It started with a fall when Deirdre and Damian first met. A hard fall. It’s best when Damian tells the story: Deirdre was interviewing for a developer position at a new company, dressed in heels and very long dress pants. Her heels got into a fight with her pants and she fell (face first) in…
Agnes and Z traveled all the way from Singapore and met me in California’s wine country for this super sweet engagement shoot. They met when they ended up in the same lab, Agnes as an undergraduate and Z as a research assistant. At first, they gave each other no thought, but over time, they slowly…
It was such an amazing experience to be part of this special proposal. Alex and Jessica first met at TAF, a summer camp that many of us have attended since we were kids, and they have been together almost ten years now. Because many of our TAF friends were going to Napa for The French…
Bridgette and Ryan first met in Michigan, where they worked together at a communications company. Their first date was at a friend’s show at a music hall in Detroit, and they have been together ever since. After several years living in Michigan, they decided to move to California, and San Francisco was the lucky city…
We drove an hour out of the city to this oasis at Mt. Tam for Caterina and John’s engagement session. They both love hiking and triathalon (in their free time from training to be doctors), so the beautiful trails of Mt. Tam hold a special place in their hearts. The light was amazing on this…
It was Sunday evening when I met Amy and David in the rolling hills of the Marin Headlands for their engagement session. The clouds lingered in the sky and flooded the landscape, creating a beautiful air of serenity over the space. We roamed around the bunkers and barracks and got to celebrate love in these…
We were treated to the full gamut of Bay Area weather in the span of Tammy and Justin’s engagement shoot. We met at the beautiful Thomas Fogarty Winery atop a hill in Woodside, and a cloudy session gave way to full sunshine, clouds, simultaneous sun and fog, and finally, complete fog. Tammy’s radiant smile shined…
This love story begins at Top Dog. Joyce and Keven were both students at the University of California Berkeley, and while they had lived in the same freshman dorm and knew each other, they hadn’t really spent much time together. That is, of course, until Top Dog. Joyce was inside ordering, and when Keven walked…
Anne and Kyle are so warm and down to earth and simply a pleasure to be around. I absolutely loved heading to this little-known park that overlooks Ocean Beach on the western edge of San Francisco. The two of them were so thoughtful in choosing Sutro Heights for our shoot, because it they love old…
It was such an incredible honor to fly to Japan in order to photograph Akane and Gimpei’s wedding. While the wedding itself was on Saturday in Osaka, we took some time on Friday to take a side trip to Kyoto and photograph some engagement-style portraits the day before the wedding. To be in such a…
I knew Emma and Phil would be amazing to hang out with from the first moment I met them. They are both so kind and down to earth, and they’re exactly the kind of couple you want to be with when the weather forecasts are not cooperating and the cloudy skies threaten rain at any…
Grace and Stanley first met through a nonprofit that I also happened to work for a couple years ago. They were friends for a long while before they began dating. In their relationship, Stanley is the left brain while Grace is the right brain, and they balance each other out. We headed to City Hall,…