NMphotography / 光永典人写真スタジオ

June 25, 2015 "Our Son HAYATO"

Today's picture is our son, Hayato. It was on the day I and my new-born daughter came back home from the hospital. On that day Hayato got up very early and spent a half day at the studio watching Nori doing photo-shoots, then came to pick me up in the afternoon.

Hayato experienced the night without mom for the first time, for as long as five days. He's grown up so quickly in five days. And I suddenly realized that the infant-like smile he used to show me never come back. When your kids grow up you feel happy, and at the same time you feel sad. I experienced that complex feeling for the first time that day.

One picture tells and reminds you a long and complex story.

Our website http://choconeko.com/

posted by Chie Mitsunaga

June 11, 2015 A Shoe Repair Shop "FooT STeP"

Good evening from rainy Kitakyushu. Can't believe but we're already in the rainy season this year.

Today's image is at FooT STeP, a shoe repair shop in Takasu, Wakamatsu-ku. It was when I dropped in on this shop about three years ago to get my shoes repaired, that was the first time visiting this shop. I and Nori love the good taste of this shop, which also sells leather goods and other various goods besides repairing shoes and bags, and we also like the owner, Mr. Imaizumi's friendly character.

Nori's vintage watch and my shoes are from this shop and we really love these. Why don't you drop in on FooT Step wink絵文字

*FooT STeP http://footstep712.com

Our website http://choconeko.com/

posted by Chie Mitsunaga

June 1, 2015

The fresh wind of brand-new month has come in! Today's picture is from Nori's recent family photo shoot. When this image was uploaded on Nori's FB wall I knew why he wanted to share this. That's because this is it!!

No need to explain.

An excellent shot!!

One year and a month has passed since Nori started to work for Photo Studio FU. Compared with when he was in a small family business, he's been doing so many and various types of photo shootings. A portrait shoot of one local celebrity, some special audio equipment for an audio accessary magazine, and of course he’s doing wedding shoots almost every weekend.

While I am mothering all day all night and right now at home, Nori surely keeps making further progress and deepening his strength as a photographer.
I have actually one more thing to tell, but I’ll keep it for next update.
Have a nice day

Our website http://choconeko.com/

posted by Chie Mitsunaga

May 21, 2015

Good morning! It seems like this blog got a steady weekly post in this month finally. That's because I've been in good shape recently after doing not very well for about 17 weeks after childbirth. I'm so happy that I finally recovered.

So, this is today's image. Several days ago Nori showed me an image that is similar to this picture but I couldn't say anything but "oh, it's beautiful". That phrase had no special emotion. Today's image is the image of today because special emotion arose in my heart and soul. What is the difference between two images? I can't explain this, but, I heard a voice. This picture spoke to me.

Our website http://choconeko.com/

posted by Chie Mitsunaga

May 12, 2015 "Fresh Green Rice Field"

I guess it’s been quite long time after we posted an image of landscape last time. Today’s image is a scenery we came across in Munakata city about a year ago. In northern Kyushu the rice planting season has started. It’s the very season we can enjoy seeing fresh green rice fields.

10 months has passed since our family moved in to this area, Kurosaki, from Wakamatsu. Kurosaki is the place where I spend my childhood and I like living in here but sometimes I miss the life in Wakamatsu, especially the rural scenery and fresh local-grown vegetables.*Kurosaki is a kind of urban area, and Wakamatsu is rural area with mountains and ocean.

Our website http://choconeko.com/

posted by Chie Mitsunaga

May 3, 2015 "Our Daughter's 100th Day Celebration"

Good morning from rainy Kitakyushu.

Today's image is our 3-month-old daughter on her 100th day. In Japan we celebrate "Momoka" which stands for 100th day after baby's birth. I first thought of preparing traditional dishes for the celebration but decided not to do anything special but doing photo-shoot.

I like the phrase Nori wrote on his weblog:
"She's got weight and become chubby, and she's much mobile now. Her double chin, squishy legs, and the hairband slid off onto her eyes are telling her story".
One photograph really speaks.

Our website http://choconeko.com/

April 30, 2015 "Mr. and Mrs. Osborn"

I can’t believe it’s already the end of April. In Japan a holiday season called Golden Week has started, but of course my husband, Nori, has no plan to have days off… I’m wondering how I and my kids shall spend 5-day vacation without Nori XD!

Today’s image is Mr. Bruce Osborn and his wife. He is photographing OYAKO, which means parents-children in Japanese, for 33 years, and his OYAKO project was made into a movie “OYAKO”. A project of OYAKO photo-shooting and the movie screening in Kitakyushu have been launched recently, and they came to Kitakyushu to meet its project members. Thus Nori came across a chance to photograph this fabulous couple!

■OYAKO Day http://www.oyako.org/jp/oyakonohi/

Nori occasionally told me about Mr. Osborn and his project, saying “He is really a great photographer!” and showed me movies of his OYAKO photo-shooting on youtube. How nice he could have chance to see him in Kitakyushu! I will absolutely join OYAKO Day with my family for sure!!

Our website http://choconeko.com/