I believe we are shaped by what we choose to notice.

A beam of late afternoon light spilling across an old stone floor.
The weight of a breath just before a vow is spoken.
The way hands search for each other in a crowd — without thinking, only knowing.

These are the quiet details that have always stirred something in me.
Long before I picked up a camera, I was paying attention to the world like this — emotionally, softly, fully. Photography became my way of gathering what I saw and felt and turning it into something that could last.

My name is Marina Lazarine. I was born in Plano, Texas, and moved to New Braunfels in 2021 to begin a new chapter — one led more by feeling than by structure. That move, paired with years spent traveling through Europe and beyond, shaped the lens through which I now see everything: gently, slowly, with reverence.

Travel taught me to live with open hands.
It taught me to fall in love with light — not just as a tool, but as a character. It slips, glows, hides, reveals. Light is always speaking, and I’ve spent years learning how to listen.

A practice in softness.

Marina Lazarine Photography is, at its heart, an expression of how I experience the world:
Airy. Refined. Heart-led.

I photograph weddings and portraits in soft, natural light — but more than that, I photograph emotion. I move with intuition, guided by empathy and by a quiet trust in timing. I seek elegance in imperfection, depth in subtlety, and meaning in the spaces between moments.

Yes, I understand the language of editorial composition — structure, light, story.
But I also know how to hold space for real feeling, and how to create an environment where people can simply be.
Where beauty arrives honestly.

Though I’m based in Austin, Texas, my work is destination-influenced — shaped by years spent exploring new places and learning from the world’s textures and tones. You’ll find those impressions in frames I make of love and life.

This journal is an extension of that vision.

A place to share the art behind the imagery.
The stories I’ve been honored to witness.
The way light moves across a morning, or why a certain silence made me cry behind the camera.

It won’t always be about weddings. It will be about beauty. Memory.
Art. Empathy. Travel. The way we love.
And the moments that ask us — gently — to slow down and feel something.

So welcome — truly.
Whether you're here as a future client, a fellow artist, or someone who simply believes in beauty for beauty’s sake — you have a place here.

This is where we begin. 
— Marina