photo sessions
I remember our first staff meeting two Autumns ago in that transition from summer to fall, vacation to work. We were checking in with each other, talking about how we felt about starting this new school year with all the teachers old and new. I still remember what Aaron/Mr. Gardner, the 8th grade English teacher/DJ/slam…
A beautiful venue, a talented floral designer, three models, three hair/makeup artists, two photographers, and two assistants. What a dream shoot! We had a wonderful collaborative bridal shoot at the Bellevue Club by Lake Merritt in Oakland, with all twelve contributors donating their time and services toward the project. My hope was to get some…
It was Friday morning, and everything had been planned for our shoot on Sunday. We would meet in San Francisco at Candace & Tony’s place with our hair & makeup artist we had lined up and a floral designer who would meet us there. Just one problem– rain. What started as a 30% chance for…
Five years ago, in 2005, it was just an idea. A passion project being born. Starting today, February 26, 2010, the feature film Formosa Betrayed is playing in select theaters across the country. The Taiwanese American community has done an amazing job emphasizing the importance of this weekend (everyone and their mother should go see…
They hadn’t been dating long, but things were going well when he called from his business trip in Paris. It was a Wednesday, just like any other Wednesday; they both loved traveling, and they were often jetsetting around the world for their jobs. So he called her and said, Hey. There are some cheap tickets……
Western music very often comes in fours: 4/4 time, 4 strings on a violin, and all those beautiful 4-member groups: string quartets, barbershop quartets, brass quartets– even the standard rock band is usually two guitars, a bass, and a drum kit. But a bit more uncommon is the guitar quartet. No, not a band with…
There’s a huge obsession with everything “vintage” in the wedding world right now. Brides and blogs all over the place are carefully crafting their perfect illusions of this old, chic style. So imagine my amusement when I got to explore a whole place that was effortlessly vintage– not because we styled it that way, but…
$1453. That’s the amount each one of these eighth graders is trying to raise to go to Washington, D.C. Not having much money to give to the cause, I contributed what I could, grabbing my camera and headed through the thick 8am fog to take portraits of each student. Later, we created a website with…
We met up in Jack London Square, the waterside district of Oakland where century-old warehouses and new businesses coexist, an area in the midst of a transformation to chic before our very eyes . When Mark pulled up and stepped out of his silver sports car, it was clear that he was a man with a…
You wouldn’t know it now, but I wasn’t really one of those little girls who spent her time dreaming of her wedding day. My first wedding experience was in high school, when I was hired to play violin in a string quartet. All I can remember from that episode is the impossibly long rendition of…
As photographers, so much of the work we create depends on who we are and how we relate to the world around us. For me, a large part of that perspective is shaped by the people who come into my life. My friends and family have long supported me in my “creative” and “unconventional” ventures…
The atrium of San Francisco’s Hyatt Regency unveils itself in a magnificent, sparkling display. It’s an expansive space, opening up like a great courtyard surrounded by eighteen floors of suites. Around the holiday season, strands of white Christmas lights are suspended from hundreds of feet in the air, and a great Christmas tree sits by…