Found this incredible secret spot during an awesome engagement session with Brooke and David. Not much time or room to operate there, but we pulled it off! Pretty incredible to have such a striking view of the Bay Bridge and the San Francisco skyline.
My Engagement Story I almost proposed to my wife in the airport. It wasn’t supposed to turn out that way. In fact, the proposal was supposed to happen on our Cancun vacation, and it was meant to be a total surprise. A mutual friend, who happens to be a gemologist (more from her later), graciously…
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,…
Stephanie and Neil are adventure-seekers. What did we do during our engagement shoot? Climbed and descended a giant staircase (several times) near Grand View Park. Weaved through 19th Avenue traffic on motorcycles. Jumped over rocks and played in the precarious surf at Ocean Beach. Then, more climbing on sandy dunes and concrete walls. All the…
When you get your portrait taken in a studio, it’s usually a sit-down affair. But when all of San Francisco is your photo studio, running, climbing, jumping, dancing, skipping and twirling may all be required. I loved working with Jessica and Fred, because aside from the fact that they’re a gorgeous couple, they had amazing…
OK, here’s the deal: Beautiful Karen and dapper David are having their wedding at the Berkeley City Club, which is a Julia Morgan joint. Karen mentioned to me early on that she was a big fan of the architect. So, for the engagement session, I put together an itinerary that took us to several Julia…
At the risk of sounding cheesy, Ani and Val literally turned up the heat on what was a very very cold San Francisco day. It was so cold that after a few minutes of shooting, I was finding it hard to bend my finger and press the shutter. But you’d never know it by looking…
When Jennifer, Kevin and I were preparing for our the engagement session shoot, I pitched them a few ideas. Some tame, some totally off the wall. Ultimately Kevin said, ‘we just want to show up and be our natural selves’. So, that’s what we did! We meandered down Haight Street, stopping in various nooks and…
Sometimes it’s satisfying to just get lost in an unfamiliar city, and when Fontaine and Sam came up from San Diego to do their engagement session in SF, that’s exactly what we did. Chinatown is a fertile photographic environment, full of interesting backgrounds, bright colors and hidden alleyways. After our Chinatown adventure (and a quick…