My pictures displayed in Infinity Wedding Mall

Thanks to Canon to provide an opportunity to display my pictures in Infinity Wedding Mall.

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The Natural Element n4 - Master the Subject Photography Workshop is here again

Dear ALL, by public demand, The Natural Element is here again and it will be held for the first time in Dennis Yap Photography Home Studio~ I guess this will be the best place for workshops from now onwards. There are simply abundant resources and space around the area to carry out shots for practices. Students now can have the opportunity to explore my workspace to add knowledge on handling photographs. As usual, this workshop is to help individual understand their camera's hidden tools and by mastering the basics, it enable them to fully utilize their heart to capture shots that actually speaks. And guess what, we will use a gown this time!

Please RSVP your attendance HERE. Early bird will get a Rm50 discount by making your payment before 10th March.

We will not stop from here, all participants will also be invited to our little community and you will mingled with other people that have attended my workshops for further learning and sharing. Its also a good time to make friends. 

The Dream in Action

Photography is a business, but it serve as a platform to accomplish greater goals - to contribute to the society, to inspire new generations, to extend the relationships of one another, to bring back our true self, and to stimulate more great people for many generations to come. Making the world a better place.

Today I made a birthday wish, my wish was hoping that more younger generations can be inpired from my small little vision. If you asked me what kind of vision I have, my answer will be from my work, my slideshows, my hard work, all in my life and pictures. Its a little hard to be specific, it is equally challenging to address as well. One need to be sensitive to discover that. Though I have a lot to say about it but I will reserve it for next occasion. I can't seemed to sleep tonight because there are simply too many things to do and I need to sit down and see where shall I start from. For this year I have cut down 30% of my capacity in order for me to achieve it and I know time is running out and I need to make full use of it asap. I will keep you updated. :)

Memoirs of Adagio - Jerry & Sheryl Pre-Wedding @Korea [Preview]

My letter to Wondermilk - Shops in Kuala Lumpur needs a new understanding

Hi Wondermilk,

I'm very upset with your reply. Frankly saying I was surprised. I'm not trying to argue here but there are shops that are glad to offer a space for normal people who wanted to leave their memories for themselves, as your reply you have made it impossible for people to do so. I'm not sure about the non-closure charges, for a normal people, without notifying wonder milk can simply walk in, have a coffee and use their DSLR to shoot their friends in your facilities, and they are not being told to stop. I'm just curious, what are the difference between us and them? Because we have asked wondermilk (just because we are nice) and wondermilk want to insert a commercial interest in our proposal. You need a clear policy between commercial and personal interest. 

We seeing your company is started to grow recently, this policy clearly has disappointed many of us. But, you are not the only company I'm sure, but I hope these companies can look further ahead because they are indeed your loyal customers, some people met new friends in wondermilk, some people fell in love, some people had such a strong memory behind which I guess you have successfully created the space for these occurrence to take place, but you also need to honor them, giving them opportunity for them to leave their memory behind. You made them having a good memory in your shop, and finally they decided to get married and you charge them Rm600 just to tell them that you should have a fair share in their memories? This is bad. I'm not sure you able to get what I am saying. 

Regardless if its a gown or a casual wear, if its for personal interest your company should offer it free for public, because your company should do some good deeds for them because you are serving them right? Unless we put your work for commercial value, wondermilk can simply sue them if you see it, not a big issue as well. However, depend how your organization see it, inviting commercial shots (depend on your vision) can simply increase your noise level for free too, free marketing, more customers, more income, more expansions. To me the return is huge. 

Or is it because of me, I'm Dennis Yap, a professional photographer, thats why you want a fair share from the couple? Well, I'm just fulfilling their goals, they are the ones that you need to serve. I'm just talking on their behalf. 

Regards,

Dennis

Dennis Yap Photography 2012 Promo Video

Its so hard to select pictures for this video, but here it is~ my first promo video after few years... Actually there is a title for this slide, its called "A Woman's Symphony", 送给女人的交响曲. It describes all aspect of women's emotion when they in love. When I shoot more pictures I began to understand women more, they seemed complicated but there are a lot of sacrifices when they began to give in themselves to their love ones, sometimes they'll feel confused, missing their love ones, submissive, sweet, thoughtful, hopeful, looking forward, forgiving, etc, to spend their life with the one they love. Love can be in many different stages, and in life it is indeed complicated. What I hope to present is their purest part in them, which many time in real life we felt so hard to express. With photography I discovered a lot in them, many tears have dropped, many stories have heard, they all are unique individuals with a unique theme. This is one of the thing that kept my passion going. Thanks to everyone of you!

Dennis Yap Photography featured in NTV7 Evening News

Dear all, its been a fantastic year in 2012, I received a big present from NTV7 on valentines day! I was surprised that they have added a few clips about me in the video clip, a big thank you to NTV7 for featuring me. Its my second time to be featured on TV. The first one was 15 years ago LOL. Well the feature was great, just only I found that I have gained many weight compared to the first one. Time flies pretty fast.

Before you click the link, maybe I can write some of my stories behind the words that I have spoken. When I was a little kid (don't worry, I won't bored you with a long story :p), my dad had told me if I score good in my result, I can reach to the moon, he said that was many people's dream, and it made me feel like I wanted to be an astronaut. And over the years I have been visioning this similar trait, of course in the old days, if anyone that is good in physics, math and art, of course people will ask me to pursue science. Over the years, schools have been honoring more on nerdy people than artistic people. So I have been treating art as my hobby, I love to draw, to take pictures, to read, to sing, I did many things but my main trait was science. And people have been telling me that, those people that studied science will have a better future. And schools have been educating me that professionals can earn more. Nobody have asked me to be a CEO. :p So I venture myself and become an engineer, did my studies in the States and earned a degree in Aerospace Engineering. Worked in an Airline for 7 years and ended my carreer as a Contracts Manager in the Engineering Department to pursue something what I really feel like doing, which is ART.

You know, when I was young, I wanted to achieve a lot of things, but all those things are about myself. My dream was to be nominated as one of the TEN OUTSTANDING YOUNG MALAYSIAN by doing a lot of innovative work in a corporate world. But overtime, my perception changed, after 30s which I had persued the knowledge I wanted, the experience I have gained, I began to think WHAT CAN I CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORLD. And I began to realized many things and pursue photography as my new carreer. Pictures can speak many things, after went through my process of switching my career, I noticed that many people are relectant to change and live their lives with their dreams being abandoned. And by doing photography I have received mails from young individuals about what should they do in their lives after they graduate. Its not like in the old days where people have less selections in their lives. Therefore my vision had turned to young individuals, with my experience and persistantcy, I hope my work and my profession can inspire more young individuals to look back about themselves and lead them to a brighter side of life. I have also found that we do not have a lot of Hero's in Malaysia, which is someone that we inspired and able learn from his vision, someone that willing to sacrifice like Ghandi and Mother Teresa, someone that can spent their whole life searching for a clue to cure cancer. And many individuals have lost their spirit and become materialistic. Most that have been inspired have left to overseas. Therefore I made myself as one, I do not think I am the best one but I have pictures as my tool. Hopefully with pictures I am able to tell individuals a message behind, something positive that can make their heart shine, something happy, something that can make the couple love each other more, something that able to create an impact in their lives. Hopefully in the future, we can see more individuals with spirit, and work extra hard to move a step forward. This will remain as my dream!

Hope you love this video clip. Thanks everyone that have seen it, and experienced it. Thanks for supporting my views and vision, and glad that many of you have loved my photography. I also want to give a big thanks to my mom and dad that have supported me, they did not stop me for pursuing my dream, but giving me freedom to prove myself. Thanks to them, hugz.

HERE is the video clip from NTV7

For this year of the dragon, I am open to educational organizations from high schools to colleges to invite me for a speech and allow me to help student finding their own world in their lives. Below here is one of the speech I have did last year. This is my little vision for this year aside from my photography work. To inspire.