• Bay Area | May, 2022

    Bay Area | May, 2022

    May recap! Starting with a lovely sushi dinner at Nara.  Lots of bread projects this month from the Mooncakes and Milkbread cookbook by Kristina Cho. Red bean buns! Back on that gel nail polish train. Sunnyvale Farmer’s Market, followed by a french dip sandwich from Adamson’s. Miso corn buns! And dinner at Ramen Nagi, which…

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  • Road trip to Ojai, California

    Road trip to Ojai, California

    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…

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  • Los Alamos, California

    Los Alamos, California

    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…

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  • Rachel | San Francisco Portrait Session

    Rachel | San Francisco Portrait Session

    It was such a joy to meet Rachel and walk through Crissy Field with her. We captured some portraits for her public speaking business, in which she speaks about her experiences with hearing loss, deafness, and cochlear implants. Here are a few of my favorite images, below: Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer…

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  • G&G Family | Ojai Family Session

    G&G Family | Ojai Family Session

    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…

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  • Jia & Suyash | Dusty Blue Leather Wedding Album

    Jia & Suyash | Dusty Blue Leather Wedding Album

    Jia and Suyash had a beautiful two-day celebration in Ben Lomond after many postponements in 2020. It was such a delight to commemorate the celebrations in these beautiful heirloom albums. They chose a dusty blue leather for the covers and debossed the main album with their names and wedding date. Take a peek in the…

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  • Bay Area | February, 2022

    Bay Area | February, 2022

    February recap! We started off the month with a 5k/10k race and wrapped it up with a Reno/Tahoe trip. Below are those highlights and everything between! Office of Accountability monthly meeting. Run training. And running the Kaiser Permanente race in Golden Gate Park! Post-run dim sum at Dragon Beaux. Dinner at Piccino, and a massage…

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  • Haeler Family | Cupertino Family Session

    Haeler Family | Cupertino Family Session

    It is such a joy to share these photos of this sweet family with you all. I photographed Carolyn and Cynthia’s wedding back in the smoky, pre-pandemic days of Fall, 2019. And now they have welcomed a baby girl to their family. The trio lives over in NYC, but they traveled back to the Bay…

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  • Jenny & Jun | Stanford Engagement Photography

    Jenny & Jun | Stanford Engagement Photography

    Springtime at Stanford! It’s been years since I’ve photographed on the Stanford campus, and it was such a delight to be back. Jenny and Jun are both PhD students at Stanford, but they have actually been classmates ever since middle school. Glimpse some of my favorite portraits from their engagement session below!   Anna Wu…

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