Hello hello! Unfortunately as it happens to lots of my partners in crime ( my good photographers fellas ) we get so busy photographing, editing and dealing with our special clients that we forget to post fresh things.

I’ve been absent from here with good excuses :-) I decided to leave my hometown, São Paulo and moved to Tel Aviv, amazing city based in Israel. For the past 5 months I was a participant of a internship program for “young” jewish people - Not sure if with my 30 years well lived I can call myself young.  But, besides that, I’ve been exploring Israel culturally and emotionally  in such a profound way that I didn’t have the opportunity to do it at the other times I’ve been here. Soooo, after those months I’m more than sure that I’m ready to move here for good and become an Israeli citizen (Mazal Tov for me!!!)

Some of the amazing trips I’ve been doing I posted in my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/fabi.kocubey

But after I’ll make a post telling a bit more of this amazing and unique experience with a selection of the best best pictures - Hard work since I have more than 5.000 pics from this season.

This post is a special one since I came here with this huge black wall to climb it without knowing what I was about to face it. Butterflies on my stomach, imagining what and who I would have the chance to photograph here, if I would get the opportunity to photograph a wedding that I could call mine, if my style  would be accept here and many many other questions since this scorpio crazy brain thinks a lot.

I had the great opportunity to photograph an amazing couple for my first wedding, yes, my own wedding <3 Things that are meant to be, a good friend of mine that I met here, Eduardo was working at a Startup and his boss had a super super amazing photographer brother. We got introduced, I photographed a wedding with him  as a second shooter and after that we got connected. Etay Levi had a friend from his childhood, the groom - that was getting married and unfortunately he wouldn’t make it since he was booked already. Sooo, he recommend me :-) and after a coffee  casual meeting in one of those many charming places we have here in the White City it was set.

As I said before, I had this big fear that my style wouldn’t fit here and be accepted, since Israeli photography in general is really different from my way of shooting and especially the after edition. I thought would have only those “square” weddings. Buttt for my good luck, I was dealing with amazing and nothing square couple. A perfect beautiful ginger (addicted to them) bride full of freckles and a handsome long hair groom ( with a Brazilian father ).

I had to adapt my workflow here since photographers offer a really really different things and prices for their clients. One of the things that it is included at this package is a pre wedding photo session. Even that I don’t get paid for this, I like a lot the idea to photograph the couple at a new, amazing and exciting locations and besides that, having the opportunity to get to know them better so I won’t look like these weird person with a camera next to them at the wedding day.

Lihi and Oran, my beautiful first couple lives in Old Jaffa / Yafo a super super cool place and for the name you can see that it’s an historical city really connected to Tel Aviv. From my vision that came from a huge city, São Paulo, could be seen as a really close neighbourhood. These days, artists, hype and cool people lives there since it’s bit more quiet full of nice restaurants, galleries, cool modern stores and flea markets. Sooooo, nothing better to make the session around that area. They took with them their cute dog or we can call him the first soon, Tzampa - Dogs are more than allowed in TLV, they are loved and respect all over the places.

Ok ok, enough of writing, let’s achieve the main goal, pictures! Long time no see my fellas but I’ll try to keep posting. 

Next post ( today!) I’m gonna upload the pictures from this amazing and with a different ideals of a regular wedding that happen in the Desert, yes Negev Desert!