Hiroki Family

I'm happy that this family is my first posting for 2015.  I know I haven't been blogging for a while, sometimes I get caught up on traveling and photographing and don't have much time to blog all the wonderful places and people I come across.  Hopefully this year I will do a better job at sharing the photos!

Back to this family! I love this family! I promised I will come visit them every year but life happened and it took me 5 years to return to Japan to spend some time and snap few photos of them.  Takuto is almost 7 (you can see his pictures I took of him here) and I was so happy that he remembered me from last time I saw him. And oh Shuto (aka Shu-chan) he is a character.   He is hilarious!!  It was first time meeting him but by the time we had to say goodbye we became really good friends.  And Yoshimi and Kuni and grandpa, they are like my second family to me.  I hope I can see them again real soon (hopefully this summer)!  Thanks for having me! xo, r

Punta Cana, DR

I went on holidays with my family a few weeks ago to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic (more commonly known to Americans as simply DR) and finally got the most even tan of my life. Here are some instagram photos of the beautiful beaches and the clear blue water.

Charlotte + Brett = Heath

A few weeks back, before "Sandy" came and swept away the coast of NJ and NY, I met a beautiful baby boy named Heath. He was 2 weeks old and weighed a healthy 8.5 pounds when I photographed him. He is a sweet baby with orange hair... Except when you unswaddle him, he isn't very happy about the cold. I know this handsome boy will have a great photo album from having such an amazing photographer for a mom. I just want to say it was such a privilege to photograph this precious moment for Charlotte, my mentor and close friend, and her husband Brett. Thank you so much for having me! I'll see you around Heath ;) Xoxo