Home is where the heart is. The most comfortable place is the place that we know we belong to. We know that a home is totally different with a house. A home is more than just a physical building where we go to end our days. It is where our strength lies, support, love. Home is like a place to recharge mentally, to truly get in touch with ourselves and to feel peace and serenity in our hearts. 

Let's talk about Roy & Ellen, and how they blow my mind when we brainstormed ideas for their photo session. They mentioned that their session must be a place where they feel they that can be themselves; a place where they belong. Everybody is different. Some people left the decision to us. As for Roy and Ellen, they knew exactly where they wanted their stories to be captured. 

Roy, this lovable man won Ellen's heart with his smile and kindness from the very beginning. His passion with delicacies brought him to his career, to put happiness on every plate that he serves.  

Ellen is a homey girl full of joy. Everything she faces, she faces with smiles and laughters. She knows that the world is just awesome, especially when she spends her time with the person who smiles and laughs with her. The person is Roy. 

She loves it when she is around him, preparing dishes while she accompanies him and watches him create an art with sparks of passion in his eyes. 

Roy may not be the typical of romantic guy who writes love letters, who serenades to her, or holds her hands wherever she goes. But for Ellen, Roy is still the most romantic guy she's ever met.

There was a time when their relationship had to be separated with distance, the time when Roy must work in the States while Ellen was in Jakarta. There was one time when Ellen missed him so much, and Roy knew. Despite of all the Skype calls and huge bills on international calls, Roy made a salmon sushi roll, shaped like a bunch of roses, took a picture of it and he sent it to Ellen as a present. She was speechless, with thousands of other feelings going running inside her. 

That even made them decide on a theme for their session, and where. Their house, of course. When I took their pictures and go through the photos, the pictures spoke to me. A compilations of feelings. But right at that moment, I knew that I wasn’t photographing a house. I was photographing a home.