I am so grateful to my dear friend Cassie for creating these studio portraits of us in the last couple months of my pregnancy. We stacked the day with portraits in the morning and my baby shower in the afternoon. All such wonderful markers of a very fleeting time! Photographs by Cassie Valente.Hair…
We were lucky enough to visit Tokyo not once but twice this year, and we were doubly lucky to catch the tail end of cherry blossom season on the second trip. Since it was a work trip for Alex and we weren’t able to book things until the last minute, we got very lucky (again)…
I loved meeting this wonderful family on a perfectly sunny morning at Filoli. They are expecting their third little boy and had never done a single professional photo session before, though you would never know it, as they were all so easy to photograph! Here are just a few favorites below. Anna Wu is…
I was so delighted to photograph this family again, as they get ready to welcome a new addition very soon. I first photographed J & S (and their pup Leia) for their beautiful two-part wedding celebrations and got to meet little M last year when she was just beginning to toddle around. This time we…
It was such a joy to photograph Amanda and Parker for their maternity session. We ventured out to the Marin Headlands and battled crazy winds, but you’d hardly know it from the beautiful, glowing portraits we managed to create together. So excited to meet their little one, coming soon! Anna Wu is a wedding and…
This was an incredibly sweet mini session for Shiela and Tommy, who are expecting their firstborn very soon. We had Shiela scaling the sand dunes at Ocean Beach, but we lucked out with such a beautiful day, calm skies, and the perfect backdrop for these timeless portraits in a time of anticipation. Anna Wu is…
Irene and Martin have been the most wonderful couple to work with, through a pandemic and various postponements and pivots. In the end, I got to photograph them for a lovely maternity session along the California Coast. We assembled the images into this linen photo book, complete with gold foil debossing on its cover. Beautiful!…
It is such an honor to be invited back into my clients lives as they move through new chapters in their lives together. I first photographed Jen and Gary for their engagement session five years ago when we drove two hours north of Seattle for the beautiful coastal scenery. They have since gotten married and…
I have been photographing Allie and David for seven years now, for their engagement session, wedding, and their maternity session for little J. I was so delighted to photograph them again, this time as they are expeting baby #2! We enjoyed a very sunny morning at Filoli, wandering the extensive gardens that were in full…
Irene and Martin have been on quite the life adventure in the last couple years. When they first booked me, it was for a multi-day photo session and City Hall wedding, but then life took over and family and personal circumstances meant they had to pivot from their City Hall plans. They were still wed,…
On a map, Sea Ranch doesn’t look all that far from San Francisco. Follow the edge of California northward, and it looks like you could hop right over to this section of the coastline in an hour or two. But of course, it’s actually quite a journey, as you follow the winding roads through valleys…
What a joy it is to document my dear friends Dan and Jeri as they journey into this next chapter of their lives! We embraced that warm South Bay sunshine for this magical session in the rolling hills of San Jose. I can’t wait to meet baby girl, and you can bet there will be…