. These are their happiest moments. I’m glad you both look very happy now as husband and wife.
I had a little bit of fun last week, shooting Winarto & Cheryl at the studio with all the flying papers and some groovy music. For people who gets up early every morning, and watch Metro Pagi you may already familiar with Cheryl. I first knew Cheryl only about seven months ago and I’m not a morning person. When she told me about her routines, I was pretty impressed. She leaves home about 3 a.m almost every morning and start on air 4.30 a.m then she still have to work in the office until 11 a.m. So just days after we met, when I needed to leave for the airport very early, I switched on the TV with a little bit of curiosity and there she was, facing the camera, bringing the world and local current affair into discussion. I was impressed. Few weeks after I met Cheryl, she introduced me to her fiance, Winarto. It was my first impression to Winarto that made me admire him. He left his car behind and came to my place by ojek because he wanted to avoid the traffic and be on time for our meeting. Such a humble and cool guy. Soon enough I can see few other things which made Cheryl fell for him. For you who like their portrait, there’s no real secret for these beautiful portraits. It’s only because we found chemistry among us. So everything became pretty easy. Now I can’t wait to shoot their wedding day this weekend.
