The route
The villa half is unhurried. The photographer arrives in the late afternoon, when the garden is in shade and light comes through the open living room sideways. We start with details — rings, the flowers your villa staff have laid out, two glasses on the pool edge — and then the two of you: on the daybed, at the steps of the pool, in the water with the frangipani overhead. If your villa offers a floating breakfast or a flower bath, it can be arranged for the session (the villa sets it up and charges for it, not us). With the extra hour we then walk or drive to the beach — Petitenget or Batu Belig, depending on where you are staying — for the last twenty minutes of sun and the blue afterglow, still dressed for dinner.












