Elizabeth and Derek are a wonderful pair of old souls who share a love of rugby, architecture, old films, and their Golden Retriever Stella. I met up with them in the Oakland hills for their engagement session at Joaquin Miller Park. Despite an overcast day, we got to create some beautiful portraits lit up with personality. See…
This is one of my favorite traditions each December: photographing Shau-ru & Ed and their dog Ellie. We have a whole series of wonderful portrait sessions at this point. This year, for their fourth wedding anniversary, we headed to Baker Beach and let Ellie frolick in the sand (one of her favorite things to do) with the…
This was such a sweet idea for a 40th anniversary. Everyone was in town for Thanksgiving, so we gathered at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco for some portraits of the whole Yam family. The four in the middle are the original Yams, with their spouses and 3-year-old Ayla too. So fun! Such a wonderful…
I love this family! I first photographed Raquel and Andy for their engagement session and their wedding over four years ago. They have since added two adorable little ones to their family, and when I made a brief trip to Atlanta last month, I got to meet and photograph the whole crew. Savvy blog readers might also…
Say hello again to my beautiful friend Talya, who makes regular appearances on this blog. We met up for a mini photo session while I was back in Cincinnati this fall. See just a glimpse of the lovely opera singer below! Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area but often…
Maria is a young opera singer soon completing her Adler fellowship with the San Francisco Opera. Because she is building a new website, Maria wanted to refresh her old headshots and create some new portraits that would capture a bit of her personality too. I got to meet her at one of my bucket list…
Rolling hills, verdant trees, and expansive views. Mount Tamalpais served as the perfect backdrop for Stefanie and Andrew’s engagement session. See some of my favorites below. Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer based in San Francisco. She creates beautiful, soft, and timeless imagery while capturing the most fleeting of moments. View her work at…
Sabrina and Brian first met when they were in Boston and New York, and for past year, they both lived on the Upper West Side together until they got engaged and decided to make the move out to California. It was so much fun to go from meeting with them in San Francisco to roaming around NYC…
Meet Young and Jessica. I’ve known Young since 1999, when he was still in his “yellow phase” in high school. When I first met Jessica, she was on a hip-hop dance crew, and she would later join an eco-friendly clothing startup as employee number three. Young now fronts his own band, writes for a denim…
I first met and photographed Shawna six years ago, when her first book Water Ghosts had just been released by Penguin Press. Now her second novel has been completed and is available for preordering: Green Island. The book has been Shawna’s labor of love over the last decade and is a work of historic fiction set against the backdrop of Taiwanese and…
Megan and Craig first met at a mutual friend’s graduation party two years ago. Now, they’re engaged to be wed! The live in Dallas, Texas, but they took advantage of a trip out to Napa Valley for a friend’s wedding to go ahead and have some engagement portraits taken in San Francisco. We met near…
You know it’s a wonderful day when you get to hang out with Leia and R2D2. Those would be Serena and Cliff’s two adorable little dogs, of course. With the two Star Wars pups in tow, we headed to Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park. Just one year ago, it was the site of an elaborate scavenger…