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Seattle, Washington | Cascadia Road Trip, Part 4
You would think we had planned it, the way we were greeted by colorful autumn leaves and perfect weather everywhere we went along our road trip. In reality, we were just really lucky. After our stops in Crater Lake, Portland, and a brief stop in Tacoma, We arrived in Seattle to bright sunny skies in…
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Jenny & Kevin | Little Tokyo | Los Angeles Anniversary Shoot
This is an anniversary shoot. It’s also a story of love and family and Thanksgiving. It was just over a year ago that we were all gathered in Southern California for Jenny and Kevin’s beautiful wedding. I was their official photographer, and we were also there with our brand new videography company Seaglass Cinema, which…
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Kristen & Ryan | Kate & Mike | Wedding Albums
I am in love with these wedding albums. It’s been such a great pleasure to create these books for my couples this year. Every single one is so precious and filled with beautiful memories. I just wanted to share two of them with you today: First, Kristen & Ryan’s super thick 80-page wedding album. I…
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Tacoma, Washington | Cascadia Road Trip, Part 3
Day three of our epic road trip up the west coast: on our way from Portland to Seattle, we made a little pit stop in Tacoma, Washington. On a friend’s suggestion (thanks Margaret!), I wanted to check out Tacoma’s Museum of Glass. We didn’t actually go inside, but we just scoped out the Chihuly Bridge of…
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Portland, Oregon | Cascadia Road Trip, Part 2
Portland is just as green as its reputation suggests. Green in the scenery, green in its hipster eco-friendliness. It’s a small, small town packed to the gills with bicycles and coffee shops. Charming. This was the first city we visited (after a stop at Crater Lake) on our epic Pacific coast road trip. We arrived…
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Anny & John | Indian Rock & Berkeley Marina | Engagement Photography
They first met at summer camp in the Bay Area when Anny had just graduated from high school and John had been a long time counselor. Afterwards, they became friends and hung out a lot during Anny’s years at the University of California Berkeley, but it wasn’t until they parted ways, with Anny in optometry…
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VSCO Film Review | Digital Mimicking Film | Shooting Film
I had been thinking for a while that someone should just create a set of actions that would make digital files mimic film. Well today it showed up: VSCO Film. In short, VSCO Film is a set of digital actions/presets for Lightroom and Photoshop that take digital raw files and make them look like different…
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Crater Lake Oregon | Cascadia Road Trip, Part 1
I dozed off amidst in the vineyards, and I woke up in the evergreens. We had left at the crack of dawn, embarking on our road trip up the west coast. Our first destination was Crater Lake, Oregon. All that I knew about Crater Lake beforehand was that it was somewhere between San Francsico and Portland and…
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Catherine & Joe | Fort Mason | San Francisco Wedding Photography
You can see it in the way their eyes sometimes lock– they’ve found their sense of home in one another. Catherine and Joe first met when they worked together at the same accounting firm, and it took years of friendship and dating before Joe– never the planner– planned a romantic beach getaway and proposed. On…