I loved being part of James and Jonathan’s wedding at the Hangar1 Distillery in Alameda. I am thrilled to see the story of that beautiful day now perfectly captured in this heirloom wedding album. JJ and JC chose a green luxe linen and gold foil debossing for the cover, and they opted for the nice…
Each year, I collect small gifts along my travels and compile them into a holiday gift set for my wedding clients. It’s my way of sharing a small part of my year with my couples when they’ve shared such an important part of theirs with me. And this year, we had the added distinction of…
2022 was certainly filled with significant milestones. In May, Alex and I got engaged on a hammock overlooking the Mendocino Coast. In December, we got married in a redwood grove, surrounded by our closest family. And in between, we enjoyed so many lovely moments with our friends and family: my fifteen-year business anniversary, two midwest…
From Michigan to Ohio and on to Pennsylvania, our Midwest baseball tour reached its final city in Pittsburgh. We stayed in a very cute old airbnb in an industrial part of The Strip. Spotted on the street nearby, in Chinese: can’t return to the past, can’t see the future. We swung by the City of…
Straight from the Michigan football game, we rushed off to Cleveland to make it to the ballpark in time to pick up this giveaway: a Steven Kwan t-shirt and a Franmil Reyes bobblehead! Reyes unfortunately was traded off the Cleveland team before they even gave out these bobbleheads… so the team added the Kwan shirts…
Sixteen adults, three kids, and a pup. We roamed a small park in Fremont and photographed every permutation and combination of this four-generation family, but no matter what grouping or order you put them in, what comes out is love. Such a joy to document these special gatherings of family over the holidays! First, the…
Yes or Yes! This was such a sweet surprise proposal. Darren knew that Yue would suspect that a proposal was coming, because they had already gone ring shopping together. Plus, she knew they had a reservation for The French Laundry where they had dined once before. But he still had some surprises up his sleeve….
I read 50 books in 2022, almost all of which were just on my little phone screen via my library’s ebook collection. It was an especially rich year for heartfelt memoirs and fascinating nonfiction. I also decided to sketch all my books on my little notebook bookshelf, in the order I read them. Below are…
What an incredibly sweet and stunning session! Miranda and Felix booked me for their engagement session before finding out that they actually live just one floor above me in the same building in San Francisco. Such a small world. I absolutely loved getting to photograph them out at Fort Funston, a familiar spot to their…
Jenny and Jun’s wedding at the Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay was perfectly captured in print in their beautiful wedding album. I love all of the simple layouts that let the images shine. Take a peek inside album below. On the cover, rose gold foil debossing on a natural luxe linen. Such classic wedding details….
It’s been over two months since I posted the previous part of this Midwest tour, but I’ve finally circled back to continue with the next leg — Detroit! We stayed at the Shinola Hotel, happy to support the Detroit-based watch & lifestyle brand. There was a very nice library in the nook right outside our…
I first met Lesley years ago, and she told me back then that she loved my work and would someday hire me for her wedding. That was incredibly nice and flattering, but sometimes people just say things! Especially since Lesley lives on the East Coast and I have always been here in California, I didn’t…