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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…
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Best of 2010: Personal Posts
I have always been a more expressive writer than speaker. Writing often allows me to process my thoughts in a deeper, more personal way. So alongside my photography, I have come to embrace writing as an extension of my self expression. My personal posts on this blog have been a mixture of passion projects, travelogues,…
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Custom Logo Stamp | DIY Project
When I redesigned my logo a little while back, I wanted to be able to brand everything with it– my client discs, notecards, or anything else I might think of. So I considered printing stickers, having custom stationery made, or even ordering a custom stamper or debosser, any of which would have been great, but…
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A Tiny Tree | Happy Holidays!
All is quiet but for the Bulls and Knicks on the television. It’s a cloudy gray day, the temperature holding steady in the 50s, not a chance of snow anywhere in sight. It’s Christmas day in San Francisco. Christmas in California doesn’t really feel as festive as Christmas in a wintry wonderland, but this week…
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Seaglass Cinema | World Premiere
Back in August, Seaglass Cinema was just an idea. We wanted to take a cinematic approach to capturing weddings and create ‘real life movies’. Our idea spun very quickly from possibility into reality, and just a couple weeks later, we gathered an arsenal of DSLRs and lenses and shot our first wedding in Indianapolis. Now,…
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Best of 2010: Engagement & Couples
I have been able to work with some of the most amazing couples this year. I’ve always loved photographing people in love, because it’s not as much about capturing my interaction with them as it is about getting them to interact genuinely with each other, and being able to capture that interchange. For all of…
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Best of 2010: Portraits & Headshots
2010 is coming to an end, which means it’s time to reflect over the past year. We kick off the “best of”s with portraits and headshots. Here are just a few of my favorites from the year. Click on the links or any of the images to visit the full posts. Musicians Flautist Sasha Launer…