I was beyond excited when Laura and Scott invited me to come to Chicago for their engagement shoot. On the very day, Chicago offered up gorgeous 75-degree weather, beautiful sunlight, while Laura and Scott brought their incredible energy and connection. I don’t get such an invitation every day, so we tried to cover as much…
I love natural light, and therefore I enjoy photographing outdoors. However, for Lisa and Yaakov’s engagement shoot I had a totally different vision. This cosmopolitan couple had so much style that I immediately envisioned an intimate, elegant session behind closed doors. That’s how we found ourselves in the extravagant Fairmont Suite at the Fairmont Hotel…
Last week, San Francisco delivered an epic lighting storm. It loud, intense, accompanied by thunder and howling winds. It was visually stunning. I could never have imagined that just a couple of days later, my engagement session with Thea and Cliff would be situated on such a gorgeous Saturday evening. The Embarcadero buzzed with people,…
Awesome weekend! Documented a glitzy party at the Pavilion by the Bay on Treasure Island, celebrated my wife’s birthday, and then met up with these two incredible people in Downtown Mountain View for their engagement shoot. As soon as I met this couple, I knew we were a perfect fit. Sean is a photographer himself,…
I’ve often thought about what a privilege it is to be a guest at a wedding. After all, your primary responsibility is to have as much fun as possible! Well, on a fall day in the wine country, I found myself, camera in hand, and yet feeling like a welcome guest at Jen and Chris’s…
It all started with a painting that was hanging in their home. Marina, an artist herself, had created this image of a mysterious, hatted man and femme fatale in a red dress. They were somewhere in Buenos Aires, perhaps. Marina and Eugene both attended Stanford, and there were many spots on campus that were meaningful…
My clients know that I favor the ‘formal’. I love to see suits, ties, dresses, high heels in my photos. But more than that, I love to depict couples in a way that’s true to them. When I met Colleen and Jim for our engagement shoot on a breezy San Francisco afternoon, I was thrilled…
9/10/11 is one of those numerically perfect wedding dates, and couples know that on such dates, vendors’ calendars fill up quickly. Gilbert and Rudy walked into my studio back in February of this year and crossed it off my calendar, so I’ve had a long time to think about the kind of engagement shoot we’d…
Scott and Natalie’s engagement shoot took us from the stately Legion of Honor in the western part of San Francisco, all the way across town to Chez Spencer, where they actually got engaged. From the moment they met me at the Legion of Honor, I could sense their energy and intense connection with one another.…