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Karina Garcia Li | San Jose Lifestyle Portraits
Red lipstick has a way of pushing you out of your shell and into a different persona. Karina volunteered to be a makeover subject for Ann Ho of Styles by Ann and A-List Makeup, and I was there to do a quick shoot with her afterwards. I love collaborating with other creative people, and working with…
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A Single Snow Day
I have fond memories of growing up in Michigan and looking out at the deck to see the feet of snow that piled on top of our picnic table outdoors to form a giant snow cake. Here in San Francisco we’re never really graced with such winter wonderlands. But it’s just as well, because I…
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iPad Love
Sometimes people feel bad for us– us December and January babies with our birthdays so close to Christmas. They fear our gifts just get lumped together and/or neglected. But actually, it’s not so bad when you use it to justify even bigger, better gifts… an iPad for instance? Ernie definitely earned a bajillion good boyfriend…
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Rosie & Shang | Adventures in Film
Before I shipped off the Diana F+ lomography camera for my giveaway last month, I took her for one last spin. My good photographer friend Shang Chen was in town for the week, and so I tagged along to help out at one of her shoots. Shang does these amazing in(SCP)iration shoots (SCP = Shang Chen…
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Availability & Booking Calendar | Website
I just wanted to share a new feature I’ve added to my website– an interactive calendar that displays my bookings in real time. I do my best to update this Google Calendar with my appointments and travel plans. So if you’re planning to schedule your own session or book a specific weekend, you can always…
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The City | San Francisco
Tourists may attempt to call it “Frisco” but locals often refer to it simply as “the city,” despite all the patronizing scoffs from New Yorkers. San Francisco is the city of the Bay Area, overlooking Oakland to the East and San Jose to the South. San Francisco has now been my home for half a year….
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Happy New Year! | Hayes Valley, San Francisco
My boyfriend Ernie and I spent almost all of Christmas day in sweatpants. He prepared a great dinner while I contributed very little, and we celebrated by dining with my roommate and my brother. But since we weren’t all decked out in portrait-friendly outfits, Ernie and I decided to head out the next day to…
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Photography Foundations | Workshops
Happy New Year! Last month, on a gray drizzly day, we had a wonderful little group of photographers gather for the first Photography Foundations workshop. We talked about aperture and exposure and all kinds of technical goodness that captures light and turns it into photographs. Then all of the participants got to test out the…
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Best of 2010: Weddings
On this last day of 2010, I am looking over the weddings I have photographed this year, and I am so humbled by every one of these couples who has entrusted me to capture such an important day in their lives. Weddings are an opportunity to step beyond my own mundane life; to watch as…