It is confirmed, the team is heading of to Seoul in April.
At our last Hong Kong fair, we managed to secure the interest of a couple who wanted to have their pre-wedding portraits done in Korea. Once they were confirmed, a new promotion for Korea opened. It is always exciting to explore destinations the team has not been to.
Full details linked on our News page.
Extending our sale with a new promotion until the 15th day of Chinese New Year, we are now launching an $888 photography package with our Chris Ling Team from now until 6th February 2012:
Photography by the Chris Ling Team / CL Studio
$888
- Studio and 2 outdoor locations
- 18 images in a 12×12″ album
- CD of the selected images returned
There isn’t a limit to the number of packages for sale, but we would have to strictly adhere to the sign ups being only valid for the next 7 days.
Read MoreIt’s a new year, and we are enhancing an old client servicing area with a new coffeehouse twist. It would be ready February 2012 onwards as we have yet to add the finishing touches on accent decor and cafe style furnishings (akin to our Hong Kong studio). Once everything is ready, we’ll post up a new batch of studio photography images.
Our Chinese New Year promotion for 2012 is out!
This year marks Chris’ 20th year, having started in 1993. For 2012, he will be bringing back the same price he charged in 1993, an all image returned package at $2500.
Wedding day photography promotion see our chief photographer, Max Yeo, reduce his price from $3800 to $1993.
Studio/Outdoor Director’s photography by Chris Ling:
SGD2500 with all images returned
- Studio and choice of 2 outdoor locations in Singapore
- 20 images in a 12″ x 12″ album
- CD of the all images returned in high resolution
(Limited: only 8 6 5 0 all packages have been taken up.)
Wedding Day Chief Photography by Max Yeo:
SGD1993 with all images returned
- 10 hour photography service
- CD of all the images returned in high resolution
(Limited: only 8 7 5 4 0 all packages have been taken up.)
Closing date to secure the above promotions is Saturday 21st January 2012.
We are happy to present to you months of coffee pumped creative brain sizzling and thereafter renovation coordination. Suffice to say, our new studio in Hong Kong is big, and its aim would be to bring the best of every Facebook-liked imagery, like an unintentional survey of sorts. We have created cheeky, vibrant, glamorous, mood, and bold fashion settings amongst others. To summarise, you can be the girl next door who models in high profile fashion magazines, it is all on the same floor. Chris is also excited that we have the luxury of windows to let in natural lighting.
With a new studio comes a new launch, to which we will be featuring studio photography promotions. We will be participating in the Hong Kong fair from 16th December to 18th December 2011, do visit us for more details. We look forward to chatting with you!
Chris Ling Projects is a division of the Chris Ling team where we focus on pro-social work. We don’t really pick the projects per say, the symmetry would be better described as the projects finding us. An advocate of animal protection and welfare, our previous donation drives involves providing photography in the hopes that our participants would donate to the adopted charity. This year, we went out of our studio, because we came across Phyllis’ story via publichouse.sg.
Prior to the story Public House published, Phyllis’ efforts were only know by a small circle in her mailing list. For 22 years, she took in cats, dogs and on an occasion even parrots. The pets were more often then not abandoned. Phyllis sterilised them, provided medication and surgery if necessary, and tried to rehome them. From a bursting number of 400 animals, she now has 165 cats, and will soon not be able to continue her cause due to an eviction notice. Furthermore, 22 years of tending to animals had taken it’s tole on her health. Speaking of which, I find it endearing that her asthmatic husband had selflessly supported her all these years. In person, both of them are such a rock and roll pair. Next time round, I’ll bring the beers and we can chat the whole day away.
Phyllis does not take donations directly, she prefers to earn her money. So she bakes. And since Christmas and Chinese New Year is round the corner, she’s baking again. This year, money will be very tight as she needs $20,000 to dismantle her cattery before the handover in February 2012. Not to mention the cost of building a new one once she finds a place. Visit her blog at Blessing Home Shelter to order yours. Our studio will also be organizing another pet shoot soon, so that we can help Phyllis out with the cookie drive.
Should you be interested in adopting her cats, visit her at her open house this Saturday and Sunday. If the notice is too last minute, you can drop her a message and see how she’s doing. During our visit to Phyllis’ house, we met Stephanie Phua and her team of volunteers. She documented each of the cats available for adoption and created a website for Phyllis: Blessinghome.org. Click on it if you wish to have your heart melt with cute catty faces. You’ll also gain a better idea of the adoption drive.
The pics our team took (Alvin actually, I just went there to hug Phyllis and play with cats) are up on our facebook album here.
Chris Ling Projects would also like to thank our couple, James and Regina Hogan, for volunteering their help to provide transportation for our equipment.
Read MoreIf you remember Chong Chia Suan, then we are from the same generation. A former local starlet appearing in english drama serials, Chia Suan is now based in the UK. And she’s marrying a Scotsman.
She flew in a couple months back to get her engagement portraits done in Singapore, something that isn’t really popular with our western counterparts. It is comforting to come back to Asian soil. Yes, they will be having a Chinese tea ceremony, I’m guessing it would be over bagpipes in the background.
I heard a theory that sooner or later every nationality would pair up with one another and eventually there will only be one race. Maybe in the 30th century. This theory wasn’t presented to me in a sci-fi novel, in fact I remembered it from a comedian on The Late Show with David Lettermen.
Director’s photography by Chris Ling. Yes, he does remember seeing her on the telly. And in person, Chia Suan has a fantastic personality, she also has gorgeous freckles I would die for.
Read MoreWe have completed the renovations of our move to a bigger studio in Hong Kong, and our team had just came back from shooting Hong Kong’s photogenic couples at the freshly constructed settings.
Some were replicates of our Singapore studio so that our Hong Kong couples would no longer need to fly into Singapore to experience our studio photography.
Some behind the scenes above, and we’ll get the post produced images and videos posted once we have finished compiling them.
Read MoreOur dearest Ernest Goh is launching another book.
The Fish Book.
Seriously. The Fish Book.
And I really like the Fish Book. In fact, like would probably be an understatement. Its whimsical nature doesn’t belie the excellent photography, and that could be why I find it so intriguing. Well, it could also simply be the fact that those fish faces made me happy!
The Fish Book will be launched on the 17th of November at Chan Hampe Galleries (27 Kreta Ayer Road), and the book exhibited until 24th November. Do delight yourself and grab a copy at $27.80.
On another note, here is a glimpse of Raymond and Miin’s wedding covered by Ernest last month.
I’ll be posting up more images onto a facebook album, but there would not be much of the couple themselves as they have requested for a certain amount of privacy.
[Update]: Images posted, do find them here.
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Bangkok – Fashion Editorial by Chris Ling Intl from Chris Ling Photographers on Vimeo.
Bangkok has it’s own beauty doesn’t it? It’s quite an acquired taste, but once you acquire it, you’ll fall in love with the grit and the grey. Shopping, food, parties, people, many of my friends swear by the flavors of Thailand. It’s just different, they say, and it’s addictive. Except for the traffic.
Our team decided, why not. With two clients in tow, one being LeGrand Wedding for their latest fashion editorial, and the other Mr Lau and Ms Cho from Hong Kong, off we go to Bangkok for a shoot.
Mr Lau and Ms Cho had a fabulous time. Eat, shoot, shop, play, party.
The gowns from LeGrand, on the other hand, got lost. Yes, $15,000 worth of lost luggage. So here I was in Singapore, receiving calls from my team in Bangkok, followed by calls from Chris who was then in Hong Kong, all frantic about the gowns. How could the luggage handlers loose a very visible black bag spanning 6 feet (1.8 meters)? For every day the gowns didn’t arrive meant increased expenditure in accommodating the team, and after much arguments with the airline (whose only help was pushing the blame to the luggage handlers), we had to accept that there was nothing to do but wait. The happy ending after 2 days of being flustered was that the gowns did arrive. The relief was relished.
So here’s to Bangkok, the city that insists not to be forgotten. And here’s to another happy ending, Mr Lau and Ms Cho:
Bangkok: Wedding Portraits from Chris Ling Photographers on Vimeo.
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