this is definitly a blessed place,...situated in the northeast of brazil,...lençois maranhenses is just too beautiful to describe it...perfect for a swimming wear catalogue shooting!!...I am sure that in lençois maranhenses everyday is a beautiful day!....don’t you feel like diving in one of these lakes??

december 2007 my friend Anna came to see me,....she wanted to have her pregnant picture taken.

I asked her when she was supposed to give birth,....she said probably beginning of february 2008,...year of the rat,...so her kid was born right on the same day as me...february 10th!!...what a great coincidence!!...I hope when her kid grow up she can tell him that the guy who took her picture was born in the same day!!
there is definitly something about pregnant women,....they glow!!!....how to make Anna glow in a photograph??....
...my answer is in the photograph below!

by the way,...Anna used to be a model,..here are some of the pictures I took of her when she used to model

it was nice to see my picture of HIROKO on the cover of METROPOLIS magazine!

the picture itself is very graphic,...straight to the camera,...the hair has a sharp cut,..and the guys who design the cover layout got it right there!
they managed to make the picture look even better,...a good designer can make a simple picture look great... but a bad designer can destroy a great picture!