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 […]
Gyeongbokgung, Seoul’s number one tourist stop, sees thousands upon thousands of visitors a day and can get particularly chaotic at the prettiest times of year. Peter and Jenny’s trip was right in the middle of one such time and his chosen location within the palace was one of the hotspots for tourists to stop by and appreciate the beauty of Korea’s royal architecture in amongst nature. As with all my sessions at Gyeongbokgung, we scheduled this one for opening time. […]
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 […]
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 […]
My discussion with Daniel started several months in advance of his proposal, which is a great time to start! We had plenty of time to toss ideas back and forth as well as work out the perfect date on his trip around other shoots I already had booked. As the discussion progressed, we went back and forth between locations such as Jeju Island, Seoul Forest Park, and Olympic Park. Eventually, Daniel settled on Gyeongbokgung to combine palace architecture with some […]
In this energy-filled family photo shoot, we’ll take a journey with the Perssons as they took custody of their youngest son, Edvin. We’ll talk about the ups and downs and how we reached the wonderful place we did by the end of this shoot. Post-custody sessions are always somewhat up in the air and very much a take-things-as-they-come affair. Until we actually meet, there’s no telling how the little ones will be and this shoot was such a perfect example […]
Welcome to the final post in my 2023 Year in Review series. This post covers the months of October, November, and December. These are usually our most predictable in terms of weather but this year things got thrown out of order a little. Our usually short-lived autumn colours came in patches all throughout the final 4 months of the year. Normally, they come and go in the last week of October and the first week of November. The normally bitterly […]
Welcome back to part 2 of this year’s Year in Review post series. As the weather warmed up, this year really took flight and it was one of the busiest quarters we’ve ever had. I hope you’ll enjoy a peek into some of the sessions from that time. April – Family, Couple, Proposal, Editorial, eCommerce and Event Photography To kick off April, I had a session with the Brady family in the VERY early blooming cherry and plum blossoms. […]
Welcome one and all to my 2023 Year in Review. Carrying on the tradition of previous years, this will be a look at many of my activities as a photographer in Korea this year. In this first quarter, we started slowly as we always do. But, as the world started to defrost, the work began! I hope you’ll enjoy the mix of families, couples, events, and even travel photography in this first quarter. January – Family, Couple, eCommerce, and […]