What a hektic month, after completing our 2 weddings in Canberra, we had 1 wedding in Sydney and 3 in Melbourne.
With the Sydney weekend, we actually woke up Saturday morning 5am and then the next day had to wake up 5am again to fly back to Melbourne for a big fat Greek / Lebanese wedding.
But as everyone will know us both, we were full of energy as always and just ran around like Energizer bunnies and had great fun!
We have seriously fell behind with the updating of our web page, so if your new to our web page and looking for a wedding photographer for next year. We highly recommend organising an appointment with us to check out our latest and greatest work.
We promise to do a massive update very soon, so we can show you some of our latest stuff.
One update we have been working on is Peter and Catherine’s wedding slideshow, look out for that in the next week.
This Shanghai Gangsta theme wedding had lots of action! Lip Stick, Trains, Old Canberra heritage building and of course lots of Loving and Dancing!
Actually while thinking about dancing, also look out for Charles and Diana’s wedding. A Greek marrying a Lebanese, there was NON stop dancing all night!
In the mean time, here are some random updates we have done to our flickr account recently at http://www.flickr.com/akwoo.
Click any of the photos for a larger photo.
Special Thanks to Helena for assisting us on the weekend with Brad & Huong’s wedding!
It has been a long time since I had a free Saturday afternoon to belt out a few tunes. Music is definitely one of my favourite past-times (other than playing with my camera) where I can express my emotions. Anyway, I popped over to my friend’s house to prepare for Sunday church praise and worship segment. I currently lead a worship band at church and loving it. While we were singing away, I couldn’t help noticing my friend’s dear Grandpa Watson sitting alone in the living room watching Chinese opera re-runs. Karen has been given the responsibility to look after her grandfather every weekend, and I have so much respect for her because it’s not the easiest thing to do. She has shared that it’s been a huge sacrifice to let go of weekends and care for Grandpa Watson and miss out on what most people enjoy doing on Saturdays – catching up with friends, shopping or lying out on the beach. About a year ago, Grandpa Watson lost his wife from a sudden stroke, and passed away 3 days later. The sad news shattered Grandpa Watson, and since then he was left heartbroken, distraught and became physically frail. He has gone on walk-about, calling out to his wife. They married in year 1947!
I tried to strike up a conversation with Grandpa Watson, but I was lost for words. It was one of those boring old conversations like, “how are you, what are you doing”, but it didn’t feel genuine. It was only until I walked away and saw the intimate relationship Karen had with her Grandpa; I wanted to capture it (Yes, I had my camera on me…hehe). It was so beautiful to watch so I asked for their permission to take pictures of Grandpa Watson. From the first click of my camera, it totally change Grandpa’s perspective of me and he opened up to me and towards the camera. Cameras are a fantastic communication tool! Apparently he use to own an SLR but during the war in China, his camera got confiscated. I had sweet pleasure taking pictures of Grandpa Watson. Their story is a reminder how we should all treasure and respect the elderly. I dedicate this story to my dear friend Karen and Grandpa Watson – a real testament to life.
Meet Joseph and Xi Xi, a gorgeous couple who got engaged after dating for 5 months! They sure didn’t waste any time as they are getting married this December!
We decided to take them out for a night engagement photography session (e-session) where we got creative with lights and use of reflections.
To see the photos, please click on the above photo!
Enjoy!
Love Akwoo
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Hi all!
It has been a crazy few months and we have experienced many amazing weddings and also have been given awesome opportunities doing fashion photography at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week and the launching of a new fashion brand label. Fashion photography is another strong passion we have and we are would like to thank Madam Virtue, Bryan Boy and Base Standard (coming soon) for bringing out name into the fashion industry.
We will be flooding our blog with more updates. Keep an eye out for many new changes on the blog and our facebook.
Please point your RSS readers to the following address and keep an eye out for some awesome photos we have taken recently. http://feeds.feedburner.com/akwoo
Well hello Bryan Boy! The hugely popular fashion blogger and trend setter to hit the streets of Melbourne during the Melbourne Spring Fashion Festival. He is currently in town to host a bunch of Marc Jacobs films and play dress-ups at Madam Virtue &…amp; Co, which stocks the most divine and exquisite designer labels such as: Marc Jacobs, Antonio Marras, Dries van Noten, Chanel, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Jean Muir, Alexander McQueen, Marni, Lanvin, Salvatore Ferragamo, Dolce & Gabbana, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Balenciaga, to name a few.
Akwoo Photography would love to thank the wonderful Madam Virtue & Co team for this amazing opportunity, and….of-course Bryan Boy for being so fabulous for the camera. You go boyfriend!
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