San Francisco Maternity Photography Tina and Kentaro - Mother of the Month February 2016
Tina came into my San Francisco studio for a maternity photography session and she was radiant! She and Kentaro had such fun together, and they also had a wonderful story. They lived apart for nine years. Read on to learn more about how they finally decided to marry. (孕婦寫真, 舊金山 , 孕婦寫真攝影師, 三藩市)
1. Tell me a little bit about yourself, Kentaro, how you met, how you decided to have kids, what are your hobbies, what you do in your free time, etc. I love your story of having a long distance relationship for nine years.
可以請妳稍微介紹自己和妳先生Kentaro，並分享一下你們是如何認識，如何決定生小孩(你們的嗜好，空閒時做什麼消遣等等。我特別欣賞關於你們長達九年的遠距戀愛。
Tina & Kentaro: I was born and raised in Taiwan, an island with friendly people and amazing food. My husband Kentaro is the second generation of a Japanese family who worked in New York as artists. Kentaro and I met in Tokyo 12 years ago when we were studying in the same Japanese language program. A year later he had to return to the U.S. to finish his college degree while I found a job in Japan. Since then we had been living on different continents for 9 years until we simply couldn’t say any more goodbyes to each other.The long distance relationship was really hard; but after we got married, I also realized that a zero distance relationship is not easy, either. Not until 2 years ago did we finally feel that we might be up to the challenge of having a child, but ironically the process of conception turned out to be much more frustrating than expected. After countless blood tests, scientifically scheduled intercourse, and repeated disappointments, our little girl finally decided to show up in our life!
我是出生並成長在台灣，一個充滿友善的人們和美食的島。我先生叫Kentaro，他是來自一個充滿藝術家氣息的日本家庭。我們於十二年前在東京進修日文認 識的;一年後他必須返回美國完成他的大學學位，而我決定留在日本工作，從此我們開始了九年的遠距戀愛，直到我們再也無法忍受身隔兩地的生活。遠距戀愛固然辛苦，但結婚之後我才了解到其實"零距離關係"也不容易。直到兩年前，我們才終於覺得準備好迎接新的生命的來臨，可是沒想到受孕的過程比想像還要曲折。在無數的抽血驗血，按表抄課的親密關係和一次又一次的失落，我們家的小女兒終於決定出現在我們的生命中!
2. Tell me about why you decided to have professional family or maternity photographs, and why you trusted me to take these special photos.
請跟我們分享一下妳為何決定拍全家福或是孕婦寫真?妳為什麼選擇Jennifer Loomis Photography?
Tina & Kentaro: I’ve gone through the portfolio of almost every professional photographer in the Bay Area and found that I really like Jennifer’s style. I feel that she’s not only a family/maternity photographer, but also a journalist who documents women’s bodies and their relationships with their family members in an honest and respectful manner. That’s the kind of photo we’d like to share with our daughter and cherish for the rest of our lives.
在閱覽過幾乎所有灣區的攝影師的作品之後，其中我最欣賞的就是Jennifer的風格。她的作品讓我覺得她不單單只是一位全家福或孕婦寫真攝影師，也同時真誠地紀錄著女性的美以及她們與家人間的關係。這正是我們未來希望與女兒分享並珍藏一生的作品。
3. Please feel free to include anything else you like that is interesting about you or your parenting philosophy.請跟我們分享其他關於妳有趣的事蹟或是你們的育兒經。
Tina & Kentaro: Although Kentaro and I come from very different cultural backgrounds and also speak different mother tongues, we both share a strong belief in being independent thinkers and pursuing one’s passions. Whether she identifies herself more as an American, Japanese or Taiwanese, we will do everything we can to prepare our child to be able to make her own decisions and explore who she really is and what truly makes her happy.
雖然Kentaro和我來自非常一不樣的家庭背景，也講不同的母語，但我們兩都很相信獨立思考和堅持理想的重要。所以無論我們的女兒未來會必較認同美國，日本或是台灣文化，我們只希望能盡一切努力培養她能夠做理智的決定，並且學習面對真正的自己和尋找她真正快樂的來源。
