Chelsea and Luigi first met freshman year of college and have been together for over five years. They are both from Las Vegas, born and raised, but they took the opportunity to have their engagement portraits photographed while on vacation in San Francisco. The hilly neighborhood of Potrero Hill provided lovely city views in contrast with the beach…
I have known both Ninna and Eric for several years now, and it’s always been a pleasure to meet up with them in various cities as our friends gather together. It was such an honor to help them capture their wedding in Chicago this spring. With Ninna’s kindhearted nature and Eric’s enthusiasm for new ideas and…
Victoria and Vaughn are the sweetest pair, completely at ease with each other. They initially met at work and became fast friends, but it took months of courtship on Vaughn’s part– and moving jobs to another company– before Victoria would date him. (She didn’t want to date someone she worked with.) Once Vaughn asked her to…
Dalen sat in front of Stephanie at a new church they were both visiting one day, and they met during the unusually long ‘meet and greet’ time after the service. Stephanie left the service thinking she’d never see Dalen again…until he walked by her a few blocks from her home. They ended up walking together to Trader…
Maggie and Nick are such a delight to be around. From the beginning of the session, they were full of grins, and we filled an hour with their love and laughter. Add the glow of late afternoon light and the majestic archways at the Palace of Fine Arts, and you have all the ingredients of a beautiful engagement…
As we crossed the western side of San Francisco, we were graced with one of those classic San Francisco afternoons: mist from the ocean blending with the amber light of the sun to create a magical setting. It was perfect for Christine and Yang’s engagement session, as they climbed over and under trees and up and…
It’s been five years since I last photographed Kristina and Peter at their beautiful wine country wedding. They are now expecting their first child, a baby girl due in April, and I was delighted to meet up with them again to photograph them as they embark on the next phase of their lives together. We walked…
Here we are, a quarter of the way through 2015! But last month, I was so happy to reprise my personal project from last year, Art for Art. Once a month throughout 2014, I found a fellow photographer whose work I admire, and I photographed them; they photographed me. View the full set of previous shoots in the series here: Art for…
At the beginning of December, I got to travel to Houston, Texas to photograph my friend Amy’s newborn baby. And of course, I made the most of my time while I was there! I stayed in this beautiful artists’ compound that I booked on airbnb, I had a rental car, and I explored all around…
I got to spend this past Thanksgiving with my friends Dan and Paul, and Paul’s whole family. It’s actually a bit of a Thanksgiving tradition for all of us (or various combinations of us) to gather together in California. Though Paul is from Cupertino, his parents now live in Singapore, so they rented a home…
The last Saturday of my November New York trip, we headed to Brooklyn for a tour of Mast Brothers Chocolate. You might recognize the graphic, patterned papers that encase Mast Brothers’ chocolate bars. Every single bar comes from this very Brooklyn factory. This is my only photo of the actual “tour” part, as they don’t allow…
I headed toward the freezing cold chill of New York to celebrate Jesse’s birthday back in November. During the week, I made small excursions around his ‘new’ neighborhood in Midtown (my last visit, Jesse was still living downtown). And of course at night and on the weekends, we had plenty of foodie adventures all around Manhattan…