Category: Journal
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Hands
I have this fascination with how people hold hands that I picked up from Jeff. We used to write each other letters during our senior year of high school, and he once told me you know you’ve found the one by how your hands fit together. And while I now think that he mostly just…
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Things We Love
The things you love greatly influence how you see the world. We use the word “things” loosely. We don’t necessarily mean just material things, but the ideas, feelings, and experiences associated with them. Jeff and I talk about this in detail in our workshops, that finding inspiration is not about wasting time poring through countless…
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Sundays and Road Trips
I took some photos on a drive to Subic fairly recently. I needed to get away and clear my head then, so we hit the road. We drive south of Manila often, to Tagaytay and Batangas for work, so we went north this time. Back in college, Jeff would borrow his dad’s car and pick…
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Photographs as Proof
I shared an old black and white photo on Instagram earlier, and it’s been at the back of my mind all day since. I first saw this photograph 2-3 years ago. My heart still breaks each time I see it. It’s by Duane Michals, taken back in 1974. Below it, he wrote: “This photograph is…
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What We’ve Been Up To Lately
The past couple of months have been all sorts of amazing for me and Jeff. We’ve been all around Manila and Tagaytay, and flew to Singapore, Cebu, and Amanpulo for some shoots. We’ll also be heading to Hong Kong in a few days for more. I haven’t been able to find time to blog, but…
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The Things You Love, The Things You Are, The Things You Never Want to Lose
“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” – The Wonder Years They say we remember the world in still images. And your life’s most important moments, you remember them this way, as photographs. This is something we’ve explored in…
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Moving In
For the past five years, our office has always been our spare bedroom and the nearest Starbucks. We shoot weddings and engagement sessions on location, and have never had any need for a studio, so we always found it pointless to get a separate office. To be honest, I liked editing in my pajamas because,…
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Long Overdue
There’s a box full of long, handwritten letters and printed out emails that I’ve been keeping for a long time now. So much of us was built on those first months when all we had were words. That was fifteen years and half my life ago. He told me recently that he’s always writing to…
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Sharing A Little Bit More
[audio:http://www.jeffandlisaphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/03-Holocene.mp3] The thing about preparing for a workshop is it really makes you scrutinize every last bit of what you do yourself. We’ve been doing a lot of looking back and self-evaluating these past few days. All the reminiscing made me miss blogging here with an ache. I used to blog here way, way more…
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Life on Instagram
Jeff and I worked on a personal project called Portraits of a Marriage back in 2007, as I mentioned last year. It was a photoblog of diptychs of our daily married life. I’ve always wanted to pick it up again and continue, but we just never found the time. We’ve recently become active on Instagram…