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Whitney | San Francisco Maternity Portraits
I met up with Whitney, a gorgeous mother-to-be, for some portraits around Golden Gate Park. Here are some favorites below! Hair & Makeup: Julianne, Prettyologie Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer based in San Francisco. She creates beautiful, soft, and timeless imagery while capturing the most fleeting of moments. View her work at…
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Ami & Arjun | San Francisco Engagement Photography
Ami and Arjun are simply the sweetest. They both live in Boston, but they are in San Francisco working for the summer. We kicked off their engagement session with portraits around their apartment in the Mission Bay neighborhood, and then we headed over to the Ferry Building for some classic San Francisco shots by the…
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Big Trees | Sequoia National Park
Four Chicago boys and me. I picked up Vince and his brother Kevin who had each flown in to SFO, and we drove southeast from the Bay Area while Alex and Eric drove northeast from Los Angeles. Our destination: Sequoia National Park, one of the nine national parks in California. We would camp for two nights…
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Dining & Boating in Chicago | Travel Photography
In mid-July, I found myself taking a spontaneous trip to Chicago to meet Jesse who was there for work. We then commenced with lots of eating and even a bit of boating. Meal one as soon as I got in from O’Hare: Boka, (located next door to Alinea, but we’ll be back for that next…
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Atelier Crenn | San Francisco Food Photography
July started with a bang as we headed to Atelier Crenn, recently remodeled with brand new interiors and an expanded tasting menu. Chef Dominique Crenn is oft cited as the only female chef in the country who has two Michelin stars, and she very memorably writes her menus as poems, with each line representing one…
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Over the River & Through the Woods | Kings Canyon
We awoke on day three of our Sequoia/Kings Canyon camping trip and got ready to tackle the 9-mile hike for the day. Our campsite for this second night was pretty perfect, with the sound of the river nearby, tall trees surrounding a clearing, and nice flat ground for all our tents. We packed up everything…
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A Bay Area Fourth of July
We opened the second half of 2014 with a lovely week in the Bay Area when Jesse came to visit. Basically, we ate our way around the Bay and enjoyed some Fourth of July fireworks too. We got to use the remainder of a gift certificate I had to Pizzaiolo in Oakland. And them some ice…
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Lauren | Mood Shoots | Editorial Portrait Photography
Welcome to my latest personal project, a series of “mood shoots.” For these shoots, I wanted to explore a certain look and feel in my portraiture, working with light and shadow, styling, and directing. As with all my personal projects, I just sort of dream up these ideas and form a vision in my mind, and then…
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Rosa Guerra | Art for Art | San Francisco
Since the beginning of 2014, I have been working on my year-long personal project, Art for Art. Once a month, I find a fellow photographer whose work I admire, and I photograph them; they photograph me. View the full set of previous shoots in the series here: Art for Art. In June, I met up with Rosa…