Leland Wong is a fine artist whose interest in photography began at an early age. He began to take photography seriously during his senior year in high school having his works published in the school and community newspapers. The San Francisco native has a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from San Francisco State University where he emphasized in photography and printmaking. He has worked as a photojournalist for local community newspapers and has exhibited his photographic works nationally in galleries and museums. Leland has traveled and photographed extensively in Asia on his own. Wong began photographing weddings and portraiture in 1975 and has found it to be a challenge he enjoys.

Leland is an active member in the Professional Photographers of the Bay Area and the Professional Photographers of America. He has learned and assisted with some of the finest masters of wedding and portrait photography in the world. He continues to further his knowledge of his craft by annually attending the Golden Gate School of Professional Photography where he serves as a trustee, and has also been an assistant and instructor with the school.

Leland also taught photography at the Kearny Street Workshop, Japantown Art and Media Workshop, SOMARTS Art Center and SF Photo Center in San Francisco. He have also photographed and assisted for well known studios.

When not photographing, the busy father of three children is also a graphic artist who designs, does illustrations, screenprints posters and t-shirts. Leland is best known for the posters he's been designing and screenprinting of the Nihon Machi Street Fair for more than 28 years. A long time practitioner of Hung Ga, Choy Li Fut, White Crane, Lanshou, Chen Taiji, Leland can be seen lion dancing in streets Chinatown on ocassions or swimming laps in the cold pool during the last hour at the SF Bay Club.

We were just so happy to have found you as our photographer. You're so easy to work with, not to mention the wonderful pictures! They're just what we wanted!!! When we first started planning the wedding, I knew that the pictures would be one of the most important things. You'd think that because the pictures meant so much, there would be a lot of worries on our part. But after hiring you, we didn't have to worry at all about the pictures. Actually, I barely thought about it because I just felt that you would take care of everything. And you did! And the album turned out so lovely.

---Raquel and Norman

Ray and I want to express our gratitude for all of your hard work and our satisfaction with the high caliber of your photos.

Your professionalism and decation to our project has delighted the two of us and our families.

---Donna and Ray

Thank you so much for taking so many beautiful pictures for our wedding day. We especially enjoyed going through the black and white candid shots which truly captured our friends and families personalities.

We're going to have a difficult time selecting pictures for our albums, as all pictures turned out so well....

Thank you again for capturing the various moment for our memories.

---Jeanne and Frank

We want to thank you for a great job on all our wedding photos, especially the handpainted engagement photo and the wallet size engagement photos that you gave out at our wedding day.

---Mun and Tai


...thank you for the wonderful job you did on our wedding photos. Our day went very smoothly, thanks to the fact that you did such a good job.

I really appreciate the fact that you were very easy going about everything we wanted to do. Most photographers have set ways of doing thing and don't appreciate having their routine changed. I loved the fact that you were willing to do whatever we wanted.

---Shari & Chad

Thank you for such great work on our wedding photos! Your ideas and flexibility inspired us to be creative and made taking the pictures a lot of fun.

We were so pleased with the final product--the album was professional and told the true story of our wedding day. We'll cherish this album for many years to come.

---Veronica and Ben


Your photos are still giving us lots of joy!

Finally, if you have any other potential clients who want a reference, I'd be happy to share what a great experience we had working with you, since they can see the incredible results through the photos.

---Erin and Frank Sanchez


Everybody here loves your work!

--Gwen Yamasaki, Fannie Mae Corporation

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a poem by Edgar Guest

Here is her photograph just as she smiled.
Just as she was a happy little child.

Here is her picture, a school girl of ten.
Oh! She was lovely and radiant then.

Here is another to mark what has been.
This shows her wearing the charm of sixteen.

Cap and gown picture, the school days are over.
Can you remember the dress that she wore?

Now comes a young man to walk by her side.
Here is a portrait of her as a bride.

Swift are the changes, that comes with the years.
The bud non remembers, when the bloom appears.

Yesterday's glory is lost to the eye.
The past is forgotten as time passes by.

But in these pictures her lost charms still live.
And to her children, her childhood they give.

Here we have stored her life as a whole.
And captured the glorious growth of her soul.

Time never turns backward, it's old charms to give.
In photographs only, can yesterday live.