“Everyone wants to do something different, but you end up doing the same damn thing,” says Leonardo Di Caprio’s character, Richard, in the film The Beach (based on a novel by Alex Garland). Wait – you thought this post is about a Filoli Gardens family photography session? Well it is. But wait. Richard is talking…
Caroline and Roger’s Saturday Wedding at San Francisco City Hall Caroline and Roger had not one, but two wedding days (COVID). They had not one, but two tea ceremonies (tradition). And ultimately, their big Saturday wedding at San Francisco City Hall united their two families and two communities into one. After COVID postponed their 2020…
Planning your San Francisco Family Photography Session I’ve been doing San Francisco family photography for a long time. It’s hard to believe, but I actually started photographing in SF before Facebook, before the iPhone, and definitely waaaay before Instagram. Social media has uncovered and popularized many of the spots that used to be off the beaten path and…
2020 was a big lift. How many things did we take for granted before the pandemic? Did we assume that our lives would march forward in some predictable, linear way? 2020 certainly upended my assumptions and priorities. It also challenged me to be more capable on all fronts: as an artist, a business owner, a…
Lisa + Michael’s COVID Wedding For engaged couples, and for the wedding industry as a whole, 2020 has been a massive letdown. I planned my own wedding almost 9 years ago, and I’ve documented well over 1,000 weddings in my photography career. I can very well understand the deflating, depressing anticlimax that many couples face…
How Are You Doing? It’s a simple question. And it’s particularly worth asking these days. Ask your family. Ask your friends. Ask your clients and business partners. Ask yourself. We are, all of us, fighting our own battles. How do we keep our bodies and our minds healthy? How do we distance physically without distancing…
Jug Handle Creek Farm Wedding I spent an incredible weekend documenting Jared and Mike’s Jug Handle Creek Farm Wedding in breezy Mendocino, CA. It was an a sun-soaked, hug-filled, DIY, eco-friendly same sex wedding celebration. Jared and Mike wanted their Jug Handle Creek Farm wedding to be a big reunion. There were a couple dozen children…
Westin St Francis Wedding Let me tell you about this Westin St Francis wedding. The wedding venue you choose will define a lot of things about your wedding day. The views. The scenery. The service. The experience of the guests. When I documented Nina and Guy’s Westin St Francis wedding, I wanted to capture just…
Engagement Session Favorites Working in the San Francisco Bay Area is a dream for a wedding photographer. It allows me to create engagement sessions (or pre-wedding sessions for my couples in a huge variety of locations. I like to break down engagement sessions into three broad categories: (1) Iconic San Francisco (2) Organic Locations (3)…