Here is a look back at our jam-packed month of April. We also visited Florida this month, but otherwise we were busy having adventures all around the Bay. First, Thai food for date night in the city. Vince, Alex, and I made the pilgrimage to Russian River Brewing Co. up in Healdsburg to wait in…
It’s funny to look back and realize that it’s only been a year since Alex and I started playing mahjong with all our friends and just over a year since we bought a record player and started collecting vinyls. In that time, these two interests have become such big hobbies in our lives. It was…
Happy birthday to me! As you may know, I have a standing tradition of throwing myself a birthday party to kick off each year. Every time, I ask myself what the specific purpose of my gathering might be, and this time I decided to have an all-day craft day with our closest friends. In the…
If you’ve been following along, you may have seen part one of Lauren and Jonathan’s wedding celebrations, with their portraits at San Francisco City Hall. For part two, Lauren and Jonathan headed north to beautiful wine country for their intimate ceremony and reception. Their friends were the most gracious hosts at their private estate in…
It was so fun to be reunited with this family, nine years after I last photographed them in Ojai. I have known Aaron since my teaching days in Oakland, and I have photographed his family four times prior to this, dating back to 2010. This time we were also joined by his sister’s family and…
It is an absolute honor to hear from my past wedding clients when they’re wanting to do a new portrait session to capture the next phase of their lives together! I photographed Katherine and Josh’s wedding in Los Altos five years ago, and they reached out this year to do a maternity session since they’re expecting…
Say hello to Aileen, Jason, and their adorable little boy Oliver. Aileen and Jason were so generous in bringing me to their home in McKinney, Texas to do a family portrait session for them this fall. It has been a long journey for this family to reach this point, as they discovered that Oliver had…
Stephanie and Ben were wed exactly one year before this party. They eloped in Hawaii and always meant to throw a little reception for their families afterwards, but the timing just worked out better to wait a year and do it as an anniversary party. Though they’ve been together for thirteen years, this would be…
Julianne is a wonderful makeup artist whom I’ve loved working with over the years. I was thrilled to meet up with her for some family portraits with her boyfriend Dan, his kids, and their two adorable rescue pups Samson (the loveable big guy) and Holly Golightly (the slightly neurotic but wonderful little one). Such a…
You know it’s a wonderful day when you get to hang out with Leia and R2D2. Those would be Serena and Cliff’s two adorable little dogs, of course. With the two Star Wars pups in tow, we headed to Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park. Just one year ago, it was the site of an elaborate scavenger…
I met Grace and Andy at Crissy Field in San Francisco for their engagement session, and they also brought along their two fur-kids: Tina and Bailey. They dashed around rambunctiously and added extra spice to Grace’s beautiful, unstoppable laughs and Andy’s good-natured smiles as we adventured our way through to the end of the shoot…
Rebecca is one of the smartest yet humblest people that I know. We were friends from college, and then we were roommates my first two years living in California. It was autumn in our first year as roommates when Rebecca first met Dave, and they clicked immediately. What could have been a brief first date stretched…