About Me
I am MJ, a photographer based in Tokyo, specializing in Japanese pre-wedding photography sessions.
Born and raised in sunny Singapore, I came over to Japan after college under the JET program, and taught in a public high school for 4 years.
After my contract with the JET program had ended, I moved to Tokyo to pursue a career in photography - a lifelong passion of mine which I had spent most of my free time on.
While I am not working on my portrait sessions, I am usually out and about searching for stray cats and documenting their antics. Or perhaps coaxing my cat to pose for me.
はじめまして！
僕はミョンジュンです。
現在は東京にて婚礼前撮りフォトグラファーとして活動をしている。
生まれも育ちもシンガポールで、大学卒業してからJETプログラムで外国語指導助手として日本に来て、県立高校で4年間教えていた。
子供の頃からずっと写真好きの僕が、JETプログラムとの契約が満了になってから、東京に移動してフォトグラファーとして活動をし始めた。
休みの日に、普段はカメラを持ちながら散歩してて、野良猫と出会うことを望んでいる。それとも、愛猫のヒメちゃんに撮影に協力してもらうこともある。
Catographer?
It comes without saying that I’m an avid cat lover, and cats have been a part of my life ever since I was a child.
As mentioned earlier, I enjoy spending my free time taking shots of my cat, as well as cats I meet when I am roaming around.
There is just something magical about cat pictures that brings a smile to our faces, and through my photos of our feline friends I hope to share this simple joy with everyone.
However, that’s only the tip of the iceberg of what cats have brought into my life.
Through my time spent with cats, both at home and out in the wild, I have learnt many life lessons from them.
One of which is the importance of cherishing every single encounter and moment in life.
Encounters with stray cats can happen when you are most unexpecting it, and every encounter with a stray cat could be the one and only encounter with it as our paths may not cross again.
While it does sound a bit lonely, it has shone light on how special it is to have our paths crossed, even if it occurs for only a single episode.
With this mindset, I cherish every friendship and paths crossed with my clients, and knowing how precious the time that they have entrusted to me is, I strive to create my best work every single time, while also making sure that the experience will be etched in their memories forever.
In honor and gratitude to my feline teachers, as well as wanting to bring about more smiles to the society, I decided to adopt the moniker Catographer.
自分は猫好きで、子供の時からずっと猫と暮らしている。
休日は愛猫を撮ったりして、公園などで散歩して出会った野良猫たちを写真撮ったりしてる。
猫の可愛さを写真で表現したくて、この癒しをみんなと共有したいと思ってる。
それに、猫たちには、人生について色々教えていただいた。
特には、出会いを大事にすること。
いつどこで野良猫と巡り合うのは分からなくて、出会った野良猫はまた会えるのも分からないので、毎回の出会いは大事にしないといけない。
この気持ちで、出会ったお客様を大事にして、預かった掛け替えのない貴重のお時間で、最高の作品とともに、大切な思い出を一生懸命作らせて頂きます。
これを教えてくれた猫たちへの敬意と感謝のために、Catographerのタイトルを使用させてもらおう。
Gear ・ 機材
You can view the list of equipment I am currently using or have previously used by accessing the page below.
As I am already doing note-taking of my equipment in Obsidian, I thought that it would be interesting to share them here too as it could act as a long term usage reference for those interested.
Currently creating the individual pages for them here is still a work in progress, so do bear with me for a while as some of the products still do not have their pages up yet.
My Scribbling Corner
I have created a little corner here in my page for me to scribble stuff, from random thoughts or encounters in my daily life to photography or tech related opinions.
Or also more commonly known as a blog.
As I do not get much opportunities to use English in my daily life here, this is a way to keep my linguistics skills from going rusty as well.
It’s nothing fanciful, but you are definitely welcome to browse through it if you are intrigued, or perhaps want to learn a little bit more about me (or what goes on in my head?).
Disclaimer
With all the recent AI-generated content and posts floating around the web, I feel obliged to post this disclaimer:
All written content on this webpage (blog posts and personal opinions) are created and written by me, and no AI or similar tools are used in creating the written content. If there are any inaccuracies in my posts or opinions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me.
Similarly, all images shown in this website are taken and hand-edited by me, without any explicit AI generation tools used in the making of the images. However, certain post-processing tools in modern software, such as noise reduction or clone stamps, may have been built and refined based on deep-learning algorithms, and thus I do seek your understanding if you consider these tools to be AI as well.