Alex and I got to take a brief road trip down to LA for Labor Day weekend since I had a wedding to photograph down there. Our friends Jon and Pei were kind enough to host us, and we managed to squeeze a lot into our brief visit! First, scenes from our drive down: a…
Alex has a goal to attend an MLB game in all 30 stadiums, so we’ve been making steady progress this year. San Diego was surprisingly still on the list, even though it’s right here in California. So it was time to pay a visit to the Padres while our Giants were on the road there!…
We ventured out on a wonderful Southern California road trip last month, with Ojai as the ultimate destination. But of course, as with the best road trips, we made plenty of other stops along the way as well, including a two-night stay in Los Alamos. First up, a stop for lunch in Paso Robles, which…
Were it not for Alex, who spotted the Skyview Los Alamos boutique motel on a previous road trip to Southern California, I may have never found about this town’s existence. I certainly had never heard of a Los Alamos in California, knowing only of its counterpart in New Mexico, which is famous for being the…
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…
After a week in Las Vegas, we continued on our grand road trip to Los Angeles for “Second Thanksgiving” with the Yaus. Here is Alex at the Yauhaus. And our first meal, Taiwanese breakfast from Huge Tree. Important activity, watching Michigan beat Ohio State for the first time in a decade! I was born at…
We are very lucky here in California to have nine National Parks within the state. And I am very lucky to have now visited all of them. The last one on the list was Death Valley. In November we packed up the Jeep and hit the road for three nights of camping in the park….
Channel Islands was the eighth out of California’s nine national parks that I’ve been lucky enough to visit. Armed with our newfound immunity, we planned a road trip in June down to Southern California, where we could take a ferry out to the islands. There are actually five channel islands, and we visited just a…
Solvang is a funny little Danish town in Southern California, not far from Santa Barbara. I’ve been through the town once before on a solo roadtrip down Hwy 1. This time we did a very brief stop-through of Solvang and the town of Los Olivos just down the road, because it was nearly 100 degrees…
Back in June, Alex and I decided to take a little road trip down through Southern California, with Channel Islands National Park as the primary destination, and of course lots of other fun towns and delicious food along the way. The first day of the road trip was spent in Santa Barbara, and we also…
At the end of August, I got to make a trip down to LA to photograph cupcakes for Dots in Pasadena. Pretty awesome career move! As an extra bonus, I also got to meet baby Ellie, hang out with great friends, and explore the Arts District. See some of my snapshots around town below: Baby Ellie! A…
Back in February, I hit the (very familiar) road for a solo road-trip down to Los Angeles. I got to visit my friends Kevin and Jenny’s new home in Alhambra, check out a waterfall hike with my friend Connie, sneak in an “Art for Art” shoot, and even go grapefruit picking in the city of LA….