New Blog: NoriNori Studio Blog

I'm working on a new business. I'm going to start doing portraits! I am specializing in families. I found that I really enjoy trying to capture family dynamics. I'm going to shy away from studio shoots in favor of local or home settings so I can get a more realistic sense. I want to capture a moment in the life rather than create an artificial moment.

I've seen some great studio portraits but I like the extra element that the location and home setting will add. My favorite portraits are always done in situ and the location or props always give an extra hint about the identity of the sitter. Maybe this is some remnant from all those renaissance portraits I studied in Art History way back when.

The learning curve has been really steep in terms of putting the website together. It's been really hard to decide on things like palette, and phrasing. And as tough as it's been, it's been amazingly fun! I really look forward to waking up in the morning so that I can get more work done on the photos and the website.

As a result, the novel writing has suffered quite a lot. I'm trying to cut myself some slack on this. Not only have I been trying to get the photography business up and running, the last two weeks have been crazy busy! My mom and dad came to visit in the last week of March. It is their first time back to Japan in over ten years. It was an easier trip this time because I live in Tokyo instead of Niigata (about three hours outside of Tokyo by Shinkansen) and now my husband and I have a house instead of my apartment (which I was moving out of at the time of their last visit). Two days after my parents left, my husband and I took a week's vacation in Prague for our tenth anniversary trip. At least the story plots still fill my brain during an idle moment so I don't feel too bereft.

Prague was amazing. We stayed only in Prague and did a lot of photography. The only problem with shooting in RAW or film is that it takes just that much longer to get things ready to go on the internet. I would love to go back to Prague and do some more photography. It was a beautiful city and now I think I could do more interesting stuff than the usual touristy type stuff I did.

Here is a link to the NoriNori Studio Blog http://www.norinoristudioblog.blogspot.com