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.

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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.

We got a shot over looking the Harbour bridge.

And went around ‘the rocks’ going wild!

Having a wedding in Sydney is really fun as everyone goes up to congratulate the couple and doesn’t mind making up the shot as well.

The convertible had the license plate “I DO” and the stretch limousine had the plate “I DO 2″.

The car plates are really appropriate and personalised for weddings. There were lots of passers by shouting “I do too / I do three” as we drove by.

This was just across their hotel at Pier 2.

Andrea was really natural in these photos, being just their comfortable selves which makes photography so much easier and fun.

David’s dad, Ossie was really charismatic and kept a wonderful smile on the whole day.

I saw a cruise boat approaching the bridge, then I saw the low clouds which were nicely illuminated by the lights from the bridge and quickly ran out to get this just in time. Thanks to the new camera (Nikon D3), I could capture this shot without tripod and very quickly, with the other cameras it would have been extremely hard to get a good shot.

Congrats again to Andrea and David for being such a nice couple to be with and it’s my honour to be there for their wedding. And they couldn’t have chosen a better place than Sydney for a Wedding. It was beautiful and I absolutely enjoyed it.

I’ve uploaded more photos onto facebook. Enjoy

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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A lof of people queued up for this spot. Some of the parents hearts nearly dropped when the kids just hopped out after taking the photo.

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Skies were beautifully blue and makes a great background for photography.

The 2nd day started with the convention honouring their best performers. The top 2 were carried into the ballroom in floats.

There were performances that dazzled the audience.

And speakers which inspired and kept motivating.

We had to take a few of these huge group photos. Logistically challenging but the organisers pulled it off well.

Few privileged achievers were treated to a special lucky draw where several air tickets were given away.

The theme for the gala dinner was hollywood. Everyone had fun dressing up and posing for the cameras.

Various teams took turns to entertain the audience with sketches as well. Of course, ‘Emmy’ awards were given to the performing teams as well.

There was a special treat when “Grasshoppers” came on the stage and had everyone going wild. They invited some lucky ones to come onto stage for their last item.

No gala dinner is complete without lucky draws. It happened that the top prize winners chosen were the senior members and both decided to return the prizes to be redrawn!

I think everyone had a blast of a time in Las Vegas. So did I.

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.

Everyone had a great time in the tour tram being entertained by the thrilling special effects.

I had to leave after the guided tour to join the other group which opted for the city tour and met them at the Farmers Market.

We then took a stroll down Rodeo drive where all the branded shops and expensive cars are.

Some of them caught Victoria Beckham (David Beckham’s wife) shopping and they even had a photo of her snapped from a distance.

Dinner was at a nice hilltop overlooking LA city.

The evening light was fantastic for family and individual portraits.

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

    

Some of them signed our digital guestbook

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The photocards we printed left them a souvenir which hopefully reminds them of the fun time they had especially when most of them are just catching each other after a whole year.

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There were many serious topics discussed but the speakers were witty and engaging and made the conference more lively.

 

Their first night was a gala dinner held offsite at a beautiful restaurant.

And a really fun gypsy party the 2nd night when they all dressed up and partied.

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It was great to meet up with Karthik Siva & Yvonne from Singapore. Karthik is the founder of the Global Brand Forum and even after hearing this talk on branding for a few times already, it has never failed to inspire. One of the key points mentioned was “A brand is a set of memories”.. I hope the photography and photocards we’ve provided helps to remind them of the wonderful memories everyone had in Madrid.

Someone also showed me a photocard of last year’s conference in Hamburg. They formed the text “WORLDHOTELS” on the table with Coffee Beans and it turned out to be one of my favourite shots.

Thank you everyone and especially to the WorldHotels staff for making it a wonderful conference. Hope to see you again next year!

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.