Nima Salimi| Art for Art | San Francisco Portrait Photography
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Nima Salimi| Art for Art | San Francisco Portrait Photography

Since the beginning of 2014, I have been working on my year-long personal project, Art for Art. Once a month, I find a fellow photographer whose work I admire, and I photograph them; they photograph me. We’ll get to see each other work; we’ll explore how different or similar our styles might be; and we can challenge…

Fullerton & Alhambra | Southern California Travel Photography
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Fullerton & Alhambra | Southern California Travel Photography

I took the quick hour-long flight from Northern California to Southern this past weekend to attend a wedding with my boyfriend Jesse and his family. Judy and Jeff’s wedding was a beautiful Californian soiree at the Muckenthaler Mansion in Fullerton. And the next day, I got to meet up with my friends over in Alhambra…

Jenny & Kevin | Third Anniversary Album
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Jenny & Kevin | Third Anniversary Album

Jenny and Kevin and I have an annual tradition of documenting their love story and creating a new album to chronicle their lives together. This year was their third anniversary, and so we photographed them in their first home together– a home which they’ve now sold. We created these unique chartreuse leather heirloom albums, and…

A Movie Wedding | Langham Huntington, Pasadena | Behind the Scenes of Love Arcadia
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A Movie Wedding | Langham Huntington, Pasadena | Behind the Scenes of Love Arcadia

My first wedding shoot of 2014 was a fake wedding! I joined my friends on set for their movie Love Arcadia, and I documented some of the awesome behind the scenes moments you can see in this blog post. But since we were filming a fake wedding, I also grabbed the “bride” and “groom” for…

On Set | Langham Huntington, Pasadena | Behind the Scenes of Love Arcadia
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On Set | Langham Huntington, Pasadena | Behind the Scenes of Love Arcadia

Picture is up! Camera? Speed. Sound? Speed. Mark it. A Marker. ACTION! On the last day of January, we got up before the sun and headed to the gorgeous Langham Huntington in Pasadena. Call time was 7:30am, and this was day 15 of shooting for Love Arcadia. My friend Theresa had been working on this…

Gabriel Gastelum| Art for Art | Los Angeles Portrait Photography
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Gabriel Gastelum| Art for Art | Los Angeles Portrait Photography

I absolutely love my personal project for 2014, Art for Art. Once a month, I find a fellow photographer whose work I admire, and I photograph them; they photograph me. We’ll get to see each other work; we’ll explore how different or similar our styles might be; and we can challenge ourselves to step in front of…

Jenny & Kevin’s Third Anniversary | At Home with Food & Board Games | Los Angeles Lifestyle Photography

Jenny & Kevin’s Third Anniversary | At Home with Food & Board Games | Los Angeles Lifestyle Photography

It’s our little tradition to document Jenny and Kevin’s love story and to create a beautiful leather album every year. For this, our fifth shoot together, we opted to document a slice of their lives in their first home together, which we have lovingly dubbed the “Yauhaus” (after their last name, Yau). We started with…

Friends, Flowers & Food | Los Angeles Travel Photography
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Friends, Flowers & Food | Los Angeles Travel Photography

In the beginning of November, I hopped down to Los Angeles for just a couple days and just hung out with some friends, enjoying low-key delicious meals, playing board games, and even putting together some floral arrangements just for fun. Here’s just a little glimpse from my visit. Flowers from our LA Flower Market trip….