From one holiday to another, here’s a glimpse back at my Thanksgiving week spent in Cincinnati, Ohio. Homemade mixed berry tarts with almond filling! And homemade bread, made from wild yeast starter which we learned to do in our Sour Flour workshop the week before. Me & my mom at Thanksgiving dinner… and not pictured…
I’ve been looking forward to this lovely portrait session for almost a year since our last shoot together. Shau-Ru and Ed are always plotting little getaways and romantic gestures for each other that are just so sweet. It’s a true joy to see what Shau-Ru dreams up for each of our shoots. For their second…
It’s our little tradition to document Jenny and Kevin’s love story and to create a beautiful leather album every year. For this, our fifth shoot together, we opted to document a slice of their lives in their first home together, which we have lovingly dubbed the “Yauhaus” (after their last name, Yau). We started with…
Yali is quiet, genuine, caring, while Sriram is laid-back, more outgoing, and always able to make her laugh. When they met at work, they found balance and a place in each other’s hearts. I met these two on a sunny but windy-cold day in San Francisco for some engagement photos by the Legion of Honor…
Courtney and Nick are so down to earth and a joy to be around. We met up in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and roamed around, making stops in the Japanese Tea Garden, where they went on the day of Nick’s proposal, and around the Conservatory of Flowers as well. It was an incredibly foggy…
A mile up the road from the lodge, we made the right turn. We wound down a short gravel road as the dust kicked up and painted golden beams of sunlight in the air. At the end of the path, a clearing– a spectacular clearing, with a canyon full of evergreens lit in the background….
I don’t do family portraits all that often, but this one was a special gift from my friend Nancy to her sister-in-law’s family, and it was so fun. We met up in South Bay at Shoreline Park. The weather was perfect with just a touch of California autumn; little Hunter was just a bundle of…
Julie and Jeremy first met when their projects converged at Google. Actually, Julie had to pull a few strings to get Jeremy onto her project, but he finally helped her turn the Google Maps cursor into a panda bear for an April Fools joke. And as they tell it, it was love at first site….
This wedding was such a special experience for me, because when I look at Jen, I can still see her as Jenni with a heart over the “i” from our elementary school days. We lost touch when I moved away in middle school but were reconnected some fifteen years later thanks to the magic of…
Talya is as gorgeous as ever. After a year on her Fullbright scholarship in Latvia, she is now in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, launching her opera career from the artists diploma program at the College Conservatory of Music. Brains, beauty, and talent. It’s crazy the trajectories our paths have taken since college, but it’s…
Oh, Ohio. I grew up in Ohio from middle school through high school, but my visits now are few and far between. It was such a pleasure to be back for Karen and Sam’s beautiful wedding in the state capitol and then return to Cincinnati for a week too. We started off in downtown Columbus….
It is always an honor to be a part of a friend’s wedding, and this one was extra special, as I got to return to my home state of Ohio and photograph Karen, whom I’ve known for over a decade. Karen and Sam are cute and hilarious together. Their relationship is perhaps best exemplified by…