As Korea pre-wedding sessions get more and more popular, I’ve been able to travel to various parts of Korea including Jeju Island and Jeonju for beautiful sessions with a really different flavour from Seoul. Kim and Chris were tossing up between a session in Seoul, or traveling to the gorgeous Hanok Village in Jeonju. In the end, we decided to get a beautiful Hanok stay down in Jeonju and spend a whole day wandering the streets together. Being a weekday, […]
Betsy contacted me after seeing a family session I had done with some friends of hers from her son’s school. Juggling our relative travel schedules was tricky, but we finally managed to get together and organise a session for the beauty of autumn in Seoul. We got one of the last warm days of the year for this session, and Seoul did not disappoint with some spectacular autumn light for us to work in. With loving parents and energetic children to […]
Every year, the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise division of New Zealand’s Seoul mission launch a festival of New Zealand food and beverages called New Zealand Food Connect. Last year it was a huge event with both currently imported products and producers looking for importers in attendance. For two days (both in Seoul and Busan), I worked with NZTE as their event photographer to produce the images they required for their internal reports, next year’s promotion, and concurrent media releases. […]
Back in November, I was honoured to have the chance to work with the Elbracht family for the second time as their family photographer. We met again at Changgyeong-gung in the Autumn light again for our session this year.Autumn is simply the most beautiful time of year here in Seoul, and this day was no exception. We started a couple of hours before sunset, and as the sun began to dip, the forest lit up a beautiful golden colour. We […]
Even on a cold day in Seoul, there’s plenty of fun to be had with your family photography session. The palaces still look amazing in winter, despite the leafless trees. With the crisp, clear air, winter light takes on a cool but beautiful tone. If you can brave the cold, there’s no reason not to have a family session in winter. It’s also a time when there are far fewer people in the palaces! Even in the frigid air, young […]
Beginning my work as an event photographer, I never thought I would have the chance to photograph the unveiling of new machinery in the oil and gas industry. However, here we are. Working with Korea Consult, I was able to be a part of Hanjin D&B’s product launch and industry conference in Gwangju. The day started with a conference in the city of Gwangju to talk about the future of the industry, and give a short introduction to the machine […]
I’m sure we all remember our graduation, or at least parts of them, but when I got the email asking for an event photographer for the German School graduation here in Seoul, I knew what mine was missing! We have so few photos from our graduation, and so much has changed since then. I knew that I would have to make some great images throughout this day. We started the afternoon with the school-prepared section of the event, which was the […]
Here in Seoul, the majority of our visitors, especially those looking for a pre-wedding photography session, come from the east Asian region. We see a lot of tourism from Hong Kong, Singapore, and other countries in the region. However, Europe is still a little far for many to come on holiday. So, you can imagine my surprise when Michele and Miranda contacted me about doing a pre-wedding session from BELGIUM! I was super excited to get to work on a […]
The final section of my annual year in review post is always a tad bitter-sweet. I enjoy pouring over all the work that I’ve done in a year, because it can be difficult to (watch out for the big cliché) see the forest for the trees. As usual, an incredible amount of images have been made this year. Around 190,000, in fact. Again, my most used lens was the Nikkor 58mm f/1.4. Also, not surprisingly, I’m now shooting about 50% […]
The clock ticked over and we’d blown the funding goal out of the water for our Kickstarter project. Wesley, Pablo, and I sat down for a well deserved glass of whiskey and stared out at the Han River for a couple of hours. A mixture of shock, affirmation, and fear for what was to come kept us running on adrenaline as we chatted through how far we had come. The book was ready, but little did we know how difficult […]