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Jessica & Young | San Francisco Engagement Photography
Meet Young and Jessica. I’ve known Young since 1999, when he was still in his “yellow phase” in high school. When I first met Jessica, she was on a hip-hop dance crew, and she would later join an eco-friendly clothing startup as employee number three. Young now fronts his own band, writes for a denim…
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Stephanie & Ian | Berkeley City Club Wedding Photography
Stephanie and Ian both went to the University of California in Berkeley, but that’s not where they met. It was years later, at the Berkeley alumni bar in New York City, that they met while watching a Cal football game. They ended up living in New York City and in Washington, DC together for several years,…
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Dots Cupcakes
Dream Job. It was so much fun to be hired by Dots Cupcakes in Pasadena to photograph their beautiful, delicious cupcakes for their new website. See just a glimpse of the goodies below. Such a great shoot. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, be sure to go grab some Dots Cupcakes for yourself….
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Brown Fox Calligraphy Cake Toppers
Cake party! We had such a lovely shoot with these wooden cake toppers from Brown Fox Calligraphy, cakes decorated by my friend Andrew Chao, and florals by Hawthorn Flower Studio. Here’s a little glimpse at our three pretty cakes below: Vendors: Cake toppers: Brown Fox Calligraphy Cake: Andrew Chao Florals: Hawthorn Flower Studio Venue: Berkeley City…
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Cinque Terre, Italy
Cinque Terre, the ‘five lands’ in Italian, is a series of five fishing villages balanced charmingly and precariously along the coast of northern Italy. We took a train from Venice to the nearby city of La Spezia, and from there, we took the small train that connects the five towns. It’s such a beautiful place….
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Hawthorn Flower Studio Lookbook
I was thrilled to help Melanie of Hawthorn Flower Studio photograph a floral lookbook for her new marketing collateral. One of my favorite venues, The Berkeley City Club, provided the perfect setting for our shoot. See it all below: What a privilege to work with such talented friends! See more of Melanie’s floral work at…
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Dora & Ken | Palmdale Estates | Fremont Wedding Photography
They were friends for two years, with Dora refusing to give in to any of Ken’s hopeful advances toward her. It wasn’t until the day that he had decided to give up that Dora had a change of heart. She saw this man who had so patiently cared for her and suddenly realized she couldn’t…
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Shawna Yang Ryan | Author Portraits
I first met and photographed Shawna six years ago, when her first book Water Ghosts had just been released by Penguin Press. Now her second novel has been completed and is available for preordering: Green Island. The book has been Shawna’s labor of love over the last decade and is a work of historic fiction set against the backdrop of Taiwanese and…
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Burano, Italy
As a quick day trip from Venice, we took a vaporetto, a ferry boat, to the neighboring islands of Burano and Torcello. Burano is known for its colorful houses and handmade lace, and Torcello is the oldest continuously populated island in the Venetian Lagoon. I made a collection of all the colorful houses! Burano is…