The best Astro photoshoot my wife and I had! Even had chance to capture the shooting star behind us.
As soon as I put James's astro photo on my instagram, I instantly got questions flying into my DM asking where and who the photographer is.

In fact, this is my second photoshoot with James. I want to come back to James for occasional l photoshoot because he is passionate, creative, knowledgeable and friendly. James ease the photoshoot tension, well guided photoshoot, and full of ideas.

In one word. AMAZING.

If you are looking for genuine photographer fun to work with, James is the one. Thank you James.

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James was lovely on our wedding day, he was easy to work with and understood what we were looking for on our special day.
There was help with local make up artists for the wife and spare dresses and props for a "just in case".
The work that James did for us involved a lot of great locations in and around Queenstown. If we would have had more time available we would have also loved to of gone up to Wanaka and Tekapo.

The night photos were excellent, and I would recommend to anyone to get in touch with James as the go to professional photographer in NZ.

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If you are looking for perfection in your wedding photos, you’ve got to have James as your photographer! His craftsmanship and attention to detail in his work is phenomenal and having James as our photographer was the best decision we made for our wedding.

What I love the most about James is his professionalism and his passion towards his work. Before the wedding I asked James Hirata Photography for a special request to secretly capture the moment of my proposal. Despite the odd request to hide in a dark bush late at night, James captured the moment beautifully beyond my expectation. Me and my fiance were touched by his work that I had James to cherish the moment of my pre-wedding and the wedding day. Highly recommend to have James Hirata photograph your most important moment in your life.

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My wife and I had a great experience with James.

He photographed our wedding and also did engagement photos for us. Very professional about his work and also very friendly. He made us both comfortable doing the engagement photos and had us naturally laughing and smiling for each shot.

Our wedding photos are also amazing and we are so happy looking back and being able to remember that time. He is able to capture people's emotions really well and I highly recommend him! 😁

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