Back in May, I got to fly to Chicago to photograph a beautiful wedding for my friends Eric and Ninna. Of course, with many of our friends in town for the wedding, we also got to hang out for a couple days before and after. A lot of my photos this trip were from around Jessica and Alex’s…
Cherry blossoms everywhere. It was the absolute perfect week of the year to be in Philadelphia. From wandering the streets of Fishtown to exploring a couple world-class museums, it was a lovely trip. Anna Wu is a wedding and portrait photographer based in San Francisco but often traveling and working around the…
Located just two hours south of San Francisco, Monterey makes for a perfect day trip from the Bay Area. I’ve been lucky enough to visit Monterey Bay four times in the last year, for a variety of reasons, including weddings and personal trips. This March, when I was down in Monterey for a couple days, I visited the Monterey…
I’m not a very outdoorsy person by nature. Lacking in athleticism, having no survival skills, and having a general dislike for insects makes me pretty useless for most intense outdoor activities. But walking through pretty nature? Yes. That I love. Back in March and April, I got to go on four different hikes around the…
Back in February, I hit the (very familiar) road for a solo road-trip down to Los Angeles. I got to visit my friends Kevin and Jenny’s new home in Alhambra, check out a waterfall hike with my friend Connie, sneak in an “Art for Art” shoot, and even go grapefruit picking in the city of LA….
It was the perfect mid-week getaway. Out on Angel Island, you’re in the middle of the bay, surrounded by San Francisco, Marin, and Oakland; so close to everything, and yet perfectly removed. In the winter, there is only one ferry to the island at 9:15am and one ferry leaving from the island at 3:20pm. It being a…
I’ve made it more than halfway through 2015 with scarcely a personal post. Life has taken over, and a lot has happened since January. But I’ve decided it’s better late than never! So here we are, hopping back to to the beginning of 2015 with a glimpse at winter in California. The second weekend of January,…
I absolutely love reading. In the last couple years, coupling my self-employed lifestyle with two library cards and an endless supply of ebooks, I’ve really gotten to indulge my inner bookworm. Usually, I do a brief recap of my favorites in my annual year-end reviews (2014, 2013, 2012, and 2011). But here’s a more thorough round-up…
At the beginning of December, I got to travel to Houston, Texas to photograph my friend Amy’s newborn baby. And of course, I made the most of my time while I was there! I stayed in this beautiful artists’ compound that I booked on airbnb, I had a rental car, and I explored all around…
I got to spend this past Thanksgiving with my friends Dan and Paul, and Paul’s whole family. It’s actually a bit of a Thanksgiving tradition for all of us (or various combinations of us) to gather together in California. Though Paul is from Cupertino, his parents now live in Singapore, so they rented a home…
The last Saturday of my November New York trip, we headed to Brooklyn for a tour of Mast Brothers Chocolate. You might recognize the graphic, patterned papers that encase Mast Brothers’ chocolate bars. Every single bar comes from this very Brooklyn factory. This is my only photo of the actual “tour” part, as they don’t allow…
I headed toward the freezing cold chill of New York to celebrate Jesse’s birthday back in November. During the week, I made small excursions around his ‘new’ neighborhood in Midtown (my last visit, Jesse was still living downtown). And of course at night and on the weekends, we had plenty of foodie adventures all around Manhattan…