What an honor it is to photograph the Gardner family year after year after year. This is the fourth time I’ve had the privilege, and the first time (officially) that I got to photograph them at their home in Ojai. What made this portrait session extra special was that it was a gift from Aaron’s father….
It was so fun to see Shau-Ru & Ed and their puppy Ellie again. I walked up to meet them at the flag pole which was stunningly backlit on this perfectly sunny day in February, and I felt insanely lucky to be here in California, doing this crazy awesome job of mine. The last time…
I launched a new series in my portraits this year with a venture into boudoir photography. Here are a few favorites below, including some that haven’t been published until now. Click on any of the images below to view the full posts.
2012 has been a wonderful, wonderful year of portrait sessions. With the engagements, the surprise proposal, the anniversaries, the maternity portraits, all the adorable young families, and headshots, I had over thirty different shoots, summed up below. Click on any of the images below to view the full portrait sessions!
She has an understated sense of grace and glamour, but her laugh still shows her spirit at its best. Below, a few selects from her boudoir session at the gorgeous Berkeley City Club. Visit the intro page for more information on Boudoir by Anna Wu Photography. Contact me at anna(at)annawu(dot)com to inquire about your own…
I was very honored when my friend Shang asked me to do a photo session for her and her boyfriend. I was also incredibly nervous, because Shang is an amazing photographer herself and has been generously dispensing business and photography advice to me since the very beginning! How do you photograph the photographer? Well, we had…
It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year! Last year, Isla was just turning two, and she was an adorable babble of words and not-words. Now, at age three, she’s morphed into this beautiful little girl who has opinions and ideas about everything, seeks out ladybugs with her eagle eyes, and befriends ducks by…
Is there anything more beautiful than getting back to the roots of what drew you to something in the first place? For me, shooting film has been an incredible journey back and a total jolting leap forward at the same time. Shooting film is humbling. You have to get back to basics in your technique,…
The incredible story of how they met spans 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada on foot. They had each embarked– separately, still strangers– on the Pacific Crest Trail at the California-Mexico border, Debby leading by two days without a clue that her future husband was trailing behind her. It wasn’t until three and a half…
Red lipstick has a way of pushing you out of your shell and into a different persona. Karina volunteered to be a makeover subject for Ann Ho of Styles by Ann and A-List Makeup, and I was there to do a quick shoot with her afterwards. I love collaborating with other creative people, and working with…
Before I shipped off the Diana F+ lomography camera for my giveaway last month, I took her for one last spin. My good photographer friend Shang Chen was in town for the week, and so I tagged along to help out at one of her shoots. Shang does these amazing in(SCP)iration shoots (SCP = Shang Chen…
When I arrived, the house was buzzing with preparations for Lily’s big day. This was the day she would be introduced to solid food. But you have to think of solid as a flexible term. Solid like… soupy rice pudding. But food that’s not in a bottle is a big deal! We were all making…