Greetings from our new home. *Phew*, on a brand new year – new layout, new look and new vision moving forward 2010 and beyond. I’m stoked and very excited to introduce to you my brand – Jon Low Studios.
I love what I do. Really, I do. 
. As an artist, the work I am attracted to and so fond off, has changed over the past few years. And I have noticed that my portfolio and my business directions have moved on from the initial of what Ideal Wedding Studios was meant to be. Hence – the new facelift, a new name to the organization to reflect the many many changes.
2010 is going to be exciting times for me – Building a brand requires time,trust and effort. It is my dream to have a strong outfit for Jon Low Studios comes end of the year, and I would love you guys to be part of it.
2009 was a great year, the best since being a wedding photographer. Plenty to be thankful, and some lessons learnt along the journey.
Awards and Accolades
Awards as you may know, are merits presented for a job well done. It is somewhat a great indicator of how you are performing in your field, a report card of some what. It drives me to score better and inspire me to produce more stunning masterpieces.
In the last 8×10″ Print Competition outing with WPPI, I have manage to score 2 Accolades with these two photographs. Our first two.
First time is the scariest!
In front of a crowd. Where many many pairs of eyes staring at me, as I was stumbled upon my words, and tried to make sense of what I was trying to say at my first workshop I conducted with some wedding vendors.
It was a scary first, and then it feels quite alright, and looking forward to more….
Sharing is the new black, sharing is caring, sharing is everything…
We shoot, we feast on love and photography and videography. SHOOTFEST was an amazing get together with photographers around. I met so many new people during the event. Some that I knew prior, grew so much closer and they became our regular mamak tweetups .
Photo courtesy of Markleo.net
Superstardom is not for the faint hearted.
Yes, if you have indeed followed my blog for some time, we were featured in the June cover for Hote Magazine – if you did not see the magazine, that is because the magazine is circulated only at various Coffee Beans, and Genting Highlands.
As glamourous as we want our shoot to be, the behind the scenes often reveal a different story all together. Ask the brides… Or, you can ask me like the photograph above!
Oh what the heck, it was quite a cover:
What it was also, brought few of us really close friends, and somewhat colleague in the business we have. Love you guys!
People darn believe in rumours they wanna hear.
No, we are not an item.
Travel is exhausting, but I would not trade in for the awesomeness at the end of day.
This year has been the biggest travel year for me of all time. I clocked to many many places local and abroad and had the chance and pleasure to see and taste the colors of the world. Highlights were, Melbourne, San Francisco, Gui Lin, Miri, Sabah, Hong Kong, etc etc.
Autumn in Melbourne was amazing.
My family, and my brothers are the darnest people
Because, they care
The best lightboy ever :p.
I really have good funky best GREATEST friends.
Friends which was part of all the excitement, ups and downs throughout 2009. You know who you are, where you were and what you did. . Thank you, thank you , and thank you.
Taking this once in a year opportunity to wish every reader, every clients, every family and friends, a happy spanking 2010 new year. New decade with new dreams. First, dream it. Do it, archive it. It is as big as we all can dream.
Lots of love!
Out of this world. It is what it is.
Yii & Stella, or rather, Stella mailed me one fine day and call me on my cell, speaking to me in Mandarin. I was lost in translation. I mean, I speak a little bit mandarin to get by to take a group photo. 1, 2, 3 , laugh.. Not a full length conversation. Heck, I’ll probably able to order Big Mac in China, not a 10 course dinner.
I had to turn down the job, how would I not. I can’t talk to this girl. I recommended some photographer to help her out.
Yii returned a call, and spoke to me, proper and convince that I can do the job. They flew to KL from Sarawak and met me over a drink. Miri it is – Gua Niah, Sarawak it was. It was crazy, crazily brilliant, and achievable. Yii is an adventurous dude. He explores the caves, and places. I mean, I climb mount kinabalu, but he knows the cave inside out.
It was an adventure, and I wanna share it with you.
Out of this World.
My assistant for the shoot, Yung Yaw shot this!
I was seated at my desk working. I was home, in my usual short pants and tshirts with out of bed hair look when a call came in today.
“hello, is this jon.”
“yes. Jon speaking” , I replied
“I’m at persiaran Anggerik vanilla and I can’t find your studios”
I jumped out of my seat as it caught my attention. I wasn’t expecting a meeting cos I haven’t arranged one – not at my home. No. You see, I work from home, and meetings are always at a local cafe or starbucks by appointment only. I shouldn’t assume that all my clients know.
I felt terribly sorry for her as she made a trip to come to meet me. I set up an appointment to a later date an I hope I will able to make her some beautiful photographs.
This kept me thinking the whole afternoon. How would you run a small production studio like mine? By appointment only or a place where the establishment eouldbw able to entertain walk in customers?
Your thoughts perhaps? I amthinking aloud
I am seated down back home now, only to able to go through the photographs I’ve taken over the past 1 month and a half over few cities I’ve visited.
I’ll say that the travel threw my normal routine totally out of the window, and I am still trying to settle down after this stint of travel. This is my first, and I would like this to continue. It’s hard work, and counter productive sometimes – I really love the level of satisfaction I get from doing what I do.
The wedding photographs will appear on my blog when they are ready, I am stoked!!! I’ve got some nice location shot taken with my camera and my iphones, and I would like to share these here:
On the road to La Jolla in San Diego. We were heading to the beach.
An evening at La Jolla.
Kenny, my best pal with his new found best pal – in La Jolla
Meeting the Ogre
Welcome to Hollywood!
Central MRT – Hong Kong
Guilin International Airport
Colored house nearby Clarke Quay.
Sunset in YeongShuo, Guilin China
Li Jiang , or Li River in Guilin China
Meeting the boat master.
Sunrise at Pangkor Laut Resort.
I bumped into Convoy Sushi from Google maps when I stood outside the hotel on my iphone. 20 minutes on foot – walkable. Considering that I needed to walk a little for exercise. I haven’t been really been exercising since I was in the states.
Fast forward 2 days, I return to my fellow friend. Hey, they recognize me from my previous visit. 
. I brought my camera out tonight. I haven’t been shooting since I was nursing my cold in room.
I call him Sai, my bestest friend.
Complimentary miso soup. Nice warm soup for weather like this.
The sushi bar, where the knife savvy sushi chef behind the bar – Abel. Well, not seen in this photo, I’ve got video where he fire up our Fire Roll.
Miso soupppppslurrrppsss
We ordered sushi combo from the appetizer menu to share. Fresh, and yummy
I saw Abel preparing the Fire Roll from their Special Roll menu. I wanted it the first time I was there, but I change the order cos I couldn’t finish it. It’s spicy. Tempura asparagus, spicy crab, cucumber, topped with spicy saurce and habanero tobiko. A challenge for a Malaysian who loves spicy food, but we Malaysian didn’t disappoint . It’s yummy
This is Tiger roll. The stripes on the salmon created the tiger stripes. Pretty. Shrimp tempura, cucumber, crab, fresh salmon, black tobiko. The shrimp give the cruncy texture to it.
We ordered dessert. Abel came out from the kitchen and he served us with this dish. He said, he prepared the dessert already – complimentary before we ordered our ice cream. Nice…. Great way to end our dinner. Banana fritters with green tea ice cream.
If I stay here, I’ll make them my favorite restaurant. After all, I love Japanese food.