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Rosie & Shang | Adventures in Film
Before I shipped off the Diana F+ lomography camera for my giveaway last month, I took her for one last spin. My good photographer friend Shang Chen was in town for the week, and so I tagged along to help out at one of her shoots. Shang does these amazing in(SCP)iration shoots (SCP = Shang Chen…
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Availability & Booking Calendar | Website
I just wanted to share a new feature I’ve added to my website– an interactive calendar that displays my bookings in real time. I do my best to update this Google Calendar with my appointments and travel plans. So if you’re planning to schedule your own session or book a specific weekend, you can always…
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The City | San Francisco
Tourists may attempt to call it “Frisco” but locals often refer to it simply as “the city,” despite all the patronizing scoffs from New Yorkers. San Francisco is the city of the Bay Area, overlooking Oakland to the East and San Jose to the South. San Francisco has now been my home for half a year….
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Happy New Year! | Hayes Valley, San Francisco
My boyfriend Ernie and I spent almost all of Christmas day in sweatpants. He prepared a great dinner while I contributed very little, and we celebrated by dining with my roommate and my brother. But since we weren’t all decked out in portrait-friendly outfits, Ernie and I decided to head out the next day to…
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Photography Foundations | Workshops
Happy New Year! Last month, on a gray drizzly day, we had a wonderful little group of photographers gather for the first Photography Foundations workshop. We talked about aperture and exposure and all kinds of technical goodness that captures light and turns it into photographs. Then all of the participants got to test out the…
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Best of 2010: Weddings
On this last day of 2010, I am looking over the weddings I have photographed this year, and I am so humbled by every one of these couples who has entrusted me to capture such an important day in their lives. Weddings are an opportunity to step beyond my own mundane life; to watch as…
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Best of 2010: Personal Posts
I have always been a more expressive writer than speaker. Writing often allows me to process my thoughts in a deeper, more personal way. So alongside my photography, I have come to embrace writing as an extension of my self expression. My personal posts on this blog have been a mixture of passion projects, travelogues,…
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Custom Logo Stamp | DIY Project
When I redesigned my logo a little while back, I wanted to be able to brand everything with it– my client discs, notecards, or anything else I might think of. So I considered printing stickers, having custom stationery made, or even ordering a custom stamper or debosser, any of which would have been great, but…
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A Tiny Tree | Happy Holidays!
All is quiet but for the Bulls and Knicks on the television. It’s a cloudy gray day, the temperature holding steady in the 50s, not a chance of snow anywhere in sight. It’s Christmas day in San Francisco. Christmas in California doesn’t really feel as festive as Christmas in a wintry wonderland, but this week…