Summer in Seoul can be a hot and sweaty affair. The heat and humidity tend to drain us adults and cut into children’s patience reserves. But, if you play it right, summer can also be a lovely time for family photos, especially with the soft summer clouds and subtle blues in the sky surrounding Korea’s traditional architecture. Seoul’s palaces are open from 9am to 6:30pm during the summer months. This means, unfortunately, that we’re not able to work […]
I first met the Tooze family after their second adoption several years back and was thrilled to hear that they’d be visiting Seoul again. We had avoided the parks during their last visit as they were barren during the winter, opting instead for city streets. However, this time, the family would be here in summer, the perfect time for some family photos in Yeouido Park and on the riverside. We kicked off our session in the gorgeous greens of early […]
Autumn in Seoul is a beautiful time for a photo shoot. The cool weather and changing leaves (as well as the gorgeous sunlight when it is there!) make late October and early November the best time of year for autumn family photos. As with all season changes here in Korea, the weather can be somewhat unpredictable. But it’s still the nicest time of year to get out and about. Seoul’s parks, like Olympic Park featured here, are a beautiful place […]
Usually, around early April, Seoul finally begins to show a little colour after the long winter. Hints of green as well as the first flowers usually begin to show across the city in the last week of March and the first week of April. It was at this time that I met up with Miles and his family in Seoul Forest park for some spring family photos. Melanie had reached out just a month in advance and only had a […]
Thanks for joining me in this final instalment of the year that was 2024. As it usually is, the final quarter of the year was the busiest for us this year, as well. We had some unexpected turns in the weather that made for some of my favourite sessions of the year. I hope you’ll enjoy this post! October – Proposal, Family, and Event Photography October’s first order of business was a flight down to Jeju Island for Nathan’s […]
Thanks for joining me in the third portion of my Year in Review series for 2024. In this post, we’ll look at quite a few of my sessions from July to September as the weather finally cooled down and we began heading into autumn. July – Proposal, Family, and Commercial Photographer July is one of the hottest, wettest, and most humid months in Seoul, but any rain we have tends to wash the trees clean of the hot summer […]
Welcome back to my 2024 Year in Review series. In this post, we’ll be taking a look at some of my sessions from spring and early summer. If you’re visiting at this time of year, it should give you a good idea of what to expect from the weather here. Most years, it’s one of the nicest times of year as the weather is warm and the light is beautiful. April – Family, Proposal, and Event Photography April is […]
What a wild ride 2024 has been. It started out relatively slowly as our winter usually does, allowing us a little time to breathe and perhaps even take a personal trip somewhere before the year really winds up. In this first installment of my Year in Review series, we’ll take a look at a few of those shoots as well as some of my personal work from that time. As a few shoots from this time are still under embargo […]
Of all the questions I get asked about Korea, by far the most frequent ones are with relation to the weather. It is so changeable, so short-lived, and so various that I can completely understand why people are confused when those snow covered scenes they’ve seen online don’t materialise during their visit. In this post, I’d like to talk about one of my favourite times of year, early summer! One of the great things about Seoul’s palaces is that they […]
Autumn in Seoul is a short-lived, but beautiful time of year. Typically, we’ll get a week or two of gorgeous colours on the trees around the last week of October and the first week of November. Then, all the leaves fall to the ground and the temperatures start to drop. That’s what I was afraid of when Jane contacted me from Singapore. The end of November is usually freezing cold and the trees are barren. However, as we’ll see, in […]