Tag: Japan
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Brylle and Abby’s Day After Shoot — Kawazu, Japan
This was our first time at Kawazu, this sleepy little town where the cherry blossoms come early and time stands still. Sakura is fleeting and can turn full bloom and fall off in a matter of days. Here, it lingers for weeks. Cherry trees line the river, and if you let it lead you, you’ll…
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Raffy and Nicole + Anna | Tokyo, Japan
It remains one of our favorite things, being able to see our couples grow from engagement to wedding to married bliss, and becoming little families of their own. Over IG and FB, we get to share in this joy over these precious first weeks and months of finding their footing as a new family of…
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Arthur and Tina’s Engagement Shoot — Tokyo, Japan
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. — Ellis Peters / We usually shoot in Japan twice a year, during spring and autumn. It never gets old. No matter how many times you’ve seen cherry blossoms in full bloom before, it takes your breath away each time. It’s staggeringly beautiful. It was great…
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Mon and Ruby’s Engagement Shoot — Tokyo, Japan
“The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.” ― Andrea Gibson / Jeff and I had a fantastic time running around Tokyo with Mon and Ruby. The mood was chill and the conversation easy, and with the autumn leaves as background, we could do no wrong. By…
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Gravities
Jeff and I always teach that every artist needs to set aside time for personal projects. Even when it’s busy, even when you’re swamped, you owe it to yourself to do this, creating something for nobody else but yourself. This is what sustains you when the work gets hard, and there will be times that…
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Tim and Karen’s Day After Shoot — Tokyo, Japan
“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?” “It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden It was a rainy spring day in Tokyo with newlyweds Tim and Karen. They’ve just recently gotten married and were in Japan for…
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Mark and Melissa’s Day After Shoot – Kyoto, Japan
Jeff and I love shooting Day After sessions. These are post-wedding shoots that typically happen a few days or even weeks after the couple’s wedding. There’s a level of comfort and ease there, and a carefree excitement that comes with having the wedding preparations completely behind them now, and being giddy newlyweds who are madly…
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Aries and Rinka’s Japan Wedding
Aries and Rinka had a charming intimate wedding in Osaka, Japan, and Jeff and I will forever consider ourselves lucky to have been a part of it. It was our first trip to Japan, and we fell madly in love with the place, the people, and these two. We shot their engagement session and I…
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Aries and Rinka’s Japan Engagement Shoot
Jeff and I looked forward to Aries and Rinka’s engagement session in Japan for months. We had plans to shoot in Kyoto and spent a lot of time looking at different locations online. We were hoping for cherry blossoms, but it proved to be just too early still. The engagement shoot was a day before…