Cacia visits me in Japan (Patreon)

I first met and shot with back in March 2013. We were fast friends and almost immediatley made plans to road trip to shoot out in the wilds.  The next month we drove from LA to Death Valley together to make images and found we were good traveling partners as well as friends (the two things don't always go hand in hand, but luckily for us it did).  So many fun shoots and adventures with my Scorpio sister over the last decade, but it had been a while since we had shot due to me moving here to Japan during the Pandemic.  Cacia decided to make her first trip to Japan last month while visiting her family back home in Taiwan, so of course she asked to visit.

I went to visit her for a night in Tokyo and then she came out to my house for a few days, and we also went on a road trip to Nagano to do some hking and shooting like in the old days. This included a hike up to the highest elevation natural hot spring in Japan, which happens to be about an hour drive from my house.  Our friendship is one of those that always feels comfortable, like we haven't skipped a bit.  She is as wild as ever, but also it was interesting to note that we are both changing, maturing, with interests that evolve and new goals that emerge. Fun to note these changes in us, even while my camera documents the physical changes in her over the years.  Although I have to say I think we are both aging gracefully so far...

2014 Prairie Creek Redwoods, CA, USA - 2023 Yatsugatake, Nagano, Japan. )I still have the same backpack on though!

I wonder how long we will document her physical form and imagination, share laughs, tell all our dirtiest stories we wouldn't tell anyone else, and eat too much good food together.  Maybe I will still meet up to shoot nudes of her until we are both old and ugly. That would be something!