“Remember – you can’t beam through a force field. So, don’t try it.” ~ William Shatner We may never make it to the end of this trip, as today’s post has us back on the road. Somewhere in America. But isn’t that just the point? To take this life all in, bit by bit. The [...]

“Don’t worry…I’m here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.” ~ Charlie Brown to Snoopy What a start to 2011. A flood of experiences,  good and not so. We are back and will be sharing it all [...]

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.” ~ William Stafford Tokyo sparkles on any day. But give us a Monday morning, in the height of Spring, with another of our most favorite and supportive families ever…and well, we’re probably [...]

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasure, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” ~ Henry Miller There was a minute there we thought we might have to rope in some friends to hold our photos up [...]

“Every child begins the world again…” ~ Henry David Thoreau Ahhh…a lovely end to Golden Week as we feature another of our favorite families. We have been documenting them forever…And every time it gets more magical. And none more so than our latest session when we welcomed (after a much-anticipated arrival) the newest family member, [...]

“Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it.” – tagline from Being There From Tokyo to London, it’s always a treat to see where our next clients will come from. And it doesn’t matter how much we photograph Tokyo, every single time it is different and quite fabulous and a story [...]

“Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.”  ~ Author Unknown The weekend….ahhh…what better place to kick up your heels, escape reality, live out loud in neon than Vegas? While we’re not actually there there right now, we were there a few months ago and this is what we got up to in a few [...]

“Be still and the earth will speak to you.” ~ Navajo proverb And back to the road…We pick up our story after finally scribbling our Ignite pres, hiking The Wave and dangling precariously nowhere near Horseshoe Bend in Page because we were total chickens. So now we are on the road heading north east to [...]

“In spring time, love is carried on the breeze…” ~ Emma Racine De Fleur Spring. It’s here. With beautiful days, in between the rainy ones (which we are wishing away for this coming weekends Mini-Sessions!). Time to get out and explore Tokyo’s most incredible pockets of beauty. The luscious, historic, iconic parks and gardens, tucked [...]

With Kodomo-no-hi (Children’s Day) today in Japan, May 5th, it is perhaps fitting that this post is dedicated to the littlest survivors of the the Tsunami. All about the kids. Let me keep it real though, this was a struggle. Where to start? What to say truly? How to do the situation justice as storytellers. [...]